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RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:30pm · Payusnomind
Selling Music Direct: Ultimate Guide to Monetization
Direct Sales Selling music today is a charity. Music fans are donating to support your career, not because they need your music, but because they want to see you continue making it. Here's why. Vinyl records served a purpose and solved a problem. They allowed people to bring music out of clubs and off the radio into their homes. Cassette tapes improved on that by giving listeners the ability to fast-forward, rewind, and pause songs.…
RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:20pm · Payusnomind
YouTube Monetization: Ultimate Guide
YouTube Monetization YouTube has always provided artists with expansive opportunities for monetization. In its early days, creators could integrate direct ads from their partners, having YouTube manage the delivery of impressions and track views. It also offered the ability to sell video on demand. While complaining about low royalty payments from YouTube, the industry never took advantage of any of these tools.…
RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:17pm · Payusnomind
SoundCloud Monetization: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization
SoundCloud has quietly built one of the most artist-friendly monetization systems in the music industry, especially for independent creators. While Spotify pays based on total global streams (the pro-rata model), SoundCloud’s Fan-powered model pays you based on how much your actual fans listen to you.…
RSS Aug 15, 2025 6:08pm · Payusnomind
How to Go 100% Independent as an Artist — Own Your Website, Links, and Revenue
Let's talk about becoming completely independent as an artist. No music distribution, no Spotify, maybe even no YouTube. Total digital control. I’ve already given away the Ultimate Indie Artist's Guide, which walked through getting set up as an artist: distribution, publishing, publishing admin, digital performance rights, and more. This is the next level: setting up as a music business for true digital independence.…
RSS Aug 7, 2025 12:28am · Payusnomind
Ad Budgeting: Why Artists Quit Too Soon
Let me start by saying this isn’t a sales pitch. I’m not trying to convince you to pay for an advertising service or to advertise at all. This is information I’m sharing because, for some strange reason, I wake up thinking about this stuff. Artists often get caught up in the numbers game - quantity over quality. They want to see a lot happen. A lot of sales, a lot of listeners, a lot of fans.…