Be sure to post any comments or questions below. I’ll answer as many as I can personally and if I find any common themes I’ll create special training videos just for you. More free stuff coming your way soon…..
– John Oszajca
Founder, Music Marketing Manifesto
It really interesting looking to work with you soon
Great Frederick. I really appreciate your interest.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
I like your presentation and your up to date insight on the personal matters of my career. As I probably won’t be able to afford your course at the moment,can suggest you maybe setting a premium for not just showing the steps,but acting as a representive for independent artists in the form of a record label.
Hi Roy,
Thanks for your interest. One of the reasons I created the course was because hiring someone like myself, or hiring someone else that knows this strategy can be really cost-prohibitive for most artists. I do offer services like that, but course itself can be infinitely less expensive. Plus you walk away knowing how to execute the strategy if you ever had to do it again down the road.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
This is great.
Hi Andre,
Great! I appreciate your interest. Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
I can’t see the link at the end of this page, as you said, to join.
Hi Martin,
Steve here from support. Sorry for the confusion. The link should have been just beneath the video:
https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/manifesto
Let us know if we can ever help with anything else.
Thanks for this great insight on music marketing. I really appreciate your explanation and I will join this program to enhance my music career.
Hello John,
With regard to MMM4, can I change playback speed on the videos in the course, to like x1.25 or x1.5 or x2?
Thanks
Hi Ewan,
Thanks for your interest. Yes, each lesson’s video(s) has a settings option where you can adjust the playback speed.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Thanks for the update information. I am a new recording gospel artist and songwriter of my own songs too. I want my music to be worldwide.
Hello!
THanks for the info!
How much do you spend on a Facebook campaign pr.week by MMM4?
Hi Halvdan,
There is not set budget. It really depends on your personal finances and your tolerance for risk. You don’t actually need to spend any money on advertising to apply what you’ll learn in MMM 4.0, but advertising will certainly speed up the process of growing your fan base and as such, I do recommend it.
Thanks for watching the MMB.
thanks you always bcs you try for me
Thanks, Olade! I appreciate your interest.
Very good I liked it John a better way to market your music thank you building relationship with customers and doing the follow up to keep them following you with a hunger to buy is a win-win opportunity thanks.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your interest. I’m happy to hear that this strategy resonates with you. I agree that it creates a win/ win situation.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
put me up
Hi,I’ll like you to advertise our song for us please.thanks
Kwesi Quashie. Group leader. VOICES ALLIANCE.
Hi Kwesi,
Thanks for getting in touch. Unfortunately I do not have a service where I’d do the marketing for you, but I do teach you a strategy for marketing your music in my various information courses. I’d recommend looking in to the MMM 4.0 course. You can find out more about it here:
https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/mmm4
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Welldone
Hi John! I’m very interested in your marketing strategies,
I have just started trying to get my music out there and would love to find a way to turn it into a career, I already own a business (Beekeeping) in NZ
Although I’m lacking in any kind of knowledge towards marketing.
I have sent you a message on FB, let me know what you think.
I would be happy to get any help I can get!
Thanks for your time.
HI Daniel,
Great! I appreciate your interest. I’ll definitely look for the Facebook message, but it’s always best to get in touch via email. You can reach me at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com
Thanks!
I love how this is exactly what you’re doing yourself. Drive traffic to squeeze page, get us to sign up to your email list, give something for free, ask for the sale, up sell…brilliant. It worked on me!
Hi Jimmy,
Yes, I try to practice what I preach. I really appreciate your interest. Please let me know if I can ever help with anything.
I just joined the promotional trial offer for $1.00. How long is the training (days, months, years)?
Hi Rod,
Thanks for joining the Insider Circle. There is actually 10 years worth of lessons in the members area, each of varying length. You are free to pick and choose which lessons you wish to pursue based on topic/strategy.
If you’ve registered your member account, you can sign in here:
https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/insider-circle
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
I like the presentation!
Hi Daniel,
Great! I really appreciate your interest. Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Thanks John for the heads up I just so happen to be recording ff
My first solo album
(DEFENDING THE DEAD) Titled: All my personalities.
Founder of 80s Bay area heavy metal band Last Descendants One nation under God.
Hi Gary,
Thanks for your interest and good luck with the album. Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Awesome knowledge brother
Thanks Samora!
Thank you for the response message john
Is any of this being emailed to me? I don’t have time to watch videos at this moment. I’m hoping they are so I can come back and comment.
Hi Doc,
Thanks for your interest. As a courtesy I just emailed you a direct link to the blueprint, so that you can visit again in the future.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Same here thanks for emailing link to video… look forward to watch but unable to do right now. Thanks again. Best, Joe
Very insightful and incredibly generous of you to provide this information.
Hi Tamara,
Thanks for checking out the video. I really appreciate your interest.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Hi can you please send me the link also so that I can veiw
Hi Adrian, the content is in the video above. Or are you looking for a link to something else?
Thank you and if you could advise on Charity singles and how to help there.Im the founder of a charity called EARTH’S LONELY ANGELS we have a you tube channel too with our Christmas song and used Ditto Music platform to get it out there for people to buy and help support as all royalties goes straight into the charity. I’ve a new song about the homeless and hope to release soon. Again all royalties going to our charity to help fund the work we do feeding the homeless and bringing comfort to the lonely elderly. I’ve loads of songs and if your plan works for me, I’ll be so happy to advertise this fact and show your advice works and others can achieve success too. Looking to hearing from you and its a good honest thing your doing if your helping to share a good turn like my trying to do and not profit from it. Thank you
Hi Aine,
Steve here, from John’s support team. John is traveling and asked me to get back to everyone in the meantime. We hope that you don’t mind.
So even in the case of charities, it’s advisable to build a subscriber base. That way you are continually building up an asset, to be able to keep your music and charity in front of people.
That said, because this is a charity, as opposed to an artist, the approach to the audience may be slightly different in both the facts that it’s a company being represented which poses a challenge from the standpoint of relationship building, but also because you’d want to target that audience based on things more aligned with the cause, than for any particular music genre.
However you can overcome each challenge and still see your numbers be in direct proportion to the amount of people you have on your subscriber list.
Let us know if we can ever help with anything else.
Wow! I didn’t even read what you wrote and immediately I thought “Angels”. God bless you!
Thank you
Could I get e-mail with this video too, please ?
Thanks
Hi Maciej,
The link to the video above should have already been sent to you. If you are looking for something different, please let me know. All the best.
Is it possible for you to email this video to me so that I can watch later?
Hi Scott,
Thanks for your interest. Check your inbox. I just emailed you.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Good Morning, the post mentions that a link will be sent to my email address to watch but have not received it. May I please be sent the link to watch the video.
Cheers
Hi Zali,
Thanks for your interest. My support manager, Steve just sent you an email moments ago. Please look for an email from support@musicmarketingmanifesto.com
Thanks!
Hey john!
Thanks for this info: like others here, when you have a moment could you please send me the video?
Thanks again for passing along vital info. I very much appreciate you🎶✊🏼
Hi Mike, the video is at the top of this page. If you are having trouble loading it please let us know. Cheers.
Just send me email..
Hi Danijela,
To receive email you need to sign up at https://www.musicmarketingmanifesto.com/mmb/
Queen
Hi John,
I have a question regarding the country in which the band resides. I have a small band and we are recording our first studio EP.
We live in a small country in Central America (Guatemala), but the chance to grow in those small countries is infinitely small against a market like the USA.
Have you got any guidance in your course to make an international breach or is it more focused to a market like the USA.
Hi Pablo,
Great question. The course is not limited in scope to just the United States, by my experience and focus does tend to revolve around larger markets. That said, all that is really key is that your country has healthy online purchasing habits. I don’t know what the economy is like in Guatemala, so you would ultimately know best on that front. However, I have no doubt that these techniques can help you grow your following, whatever the case. How well you sell, will depend on the market as well as the music. Let me know if i can help with anything else.
Hi John im working on my first debut album I would like to follow and ask for help on this journey,
I hope that you be able to
Iowani
Hi Iowani,
Great! I really appreciate your interest. Feel free to get in touch at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com if you have any questions.
I really appreciate this so please give me a few hours no time to watch right now. Thank you,
Vicar Susan Swindelles
Thanks for this video and the program you have put together. I have two questions:
1. Is it possible to use your wordpress landing page with my SquareSpace website and mailchimp email marketing account? If not, I can create a similar kind of landing page in one of those platforms, yes?
2. Can you give a sense of what kind of monitary investment in Facebook Ads and other paid ads you’d recommend?
Hi Sariyah,
Unfortunately you cannot use the WordPress templates on site-builder platforms like Squarespace because you cannot install WordPress onto those platforms. You’d instead have to model pages after the examples that I give in the course.
For Facebook ads, the goal is to be profitable. This means that your ad spend is going to be reflective of how well your ads perform with any given audience, as well as how well you convert your subscribers into buyers (from paid ads). For starters though, you can get a feel for the ad platform for as little as $5 per day.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Thanks for your reply John. So I’d build a similar landing page using SquareSpace templates, yes?
I’ve used FB Ads before. Was just curious if you had a suggested dollar amount for artists to put aside for your marketing strategy, but it sounds like it really all depends on our budgets and capacity….. Do you find there is a general percentage of return on investment? Or is really a case by case basis?
Does your marketing strategy work well with albums that are not “fresh” releases? I am looking to market an album I released in October 2019, so it’s not OLD, but it’s not fresh out the gate.
Thanks so much for your time answering these questions.
-S
Hi Sariyah,
Thanks for following up. Yes. You would build a similar landing page to the examples I give in the course.
Your results with Facebook Ads are definitely going to be case by case, based on a number of factors. For instance you might be targeting an audience with a lot of advertiser activity, which ultimately impacts your price per impression. Then if you haven’t targeted the ad well/ or the they don’t perform well, your ads get less clicks, which in turn earns less for the ad platform than well-targeted ads, further increasing your price per impression. This means that you can eat up a small daily budget really quickly and be below the numbers you’d need to see to break even or be profitable. Those numbers are also incorporated with how well your sales funnel is converting visitors into subscribers, and converting subscribers into paying customers.
The good news is that with this system and methodology, you can see all of the numbers and adjust as you go. You can pause what isn’t working and/or run tests to make improvements. You eventually get a point where you can see that it cost X to get Y amount of subscribers, which become Z amount of customers. This informs how much you can afford to spend on your ads to meet your ad’s objective.
Yes, you can certainly use this strategy to successfully market and sell an older album. I will make the caveat that if your album is already available on Streaming platforms, where someone can easily find it, that can negatively impact your sales. I’m not suggesting that you nuke your album off such platforms, as there are methods of working within those circumstance. It’s just that it can be difficult for instance to try to sell a $10 album on your website, when someone is already a paying $10 subscription for a streaming platform where they can listen to all of the music they want for no additional cost.
Feel free to email john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com with any further questions.
Hi John this is Brandan Bullard forme Londonderry New Hampshire and I am the guitar player and I in the country band call Huck and the Hounds and setve and i make ore new album so I was thinking I don’t know you want to help me and setve
Hi Brendan,
Thanks for your info and for getting in touch. I’m always happy to try to help. If you have questions, feel free to email me at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com
Thanks!
You are the raddest! Thank you so much for providing so much value! Your transparency is a true testimony of your character. Anyone would be lucky to have you as a guide!
Hi Dylan,
Thanks for taking the time to check out the video. I’m really happy to hear that you’ve gotten something out of it.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Hi John I’m working on 3th Album need help with sales never sale nothing will my first and second need more info
Hi Manelli,
Thanks for your interest. Feel free to contact me at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com
Happy to try to help.
can’t watch the video..
now I can..
Hi Paul,
Great! Happy to hear that you got it to work. Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
I really appreciate your system and I would truly appreciate your input on my music and would like to know if u would be interested and helping me
Hi Kirk,
Thanks for your interest. Sure if you have a link to anything on the web, feel free to send it to john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com and I’ll take a listen. Same if you have any questions at all.
Thanks!
Thanks will do
Thank you bro
Hip hop beats R b beats
Thank yu
Hi John It,s all about marketing thumbs up!
I’ve been trying to order easy home recording blueprint.
Is it not available anymore? maybe you know.
Thanks for your response in advance.
Pete Dambski
Hi Pete,
Unfortunately I’m not familiar with that piece of content. I unfortunately do not offer any content on home recording, as my focus is strictly in the realm of music marketing.
Please let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Thanx John
I found you through one of his links so i figured you knew Owen Crithley.Marketing music will be my next step.
Thanks again for your response
Pete Dambski
learntoburnguitar.com
I am a trumpet player song writer who write all types of music also a singer producer,want to learn more about producing and writing better music.
Hi Godfrey,
Thanks for your interest. Unfortunately I do not have any content on songwriting or production, as my focus is specifically on helping artists market and sell their existing music online.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Just released a single and needing help pls help!
Hi Arturo,
Thanks for your interest. You can reach me at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com if you have any questions.
Xhave just came manager to singer songwriter in Ireland he wants on record label company
Hi Catherine,
Great! Thanks for checking out the video. Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Will john be come manager to new singer songwriter and looking for record deal and some one do his marketing I take care noel gigs tours booking s
Hi Catherine,
Unfortunately artist management is not a service that I offer, as I prefer to work with groups of artists through my courses, as they relate to marketing music online.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Looking someone do maragerking for singer noel boland have few other singers
Very interesting
I just released a new cd using cd baby distrubution
Would certainly use your help in the marketing area
Hi Steve.
Thanks for you interest. Feel free to reach out to me atjohn@musicmarketingmanifesto.com if you have any questions.
i have some good gospel songs, everyone says why not put them out? i mean i dont know how, these songs are with my friends only …how do i go about this? the guys i talk too need alot of money to set up channels for these songs and design websites, am very confused, anyway, is there any way u can help me?
thanks
Hi Kabango,
Thanks for your interest. This blueprint video is meant to show you how to go about getting your music out in a way where you are putting it in front of the people who would be most likely to buy it.
I offer a more robust course called MMM 4.0 that gives you the complete step-by-step of setting up the type of online marketing and sales funnel described here, as well as an easy to use website template, so that you don’t need to make it an expensive endeavor to get your music out there.
You can find out more about MMM 4.0 here:
https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/mmm4
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hello I am a poet lyricist do you work with spoken word poets
Hi Lorraine,
Thanks for your interest. While I can’t think of any poets specifically off the top of my head, my courses are geared for musicians selling music directly to fans.
I would imagine there being a lot of crossover in the application of this strategy for a poet, but the audience targeting and the approach to that audience might be far different.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
This Is A Good Marketing Manifesto
Sounds amazing!
I’ve been writing and producing music for many years; but have never gone commercial. In the last 7 months I have set up a home studio and am impressed with my progress and have been mentally planning a few marketing ideas with no real strategy. I work with different genres and am not sure what direction to take as they all have their own markets.
Regards Peter Dimitrakis
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your interest and for getting in touch. It depends on whether you are the artist or the producer when you say you are working with different genres. I got the sense from your comment that you are producing.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hi John,
Thanks for getting back to me! I’m actually working on a few styles of my own and producing. I’m serious to get myself out there. I’ll take a look at your video and will definitely follow up on the Marketing Manifesto strategy. Thanks Peter
Hi
Please help me with blueprint. My song Capeazie was released December 12, 2019
On many platforms streaming now.
Hi Natalie,
Thanks for checking out the video. If you have questions just reach out to john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com and I’m always happy to help.
I freestyle until a lot I just wonder if you’re interested and I do make beats and music and everything I freestyle I sing so I’m basically could do it all and I do art I paint a draw I do a lot
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for your interest. Did you have any specific questions about marketing your music?
Happy new year, what you talking about sound really good. I would love to get some marketing on my songs I’m with cdba y and more stores need that support. Thanks
Hi Ainsley,
Great, Thanks for your interest. Let me know if you have any questions, or if I can ever help with anything.
Well I’ve been with cdbaby.and they didn’t help me at all. Communication is terrible specially since I told them I’m from Barcelona, Spain…my music is in few platforms also you can see they have publicity and never get a single penny….and so forth…..How can you help me on this one to take my music away from cdbaby….or anything you may think is a better way of making some business
Thanks
Hi Joe,
I haven’t had that experience with them. I’ve always been very happy with their customer support and the service overall. That said, if you are unhappy with them there are many other distributors out there such as Tunecore and distrokid. But my top pick is definitely CD Baby
Does this work for Latin music to
Hi G-star,
Thanks for getting in touch. Yes, because this is a direct-to-fan model of marketing and selling music, it is based around the reason why people buy and the things that “trigger” people to take action and buy. Therefore it is not dependent upon genre.
That said, it does have a lot to do with building an audience and cultivating a relationship with that audience, so that they will want to help support your career.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
I need to pay service to market and promote for me
Hi Cartel,
Thanks for your interest. One of the reasons I created this Blueprint video, as well as my MMM course is to show artists a method of effective marketing that does not require you to spend a lot of money to hire a service to do the promotion for you. Plus with this method, you’re in control of the marketing, can see the progress status throughout the process, and make adjustments where needed, which are not always things that you can effectively do when you hire a third-party service to do it for you.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Those work on music intrumental music?
Hi Loretta,
Thanks for your interest. Yes, it can absolutely work on any genre where people actively have an interest and are buying music.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
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I think it’s a great thing you are doing I am a musician too and I would like to get my product out there too can you send some more info to make progress as a musician trumpet song writer
Hi Godfrey,
Great! Thanks for your interest. Yes, I’ll definitely keep sending out useful and actionable content. Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Hey John,
Just listened to your Blueprint video and learned quite a lot! I’m in the very beginning stages of navigating this musical venture and appreciate you putting together a video that is so powerful with insight, personal reflection and pertinence to the current state of music. I’m considering trying your online course and more specifically the “Squeeze Page”. I have an amazing concept and brand in the making and simply need to be smart about how and whom to market. Thanks John!
Hi Coupon Kev,
That’s great to hear. I really appreciate your interest and I’m glad this all seems to resonate with you.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Thank you so much brother
Let me know what to do.
Hi David,
Thanks for your interest. I layout my general recommendations in the video, but feel free to reach me at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com if you have any specific questions.
Hey John,
I was going to buy your course a long time ago I would say around 2012 if it was available then. Glad to see you are still doing it and updating it. Definitely looking to purchase. I just set up my website and am ready to release new music, but know I need to get everything in line first to increase my odds of success.
Looking to set up my squeeze page. What are your thoughts on using two different download options? I am targeting hip hop producers and people who may be fans of my music so hip hop listeners. I was thinking a free sample kit for the producers and free music for the listeners. Or should I just narrow it down focus on one? Have separate site for each?
Thanks,
Johnny
Hi Johnny,
Steve here from John’s support team. Thanks for your interest and for getting in touch.
Actually you wouldn’t want to use the same squeeze page for both music fans and music producers because they are two different markets with two different reasons for being on your site, and they will not respond the same way to the same message.
In fact even when marketing to different subsets of fans, you’ll likely want to use different squeeze pages, with slightly different messaging.
Let us know if we can ever help with anything else.
Steve,
I appreciate your response. I was thinking exactly what you explained but you hit the nail on the head better than I was back and forth.
One other quick question.. could you show me some examples of hip hop artists and/ or producers that have taken the course with success?
Thanks,
Johnny
Help me please
Hi Byron,
Is there anything in particular I can help with?
Hi I do hip-hop rock and Reggie love music need help get back thanks
Hi Jason,
Great! Thanks for your interest. Feel free to get in touch at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com and I’m always happy to try to help.
Hey John I’m a independent hip hop artist working on my new release my email is foxthadon@gmail.com would like to chat with you contact me when you can thank you and God Bless
Hi Marlan,
Thanks for your interest. Feel free to reach out to me at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com if you have any questions.
Thanks for your time explaining this John, can I have the video slides. Thanks.
Hi Teddy,
Thanks for your interest. I unfortunately do not have the slides available for this presentation. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hi John how are you . My name is Stefano Suaros . I’m independent artist ( singer ) I have a unfinished music album and I want editor, producer , writer and also recording Studio . Please contact me +13472359783 from
My personal number or my email . Thank you so much
Hi Stefano,
The best way to contact me is to send an email to john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com. All the best.
The best thing is I discovered your music… From what I’ve heard “From There To Here” is a really good album… I look forward to listening to all of your music Mr. John Oszajca! 🙂
Hi Elton,
That’s great! Thanks for the kind words and I appreciate you checking out my music.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Hello, I’ve just finished listening and watching your video. I have to say you’ve taken all the fluff out and gave a simplistic strategy. I have sat around thinking of different marketing strategies and even though I’m already doing Facebook ads, I have not done a squeeze page and all the other things that have followed. Thank you for taking the time out and providing the information! Looking forward to giving you a report on what happens after I apply the steps! Again Thank you for sharing!
Hi Jay,
Thanks for your interest. That’s good to hear that you’ve been using Facebook ads already.
The main benefit to having a sign up process in place as opposed to not having one, is that in the case where you are spending on ads it gives you the opportunity to get people into a follow up process. This is important because often times people will run ads that direct people to a place to immediately buy your music. However years and years of real-world testing has shown that people generally need to see an offer a few times before they go ahead and make a purchase.
So getting people into follow up allows you to begin to build a real relationship with people, keep your music in front of them and make the offer a second, third, or fourth time, and it’s that relationship you’ve built that influences a person’s willingness to support your career and buy your music, as opposed to major acts who get sales by virtue of the tipping point they’ve reached in market saturation, where people just set out to buy their music because everyone else is doing it too.
So in that sense this approach is ideal for independent artists who are sticking to a budget and want to see measurable results from their ad spend.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hey john I have a platform set up and I’m ready to make some kind of movement within the digital world I know that there is something I’m missing could this be it. Please let me know @artiststevebiko Salute!
Hi Ronald,
Great! I can’t say for sure whether or not this is the missing piece because I don’t exactly know what you currently have in place. I can say that in most cases artists are not building an asset in the form of an email subscriber list, nor selling directly to their fanbase, so perhaps it is.
Thanks for your interest and let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hi
Hopefully from you I will make a breakthrough…. Otherwise was giving up on music.I appreciate your coming out on this
Hi David,
Thanks for your interest. I hope you do have a bit of a breakthrough as well.
Let me know if I can ever help at all.
Lots of great info, thank you sir! My 4 daughters sing together, but they only have 1 original song….I’m guessing they need to get a few more out before a program like this would be beneficial? Just curious!!
Hi Shaun,
Thanks for your interest. Yes, typically I recommend that artists offer at least one song for free as a means of building a responsive subscriber list. However the course also assumes that you have something to sell. Generally speaking the course focuses on albums because it is just as much work to sell an entire album with this strategy as it is to sell a single, so you want to go with what’s going to give you the best chance for a positive return on investment, especially when you start to run paid ad campaigns.
It’s just too difficult to make an ad campaign profitable when you’re only selling a 99 cent single.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
I will tell the girls to get working on some more originals, and then we will hit you up…thank you so much for your input sir, you are awesome!!!
I need your help
Hi Quintnon,
How can I help? You can get in touch at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com and I’m always happy to try to help.
Hi my name is chura Montgomery I a singer songwriter also an entertaining I wrote about 300 songs my videos is on you tube also you can check me out on Twitter
Facebook.instagram. or any others channel thank appreciate
Hi Chura,
Great! Did you have any questions about this process?
Hi John, I have been taking singing lessons. I even post my own music videos on YouTube and cover songs. I see myself as a contemporary pop music artist but I don’t have a band, manager and I don’t know how to copyright my music – please may I have advice?
Hi Sharni,
Thanks for your interest and for getting in touch. If you are in the US, you can copyright your songs at https://copyright.gov . Otherwise you’ll want to look into how to secure copyrights in your country.
If you have music to give away and sell, then you cna follow the steps outlined in the blueprint video. Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Thanks John,
It all sounds really authentic and I can actually recognise how the marketing techniques you specify are used by others and have worked successfully on me so I know that, used correctly, they definitely work (especially if it’s a strong product that’s on offer!)
Will test some of them out with band I’m involved with 🤗
Hi Stephi,
Thanks for your interest and for checking out the video. Yes, while the AIDA process may be over a hundred years old, it has shown to be quite effective across many products and services online. You’re right though, your offer definitely needs to be compelling to the audience you’re targeting.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Any workshops around Salinas/Monterey California?
Hi Remedyredmusic,
Thanks for your interest. unfortunately everything I have to offer is online and I don’t have any live workshops to offer.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hi John, I’m a promoter I have several artist I’m supporting across the media platforms and streets. However I feel as though the views are not up because there not catching the attention to bigger audiences. I really want to know how do I get in from of record label managers/ A&R’s and mainstream publicist?
Hi Saun,
Can you please clarify how you are currently promoting your artists music. You mention “views” instead of sales or streams. Where exactly are you running into problems?
How long does it usually take for Facebook ads to work enough to make a living at it for former students?
Hi Mel,
Thanks for your interest and for getting in touch. There are many variables that will effect your results from paid advertising. Running paid ads has inherent financial risk built into it and like with any business, success is not guaranteed for everyone.
With paid ads you are targeting an audience and directing them to a place where you are offering them an opportunity to get some music in exchange to joining your email follow-up list. At this stage people will have a natural resistance to signing up, so it’s up to you as the marketer to overcome that resistance to get people to take the desired action.
Every step of the process, whether it be targeting the right audience, how well your ads perform with that audience, to how well your squeeze page converts those visitor into subscribers, all the way through the funnel to where you make them an offer to buy your music, are all going to have their own set of stats/metrics to watch, to see if things are performing optimally. So there is a bit of trial and error that goes on as you watch the numbers throughout the process.
Couple it all with how much you have to sell and how much you can sell it for, it is not unreasonable for an artist to make a living with a large enough list, but there is no defining measure of time that I or anyone else can place upon it. It really comes down to how well your ads perform and how well you execute the strategy.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hey Great Stuff. We are a psych folk band and we are simply asking for you to have a listen and see what you think? Maybe you could give advice on what demographic we could sell to?
https://soundcloud.com/user-589993007
Hey Caleb,
It’s really hard to say off of a cursory listen. Targeting comes down to doing a bit of research using various tools such as Facebook’s audience insights tool, and then testing. The numbers will guide you much more than opinion, as often we are just wrong about what we thing will or won’t work. Take for example a female piano player that I worked with. I thought Sarah Mclachlan was the perfect target audience. It turned out that Linda Carter (the actress that played the original Wonder Woman was a better target audience. I couldn’t have guessed that in a million years. But research and testing ultimately got me there.
Thanks for watching and all the best.
do you Know any marketers looking for clients?
Hi Blake,
Thanks for getting in touch. Unfortunately I don’t know of any off the top of my head, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people out there.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Very interesting and thorough presentation. I will consider my approach and may yet go for the full course. In the meantime, thank you for passing on some good experience and advice.
Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for your interest. That’s great. Hopefully I’ll see you in the members area soon.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hi John, I enjoyed your presentation. I’m from a marketing background therefore some of it was info that I knew. But where I’m stomped is how to market on Facebook. E.g, there are plenty of Facebook groups that I feel may get something from our music, unfortunately though all groups state, please do not self promote E.g if it’s not Pink Floyd related music please don’t, but if it’s a fan playing their version of one of the bands solo etc, then that’s great! This seems to me to be totally counter productive to the concept of social media i.e, bringing new people, new ideas and obviously new music to a new audience! I view social media at this point based on my experience aso a currency so if you an established act, say Eric Clapton, then great, it’s an amazing tool to generate continued interest just as the corporates use it. If you are on the outside, I’m struggling to see how an unknown artist/band gets the attention to justify the investment of setting up a landing page, email marketing to build a customer relationship? If you can remedy that I would be interested in learning the email automation etc. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, Jamie
Hi Jamie,
Thanks for your interest and for getting in touch. On Facebook my approach is to use the ad manager, target an audience and then run a series of ads to that audience, with the goal of getting them over to my squeeze page and funnel.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Thanks for getting back to me John, it’s much appreciated. I will definitely look into the ad manager on Facebook thank you for letting me know about that. So it’s time to start looking into these strategies. Thanks again. All the best, Jamie
Very informative. I am a song writer, singer and producer. I am not signed to a label and I am exloring as many options as I can so that I can really manage cost for future projects. I just need help with the process and the plan of action so that I don’t miss anything. Advertising can be very costly and I definitely want to avoid unnecessary cost.
Hi Leslie,
Thanks for your interest. Yes, there is inherent financial risk in paid advertising, which is why it is important to have the type of sales funnel I teach in place. That way your ads contribute to the effort to build a real asset in the form of an email subscriber list.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Seems legitimate. Taking notes.
Hi Braden,
Great! I appreciate your interest. Let me know if you have any questions about anything.
In relation to making music as is with the marketing aspect of your course do you give any advise in your course on how,and where to have your music made and for a reasonable budget? i.e. producing songs, creating the final album, or red flags to look for when searching for the right studio/producer in order to have music to sell without being ripped off and also making quality music that sounds like something on the radio a label would produce and not some low budget demo recording? Also relating to the autoresponder email copy do you help with or have any advise on writing copy that sells for those of us who have never done this before?…
Hi Kerney,
Thanks for your interest and for getting in touch. The MMM 4.0 course assumes that you already have music to sell and is focused solely on the marketing strategy for selling your music, as well as the action steps for setting up and integrating your online sales funnel. Therefore it does not go into anything related to the production of music.
Your best bet there is to shop around for studios, listen to some of their previous work and then see if they are also right for your budget. You may find someone who has a smaller operation, but can give you a pro sounding recording at a lesser price.
Regarding the follow-up email, yes I give you templates that give you the main idea of what to say in them. That said, you’ll definitely want to edit the templates so that they read more in your own voice, since building an authentic relationship with your subscribers is central to the strategy.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Thanks for the detailed response John I really appreciate it! 🙂
I watched this video mainly for my son who’s a R&B/Rapper but can I apply this to my businesses (video services and voice over artist)?
Hi James,
There are many aspects of the MMM process that will work for more traditional businesses. However, there are some differences as well. One of the biggest differences is that the buying triggers for music are very different than the buying triggers for traditional products.
most traditional products rely on agitating fear and pain. Whereas with music we need to try and tap into pre-existing pleasure and passion. MMM is much more focused on the latter. However, the basics of a funnel strategy can work in many businesses.
Thanks
On average, if I follow the blueprint to the T, how long before I start seeing results?
Hi James,
It’s hard to say on average, but I can say that it varies for each artist based on a number of factors.
The first big factor is traffic and how many visitors you are driving to your squeeze page offer. Another factor is how well the page copy on the squeeze page connects with those visitors. In other words, very few artists hit a home run out of the gate. Your message to market is going to take a period of dialing in until you get into an optimal range for subscriber conversion.
From there it’s how effective your email marketing is from within the funnel itself.
You might see some really quick results if you’re running a dedicated ad campaign that hits pretty close to your target market. Those results will show as visitors to the site as direct result of the ad. You might also see some okay conversion numbers on your squeeze page based on the marketing message that those visitors are exposed to on your site. A different set of results is the percentage rate of email opens and link clicks from within your funnel. And finally the last set of results is how well your sales offers convert your subscribers into paying customers.
So all along the path you’ll be seeing these different kinds of results. Some might come faster than others and with better efficiency. The good thing is that you can see the numbers all throughout the funnel, and make improvements where things look like they aren’t working optimally.
But once your funnel is all set up and you’re driving targeted traffic to it, the results can come rather quickly.
In the MMM 4.0 course, I show you how to set up all of the various aspects of running a funnel, from setting it up, to targeting your audience and running ads, to making improvements along the way.
You can find out more about MMM 4.0 here:
https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/mmm4
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
How much is the video course?
Hi Zack,
Thanks for your interest.
You can find out all about the MMM 4.0 course, as well as the cost here:
https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/mmm4
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
So how would I begin to create a decent landing page? Let alone, create an email list…
Hi Jose,
Thanks for your interest and for reaching out. The landing page I recommend, otherwise called a squeeze page contains a good attention-getting headline, and artist image, some introductory copy about the artist, a strong call to action to sign up for free music, and a form by which they can submit the request.
Usually the form is created from within a commercial email marketing service, so you’ll need an account for one. There are many out there you can use these days, but you can find out more about the one I use and recommend here:
https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/autoresponder
That’s how you’ll manage the email follow-up as well.
In the MMM 4.0 course I actually provide you with a custom theme template for WordPress, which contains all of the various page types that you need to execute the strategy, so that you can quickly put them up. Most themes don’t have all of the required page types, so I had one custom design for students of the course. It’s pretty slick and customizable so that you can make match your branding. I also provide examples for each page type, so that you have a point of reference when creating yours.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hi,I run an EDM dance label. I totally get your process. How and where do I find the fans in the first place?
Hi,
I cover this in a lot of detail within Music Marketing Manifesto 4.0, and there are many different ways to find potential fans. My primary focus is on using Facebook and Instagram advertising, simply because it’s fast, easy, and the targeting capabilities are incredible.
Let me know if you have any additional questions.
Awesome opportunity given
Glad you liked the presentation Dejuan. Let me know if you have any additional questions.
Yeah I keep getting people talking 2me about getting my music to a and r when i just wanna b selfmade music being affiliate marketing type of thing
Hi Justin,
Thanks for your interest. Actually, you’d be more compelling to an A&R rep if you can show them that you can sell music on your own, which is what I teach here.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Hey John! I watched your music marketing blueprint video and got to tell you I’ve been doing sort of the same thing to become selfmade artist..my biggest struggle is to bond with people the way you do, and all that email stuff on how to set up all that. Man that makes me go crazy cause I’ve tried so many times and it never really worked.
I’m an artist that is actually slowly growing and getting somewhere-ish, I’ve been releasing music and touring. I also have merch. My clique we are actually pretty known..atleast in our motherland for sure. Our music gets radio plays, we get to perform and we do have some nice buzz going on, but still, to actually SELL music, singles and/or albums that’s what I struggle with alot. I believe that if I get to sell alright amounts of singles/albums I would be able to actually live of this thing called Music and would not need to have a dayjob.
Our YouTube channel has already couple millions of views all together but still the money isn’t that good and spotify in my country isn’t that very very popular as YouTube so most plays are on YouTube + we split everything cause we are a clique so the money isn’t good enough. If we get to sell or have way more streaming on Spotify and YouTube etc we could actually live of it and be a full-time musician.
How can I get more people to buy my music . How can i get my music out there more
Hi Cross Blood,
Thanks for your interest. I make my recommendations in this video, but you can also get the entire strategy as well as the steps to set your sales funnel up in the MMM 4.0 course. You can find out more about it here:
https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/mmm4
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
i been doin music for many years i took a break a few years ago now im back at it im releasing music independently now just need to expand my fanbase lkke it was bfor especially wit all todays social media outlets music platforms marketing and promotion isnt like it was when i was selling out the trunk
Hi Hoggboss,
Thanks for your interest. Yes, much has changed in the industry over the years. Hopefully this has helped you to get more up to speed.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Great info; I got plenty of music but no strategy. Educational ! Website is down and have reopen the site, with a new system and with your keen ideas !
Hi David,
I appreciate your interest and I’m glad that this info seems to resonate with you.
Please let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Hi John! I’m Simone and from London. Thanks for your video, it was helpful. I might need to check out your video course in the near future as I am currently thinking of going self-employed in the music industry with my music 🎵 and becoming a freelance songwriter. I do have a WordPress website but haven’t turned it into a monetisation one yet, that’s something I need to learn soon and may therefore need to check out your video too. How much is it as I am on a low income of benefits but could save up for a time before buying?
Hi Simone,
Thanks for your interest and for getting in touch. That’s great that you’re using the WordPress platform. The MMM course comes with a website template for WordPress that contains al of the various page types that you need to execute the strategy.
You can find out more about the course as well as the price here:
https://musicmarketingmanifesto.com/mmm4
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
How can I get more people to buy my music . How can i get my music out there more
Appreciate it im use the steps see where it takes me
Hi Twondc,
Great! I appreciate your interest.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything.
Thanks for tha support TRWE Recordz Itz tha beginning of this ✈️ ✈️🇱🇷⭐✈️
Can I please send you some demos of my music and you can give them to labels and I can be signed
Hi Lil,
Shopping artists is really not what I do. However, if you ever need any marketing advice I’m here to help 🙂
All the best.
Trying to get started in this music game
Trying to get started in this music game
Hi Clennon,
Great! Thanks for your interest. This video is an overview of the strategy I recommend that artists start from.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Thanks for the advice made a lot of fucking sense 💯
Hi Andre,
Thanks for your interest. Happy to hear that the info resonates with you.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Thanks for the information John. I may come aboard in a few months once this coronavirus shutdown is over with.
Hi David,
Great! Good luck through this whole thing and let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Can you sell my album
Hi Dapodina,
Thanks for your interest. What I offer is information that can effectively help you to sell your music.
Let me know if I can ever help with anything else.
Is this a marketing course or do you market music for musicians?
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for your interest. Primarily I offer informational courses, with Music Marketing Manifesto 4.0 being the flagship course that covers the overall marketing strategy that I recommend that artists follow.
I have on occasion done marketing campaigns for artists, but that is subject to my availability and the course is infinitely less expensive that hiring myself or any other marketing expert to manage a campaign for you. I can give you more details if you like though. Just drop me a line at john@musicmarketingmanifesto.com for more info.
Thanks
Nice