 Baw, what's up everybody? Once again, it's Brand Man Sean and today we got to answer a question I get asked quite a bit. Do artists need to have a website? No, that's pretty much it. Artists do not need to have websites, but it is a nice to have. Let's get into a little bit more detail. For starters, I find when most artists reach out asking me this question, they're at a very early stage in what they're building. The first thing that's most important is getting yourself seen and having a brand. Today we have a way better vehicle to establish that and that is social media. The reason it's so much better than a website is social media has all of these algorithms that if things are going well and you are doing a lot of other things that I'm not going to talk about here, there's an opportunity for you to organically grow. Not only that, there's just this thought process of you could have a billboard in the desert, pretty much a website, or you could go to where the people are and then advertise there. That's pretty much social media today, especially since websites take time and also the fact that your brand might not be completely established and figured out yourself yet. Feel free to hold off on making a website. It's not going to make or break your career. It's a nice holding ground once you start to build something and I know a lot of people ask, well, how am I going to collect people's emails? If you're trying to use a strategy where you collect fans' emails, there's a lot of other tools that you could simply use to collect emails, like a simple Google form. There's so many things that you do not have to have a website. Once again, it is a very nice to have and there are benefits to it, but it is not the first thing on the list. Because ask yourself a question, how are people going to find out about your website in the first place? Nine times out of 10 for a lot of years is going to be social media. That's where most people are going to find you. That's where a lot of people are going to keep up with you. Even if they find you in the world, where you all meet in person or at a show, they see you, they're going to likely follow you and keep up with you on social media. Without social media, getting people to go to your website again and again is expensive because you're going to have to run some kind of ad, still likely going to be on social media just to let them know your website exists or just to let somebody who might already be following you know that, hey, it's time to go back to my website because I released something new, which is totally different than doing a simple Instagram post. This is one of the reasons why even when you look at big artists, they have the most simple websites. You get a little bit of information you can, it doesn't update super often, maybe you get a few tour changes and things like that, but that's about it. Anyway, hope that was helpful for any of you guys who were still asking yourself that question and was just wondering, should I have a website? Is it time yet? You can get one whenever you want to, but more than likely, there's no big loss to not having a website at the very beginning. I would love to hear you guys thoughts in the comments below and other than that, if you liked this video, go ahead and hit that like button. If you like it, you might as well share it and if you're not subscribed, you know what to do, hit that subscribe button.