7) You Don’t Need To Have An Online Presence To Make a Living as a Musician

There is no one way to make it in music anymore.

There are musicians who make six figures getting their songs synched to films, TV shows and ads with no Instagram or Twitter to speak of. There are people who make good livings touring colleges or house concerts with very little to show online. There are composers scoring for TV shows and films. There are freelance musicians who aren’t on any social platforms. There are producers who have recently been labeled as ‘fake artists’ because they don’t have an internet presence anywhere outside of Spotify (where they have millions of plays) and are getting paid by a production house to pump out these highly playlistable songs.

There is still a physical world out there where money can be made. You have to find what makes sense for you and how you want to structure your music career.

The red part is from an article in Digital music news, here is a link to the whole article.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/07/27/millennial-musicians/

This one I’m really not agreed with. The syncs numbers are really down so that era is really over. I don’t think a career is to tour colleges and living rooms. Sure there is money to be made. Still, you will go crazy over after awhile.

I think you should have a presence all over the place, but learn how to pick up these fans. In the end, the e-mail and phone numbers and area they are from are the golden pot to monetize from people that like your music. So all these places are just connecting points for you to grab this information. in the end, you need a good homepage to pick all this stuff up.

In the end yes presence by it, the self is not good. You have to pick the end clients also. and this is was most of the artist’s miss.