what is up everybody it's Tom, TDIII, welcome back to the lab welcome back to
my life to the vlog to a new week it's Monday today I'm going to be digging
into promoting some of my songs on soundcloud using some services on Fiverr
as you know I am very much the musical guinea pig I'm using myself as kind of a
case study over the next however long it takes to try to dig into options to
create revenue as an independent musician I'm kind of like I've been
mulling over sort of what it's like my mission statement with the vlog and
making this music and all this stuff and well I don't have it very cleanly
defined yet that's kind of it in a nutshell is I want to use myself as a
case study and test out all of these different avenues that are available to
us on the internet and try to figure out a way to generate revenue grow a fan
base create an audience as an independent musician and I want to
document it all and then hopefully you can watch all of this and use it today
I'm trying some soundcloud stuff SoundCloud is a platform I'm not really
adept at using and I haven't used a ton but I have definitely seen an uptick in
my usage of it this year as I've created more pop music right obviously done I've
got this EP in waves which comes out Friday July 12th the tracks are already
up on soundcloud I released them all as I finished them on my soundcloud page
and now I've bundled them together into one EP to push the Spotify Apple music
title all this stuff so I thought well I've got my on soundcloud let's see if I
can get some trash in there and just kind of see what it's about like how can
I win the game on soundcloud because i know that that will translate into
something cool if i can build and grow an audience there so I thought why the
heck not let's give a shot so what I did is I went to Fiverr if you know
familiar with that five-0 I'll put a link in the video in the show
notes of this episode and showing us that's a podcast thing I'll put a link
in the description of this video nailed it I picked I went through and
like look for soundcloud music promotion I've refined my parameters and found
like 10 different jobs providers that do SoundCloud like SoundCloud music
promotion so I just picked four because I have four tracks on the EP I have Zuma
harbour quake and service so I picked four and I used one provider for one
song each time so for different providers for different songs and just
gonna see what the results are I feel like it might be a little bit sketch but
honestly I have no idea we'll just see everything that I've
hired to do says no BOTS it's all organic it's all real so I'm going to
just the goodness of my heart take them at their word and trust it that what
they're saying is true and we'll see what happens everything should be done
all the little campaigns should be done in the next three to six days so I
should have some actionable results within a week hopefully and we'll be
able to see what's going on right now Zuma has 35 streams Harbor has 22 Lake
has 11 and surface has 124 I have 61 followers that's the data for now so in
about a week we'll check back in on this I'll do a Part B of this video and we'll
see what we come up with I'm really hoping that they're not BOTS and it is
all organic because I don't want to get my soundcloud profile like booted or
something I don't I don't know how the policing works on this platform so I
really don't know what to expect it could be a tremendous waste of money
fortunately all told it only cost me $28 seven bucks a piece that was another
thing I did I only spent $5 plus the two dollar service fee on each one that was
the most I was going to spend things nothing only five bucks apiece
we'll see what happens I'm gonna do a Part B I'll let you know what results I
uncover what the numbers look like the second time around and I'll compare them
to the first time around and we'll go from there we'll just use this as a case
study and see if it actually does pan out to actual organic listeners that
convert to fans yeah that's it that's the thing today and yeah as always
thanks for watching I appreciate you being on this journey with me I hope
that this ultimately becomes fruitful for both for me and for you and helpful
for all of us so yeah that's it thanks for watching I'll catch you tomorrow
peace