 Yo yo yo howl what is up folks? About to do a real quick 15 minutes, you know, I mean Big boss sensei was good See who else we got who else coming in here a while wait Feel free to say whatever you need to say whatever you would like to say but while I wait see who else comes in We got to talk about this merch course that just dropped and brand man network If y'all haven't seen the interview with Evan Owens dude is a beast Director of merchandising of LVR in and I'm talking about this dude Yo, I'm telling you this dude has done the hustle from the bottom At a t-shirt brand in college late high school You know doing those basic numbers that you do when you just upstart some of yourself all the way to tap it into the millions doing merchandising for artists and Ma'am, I'm telling you he's a guy that you want to learn from he's doing it for obviously big artists right now at LVR And but in the behind the scenes he's a go-to guy. I'm not even going You know talk on this business like that behind the scenes, but Black summer Ella the people at his label. Obviously that's that's just an obvious thing So y'all are interested and y'all are really moving on this merch thing Make sure you get in brand man network. Check that out because it's the gym And hey, it's free for brand man networks members Just like all the other courses that are coming just like all the other courses that are in there We got a Facebook course a Google course YouTube course, which is kind of the same thing on that one. You know what I mean? branding Advertising you name it all this stuff is free for y'all members. So I'm glad to drop another gym another bomb for y'all Khalil, what's up big bank? What's up? Yeah, y'all are in the network most of y'all so I don't even you know, y'all y'all can have a better Q&A They're just asking these but but talk to me. Oh big bank man. We might we might need some shirts again. I Don't know when exactly but we need to talk about getting some shirts man. Let's see Where is Corey? What you mean? Where is Corey? Uh Well, I mean, I guess you're talking about he hasn't dropped the video in a while He did drop one last week you might not have seen it and it doesn't even have the normal views It's slowly going up But YouTube is being real slow on our views lately what you're trying to figure out what's going on with that in the back end But Cory is in the network every week doing calls. He can you can hit them up anytime Through the group chat space. He does a live call with everybody What every Thursday and you know, that could be sometimes one artist on that call So it's like a one-on-one for an hour. Sometimes it's like three four artists on the call Right that Cory is active. He out here moving. He still does lives on Instagram But it's not the same as that back and forth on in the network. But yeah, bro Colluck Kalani. What's up, man? Ask the question. You said you came here for Uh advice, what's up? Are you slimy? I know Cory. I'm his side chick What are you talking about? Bruh, I Have no idea what you're talking about and am I slimy? I have no idea who look know what I Don't know. This is a serious situation. So I'm like Don't any of what you're talking about cuz I have no idea what you talk about. Let's leave it at that Um Came for advice. Yeah, Connie. I asked a few quick questions. I'm only gonna do this for about 10 more minutes Well, I sue. What's up or ghost? I should probably say what was good with you. If you around Of course you get on live when I'm in the middle of writing, but I want Hey, look, I didn't have any super particular topic that I wanted to talk talk about But I wanted to answer like three quick questions Possibly if y'all have any other than that, I'ma say this Artist artist artist The biggest thing that y'all can get y'all cells into is just this idea if I got to stop watching videos for the sake of gyms and Get into the execution phase one of the biggest thing I've seen with the artists that I've been working with lately is They're there when they actually take that action that some of them want to move faster than they need to But when they actually take that action and spend that time to just go through the process the real steps Then now it's been what two months. What for most of these guys and It's been brilliant progress Brilliant progress and that's the goal of everything. I'm doing now trying to help artists at scale on that end of my business Yes, I got the bigger artists that I work with on in the back end around in certain countries and you know around the world But like the artists that are just starting off Yo Y'all got to take this whole this whole do do and not just watch Seriously, I've been saying too many people just watch Like advice videos for entertainment or you know, you watch them for two three years and they made no song Haven't pushed that out there. You're not gonna make any progress. That's why most of the most of the people And they'll and they'll tell you that because I've been pushing and I get to talk to these people weekly day to day Sometimes multiple times a week Most people in brain man network have probably made more progress Well, or a lot of them will tell you they'll make they made more progress in two months than they have made in a year And that's just because the different approach and the actually following through So I want y'all to keep that in mind whatever y'all are doing whatever y'all situation is very y'all got to do that When you get into a whole YouTube ads like a whole campaign with remarketing and customer funnels When where are you talking big thank you and um You in a network already, right? Yes, that's that's there already. Well half of that. The remarketing part is coming But we got the remarketing for Facebook already I love homies trying to begin booking show super talent anyone heard of it or Josh Oh, and you have any vice trying to break into the show game Yes if you're trying to break into the show game one one of just most practical things you can do is get in contact with some kind of promoter work one of their smaller venues or just go to a Venue a smaller venue book that out get that packed and Start there and literally make sure you're recording every step of this footage and then Hit up the next level like make sure you can pack that 50 venue out again and again And now try to go for 75 to 100 State and contact with this pro promoter so they can see that you're booking this out They can see you're growing and seeing your progress and they also know you're reliable at the same time and then from there Right now They might look at you as a trustworthy person when they know that hey I got some folks coming in town and I'm looking for an opener I know such-and-such is gonna bring out this amount of people at least and he's reliable So let me go ahead and possibly give him this opportunity. I've seen that happen again and again Right. I mean so you have to the one one of the best things you can do is when you reach out to people don't expect Don't reach out to people for help immediately reach out to people to get on their radar and keep them updated So when they see that you're moving and you got momentum and you're doing things without them Then they're more inclined. So you just want to really network to get on people's radar and then let the Natural magnetism from you getting momentum yourself Bring them in and then when that when that starts to bring them in that's only gonna increase your momentum for The other people who are now watching and now that's gonna increase your momentum again for the other people who are watching and You just continuously start to attract people that way. I've never said it like that Well, I actually asked that question. I mean answer that question on before so I hope I said that clearly when you get into When should it produce the work on getting a logo done? You can do that ASAP, bro It's really more so about having a feel for your brand. No, if you know your brand Obviously, you know producers and all that they y'all change names just like artists sometimes change name So if you think you're kind of Settle a little bit in your brand. You can get a logo done ASAP My little home. Let me see There are three types of people those that want things to happen Those that watch things to happen and those that make them happen true true true true true DG said that That's funny man. Never thought to do or anything like that before but I actually really rock with his channel what he's doing The course of Drake and Chris Brown song is the same song as I released in 2016 it's copy written. All right So go ahead and uh, like share that I'm interested man put that in the comments of this video when it's When it's over or also like put it in the um, I don't know if they've let y'all put links in the chat But I'm interested to hear make sure that that track gets to me and I want to hear I want I'm definitely curious to hear this is saying for real for real What would you say are the first most important steps you should do when creating or even revamping your brand at a lot of Clout, but I let it fizzle out over time through due to life, I'm sure um all right, so that's interesting is I would say it's actually easier to come back strong Well, I wouldn't say easier to come back strong. You have to generate the interest again But I would say there's less worry about your rebranding when you kind of went dry again Right if you were already hot now It's like how do I take this sharp left turn because I have some motion so much momentum because you don't have momentum I because and I can only you know speak generally because this is a youtube Q&A But if you don't have a momentum you the best thing you can do then now is figure out what direction do you actually go The way you got clout the first time is that how you want to have clout in the long run Is there a different type of brand you want to build so go ahead and just Build the new brand and not even think too Um heavily about the rebranding the only thing I would do though In terms of considering the old audience and stuff like that is um Get their attention So you might have to I don't know if it's worth it for you whatever you have going on But you might have to run retargeting ads to people who've interacted with your video in the last 360 days what you can do What like yeah, you can do on instagram and some of these other platforms So you can retarget people who've just interacted just so they see you again. They get reminded you're here You can use a soft uh automated software to One of those softwares how most people are usually liking other people's profile You can just go like everybody who follows you right now. You're just getting back on their radar. So part of it is Building your new brand, but then also getting Back on people's radar who might have just forgot about you because the algorithm you stop being active So the algorithm isn't even showing these people your stuff anymore They don't even know that you're back and they're just forgetting about you because it's out of sight out of mind So keep that um Keep that in mind let me see My tap indirect marketing may people find you by accident Upload your song to youtube and link it in the video. Yeah, do it uh Why sue said man? I upload that song on youtube and all that stuff especially if If you wouldn't I I might even say that let me see Like getting on playlists youtube videos like I don't see you All right, a couple more questions. There's someone who was breaking out of their shell and beginning to share my music I'm so appreciative of his channel. Hey Keep it what you're doing and spread knowledge appreciate it kinshanti. I'm really help I'm happy to be of service and bring y'all information that not only matters But it's actually, you know accurate and thoughtful from that place. That's what I try to do um every day so Get your music on a website where people already discover music. It's hard being an indie artist Yes, it is hard being an indie artist It's hard being an entrepreneur And I think if artists get an idea that they're going into entrepreneurship Not artists just artistry then It'll make sense your expectations will be managed You'll expect it to be as hard as it is the problem is artists are getting smacked onto a wall like yo This isn't I didn't expect it's not you should expect it. It's going to be hard. Um Examples of techniques to interact marketing McDonald's workers Slides their tape into happy mail bag. Oh, that's funny. Y'all talking about finesses Yo, what's up, michael angelo? Hope you're doing great. How do you go from looking like a struggling sound cloud artist to an actually actual up-and-coming artist. Well, some of that stuff is so now you're talking about some basic perceptions some of it You get that official stuff like the sound cloud and I'm not a sound cloud spotify You know apple those things tend to feel more official the people from that side but I care a little bit less about that. My question is always about what matters. I'm very Low on superficial for the sake of superficial If you go back to my channel for the longest time You'll see videos that might not have the greatest audio You'll see videos that might not have the greatest video Visual and all that kind of stuff and the camera could be a little bit better focus But I folk my I'm here for the information more than anything All right, and and I want people who are more interested in information Then glossy funny videos or like I don't know not necessarily funny. You know, we try to have a good time on the channel But but you know like all this amazing production. That's just not what it's about for you It's that same idea like your music and the content should be what people Are caring about less than the perception of you being The great like the a sound cloud rapper or not or a sound cloud artist or not if you're doing your job People will like you regardless and then You know, maybe if you're moving like that somebody is going to be like, yo, how can we make this guy a regular artist? We're going to put him on Spotify apple and tell him to take everything off a spot Sound cloud because we want to make money. There's a lot of opportunity here Um, and hopefully you're that person and you do it to yourself. You sign yourself I guess um as I'm saying but but yeah man like focus on the metrics that matter All the other stuff is it's cool to to look like you're that you can get your Spotify get your Uh, what's the other thing apple and all that kind of stuff that that's cool and maybe take higher quality photos But what's going to be most irrelevant to your brand? Have you figured that out yet? Ask yourself that and then Where are you trying to connect with people? Figure that out and then go from there Last but not least Hey, Friday's Santana gang gang. Let's get it do ever How do you build momentum and consistency in your fan base? Well, that's just you showing up consistent consistently, right? You have to like that the momentum part Is literally just doing over and over again and then getting a massive amount of attention Like there's some smaller subsets to different types of categories. It's consistency and all that kind of stuff Don't know which one would be relevant to you. So we can't really talk about it on this forum Um, I can't go real deep in that should you fake it till you make it I've never been a fake it till I make it person. I've seen plenty of people fake it today make it. Um, but Um, that's just never me, but that's more I guess my personal Like not identity of not having to feel like I'm making it like I always personally that faking it thing messes me up Because I know I'm not who I'm perceiving myself to be or I'm not and there has to be some discomfort With who I am and who I'm projecting um But there's a lot of people who've done it. So I'm not saying it can't work for you. It definitely can't um, so and then there's this other part of the process where Everybody has something called imposter system syndrome imposter syndrome A lot of people experience this where they feel like they're an imposter and you are it at this point Or you are doing it and you are You know, you got some kind of success, but for whatever reason There's still all this stuff what you're going to find is there's always another level. There's always more information You can get there's always You know something else and business that could be More intact and you feel like an imposter because once people start to Be perceiving you all as this great thing and putting you on a pedal So in your in your mind you're like brez not like this behind the scenes um, so But yeah, you can definitely Thank you till you make it if you want to it's just the type of person you are and how you want to go about that I'm not good. I'm not big on having fake data though, if that's what you mean like that Why you're literally messing up your ability to have real results because you don't even know what your real response is Type in cell is you got a remix I can't add the link. All right We're gonna i'ma pull that up I'm a as a matter of fact after I look at a few more of these questions I'ma pull up that you got it remix and tell you live if I what I think about it. Um Are you marketable at 27? Do you think yeah, man? Yeah Like jay-z dropped his first project. Well, he dropped dropped reasonable doubt at 26 years old That's one year older than jay-z where he dropped his stuff kyan was pretty old Future didn't really pop to he was I don't know future might have been 28 or something like that To change like just depends on what you're doing, especially you're talking about r&b And r&b there on some growing folks stuff. Anyway, you can definitely do that from early from from that age Um, and if you do a early r&b cover from early 2000s with a chart and billboard hot 100 r&b charts uh No No A doubt your cover with chart like doing a remix sample and going that entire process that route That's one thing But there's a whole process like don't get distracted by trying to be on the charts When you're just trying to get fans in the first place That's a whole game a whole situation The baby is 27. Oh, see now we got other gems. The baby is 27 now. I'll just really start popping with last year 26 Kalani Says art is interested in collabing hit them up. I'll see now y'all coming in y'all this shit moving too fast Is it really the age number that matters? He has not aged that matters. I I agree my suit um, let me see Most people would have gave up on Up in two chains position. I respect it. Yeah for sure Uh, what else we got going. All right, let me listen to this. You got it remix real quick Yeah, let me see you need r. I knew something. I wasn't thinking about it. I was like, yeah, bro You gotta like just like when people think about the Grammys and all that stuff You have to submit to the Grammys and I like oh, they actually an iron on the ground scouting looking for the best music That's popping Like no, you got to submit and to be considered Most that's why most of this stuff has some level of politics going on like even around your town There's probably some list that have best restaurants And in some of these rest and most of these restaurants have to submit to a lot of these lists So it's like are they really the best food in town or it's just the people who actually knew about this list And it's the best of the people who submit it And you know, there's just that's just how things go. All right, you got it remix We're typing it in now Hey, man, it's better not be nothing weird like some weird porn or something Let me see I don't even see it. Hold up. Maybe you don't have enough Views on it because I can't find it. I need you to type it in again, bro Davey started popping at 28. So how old is Davey's now? Yeah, I'll say that we report is definitely coming. Hey, um, hey, bro, like put that put that Title again and again of whether I should search or something man because I cannot find it I'm trying to I'm trying to give you that listen before we move on Would you say tick tock influence the marketing is the easiest to penetrate right now to get your song on something or Or go up To go up if it's something ignorant. Look, I said look we've been talking about this Yeah, for a minute inside the network from for months I've I've been putting people on while I'm saying look focus on tick tock focus on tick tock focus on I've been I start saying it back when it was musically what you got to understand is Instagram has matured all right, so What is going to put the video in the other video? I don't know what you're saying, but Yeah, Instagram is matureduck. So the ability to go viral On ease is hard. You have to really work to get whatever you get They're suppressing a lot of traffic and you got to pay pretty much for a lot of things whether it's ads or Or influencers the organic is just not there as it was before Same for triller triller and tick tock are both in these phases. Um, it's both something worth both of them are Both worth something being on those being newer there and they're a lot more mature then Starting at the beginning beginning because people are just being slow to it. But you got to realize that This is this is the time for those platforms The get posting a video right now on tick tock is not equivalent to posting a video Um four or five months from now is not going to do the same thing Like the first people on the platforms always get more views than they necessarily should All right, the last ones Don't get as much as they should because it's already crowded Like literally when somebody's play you can go their story after story on people on instagram at the very beginning Their first post got like 60,000 views and they grew to 60,000 100,000 um Like followers pretty soon, but that's because everybody's looking for somebody to follow in the beginning. All right, so And tick tock's a little bit different platform. But yes, it's worth something. It's worth looking into so go ahead and Get into that All right, let me try to read a few more of these things because uh cellists. I cannot find that Just tell me your ig pet like no, what oh, yeah, we're we're where's your name again I guess I could click and I could type in your name your youtube name and finally on your page Yeah, there's no reason for people to get caught up in there. It's is it worth it to try a platform like spending your wheels Yes, I agree Petra vita. Yes, like don't even get caught up in it. Is it worth trying this or not? You need to just use it like just do it. Yes, because you got to get the results like and Maybe it's not the platform for you. But yes Yep, like tick tock is the thing man I've been leading and guiding people on that for a good minute now. Um, either in personal accounts or Not personal accounts personal like the some of my main clients or People in a network the people in a network already know That we've been talking about this and there's some videos on it. I'm not gonna do videos I really have you on tick tock. Just was just saying I don't I don't youtube. They're all in a network Um, or they all will be in a network, but okay. Let me see morgan riper. Do you have your song on digital platforms? Do you know how to get songs on tick tock and a tick tock song base? Uh, actually, I don't know right off the bat. Um I got other folks to do stuff like that for me at this point Is it beneficial to get a feature with a big artist like guerrillas? Oh And you are on all artists Um, it depends on who you are what you're trying to get out to But yeah, it depends bruh Can't I can't even um say that's kind of a super subjective But I would probably try to get more of a fan base for myself before I go with guerrillas. Oh and guerrillas I ain't saying he's not relevant, but he he if you um Don't have a fan base around Around guerrillas old age Right and understands the importance of guerrillas. Oh, then it won't even help you anyway. Oh, I think I'm on the page Make it right remix the real sellers. All right. Let's see what else you got I don't see you got it remix. I see you make it right me remix Or is that what I'm supposed to be looking at? my email is bryan man shot at at gmail.com I don't understand. Yeah, I can't remember that one BMI ask a foreign artist who hasn't decided up. I have no preference between the two bruh You just got to research that one. I don't have a preference. Those are solid Right with that k days. All right, I've been up for hours already, man. Let me see All right, fellas. I tried to get to listen to that thing But uh, yeah I don't see it. I don't see you got it. I went to your youtube page. I don't see it So i'm gonna get this five more minutes and we off because I've already on here longer and I should have been Probably not do two more minutes How much do you recommend putting aside for marketing an ep of four songs? Or is it dependent on what you would want to achieve with the ep? It is dependent on what you want to achieve with the ep. I'm glad you asked because it's subjective as a bruh, like that's it Like when I say that I'm talking about if you know a number you want to hit Then we're just talking about realistically. What does it take to hit that? All right, that's all it is Do you want to get a hundred views? Do you want to get a hundred thousand views now? You got to get your budget to match what you're trying to get um It's his oldest song you've all right bet. Let me let me go. Let me see. Let me see what's up video You got it remix three years ago wait How you remix a song that happened in the future bruh, let me see what's happening. I can't hear it for some reason Why is it just muted? Hold up All right Where's the chorus? That was short. You got it. You got it. Hold up. Let me try one more time. Let me see I don't know man. I don't I don't know if I would say that deserves a copyright Okay, this one's going a little bit longer. Okay That's some basic words though, bruh. I don't know man. That's the the the thing about this kind of stuff, bruh This is I don't know. I wouldn't He's saying you got it. You got it. But the melody is different right, so Ah, yeah, bruh, I don't know about that one dog I don't know if I would give that to you if I was the judge Let me see what y'all talking about up here. Let me Hmm You can use this video editor like tell me advice on how to grow on loom Uh, man, I haven't got heavily into that yet, but I'm I'm looking at it Yeah So Lucy and yeah, I'm looking at it remind me next time we talk On in the network when you get on one of those calls man, let's let's talk about that Because I need to go ahead and start getting some Some energy into that. What's the best way to start up from scratch when you're an artist's move of blah Thanks for the videos. You should be an iron hour. I look like it's in the ruler. What get the fuck out of here, bruh Y'all know who people I've gotten over the years. I've gotten south side the producer I've gotten Little um little b people have said I look like little b back when that was when I was had to be like Back on little b first star popping some people were saying that um I've gotten this is the first time I got Jason Derulo, bruh. I got a few football players bruh Jason Derulo, I don't know about that one dawg Let me see can leaks in the description affect the ads approval right ran an ad with a clean edit That was approved. But for now it's deemed shocked content. I added my socials Nah, that's weird, bruh. We had to talk deeper about that Hear me up and um in a group chat for the uh for brand man network Remind me about that that's something we can look into or one of your on one of your calls We can even just you know pull up your Your ads and do a screen share Listen to my song. Okay Nah, bruh, I was listening to this song for a specific reason Uh, how can I find a manager? Can't answer that right now. Jordan. Let me find one good one Oh, man, you see it. Nah, bruh That's funny. No matter fact, but the worst part was Because of persona, you know, try to keep it clean on the channel They were like you look like a suburban south side That should have me rolling. Uh, let me see. I'm not even Up to using your tip. Shit. I always started making music a week ago. Hey Good, bruh, you in that process just keep going and and you know, you can get to the point where you're using tips But yeah, get that music get that music going man. I never I've asked don't expect the manager to do everything Listen to wa su when he says that anything about managers man. He's definitely somebody y'all could add Listen to to get a perspective, you know, there's different managers different types of people but he definitely has a very strong view and Credible view in his own right as far as what a manager situation can look like Um, let me see and some a lot of the things that managers have gone through Jordan Lucas ran off with my money. God, he ran off on somebody. I know Hey Well, I can never need to confirm or deny those You know Those claims however It's happened again and again and again people run out look people run off with my youtube videos You know people run off with my my content or ideas that I I put out there that I know for a fact They're mine or they copy my when I my festival the whole concept got copied. That's just You know, it'd be that way dawg. You can't get caught up in that. I'll tell you that all my soul. God. He got That's cool All right cool I'm through We out this thing As always this video is brought to you by brand man network dot com because I sign myself Y'all like this video, you know, go ahead like button all that good stuff Y'all really really really wanted to talk on a more personal basis Y'all know y'all can hit me up in brand man network and where we have those ongoing calls And I will know a lot about your situation Through all the calls, but those people who really want to have that but other than that, yo, let's go. Let's get it. Y'all be good