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At a new road in IM

by Mixengineer
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Ok so the past few months, try years, have not been good at all. This past month it finally came to a stop. I engineer some major and some independent artists, i recently bit the bullet of freelance and now interning for a big producer out of miami as an engineer. If you didnt already know an engineer is someone who records, edits, mixes, and masters the music. I can also make you coffee! I started reading here a year ago and something clicked i dont know what but its allowed me to do most of my networking online without ever meeting the person for mixing down records. Last year i could support myself with my part time job and the paid work i was pulling thru facebook. Facebook is how i even got into this studio. I even went ahead and did something crazy.

Since taking action seems to be the big thing here i decided to try to send a video viral via yt for one of the producers i work with. After 3 months of planning we sent a crappy $100 music video viral with 500k views in 3 days. Wasnt a huge success but now at this studio i put that up in the air and pulled 3 clients that want to do work soon for my viral services.

This all sounds great. But currently no money is coming in at. Got evicted, no car insurance but, the guys here are nice enough to let me crash on the couches. Like im on call 24/7. I want to find away to expand my IM abilities to bring in another source of income. I havent made more than $35 via cpa. It seems great. If you have any suggestions i would greatly enjoy it. Im not asking you to give me a game plan, just point me in the right direction.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mixengineer
    Any comments? I love what i do musically but theres so much competition so many people doing free work. I feel that when i do take the path to producing i would like to have great knowledge and experience in internet marketing. A producer that can engineer, write, manage and effectively market an artist without ever having the need to leave home.
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  • Profile picture of the author virtualconsultant
    Do you have your own website to promote your service?

    Ever tried to do some offline promotion?

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  • Profile picture of the author SDMedia
    Your story is one that is shared amongst many internet marketers. However, it is difficult to make money with IM if you have none to invest. This is the FIRST mistake that many IMers making…jumping into the game when you're broke. I don't mean to sound pessimistic or negative but it is the truth. It takes money to make money and don't let anyone try to fool you on that. I would suggest that you keep doing the audio engineer thing and use IM as a hobby. The hardest thing about doing anything is to STICK WITH IT.
    You're on the road to getting an audio engineer job. IM is no reason to abandon what you've been working at for so long. Don't just quit. IM takes a lot of time and money when you get started but if I were you I would look towards CPA marketing. I make a full time income with CPA marketing at over $10k each week on average. It took me a while to get to this point. Keep reading posts here at WF and checkout some of the WSOs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mixengineer
    Sounds good. Im not abandoning my engineering gigs im trying to incorporate the two. Engineering would be my offline business but i can and have pulled business from online sources. So its not impossible for me to work from home as an engineer. Thanks! I guess my next step would be to have a website show casing my best mixes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Genycis
    I would agree with SDMedia on that one. That's with anything though that revolves around you doing business for yourself. I'm sure you know that to be the case with engineering as well. You sometimes have to spend money to promote yourself, especially if you want things to make an impact sooner than later.

    If you have things working out well with engineering and it will get you to making the career and/or money you want, then I'd definitely stick to it. I'm a hip hop beatmaker/producer and I've been doing it for some time now. I'm jumping into IM to see if I can make things happen in addition to what I enjoy doing which is making beats and soundkits. However, if I could get to a point where I can make tons of money off of my beats and soundkits, that would be my main goal and focus.

    I wouldn't quit doing these for IM as my primary focus as IM can be a big risk as well if you put more money into it and quit before giving yourself a chance. I still do my best to network my main two sites being my beats site, and my soundkits site. But if I could make things with IM as well, then I can eventually build some passive income from my IM sites and focus more on my primary sites.

    I would definitely recommend you getting a website of your own as well. You could even set up a blogger site or wordpress or something minor for now that doesn't require you paying money yet. Upload some of your works to Youtube, and then use a Blogger or Wordpress site to link the videos onto your page. You could also create a Paypal account and add a Buy Button for people interested in your mixing.

    I know there are quite a handful of people on Twitter that I see that look for mixing and mastering of their works. So I know you could make some cash from that. Build up a Twitter account, start posting some interesting tweets, and after you have several posted, then start looking for, and adding followers. Displaying your website or blog page first with your mastering and mixing abilities would work out well.

    Hope this helps a bit.
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    • Profile picture of the author chris1093
      It sounds to me like you have a great opportunity in a bad situation. You have alot of knowledge in the area of audio engineering and have also had a video go viral. I bet that there are alot of people out there that would love to have that knowledge and probably would pay big bucks.

      I would start a blog for minimal hosting fees and start writing some really great free content. Make a small free ebook that requires peoples email addresses so you can begin to build a list. Then you could begin to comment on other blogs in your niche and also join forums in your niche to bring some traffic in. Eventually when you have a little bit of a following you can begin to build paid products and sell them to your list and on your blog. Product creation is much easier than you think and it sounds like you are holding onto some great knowledge.

      It will take some time and effort though. I wish I could offer you some advice to make quick cash but I dont really have any. Good luck man. Good things come to hard workers.
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      • Profile picture of the author Summertime Dress
        A lot of marketers need help with video and wouldn't know where to begin. Seriously, I spent over an hour the other day trying to figure out the best way to deliver video files securely and what format they should be. Maybe find a service you can do in a relatively short period of time, something that you take for granted as being common knowledge but is completely foreign to someone like me. Put up a gig on Fiverr or in the classifieds section here. Then grow from there.
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