If you’ve been following my life and this blog on a regular basis, you know a couple of things.
1) I’ve been having a tough time financially.
2) I haven’t written any articles in a couple of days.
I needed to regroup and get my life together, which I have done. Today, I sat down and made out a schedule for myself. I’m going to share that schedule with you. Hopefully, it will give you the inspiration to get your life in order as well, especially if things have been a little crazy for you as well.
Essentially, there are 6 things that I have to make sure I take care of each day. Any time I have left after these 6 things are completed is gravy.
So what are these 6 things?
Here they are.
1) Write Article For This Site
Yeah, that’s the first thing I have to do each morning when I wake up at 6 AM. I’ve slacked off for a couple of days but that ends now. There is plenty of stuff floating around in my head that I can share with you on a daily basis. Some of it might not interest you, but I’ll be putting it out there anyway. Isn’t it great to have a little X at the top right hand corner of your browser?
2) Write 1 Dance Track For Exercise Dance Beats
Now this might actually be of some interest to you either because you like to dancercise OR you’re a marketer looking for a way to earn a few bucks. So let me tell you something about Exercise Dance Beats and why I have to write at least 1 track per day.
Exercise Dance Beats is a package of dance tracks that I’m selling to people who like to dancercise. It’s 5 packs of 30 tracks each for just $29.95. All the music is originally done by myself.
While the main package is complete, there is also a monthly membership option. And while I do have all the tracks done for month 1, I still have to keep creating tracks for all the months to come after.
Now, this product does have an affiliate program through Clickbank. You can get the link to promote it and sign up through the URL below. It pays 75% commission on every sale.
Please spread the word. Money is starting to get hard to come by. I’m sure you can relate to that in this miserable economy.
3) Write Royalty Free Track
As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t been updating the music on this site as often as I used to. The main reason is that the site just hasn’t been profitable at all. But I don’t want to give up on it entirely, so I’m going to go back to doing at least one new track for it each day. Hopefully, I’ll get some custom work in order to start paying the bills and keep the lights on.
4) Contact Exercise Sites
You’re probably wondering why I’d be doing that. Aren’t they my competition? Well, actually no. There aren’t a lot of these sites out there that sell custom music. They may have dance videos and programs, but music that you can download and listen to, not so much.
So why contact them?
They’re a perfect fit for what I’m selling. There is no conflict of interest and therefore they can promote it as an affiliate and make some money for themselves.
As of this article, I’ve contacted 50 sites and have heard back from two of them. One said they don’t accept unsolicited emails and the other said to write to another department. All the rest, haven’t heard a thing from yet.
My goal is to contact at least five of these sites each day. All I need is one big site to help promote this thing for me and I could be home free.
5) Create Easy Sketch Pro Video
There is this new piece of software called Easy Sketch Pro. It actually sketches the drawings in real time.
What’s really cool about it is that you can add music to these videos. That’s when I got a brilliant idea. Wanna know what it is?
Sure you do.
I make these videos for other marketers who have something of their own that they want to promote. They tell me what they want the video to display as far as graphics and text and what kind of music they’re looking for and I create them.
Let me know if you’re interested in one of these. My rates are very reasonable.
Anyway, in order to build up this business, I’m going to need to show lots of samples. Hopefully, if I have enough quality ones I can build a name for myself.
Time will tell.
6) Create Synth Patches
As you’ve probably guessed, I use a lot of synths to make my music. Well, some of the synths I use are very popular. So popular that there are people out there who actually pay for patches, or sounds, that they can use for their own music.
Since I’ve been programming synthesizers since the 70s, I figured why not? I could do this stuff in my sleep and it’s fun to boot. So each day I’m going to try to create at least 2 or 3 new synth patches for one of the top synths. Eventually, I’ll have a nice collection of packages that I can sell. If I price them right, I shouldn’t have too much trouble.
And there you have it. That’s my daily to-do list. It will certainly keep me more than busy.
I look at it this way. The more I do, the better chance I have of getting something to stick. Maybe they’re all going to turn out to be turkeys. Maybe they’ll all turn out to be winners.
All hope is not lost until you’re dead and buried in the ground. That’s the way I have to look at it. As long as I keep plugging away, as long as I don’t give up, there is always that chance that something will click.
If there is anything you can do to help me out, I will appreciate it more than you could ever know.
For The Love Of Music,
Steven “Wags” Wagenheim