Perspectives
Arguments about how music marketing actually works — what compounds, what only looks like progress, and where an independent artist's money is quietly going.
The second sale: why merch belongs on the page you already paid for
You paid to get someone to the page. A second thing to buy costs nothing more to reach them.
Read itThose “I love your sound” SoundCloud DMs are a sales script
How to read the pitch, and what the people sending it actually want from you.
Read itWhy playlisting is like renting fans (and what owning them looks like)
A stream pays about $0.003 and hands the listener to a platform that never tells you their name.
Read itThe almost-fan: why an in-page preview may beat sending traffic straight to streaming
Nine of ten people who press play never finish. What you do with them decides the campaign.
Read itThe real moat isn’t one audience — it’s automating the whole stack
Any one advantage gets copied. The thing that compounds is the loop nobody has to run by hand.
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