 How would you like to spend your time listening to artist music coming up with dope ideas to get their music heard and making money at the same time? Well that's exactly how I've built my career in music. If you don't know me, my name is Brain Man Sean and in this video I'm going to break down how I actually went about that path of building a successful music marketing career and if you're interested how you can do the same because at this point I've had the opportunity to do some really cool things. Having great moments like a billboard number one with an artist by the name of 24k golden we were number one for multiple weeks over songs like Cardi B's WAP featuring Meg Dostallion, Drake's Laugh Now Cry Later, The Weeknd's Blinding Lights, BTS's Dynamite, so many songs but this is only one of many moments we've been able to create for artists going viral. Helping break their music coming up with creative ideas touching so many artists lives allowing them to get their music heard whether it's through Spotify, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, you name it and as artists of all genres whether it's hip hop, country, indie pop, EDM I've helped them all and I could scroll forever talking about the cool moments I've had with artists but before I was this guy who had the opportunity to help artists get attention for their music come up with really cool creative concepts that are impacting culture and getting invited to speak at all types of events as a marketing and branding expert in the music industry I was this guy a freshman in college making music with my friends all the time doing whatever I could to just be around music I just had to be around it so whether it was going to shows helping friends set up creative events for their music being in their music videos scouting locations for their photos or being a character some of their projects it was all fun I just love to soak up that creative energy nothing felt even close to what I felt and how cool it was to just listen to music be around other people who enjoy music and want to see a creative vision come out to the world and that's what I did all throughout college even though I was majoring in computer science and computer information systems it was just natural I can't even explain it from rapping for fun to picking up the guitar I was always up to something but after college I just did what my family wanted I wasn't some music industry prodigy I didn't go into music at all I got my computer information systems degree and interesting enough I literally never thought of an actual career in music all I thought about after college was hey stability I want a comfortable stress-free life let me go get this money and that's what I did my family was proud everything was all good until I began to feel stuck thinking there had to be something more exciting for myself out there than this something that was more me because to start I had to wear a suit every single day to work and that was not my thing don't get me wrong I love a good suit every once in a while but every single day as a uniform I really couldn't take it so I started in my free time again figuring out how to be around music started helping out my friends who are artists DJs market themselves get attention build their audience sell merch set up house parties do real-life pop-ups in the middle of the street with my friend hopping out of a u-haul and interviewing people on the streets I had to keep my creative juices going but at the same time I kept working that job because this music thing this creative stuff I still to this point never even thought of doing it for a living I just had no idea where money came from it just seemed like those people never made money and I didn't grow up with money so a career not making money wasn't an option for me but boy that I love what I was doing so I kept working on the side until eventually I figured it out every time my friends came to me needing my help it was something like I need more people to listen to my music more people to show up to my event more people to buy my merch more people to follow me on instagram or youtube these folks needed marketing and for some reason for me once I was able to put it together like that I realized oh there's a legitimate opportunity in this space because there's a whole degree in marketing and there's entire marketing departments at these major corporations so it was clear that there's a career somewhere here and instead of just helping my friends out I began to position myself as somebody who actually likes to market for artists and helps them on the business side of things leading me to all types of dope experiences where I made money and I didn't have to wear a suit and creating one of the largest underground music experiences in my city bringing out artists like Cody Shane digital nizeks and ruby rose who are at the time hot up-and-coming artists and it was great because I started making real money and man I can't tell you how good it felt I was like this moment is finally finally here but I was still working on the side and for me in my experience my nine to five job began to feel like prison it was great that I started to do all these cool things on the side but at some point I began to look at it like why can't all my life be this way does it have to just be a break from my nine to five job because the way I saw things is in prison they have something called yard time where you're able to go outside but just because you have this free space it doesn't mean that you're no longer in prison because you still have to go back so you might be outside but you're still in prison so I quit and built a full life in music helping more artists get their music heard and create more moments like what you saw earlier but before I go any further I want to tell you the story of jacquory a rapper turned very successful music marketer but back then when he was rapping he didn't even know he was going to be a music marketer if you look at the name on this bad picture right here you'll read savage intuition jacquory is the guy on the left this is before he had the locks you couldn't tell him that he wasn't going to be a pop and rapper one day graduated high school he was still into the music rapper producer on top of that now until he realized I don't want to be a rapper because one day he had his first true stage performance and had stage fright and realized yo this isn't for me I don't want to be that guy living enough having a good time like college students do until crazy enough senior year he gets kicked out of college now I don't have time to get into details right here but even crazier the college actually kicked him out by mistake either way it goes he was out of luck and he had to go back home down south and while he was in this space of figuring life out he had an epiphany I love music and I don't have to be a rapper to work in music so he started to be around the industry only problem is he needed some money he couldn't use college as an excuse he wanted to get up out the house but that was gonna mean having to pay some serious bills so he worked every job that he could going from space to space trying to figure out how can I make a career out of this music thing and as you can see from the very beginning jacquory was far more aware that music could be a career than I was and was intentional and logical about how he analyzed everything that he did and he ran through nine different positions in the process because number one he knew he liked to rap but he was uncomfortable with the public figure side of being a successful rapper he tried producing and actually made a little money there but he didn't want to sit around a computer all day he found being a social media manager boring all he did was put up a couple of tweets and posts on top of that there was no money in it being a publicist was a cool job because he got to learn a lot but he had to be at events all the time and didn't want to go around hopping from event to event and that ended up being his entire life being a blogger and journalist was really cool though because he got to listen to music right he got to stay up to date with all the cool things and next things and see those people blow up because he was one of the first people on it but there was no real money in being a music journalist so then he tried being an artist manager and he really did not like babysitting most people who say they don't want to be an artist manager say it because they don't like to babysit having to tell another grown individual when to wake up when to go to this and plus on top of that you really need to have a strong music network to be a quality manager and because of all of this the money came very very very slow and jacquory needed that money to come a bit faster so he tried being a music creator then he made some money there but it was hard to scale if you don't live in a major city then he tried playlisting actually made some money again but the ceiling's low it's harder to build yourself in the industry and build a respectable brand around yourself so then he shifted into being a show promoter and that was crazy stressful barely broke even with the money even though it looks cool and then when covid came him and his partners took that as a sign to officially leave it alone and after all of this finally where i got lucky to start as a music marketer jacquory after trying all these jobs gave music marketing a try and because he had done so much in music over half a decade he was able to be pretty good at it from the very beginning and the cool part about it for him was it checked all the boxes it allowed him to get out of the jobs that he hated he could make his schedule however he wanted to whenever he wanted to create his own rules could literally work from anywhere while at the same time as a marketer you get invited to a lot of cool events and meet some of the coolest people but you don't need to know any of these people in the very beginning you can build your network from zero easily as a marketer because so many people want to talk to the marketers many people need help how can i get attention for my music or my artist which led to him making some good consistent money pretty quickly and on top of that he realized that so many music business legends are great marketers many who started as an artist just like him legendary music executive la reed of la face records was in a music group called the deal p diddy made music himself even while he was an executive rory carter who many people know as lady gakas former manager started off as a rapper and then scooter brawn who discovered justin beaver manages ariana grande managed kanye started his entire career as a marketer from day one so jacquory is looking at these things and realized this is the way to go but on top of that there was simply nothing like seeing your own creative ideas impact culture this clip posted by snoop dog on instagram is a part of a campaign that jacquory did himself from ground up with the random artists at the time from tennessee not only led it to being posted on snoop dog's page but snoop dog tagging drake it's nothing like that feeling when you see something that comes from your own brain takeoff and culture and then next thing you know you have family and friends talking to you about stuff not even knowing that you were behind it so jacquory was hooked he was in it and just so happened while jacquory was still managing an artist that artist performed at my music festival and that was the first time jacquory or not ever met and we stayed in contact after his artist performed and eventually realized we had a lot of common had similar goals so we linked up because even greater we realized something big the music industry needs good marketers because in addition to the traditional path the internet created a space where independent artists had a real shot in the industry you can make your music in your own room you can just post things on social media and build a fan base so year after year after year independent artists were making more and more and more money and as these opportunities to make more money came artists are going to need somebody that knows how to help them get their music heard and grow their fan base so they can take advantage of all the new opportunities at hand and once we realize the industry needs good marketers we also realize because of this there's not enough good marketers in the music industry and that's when we created Contra brand agency and man I gotta say just the fun alone that we've been able to have due to our position as music marketers has been completely worth it because work hard play hard when you love it it's all the same and it's brought us so many cool moments and being covered by magazines people like Lil Nas X shouting us out being so many cool people getting plaques whether it's platinum plaques for songs we've worked on or acknowledgements for what we've done on social media but it all comes down to when your clients are winning you win when you have clients that go from unknown to performing with Miley Cyrus getting signed by Sony Records collabing with some of the hottest artists out who are working with Beyonce and Drake and then being in a position where you can meet Michael Jordan when your clients are winning like this it's made it even easier for us to continue to win and boy has this been a lot of fun and many of our peers have looked at us like yo how have y'all done all of this so fast but we realized something pretty early on there's two type of people that we've seen in music the grinders who are always talking about I grind I work hard I hustle I hustle I hustle I don't sleep and then on the other side there's the rain makers the people who are getting money for real they're well rested their skin looks impeccable and they hustle too but they hustle effectively while the grinders thinking that that makes them a badge of honor are working for years and years and still struggling to pay rent and breaking down this dynamic all we knew was we wanted to make it rain and everybody that we looked at who navigated the industry well had mentors we looked at Jay Z having jazz oh as a mentor early on and when Rihanna got in the game Jay Z was her mentor and then Usher and Scooter Braun both had Jermaine de Prix and when Justin Bieber got in the game he had Usher and Scooter Braun Pete Diddy had Andre Hurrell the list goes on and on and then when we really broke things down we realized in many cases this is true outside of the music industry as well so he leaned into the music marketing opportunity but then we found a couple of mentors who could break the game down for us in ways that allowed us to move faster because the music industry is completely counterintuitive in how it works then pretty much every other industry and as a result we went from making that first money and getting that bag to making a whole lot of bags our business eventually did over a million dollars and I'll say this the money I used to make in two full hard years of work is less money than I have in my bank account today because while most people try to walk the minefield blind we wanted to be able to know where all of the problems were so we can navigate around them quickly and even fly over the minefield when we could and the same goals for you there's nothing more valuable into getting guidance but you have the ability to navigate it by yourself it'll just take a lot longer having to learn all the dynamics and politics and nuances of the music industry as you go how to actually gain the right skill sets but sometimes it's more comfortable to just say hey I'm gonna do it by myself but understand that that's at the expense of getting results quickly and you're rolling the dice on your future because what I didn't mention is before me and Jacory realized hey we should get some help with this we lost a ton of time and money just trying to bump our heads and trial and error everything so we had to figure out that betting on ourselves didn't mean that we were doing it alone so if you're down for this path I'm down to help you out we're gonna show you how to become an asset to artists and labels by thinking like an agile music marketer you're gonna get the skill sets and strategies you need and then after that you'll actually be valuable but then you have to be able to make sure people see that value which will break down to you and get people to want you on their team and after we help you become valuable in music we'll show you how to make sure people see that value and make them love you this is how you build your name in the music industry so that you build a brand that speaks for you so you don't always have to speak for yourself putting you in a position so artists and labels trust you because that's what this game is all about this is a people industry it's about trust and relationships so you're gonna have to build out a network which we're gonna break down and give you all the keys to doing it quickly so you become an attractive person to work with in this industry we have tens of thousands of dollars of business that comes to us every single month by surprise simply because we've built the name in the industry where other people are telling other people about us but understand this if you don't have proven skills people don't trust you in the music industry and again as I said music is all about trust which is why we're going to show you exactly how to deliver results and that way you can get the bag it's not about finding clients and job opportunities it's about creating those opportunities and when you do that you'll turn that one happy client into many many clients and we'll show you exactly how to do that down to exactly what to say in meetings so you get hired and paid and just to be clear this is a real screenshot just some $750 might not be a big deal but to me every time I get paid in this industry where I get to have so much fun do so many dope things it's a huge accomplishment and the fact that we get paid over and over and over again whether it's $1500 $10,000 $15,000 or $500 it all allows me to fund this lifestyle that I love especially since at first I didn't know how I was going to do this since I didn't go to school for it but what I quickly learned was no one cares if you went to school or not no one cares how hard you're going to try no one cares how much you quote-unquote want it in this industry and no one's going to give you a handout all they want is real results which is what we're going to show you and I know it might sound wild that most people don't pay attention to school but literally no one's ever asked me did I get a degree in what my major is largely because they know these schools when it comes to music don't even know what's relevant in the industry now they're teaching some general information they don't know how to keep up what's happening in the industry in real time and to be real they don't even understand the culture if you look at this picture this dude's wearing a suit where I specifically said I got out of a job that I was working because I had to wear a suit every day I wanted to be free dressed like this move how I move and if I wanted to wear a suit one day be all spiffy then I could but not as some uptight uniform to try to trick people into thinking it made me official and the craziest thing about it the in-state tuition for my college that I went to is like $9,000 and most of these schools want you to go to school multiple semesters so you're paying not just thousands of dollars one time you're paying thousands of dollars again and again and again which is why most people need a loan like I did meanwhile none of that matters to help you deliver real results so with our support we'll show you how to deliver results confidently becoming a legit music marketer in 30 days getting a full music marketer business in a box and in this 90 day program we're going to work you towards getting your first clients and we will literally be a part of your team helping you sell and manage your clients we basically will be your training wheels until you can take off and continue to build for yourself because imagine doing work you love making good money and establishing a brand presence where people come to you without you having to try and that's literally the life you live I can tell you that it's possible because I am now in this position myself and it's a beautiful thing so if you want this opportunity to work together do know that it's application only we cannot work with everybody we will not work with everybody there's only so much time in the day and we're still in the game ourselves serving clients closing deals and helping artists grow if you want to do this for real make money listen to music working a job that you will love you must have the right system and skills to generate these type of results that I've mentioned that we've created for our clients so working with us you will know exactly how your business and marketing efforts will perform building your name in the industry and bringing money and opportunities that you can't even imagine so instead of struggling and struggling and struggling to crack the code we're going to give you the messaging targeting the media approach and systems to crack it so you can go through this process and be like Simon who blew up multiple artists in Sweden to over 30 million streams worked an album that got album of the year nods and it became in the top stream albums over in Sweden and landed major investment in his company from a legendary music exec from Warner Records or like Belika who's become a gospel music and culture phenomenon she's a go-to brand in that space who gets interviews with legends makes over 15k a month and growing from her marketing services that she provides or somebody like Sam who worked with us at Contra brand and has flipped it to being what I believe a legendary management career in the making he asked artists who both have over 1 million monthly listeners got major investment opportunities has seen a lot of money and now he's actually training his marketing team through this exact same program that I'm talking about now so in short we'll be able to help you skip the hard part you've seen jacquory and I had a winding road until we finally figure this out both of us over five years of trial and error until we fortunately discovered the system but they got to start here it's still work to do but boy did you save a lot of waste and that can be you too why go the hard way you don't have to waste time figuring out yourself because fun fact just a four digit lock has over 10,000 different combinations you saw how completely different my path was from jacquory's just to get to the same point but there's so many potential outcomes and most of them actually do not lead to success we were lucky to crack the code and you'll get it cracked from day one so these are just a few of our dream clients the question is are you next if you think this could be you I want to have a personal custom tailor one-on-one meeting with you where I can get an understanding of who you are and where you are so I can determine if it makes sense for you to work with us because if we have a conversation and I think you're a great fit then I'll invite you to be able to work with us but if you're not a great fit whether it's you who thinks so or I think so then no harm no foul but I promise it'll be one of the most valuable investments of your time for your career this year because I'm going to break down and make it personal to you letting you know what you need to do to move forward now the way you'll be able to check this out is below this video whether it's an application link below this video or if you're watching this on a youtube page I'll put this in the description so then you can click over to the page and then scroll down and apply but this is application only we don't let everybody in so you do have to have a conversation right and go through this session if you are interested in working with us hope to be able to speak with you this is such an amazing time in the music industry where we don't only have the rise of indie artists we have a rise of indie music professionals and we're looking to help create the new age of music marketing executives click the link in the description hope to talk soon