Passive Income Musician

Welcome to episode 46 of the Passive Income Musician Podcast! In this episode, I discuss limiting beliefs and how they could be stopping you from taking the leap as a music entrepreneur. I let you in on some of my past and current limiting beliefs, how I’m overcoming them, and why you need to push through yours.

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Today’s episode is going to be a little bit shorter and simpler. We’re not going to do the intro music. We’re not going to do the regular strategies, tips for growing your audience of ideal music students, of making passive income revenue streams.

Today, I want to address something really important and that is limiting beliefs.

Here’s the thing, a lot of musicians have limiting beliefs. We have limiting beliefs about our music, about how good of a musician we can be, about if we can make a career as a musician, whether it be full-time, whether it be part-time. We hold on to limiting beliefs.

And I know this because I, myself, have and still do hold on to limiting beliefs.

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Awesome Online Music Teaching Business Plan

Welcome to episode 41 of the Passive Income Musician Podcast! In this episode, I take you on a walk with me in my neighborhood in New York City and share with you 4 phases of growth that I’ve observed in my business. Like everyone, I started making no money. But through trial and error, taking action, educating myself, and doing more of what was working things started to take off.

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It’s been a long journey to get to where I am in my online music education business today.

There’s been a lot of ups and downs. There’s been a lot of victories and roadblocks. And ultimately, there’s been a lot of lessons learned. It’s those lessons learned over time that has propelled my business to go from making almost no money at all to now making a 6-figure income.

And so, I think the power of stories is really important. I want to share with you my story and the 4 phases that I observed in my business from going from zero to scaling my business up.

I’m going to share with you those 4 phases to help you shorten your learning curve, to help you avoid some of the things I’ve done and to see the path that I took that ultimately has led to some success.

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Episode 01: How I Make a Six-Figure Income Teaching Music Online

Awesome Online Music Teaching Business Plan

Welcome to episode 56 of the Passive Income Musician Podcast! Building a business around teaching music online through passive income revenue streams isn’t all about making money. It’s about building a lifestyle of more freedom while doing what you love. Special guests serial entrepreneurs and business coaches, Tom and Ariana Sylvester tell us how to quit your 9 to 5 and build a business that fits your lifestyle.

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For me, building a business around teaching music online through passive income revenue streams is not just about making more money.

Now, that’s part of it. But the real reason I put all the effort I do into my online business is to live a life of more freedom, to live my ideal lifestyle and do that all while doing what I love, which is music.

So, on today’s show, I have very special guests, serial entrepreneurs, author of the book “Lifestyle Builders”, speakers and consultants, Tom and Ariana Sylvester, to talk about building an ideal lifestyle through entrepreneurship.

They are experts in this field and they are going to lay down a ton of value for us today.

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Welcome to episode 18 of the Passive Income Musician Podcast! YouTube is a great way for musicians to deliver valuable free content to build their audience of music students. Our guest, Jeff Schneider lets us in on how his music education business works and how he utilized YouTube to build an audience and make money teaching music online.

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YouTube is an excellent platform for musicians to consider creating free music education content to build an audience.

Especially if your music niche involves showing someone how to play an instrument or learn software, video is a great way to deliver value to your audience.

But how do you start, grow and monetize a YouTube channel? How do you start getting subscribers and musicians to view your videos?

To answer those questions I have special guest, composer, pianists, saxophonist and YouTuber, Jeff Schneider on the show to help us out.

Jeff makes a full-time living off of his online music education business, and the main way he fuels his business and builds his audience is through YouTube.

If you want to learn how to utilize YouTube to build an income online through your musical talent, this is a must listen.

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I think one of the biggest takeaways was how Jeff utilizes multiple different revenue streams to drive income into his business. And while YouTube is his main content delivery platform, his website still serves as his home base.

Another big takeaway is it’s not about the numbers. You don’t need to have a million subscribers on YouTube to be successful. You just need to have a small tribe of super fan music students who love your content and want to engage in everything you do.

Let me know in the comments:

What ways are you going to monetize your YouTube channel or one you are going to start?

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Episode 12: Content Marketing Strategy 101 for Building Passive Income as a Musician

Episode 02: 5 Ways to Make Passive Income Teaching Music Online

Episode 15: I Started Writing a Book (And Why Starting Matters)

Awesome Online Music Teaching Business Plan

Welcome to episode 9 of the Passive Income Musician Podcast! If you want to become a passive income musician, you ultimately need to offer products to your target music students. But what you don’t want to do is spend lots of time and energy, and possibly money, on making products they won’t buy. How do you know which products to offer? That’s what I answer in this episode.

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One thing that I really try to drive home on this podcast is that as musicians we need to start thinking like business people.

We have to channel that creativity that we possess as musical beings and start getting creative about how to make money teaching music online.

We need to identify our ideal music student and then create great content for them on a regular basis to build our audience. But at the end of the day, we cannot build a business unless we have something to sell to our audience.

That’s why whether you are at the very beginning stages of becoming a passive income musician, or have already started your journey, you need to be thinking about what products you can offer your fans.

But the most important question to ask is: what products do my fans need and will ultimately buy?

You could spend months creating or marketing a product, but if it’s not the right product for your music audience, you may have wasted a ton of your time.

So how do you know which products your online music students will buy from you? That’s exactly what I will help you answer in this episode.

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Validating your ideas and products is a crucial step in the product creating process. I never start building a product until I have used several of these methods to verify I have a winner.

This doesn’t mean everything will be perfect. For example, you might have the right product but failed to launch it properly. That’s all something we will be talking about in future episodes, so make sure you are subscribed!

But if you take action on some of these, I guarantee you will know your audience better, and what products they need.

Let me know in the comments:

What kinds of products do you think will best serve your audience of music students?

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Awesome Online Music Teaching Business Plan