greetings and salutations so I've taken a few days off from the vlog I had a
pretty introspective and contemplative week I have also had a week that has
been filled with clerical work and not enough creating and that's one of the
reasons I have not not done any vlog episodes this week in fact I don't even
remember when the last one I published was let's take a look
March 19th which was Tuesday okay so that's not so bad I just missed
Wednesday Thursday and Friday today's Friday the 22nd and so I guess this
episode came out on Monday the 25th continuing to have to look at the
calendar I've actually had a pretty busy different semi chaotic chaotic week I
bought a car from a vending machine
which is ridiculous but yes so a lot of clerical work not as much creating I
will show you some of the stuff I've been doing it as a matter of fact I was
working on my song the fuzz in some recent episodes my original goal was to
release that song on Friday the 29th which is next week
now I distribute my music through amuse and amuses rule is you have to have it
submitted two weeks before the release date because they give themselves a week
to review it make sure the artworks good the files correct and all the little
detail things they have to make sure they get right before they send it to
stores and then they give the store seven days minimum to make sure that
everything's good to go the first time around when I did glitch
it took I don't even know how long it took because I didn't have my Spotify
for artists account or my Apple for artists account Apple music for artists
account setup so I couldn't tell you when it appeared but when I did upload
it appeared relatively quickly upload in the backend of everything within a
week so it wasn't a big deal but I think they just do that to make sure that they
give themselves ample time in case anyway I like to say I was gonna release
it next Friday but I have not finished mixing it and I have not uploaded it for
distribution yet which means the earliest I could release it if I were
going to have it mixed by the end of the day today would be Friday April 5th and
that's not gonna happen either my plan now is to release it Friday April 12th
or Friday April 19th it's just gonna depend Friday April 12th is the day I
leave with Bon Jovi cruise with tonic and collective souls on that too so it's
gonna be a crazy cool weekend I guess long weekend we come back the
following Tuesday and it's gonna be a ton of fun I just don't know if I want
to try to release a song that day or not my guess is we'll be getting on the boat
and probably won't be departing until midday or late morning that day so I can
probably get away with it my main concern is just internet access and I'm
gonna have access to the Internet to throw up some posts and check out
numbers and stuff like that because I'm gonna be curious so we'll see I would
really like to release it on the 12th that's my plan if for whatever reason I
don't the 19th the 12th would put me a month past the release of upload which
would keep me on kind of like an every month cycle because I originally
released glitch on I think the 15th of January
I don't remember originally at least at the beginning February then we released
at the beginning of March and then released upload the 15th of March I
think that's what happened anyway it doesn't matter but this week I have just
been I was gonna release I'm telling you this whole story because I was gonna
release the fuzz and I was gonna work on that and get it released next week
however I realized that I was not paying enough attention to the release and
promotion of upload I was just moving on to the next thing moving on to the next
thing and that's a good thing moving fast is good but I was moving too fast
and not giving let's do so this week I spent a lot of
time giving up good it's do so let's start screencast and I'll show you
exactly what I've been doing here's my youtube back in so the first thing I did
was submit hub I did this for glitch got some feedback on the song did not get it
I add it to anything which was a bummer but also understandable because I I'm
still learning a lot about what genre of music I'm making there are so many
subgenres it's crazy so I'm learning a lot about that anyway
upload I submitted to well more outlets as you can see glitch I went to 9 I put
it with the 13 upload got added a to playlist which is huge I got responses
from just about everybody which is cool everybody for the most
part was was really uh I had really good feedback I didn't get on everything and
that's cool that's totally to be expected and again most of this I think
most of the stuff I didn't get on is because I'm still not picking the right
genre of music so I did get up to muskox records records and stood calaboose I
don't know where he is where she is but I got them to playlist
which is super cool to me I've never been playlist so I'm super excited about
that yay and yeah so I did this for upload
and then I tried a new thing this thing called playlist push that I just
recently heard about from my friend Assad who lives in Dubai and he is is a
band that yes basically called bullfrogs ooh check him out I'll link to it in the
description so I did that I went to playlist push see my passwords say yep
okay and I started a campaign this is different my campaign is scheduled to
start today in three hours as you can see but it has not started yet this is a
little bit different it's the same sort of premise as
submit help you pay for credits it's kind of like a dollar a credit yeah you
plan for premium credits you get two non-premium credits when you sign up and
each thing cost basically kind of $1.00 to submit like a credit to submit some
of them are two and three and you get deals if you buy more credits like you
buy a bulk of like a hundred credits you get it for 80 bucks and so on and so
forth this is different you pick bands that
you're you're that you sound like then though the algorithm pre-populates some
guesses about your genre based on the band you pick that are similar and then
you go through and refine your genre based on what's accurate and the more
genres you pick the more you pay because the more playlists you're going to
submit to so if I wanted to submit to an electronic or say an EDM playlist which
I don't think upload is EDM but if I wanted to it's a ton of playlists so the
cost for my campaign this websites more expensive by the way the cost for my
campaign would be fifteen hundred two thousand dollars to submit to all this
playlist but it's also gonna submit my song to like three or four hundred
playlists so the trick here is to narrow it down to what really absolutely is the
definition of your sound so rather than EDM I could go electronic
music because technically upload is however a more specific and focused
approach would be to pick big beat and break beat and cyberpunk because those
three things definitely describe my song so I whittled it down the process of a
lot of googling of like I said I'm still learning about genres a lot of googling
of what these genres are and figuring out does my song fit into that without
question because as you can see on submit hub I got it wrong even still so
figuring out my genre figuring out what the submit
- I narrowed it down whittled it down the really focus in my whole campaign
was less than 250 bucks which is a huge win for this site but I'm still getting
submitted to like 50 to 75 playlists which is huge I don't know if I'll get
on any will see my plan here you might be thinking why are you submitting to
all these playlists well that's a good question my plan is to become less
reliant on client work by the end of the year that's my goal I want to earn some
revenue off of the music that I make my goal is to have at least 12 songs
released and posted by the end of the year and I want to be making at least
some semblance of revenue off of them to some degree even if it's only 5 bucks a
month I don't care I just want to be earning some money off of them and the
best way to do that is to obviously get people listening and to get people
listening the best way to do that on any given platform is likely play listing at
least on Spotify so I want to get on as many playlists as I can to hopefully get
more active listeners and followers on Spotify I'm still trying to figure out I
gotta do more research on Apple music and title because I don't know how their
system works I'd really love to get on some radio stations and Apple music I
don't know how to go about that I got to figure that out but I've been going down
the rabbit hole this week of doing this at the same time I've also been running
some ads for my drumming stuff to try to get more clientele as you're on going
I've been running Facebook ads to try to actually just started running Facebook
ads to try to convert listeners to Spotify for upload so I'm running an ad
on a link for that and I'm running an ad on YouTube to try to get people to watch
the official audio video of upload so I'm really just trying to get listeners
wherever I can I really think the song is good and I think when you make good
music people speak for itself you just have to get people to listen to it in
the first place and if you target it correctly and they listen to it then
hopefully the song will do the work they'll like it they'll keep coming back
for more so that's my goal that's why I haven't been doing any vlogs this week
as if literally just been sitting here staring at the screen - my eyes are
gonna bug out I probably should have done some deep dive stuff on it but such
is life I've been living in here a lot doing a lot of sort of strategizing and
trying to figure out what I want to do but all that to say I'm back I haven't
really left I've been here the whole time yeah so I'm trying to get upload
into the ears of listeners who care and I'm getting it back to work on the fuzz
next week cuz I gotta have a mix by the end of next week so that's definitely
gonna be happening also lastly this has really kind of just a big update rant I
retooled my individual podcast td3 Talk is now called sounds of the future with
td3 you can google that you can look that up on your given listening platform
it's on every podcasting platform that I can think of and yeah it's just I
realized that the focus was not where I wanted it to be so I changed that the
recent episode that I published yesterday is called pivot listen to that
if you want to know more about what I changed or why and subscribe to that
leave me a five star review if you want that would be great and yeah that's it I
hope you have a great day as always thanks for watching and I'll see you
next time