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The Secrets Of Truly Successful Networking & Planning with Keith Profeta

26/07/2019 by LizCirelli

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For July’s episode of the podcast I was super excited to chat with Keith Profeta.

Forever a music lover, Keith has held many positions throughout the music industry. The music business is as much a passion as the music itself.

Jumping in and out of bands starting at age 16, Keith never really found his true calling in front of the microphone. At that point he started managing a friend’s band, handling all the behind the scenes work in making the band a success.

Never being satisfied, Keith started a fanzine to find more great music and reviewed 100’s of band’s demos, offering them straightforward tips on how to get to the next level in their careers. A few bands really struck and he was signed on to be a promoter for them eventually turning it into a full-time booking agency in New York City.

To expand his knowledge Keith then attended the Berklee College of Music and earned a degree in Music Business. This led to a position at a music marketing firm in Manhattan to continue learning about the business side of music.

Today the dream continues at Indie Band Guru, staying busy in music and helping guide musicians to the promised land of a successful career in music.

Keith has found that the part that has most dreamers stuck is having an actual plan. We all try to do a million things at once and in the end do not do any one of them well. Taking the time to develop a plan and an order of work will produce much greater results in a much quicker time frame.

We focussed on discussing how to really build those all-important, door-opening relationships – and how to create a solid plan to keep motivated and focussed.

Keith is totally open to chatting with you further if you have any questions. Reach out to him at indiebandguru@gmail.com, putting Daydream Believers in the subject line 💜

Here are the questions we addressed:

Ron: I always find it difficult to build a relationship with people like Keith. What can I do to keep in contact with, and learn to be useful to him?

Patrick: I tried hard at networking in IT but fail to make long term networking relationship. Any tips on harvesting meaningful networking relationships?

Matthew: What is Keith’s approach to planning for a goal? We have focussed on the 12 Week Year approach quite a bit in the group providing small milestones to keep motivated for larger goals. How would he keep his eyes on the prize to guarantee success?

If funds are low for employing a PR firm what steps can we take to help engage with new fans? Are we limiting our success with the go it alone approach? And when is the right time to engage with a professional PR Team?

Do you need an audience (other than licensing firms and music supervisors) if you are writing for sync?

Xabiso: I have just started promoting my own night club event. I would like to know if you have any advice when it comes to the business side of things. Simply put: how would I run it like a business? I know this could be very broad – a few pointers would be really helpful.

This will actually be the last episode of the Daydream Believers podcast. Moving forward, I’ll be teaming up with Xabiso and Matthew to create a brand new music podcast called Music Of The Spheres.

We’ll be showcasing electronic music artists and labels: interviewing guests, featuring guest mixes and also presenting you with our own tune selections from the artists and labels that are making our ears tingle.

We’re aiming to launch later this year – updates will be coming soon so stay tuned!

Thanks so much for listening!

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Podcast Special: Behind The Scenes with Ron Kempton

28/09/2018 by LizCirelli

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career, coach, creative living, creativity, daydream believers, inspire, Liz Cirelli, mentor, mindset, networking, podcast, ron kempton, self improvement

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This episode took a slightly different format than others in the past: I caught up with my good buddy Ron Kempton – an extraordinary human being, and an exceptionally gifted songwriter and poet.

We chatted about how his career got started, how he fell in love with music, what his past students are up to now, how he came to start writing, who inspired him to write and learn guitar, what his biggest influences were and are, his feelings about Daydream Believers – and what it takes to be a true artist.

It’s a really insightful heart-to-heart that contains a tonne of golden nuggets and insights from a true artist on what it takes to be a true artist.

If you’d like to delve into Ron’s world, stop by his website

And be sure to check out his beautiful music:
You’re Not Listening
Hearts In Memphis

The book Ron mentioned is: The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

Thanks so much for visiting – really looking forward to welcoming you to the family!

How To Be A Successful Creative with Greg Wilnau

31/08/2018 by LizCirelli

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career, coach, creative living, creativity, daydream believers, greg wilnau, inspire, Liz Cirelli, mentor, mindset, networking, podcast, self improvement

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On this episode, we’re joined by Greg Wilnau, founder of Musician Monster: a website which exists to remind musicians of the truth that musicians have it within themselves to become prosperous. Together with his wife, Greg also runs Wilnau Design: a web design company whose focus is designing beautiful websites that will grow your business. I was really taken aback by his sheer awesomeness when we had our very first chat back in the early spring. He’s an exceptional human being with a powerful mindset, who intentionally wants to help people. We chatted about creative ways people can make money from their art, how to overcome obstacles to achieve the life of your dreams – and how to set up a website that reflects your life’s purpose. We also talked heavily about the importance of our mindset.

During our conversation, we answered questions submitted by members of my coaching community, Daydream Believers:

1. I’m working really hard at licensing my music. I feel like sending music off to publishers is a vague way to get this done. Are there ways to get to know producers and publishers in such a way that would mean they really take an interest?

2. How do you deal with a major setback that can cause you to question everything that you are doing in a negative way? I had a huge set back in college and am finding that I have become entirely demotivated in pursuing it and rededicating myself.

3. Personal branding is a subject I feel I need to embrace along with a supporting website but feel intimidated by as I don’t know how to present myself and also don’t feel confident to make decisions on visual things like fonts/graphics/logos. So any getting started tips for that would be greatly appreciated. Plus while I have various social media accounts for my WeAreWeTogether name I’m not sure if just using my actual name would not be better for a promo site for my writing.

The branding PDF Greg referred to can be found here:“Three Ways To Brand Your Music You’ve Probably Never Heard Of”

The how to make money PDF can be found here

The book Greg recommended (and so do I!) is The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.

These podcasts exist to provide you with the knowledge, inspiration and motivation needed to pursue your dreams. If you’d like to join the Daydream Believers online coaching community, have your say on what topics get covered during our podcasts – and have your questions answered by our expert guests, simply become a patron. You can sign up quickly and easily via the Patreon website here, or via their handy Patreon mobile app. You’ll also get access to the full range of my coaching packages and music production lessons. Plus you’ll get exclusive early access to all my musical output – and lots of lovely treats in between.

Thanks so much for visiting – really looking forward to welcoming you to the family!

PR and Promotion with Angela Mastrogiacomo

27/07/2018 by LizCirelli

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Awesome Angela Mastrogiacomo, founder of Muddy Paw PR, answers questions from members of my Daydream Believers coaching community about all things PR! Muddy Paw is a tireless, thriving, spirited force with a desire to promote the people and companies they believe in. Not only that, but they aim to constantly challenge the status quo in an effort to change not just the careers of those they work with, but the industry as a whole.

What made you decide to get into public relations and how did you form the relationships necessary to realise your vision?
What’s the best way to build a relationship with PR people and how should I approach my first contact with them?
How can a PR campaign improve reach for a startup artist?
Is it better for an artist to be focused on a single platform or to be available everywhere to meet as many listeners as possible?
Does the number of plays a track has influence its impact on a streaming media platform and how best should we balance this requirement against reaching more listeners/fans?
In the absence of a PR budget, what can a creator, acting as his or her own PR agent, do to spread the word about their projects beyond their email list and social media contacts?
I struggle to maintain a FB page, twitter page, Instagram account, etc. What’s the best way to maximize building a following with limited time and resources?
How can I be more attractive to PR agents to get represented? I also struggle to manage social media entirely by myself, and would appreciate any advice on how to grow my network on Twitter in particular.
How do I reach the people with big money – and how to get them to invest in you?

Show notes:
The article Angela mentioned about branding can be found on Soundfly. It is entitled: Don’t Be Boring: A Musician’s Guide To Branding.

Simon Sinek’s TED talk is called Start With Why.

For social media:
Hootsuite or Tweet Deck for scheduling Twitter posts
Planoly or Hootsuite for scheduling Instagram posts

Shadow Of Whales is the independent band that are building their profile really successfully.

These podcasts exist to provide you with the knowledge, inspiration and motivation needed to pursue your dreams.

If you’d like to join the Daydream Believers online coaching community, have your say on what topics get covered during our podcasts – and have your questions answered by our expert guests, simply become a patron here. You can sign up quickly and easily and you’ll also get access to the full range of my coaching packages. Plus you’ll get exclusive early access to all my musical output – and lots of lovely treats in between!

You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher.

Really looking forward to welcoming you to the family!