The young black entertainers/creatives/entrepreneurship thread. Bounce advice for brehs and brehette

[Unknown Poster]

I'll be your host and moderator for this thread.

 

[Ol’Otis]

subz

 

[MrDavidAlexander]

Invest in promotion. It doesn't matter how good of a project you put out if nobody hears it

 

[Ol’Otis]

keep certain shyt off the internet

 

[Archangel]

Can't do it all alone. Lesson I learned the hard way. Gotta have a small team you can trust.

 

[Noni]

Yeah getting out there without promotion is hard. I hate listening to advice on youtube because you know it's all fake and they're not actually sharing what they really did to drive traffic.

 

[Tflasha]

im young

 

[Noni]

Invest in promotion. It doesn't matter how good of a project you put out if nobody hears it

do you have tips to do this online?

 

[MrDavidAlexander]

do you have tips to do this online?

In my opinion it is a combination of everything. Email blasts are relatively cheap. Also try to network to get on some local blogs as well as pay some mainstream blogs depending on your budget. I have heard of some artist paying certain youtube pages to repost their videos to gain subscribers/views. Now if you do all of these at the same time and get a song/video trending you can go viral. People are lazy and only click on whats trending or whats on the first page. You can gain a legit fanbase that way. Make sure everything leads back to your website.

Set up your song or video with tune core publishing administration for around $70. They collect your royalties from soundcloud, spotify, youtube etc so you can feast off the views. Also be wary of scammers. There is literally a whole industry off of scamming underground artists. Keep trying and see what works for you. Everyone's journey is different. Good luck breh.

 

[Macallik86]

I'm trying to build a real life community in 2017 and then transitioning them to a website/forum.

Any ideas on building up the community offline? I already have a sizeable number of members but I am also looking at ways to expand my reach. Right now, I am thinking about business cards, expanding my community's social media presence, and maybe long term trying to get in cahoots with a promoter and have a monthly night at a club.

Anyone have any suggestions, feedback, advice?