The Make Music Income Podcast

Sell Your Music Direct to Non-Exclusive Libraries: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH For this episode airing on Halloween, we have some very scaaaary sync licensing stories that may or may not have been told by a witch. Ok, so that’s not exactly true. They aren’t scary stories and aren’t told by a witch…or are they? I’ve told you man...

Do you ever feel like you just made the wrong decisions in your music life through the years that have left you in a place now where you can’t succeed in music the way you want to? Today, I look back at my old music life, when I was taping and scraping by, and generally not in a successful place and thought I might never get to a place where I am now - almost completely living my dream. Sponsored...

Upload Your Music Direct to POND5 and More Non-Exclusive Libraries: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH Just about every week, just about every video I put up, I get the same question in the chat, in the comments, in email… Can I put the songs I have on Pond5, or any other non-exclusive library on Spotify? Can I put songs I’ve already...

Upload Your Music Direct to POND5 and More Non-Exclusive Libraries: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH In this video, I want to revisit this video I made 3 years ago or so, as well as show you a little from the Stock Market course where I go over Pond5, how to become an author, and then update at the end with a little discussion of wh...

Upload Your Music Direct to Non-Exclusive Libraries: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH I’m not going to bury the lead here: yesterday myself and likely hundreds if not thousands of music creators checked our Pond5 accounts and saw a HUGE deposit called Dataset Earnings. The Make Music Income Discord blew up with people reporting hund...

So how do you Make Music Income? Well, you have to start by making music, and that will be part of today’s video. But you also have to get out there, get in touch with people, and get into things. Today’s guest is Marcus “Da Fingaz” Manderson! Get in touch and Follow him at: LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dafingaz/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/dafingaz/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube....

So there’s lots of ways you can license your music. On this channel we talk a lot about sync licensing to TV, film, advertising, and gaming, and micro-sync or stock (micro-sync is the cool word for it now wink) for YouTube, presentations and other uses. Now, many people think of being on TV and Film and Ads as more prestigious and bigger money, and I would say it is. It’s where I focus my time wit...

So with this last BMI check, like we all do, I was hoping for a higher check than the last. You know, to show that things are progressing with my sync career. Well, I looked at my business account and lo and behold it was $2600 HIGHER than it should have been. Checking the register I saw not one, but TWO checks for over $1000! What the what? — THE STOCK MARKET COURSE! Find out more here and get a...

Almost everyone has some really good things going on. Sometimes TOO MANY good things. And it's easy to get lost in that. I've experienced this myself lately…and here's what I've had to do about it. Need someone to talk to about this? Email me at eric@makemusicincome.com -- ONE-ON-ONE COACHING FOR COMPOSERS AND PRODUCERS:Eric has been helping artists and songwriters for over 20 year...

In this video we speak with Michèle Vice-Maslin, a longtime veteran in the LA Sync Industry or as she calls it "Music Placements." She is an Emmy Winning, #1 hit music producer/Music Arranger/Songwriter, Music Publisher who composes (both music & lyrics) and produces-arrangers for artists/films/television/ads/ promos/ games, etc. She has had numerous hit songs and cuts all over the w...

You know lately I have given some real thought to the “will I let AI train off my music”, and we’re all being very careful and NOT signing the Motion Array or Envato terms. Not letting AudioSparx or anybody train off our precious music that is so original that no one (or thing) in the world could have thought of it. The truth is, I think we are being kind of short sighted here. See the gear Eric t...

In this podcast we talk with Marcus "Da Fingaz" Manderson and talk about how he went from never making over $100 ever on a PRO check to making HIGH FOUR Figures in his last BMI Check. I ask all the questions, and he details what happened and his strategy and how he finds time to make music for sync. #synclicensing #composer #musician  @dafingaz  LINKS IN THIS VIDEO: Find out all about Ma...

Almost three years ago my channel blew up with a video called “Zero to $600 a Month with Stock Music Licensing.” Surely this is all over now right? No one can be making any money on this now with the advent of AI can they? Sync is the ONLY way to go to make money in licensing right? Well, let’s look at the data… #stockmusiclicensing #musiclicensing #makemusicincome -- GET THE STOCK MARKET COURSE!...

Eric shows clips from his “Getting in Sync” Course and talks about the EXACT way he got into his first two libraries. GET THE 2024 MUSIC DIRECTORY FROM SYNCMYMUSIC: https://www.syncmymusic.com/musicdirectory Make sure to email Jesse after you buy and tell him Eric Copeland sent you! -- THE NEW COURSE "GETTING IN SYNC" IS HERE! How I Got My Music on TV! (And How YOU Can Too!) Once I found...

I’m going to have to change thigns up to make my life and music work the way I need it to. Come listen and see if it helps you too. -- THE NEW COURSE "GETTING IN SYNC" IS HERE! How I Got My Music on TV! (And How YOU Can Too!) Once I found out about sync licensing and that people were making music income, I began a systematic, focused plan to get my music placed in TV, Film, Ads, and more...

What DAW (or Digital Audio Workstation) would you choose if you had to switch DAWS? Not what DAW is BEST! What would your transition be? From Logic to Studio One? From FL to Logic? From Ableton to Pro Tools? (That would be weird) -- THE NEW COURSE "GETTING IN SYNC" IS HERE! How I Got My Music on TV! (And How YOU Can Too!) Once I found out about sync licensing and that people were making...

In this week’s podcast I talk about how much Netflix paid out for a top of show, logo placement on the hit show Love Is Blind. Also other surprisingly good royalty reports, and...we need to talk about Logic Pro 11. -- THE NEW COURSE "GETTING IN SYNC" IS HERE! How I Got My Music on TV! (And How YOU Can Too!) Once I found out about sync licensing and that people were making music income, I...

In this episode we talk to Steven Melin of Video Game Music Alliance, who composes music exclusively for video games on all levels including independent, Steam, and console gaming. Did you know that the average yearly salary for FREELANCE Video Game Music Composers and Sound Designers is $80,000 per year? (Source: https://www.gamesoundcon.com/post/game-audio-industry-survey-2023) I think it's...

In Podcast 102 Eric talks about a surprising thing he is seeing in his stock music licensing numbers for 2024, BMI’s new websiute and app, and a slight but welcome change at Deposit Photos. LINKS DISCUSSED: MY TEACHING PRODUCTS: https://makemusicincome.com/learn/ BMI: https://www.bmi.com/ Find our more about The Ultimate Composers Mastermind! - https://hellocomposers.com/mastermind -- Introducing...

Today I try and bring you some solace and relief to that sinking feeling that AI is going to replace or displace you in the world of music. We talk about why to stop listening to the media and doomsayers, how AI can actually help us in our music, why Stock music is certainly the low hanging fruit, why Sync may not be as affected, what I am doing to protect some of my compositions from AI use, the...

It's our 100th podcast episode, we are joined by Stevie B after an April Fools fake out! Change has to come and we explain these and other changes that are affecting what we do to make music and make music income. #musicproducer #composer #musician HEY PODCAST AUDIENCE! I'd love your thoughts about The Make Music Income Podcast. It's hard to know what podcasters like to hear since there's not real...

You might be aware of music in the church, but did you know that there are solid jobs from full-time music director positions with benefits, to part-time paid players, singers, and sound engineers that are needed? In this deep diving interview, I talk with Shane Jensen who works as a Music Director for a 500 member church in the Las Vegas area. We talk about the role of the Music Director, the exp...

What if we said no to the pressure? What if we just completely surrendered to the creative flow? Could it work? Could this be the true way to beat AI, to create more? Let’s talk it through…. Soundtrack for this episode: Landscape of a Dream by John Eric Copeland. https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/fromthemomentmusic/moving-forward -- Introducing STREAMS! Join our new community STREAMS for FREE at h...

In this deep interview with working musician and marketing expert ​⁠​Tom Dupree III, we dive into his recent changes towards his content, including how he now teaches about Facebook and Instagram Ads, Spotify Marquee and Showcase, Making PROFIT with Spotify and Streaming, Short Form Video Marketing, and Making Music with Brands. #facebookads #meta #musician  @tomdupreeiii  LINKS IN THIS VIDEO: Fin...

I have been waiting what seems like forever to get some real information about Songtrust, a publishing administration company that I have heard a lot about, but most of what heard seemed like misinformation. Well, in this video we go directly to the source and speak to the Associate Director of Marketing for Songtrust, Renée Buchholtz. Not only do we find out EXACTLY what Songtrust does and how th...