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Thiriving Online Musician

Build a music career online, on a small budget, and with a small audience

Tips & tricks on live streaming, marketing, productivity, and goal-setting for independent musicians.

Email Marketing For Musicians: 5 Strategies To Build An Audience And Monetize Your Content

Social media are important, but there is a more crucial tool independent musicians often overlook: email marketing. 

Emails allow you to build an audience, strengthen a bond with it, and monetize your content in efficient and effective ways. 

I have…

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5 Survival Tips for Pregnant Indie Musicians

What happens when self-employed independent musicians get pregnant?

Finding out you are expecting a little one is surely exciting and beautiful, but being part of an atypical category of workers can add a lot of stress to this delicate phase…

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How To Set Up Your Home Recording Studio

So, you wrote your next hit and now you are ready to record it and share it with the world. 

What can you do? 

If you want to work on your song independently and produce it yourself, you could hire…

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Five Income Sources For Small Independent Artists

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Being an independent artist is tough. After all, the expression starving artist exists for a reason!

However, the view people generally have about working in music and art doesn't tell the whole…

How To Build a Band or Artist Website with Bandzoogle

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Bandzoogle is a one-stop website solution for independent bands and artists.

Like other platforms out there, such as Wix or SquareSpace, Bandzoogle allows you to build a website from scratch. No need to know…

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Five Twitch Streaming Tips For Beginners | Live Streaming Tips For Musicians

Twitch is one of the leading live-streaming platforms currently on the market. 

In 2020, the platform averaged around 26 million daily visitors and 7 million unique streamers each month (source). From 2012, the year it was founded, Twitch…

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OBS: A Beginner's Guide | Live Streaming Tips For Musicians

Open Broadcaster Software: the one-stop solution for your live streaming shows A beginner's guide

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Open Broadcast Software, simply known as OBS or OBS Studio, is the gold standard for live streaming. Rich in…

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Build Your Website (With Zero Tech Knowledge)| A Beginner's Guide For Independent Musicians

Why should independent musicians have a website of their own?

I can hear your objection: aren't social media platforms enough?

In the last few years, the increasing popularity of platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and, more recently, TikTok, left…

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The Secret Weapon To Be More Productive: Task Batching

I'll be honest: I am not a fan of productivity strategies when it comes to songwriting.

I still believe in inspiration, which can suddenly spark at any time and in any place.

However, I learned the hard way that relying…

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Build Your Mailing List in 5 Easy Steps

Are you looking for a tool to build a relationship with your fans and reach your career goals? Emails could be the answer! In this little guide, I will show you five simple steps to start building your mailing list…

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Live Streaming: What Gear Do I Need?

The most difficult part of streaming your live performances is taking the first step.
Any successful streamer out there will confirm how difficult it is to learn how to technically put your stream together.

What gear do I need? Can…

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How Do I Monetize My Live Streams?

You are ready to dive into the world of live streaming. You put your setup together, you know all the technical details, and you feel you can confidently face this new experience. There is just one last question hanging out…

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