I was looking into getting an action camera to vlog as well as create music videos for social media

😁👊🏾 Here Are Some Screenshots of my content plan for January. You can see it details 5 posts per day, for everyday of the week. I actually post 3 posts per day so the extra 2 are backups and really come in handy when in a pinch. If I was 100% efficient, however, I'd create and post all 5 videos everyday (That's what I'm working towards as long as I can keep them quality). ⚡️ What I do when i'm shooting is, each little box of 5 posts gets assigned a shirt and a location. I'll go out shoot all 5 with that shirt, change, shoot whatever else is in that same location and then move on. I'll repeat this until I don't have enough time or energy left to shoot. Doing this, i've been able to shoot upwards of 20 pieces of content per hour. 😅 Where I need to tighten up is scheduling. Right now i'm posting it all manually which is easy cause its already created and organised, but i'd like to step it up and schedule them maybe 2 - 4 weeks in advance so that I can have more leeway with my schedule. As you can see its a good mix of my music, other music I like, personal hobbies and interests (that ultimately tie back to my music) 🙌🏾💯🔥 A NOTE FROM THE LAST 28 DAYS 🔥 I wrote two skimboarding songs and have been taking lots of skimboarding footage then posting it with one of my skim songs. On my Youtube now, out of my top 10 shorts, 7 of them are skimboarding videos, 5 of them have the song and all are between 1k - 2k in views.

I wanted to break down with a "major label" release looks like. Let me start with a disclaimer, as I'm not actually signed with a label, but I wanted to treat the release and the budget as if I was. . I'll start with the context, my best performing song that I've been working over the last 2 years was something I wanted to find a "reason" to push again, so I decided to repackage a bunch of tracks I've released and a few more filler tracks to make it a complete album. I know y'all might have very specific questions so feel free to ask away in the comments! RESULTS (after 10 days of release) : - Billboard in Time Square https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXqGMZDo8D/ - Charted #28 iTunes R&B album sales - 13 Spotify Editorials for lead song "Lucky" - Went from 60k to ~400k monthly listeners in 3 weeks - Approx. 3 millions streams in the last month There's going to be 4 main parts I'd cover: Asset Creation Pre-release strategy Release strategy Post-release (2 weeks after release) Asset Creation (Budget approx. $5k) - 12 songs, 1 "lead song", 3 other singles, 5-6 album songs ~$4k of recording equipment/studio time/misc. (but spread through 2-3 years) - Album artwork (Front, Back), Spotify Banner, Studio Rental ~1k Admittedly, this portion of the album can be significantly higher or lower, the $4k budget realistically is me doing 85% things "in house" (mixing, production etc.) and the rest is paying features/booking time when my own setup wouldn't cut it. Pre-release strategy (Approx. <$200) I'm not a big believer in big pre-release strategies as I don't think you need them to have a successful campaign. Admittedly, I find it challenging to time things/build momentum by announcing a project so far ahead in advance from the release date. Instagram Conversion Ads from pixeled Instagram users (mostly as a test to see how it would do) $200 I announced a pre-save campaign on Jan 2. 2023, and had the album was to be released in Jan 13th. It led to a toneden link I created that was basically a hyperfollow from distrokid to "save" the album.

Writing the verse has always been the easiest part for me because I can just say what's on my mind..but the hook has to literally HOOK the listener and imo takes more time to think of something catchy

What is your biggest limiting belief as an artist, manager, music marketer, etc? And what do you do to combat that belief in order to keep pushing forward?