Why The Music Industry Hates Artists Without Teams | Mindset Mondays
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Without a team you will not make it the music industry. You need to treat your career as a business and build the right framework. Brandman Sean, Co-Founder of Contrabrand Agency, gives you the tools to take the first steps.
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The videos I mentioned at the end will be dropping this week.
forming a team has bee one of the greatest challenges in my musical journey and need more insight on how to go about forming a team
I second this. I hope you find what you're looking for.
Approach it like a business, not like an artist. You're starting a business. What skill sets do you need, what's the job description, what's the pay rate, etc. Then search for quality people who can do the job.
Lots of 2 faced people out here be careful my friend
Straight facts
Same. And Ive spoken with Kei personally abt this. She def was hesitant with me bc of the lack of team
Here are my thoughts on building a team around you. This is from what I have seen in my artist friends experiences and my own personal experiences.
1. Don't beg for people's help without knowing how you want to go about things. Having a vision is incredibly important and you shouldn't put too much of that in the hands of others because it should be your dream. Take any critiques from them though.
2. Be authentic! Too many times people try to sell you on their dream, but they have no interest in what you are doing personally. If you help the people you want on your team get to their dreams, then they will gladly join you most of the time.
3. Most of the work should be done on your own and only go to your team with specific questions on what you need specific help on. If you run to them with every problem under the sun and you have done no work to try to figure it out, people will quickly walk away and ghost you.
4. Learn more skills. You need to understand what everyone on your team does so that you can also empathize with them when things go wrong. Need someone to help you build a website, learn what it takes to build one, and when things go wrong in them building a website for you, you can come from their a place of understanding and that will put them at ease. They will work harder for you too because you took the extra step to know what they are going through.
5. Celebrate your teammates when they do good shit. Be real with them when they don't but be encouraging! When they do anything for you big or small, thank them. Very rarely do people actually receive gratitude from the things they do best. But, when they do, they see the reason they started doing what they were doing again and chase it even harder.
6. Be patient. Most artists take years to reach the place they dreamed about and there will still be more to do. Don't rush your teammates unless you know of opportunities that you can grab that day or the next. This piggy backs on learning more skills because you also learn how long it takes to get things done and this will help you be more patient and encourage your teammates.
7. Always know the direction your heading or fake it like you do. The worst thing for you to do as a leader is to show fear of not knowing where to go. You should follow your gut and research as much as you can. When you run into a time you don't know what to do, brainstorm and try something quickly. Do not be idle for too long or you will lose the team's faith in moving forward. Momentum is huge. Use it wisely.
8. Be honest. Ask for help when you need it. Talk to your team about things you are struggling with and get them to talk about theirs. Become closer and they will do even more for you. As long as everyone is moving forwards towards their dreams or make sure they have chosen your dream to be theirs. As long as everyone believes they are moving forward as a team and individually, you all will be good.
9. Understand empathy and learn how to be more empathetic. People that have no idea about this will struggle the most. You need to know how to hear when someone is off and try to bring them back on the right track as quickly as possible. The longer you let the people around you bottle things up, the more that can will explode down the road and possibly end your whole career.
Most importantly.
10. Have fucking fun guys. It should be a rollercoaster. You will win and lose as a team, but always pull through together! Make great music that comes from the heart. Go on adventures based on a whim sometimes. The more memories you all make together the better!
Everyone''s journey is going to be different, but enjoy it! Hope this helps someone. This was a long ass comment haha
Brillent! Thanks for sharing
@@JAAAAS no problem! I really hope it helps! I built a team for one startup company I tried and then helped build another team for a startup that actually raised up to $500k so this is what I saw it took in both experiences
@@lonelyswordmusic5651 it’s great insights 😊 thank you! ✨
@@JAAAAS no problem :)
Thank you for sharing!
I tried to explain this to a couple people I used to run with. They were never that committed. People fail to understand that everyone has to play a part and they have to play it well.
If you do it all yourself your worth more 💯💯
Naw facts.
Definitely not a fact u need a team to go far or u won’t go far
Eveyone has fked me over. I have no friends, little connections and little family. I do wish to have more though. Trial and era has taught me my best and biggest success is with ME MYSELF AND I as sad as it is to say
Build slowly and at your pace. Most of the people who think like the majors WITHOUT the majors money will go bust. Do your research. So many indies think they are the majors and start expanding and expanding and then run into money problems and voila go bust. Not many indie labels can survive with more than 2 or 3 people in the label and when they get delusions of grandeur they hire more people and run out of money and go bust or get swallowed up by the majors and disappear into oblivion. Don't make that mistake. Run with yourself and contract people on a needs only basis and short term only. But personally I prefer to do it myself. Artists need to grow up and run their own business and stop needing other people all the time. Good luck my friend.
U definitely need a strong steady team
Bruh I got the best team! My mom and grandma are all I need! 😂
P.S. I live in the middle of nowhere basically so I have to do everything on my own including writing, producing, singing, rapping, marketing etc. 😕🤷🏻♂️
We the same! Its tough out here haha
Appreciate this video, I have done many performances and went to the events alone, no team. It definitely feels weird when you see a lot of the other bands around in groups and you are the only one solo.
@@NateNittii yup
This is one of the best helpful music business channels i've come across in youtube
Teamwork make the dream work
Just got this notification. Didn’t even know I was subscribed. Glad I saw it. Great video!!! Very informative.
That manager thing just happened to me. This man knows what he talking about
Im ready to build a team with any artist here with great vision
never could form an actual team, just always had seperate people that fill specific team roles
This is gold!! You just gained a loyal subscriber
This was EXTREMELY helpful man
I just come out with a ideia of building a team recently and I see know that connections is so important, 'cause every artist that is starting to push out their career need to have a finance control of the money invested, networking helps a lot, somethings we can get for free a lot of things, just chasing services with others creators.
Commitment overall … Imma Young and new artist but been in music my whole life. With my commitment , growing connections and everything else I know I’m one of those few 💯
The best way to start building your team is by connecting with other artists in theses comments who are also looking to build a team and see how you can be beneficial to them. KEY POINTS: Make sure your vision is easily understood, Do royalty splits and give credit to everyone involved in making your song, don't be afraid of rejection, don't look at others as your competition. Only compete with yourself.Be a team player. Keep good communication, let your team know how important they are, remember some people will be direct team members ex. Producer, videographer. and some be indirect team members. Ex. Fans who share your music.
This is GOLD!
Great video!! but what if we don’t have a team? Been being a one man team till I get a team!
More videos dropping this week. Stay tuned
Yo been following you for years. Grateful for all the insights you’ve provided 🔥
Hmmm I never knew it was about a team, I just always thought it was only about talent, and if you can write hit songs or not. I'm an introvert but starting a team or band does sound pretty cool.
Nope u have to have a team your team gotta be strong gotta have help and need money and knowledge u gotta or your manager gotta know the right ppl
@MAKEUPandhairByterri well I can't even imagine my potential with people helping me, especially since I been doing everything all on my own.
Teams are good until... the ego starts to play a big factor .... sometimes a team. Can hold u back tbh
Thx for this channel! Bout to watch every video!
Don’t know if it’s just me, but the videos you spoke of at the end did not come up, Can you provide a link!
They'll be out Tomorrow and Thursday. sorry bout that
Thank you for sharing.
Solid talk g
Great video! This is vital information.
Outside of say, a Manager and a publicist...what makes up your TEAM? What are the positions necessary to Say u got yourself a "team"?
You also need an attorney and business manager (separate from artist manager)
anyone wanna build a team wit me ?
Yh
Who are the Core Members of a Great team when building an independent artist TODAY
Love it! Let’s stay in touch :)
Getting a team requires funds right ?
How big a team?
How do you find investors ?
informative
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do things your own way. no need to listen to brandman
most of people want to work for money so most indie artists do not have money to pay people even some services to help them to promote and market their music so what you will tell artists in such situaiton? not easy to have serious, reliable and passionate people to work for beginners artists right
10% booking agent
5% lawyer
I dont need no manager to take away 20%
after years of moving alone I think world just not ready to me if i had team
We don’t like them either lol
Fam don’t nobody wanna be part of no godamn team. Everyone and their cow and roach wanna be an artist. Psst!
Why have a team when you can just do it all yourself 👀
lol
If you want to go Fast go Alone. If you want to go Far go together.
Truth is you don't need a team and when you do then you can afford to PAY them.
@@BrandmanNetwork so answer this bro. Who is paying for the team? Because if you are putting together a dedicated team they need to be on the payroll and you need to actually PAY them instead of exploiting them as so many so called industry experts do.
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