Podcast appearances and mentions of chris greenwood

Episode 49 - In this episode we sat down with Chris Greenwood, a close friend of Justin's who has been there for him through thick and thin. Chris shares his story with us around his journey through life, from running his own business to dealing with crippling anxiety, being diagnosed with bipolar 2 and how it's impacted him. It's a long episode but well worth the listen. Enjoying the pod? Shoot us a text and let us know!Lonely Drivers Driving Club: Website: https://lonelydriversdriving.club/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lonelydriversdriving.club/ Justin's Socials: Personal: https://www.instagram.com/justinarmarego/ Photo / Video IG Insta: https://www.instagram.com/rusteeze_media/

Chris Greenwood Chris Greenwood/Little Red Acorn At Little Red Acorn’s mission is to elevate awareness and support for careers in the trades by fostering meaningful connections between education and real world applications. With the right engagement and educational opportunities, individuals can pursue fulfilling and stable careers in various trades. Their approach involves leveraging an extensive […]

Chris Greenwood Chris Greenwood/Little Red Acorn At Little Red Acorn’s mission is to elevate awareness and support for careers in the trades by fostering meaningful connections between education and real world applications. With the right engagement and educational opportunities, individuals can pursue fulfilling and stable careers in various trades. Their approach involves leveraging an extensive […] The post Chris Greenwood with Little Red Acorn appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

This is a crazy interesting episode that you won't want to miss! I actually get to talk to rocker/rapper Manafest (aka Chris Greenwood…yes, the same one who's released iconic songs like Human & Impossible! Hes been rocking out for over 2 decades and has had some crazy connections along the way, including NF opening for HIM!  We dig into how he got started in music (it's not what you think) and the grind of the early years in the music industry. We also talk about his book and how he's obsessed not only with creating amazing music, but also ways to multiply his impact and reach with scalable solutions. He even shares some of his favorite personal development content and his upcoming album release.Speaking of that, get  ready for Manafest's newest album, Learning How to Be Human, dropping this Friday on June 14th 2024: https://manafest.com/goTakeawaysChris Greenwood, also known as Manafest, is a talented musician and singer with over 130 million streams on Spotify.He developed his unique genre of music by combining elements of hip hop, rock, and punk.Chris emphasizes the importance of staying true to oneself and not chasing materialistic success.Distribution and marketing are crucial in the music industry, and leveraging online platforms can lead to greater success and reach. Reading books on tour can lead to personal growth and self-improvement.Financial education is crucial, and it's important to share what you've learned with others.Finding a balance between success and personal well-being is essential.Collaboration in the music industry can lead to new opportunities and growth.Chris Manifest's upcoming album, 'Learning How to Be Human,' will be released on June 14th.Follow me on Instagram @ johnskomski for daily intrapreneurial motivation and learn more about Investing Inward at https://jskomski.com/Music:Hindsight (Instrumental) by Fivefold (used with written permission)By Your Side by Caslow, Bertie Scott & Patfromlastyear (used with written permission)KeywordsChris Greenwood, Manifest, musician, singer, Spotify, Juno awards, genre, hip hop, rock, punk, message, success, distribution, marketing, online platforms, inspiration, musician, entrepreneur, journey, reading books, financial education, coaching, success, collaboration, upcoming album

Does the thought of using A.I., making sales, and implementing systems make you cringe as a creative? Maybe it's because you're assuming those things make you less creative. What if the answer isn't avoiding these things, but rather embracing them? Podcast producer and entrepreneur Mark Savant, host of the After Hours Entrepreneur,  will help you do just that. Mark has a knack for making complex issues like AI approachable,  so that you can apply his tips in your daily life to grow and thrive. Listen to this entire episode in order to: Unlock the vast possibilities of integrating AI into creative businesses.Align your faith and values with your entrepreneurial goals for a more holistic career approach.Learn how providing value and emphasizing transparency can reshape the relationship with your customers.Learn More about our Guest Mark Savant is the founder of podcast production agency Mark Savant Media. He specializes in helping thought-leaders launch, automate, and grow podcasts. The company has produced tens of thousands of pieces of content, and uses podcasts as the engine to power your website, emails, social media, and long form content. He hosts the globally ranked top 1% podcast After Hours Entrepreneur and leads dozens of entrepreneurs in the After Hours Entrepreneur Pro community.WEBSITE: marksavantmedia.com/EMAIL: contact@marksavantmedia.comafterhoursentrepreneurmastermind.com/Follow Mark on InstagramFollow Mark on LinkedInFollow Mark on YouTubeIf you liked this, you'll love: The Perfect Audience? How to Effectively Increase The Loyal Fanbase You Want w/ Chris Greenwood, Recording Artist & CoachMusic + Marketing = Magic: How to Get to 6 Figures via Digital Courses w/ Ayana Webb, Course CreatorTracks to True Success: How to Make a World-Changing Impact with Carlin Muccular, Producer / CEO of ShedtracksSupport the showBUILD YOUR BEST CREATIVE LIFE WITH FREE RESOURCES Learn about The 4 Questions you need to ask before going Full-Time as an artist and avoid the pitfalls and frustrations while you pursue God's call for your life! Sign up for our Creative Checkup Newsletter and become more inspired and confident as you get constant and consistent encouragement from fellow creatives! HELP US HELP MORE CREATIVES Become a God and Gigs Monthly Partner! Tap HERE to pick an amount to support and get an honorary credit as a 'co-producer' of the podcast!

Chris Greenwood, better known by his stage name Manafest, is a Canadian Christian rock and hip-hop artist. Having released 11 albums over his illustrious career, Chris has been nominated for multiple Dove and Juno awards. At a young age, Chris was an avid skateboarder, hoping to go professional. After a slew of injuries pulled him away, he felt that God was calling him to pursue music, and he released his first EP in 2001. He later would sign with BEC Recordings, which is a part of Uprok Records. Most recently, he released his album I Run With Wolves in May of 2022. At 1,000,000 monthly listeners, Chris has has seen lots of success on Spotify. Today, he will answering questions from our Song Chasers Community! You can learn more about Song Chasers at www.joinchasers.com!Check out Manafest's website here: https://www.manafest.com/go Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Greenwood, better known by his stage name Manafest, is a Canadian Christian rock and hip-hop artist. Having released 11 albums over his illustrious career, Chris has been nominated for multiple Dove and Juno awards. At a young age, Chris was an avid skateboarder, hoping to go professional. After a slew of injuries pulled him away, he felt that God was calling him to pursue music, and he released his first EP in 2001. He later would sign with BEC Recordings, which is a part of Uprok Records. Most recently, he released his album I Run With Wolves in May of 2022. At 1,000,000 monthly listeners, Chris has has seen lots of success on Spotify. He's here today to share his story, as well as giving some tips and tricks to grow your Spotify numbers as well. Check out Manafest's website here: https://www.manafest.com/go If you want to grow your Spotify audience, you are in the right place!!!Just 5 days and Chris is going to teach you everything you need to know...Day 1 - 7 Alarming things you should know before you release a song on Spotify(#5 will blow your mind)Day 2 - 3 hacks to triple your chances of getting editorial and algorithmic playlistsDay 3 - Where to find collaborators to 10x your royalties and streams at no cost toyou!Day 4 - How to get 4x more followers using Spotify ads for profit!Day 5 - The dirty truth about Spotify royalties and how to go to 6 figures without arecord labelTo join the 5 day Spotify challenge, click here!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our special guest for today is Chris Greenwood A.K.A Manafest. He is a Canadian Christian rapper and rock artist from Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He has won multiple awards for the GMA Canada Covenant Awards, GMA Dove Awards, and has been nominated for multiple Juno Awards. He is a billboard charting artist with over 1,000,000 monthly Spotify listeners. Chris Greenwood launched Fanbase University which trains independent musicians to make it in the music industry, with an emphasis on not signing with a label. What You'll Learn In this episode, Manifest shares how important coaching is and surrounding yourself with the A players. He will also impart his knowledge on how to get the right course and what to look for in hiring a coach/mentor. Things We Discussed Spotify 5-Day Challenge - is Manafest's EASY SYSTEM THAT GENERATED 1,000,000 MONTHLY LISTENERS ON SPOTIFY. You can join the challenge here. Connect with Chris ‘Manafest' Greenwood Website (Smart Music Business) Website (Fanbase University) Personal Website Spotify Facebook Instagram Youtube Connect with Jason Tonioli Website Facebook YouTube Instagram Spotify Pandora Amazon Music Apple Music

Do you dream of having engaged, loyal fans who connect with everything you share online, but feel like the odds are stacked against you? Do you feel that discovery platforms like Spotify are just too hard to figure out? If so Chris Greenwood,  founder of Smart Music Business, is here on the podcast for a second time to help you break down those walls and finally build an audience that buys from you, supports you and that sticks with you. Chris Greenwood, also known by his stage name Manafest, is an award-winning Canadian rapper and rock artist hailing from Canada. With over 20 years in the music business, he has built a hugely successful indie career with a world-wide following, millions of downloads and several award-winning songs.   A prolific and passionate musical entrepreneur,  he coaches artists like you to grow their careers and monetize their fanbases so you can make a living and an impact with your creativity. In this episode, Chris takes us deeper into the mindsets and tactics required to properly market your music online, grow your audience on networks like Spotify, increase your income, and build a powerful network of collaborative partnerships and creative relationships that last. If you loved this, make sure you hear Chris Greenwood's first appearance on The God and Gigs Show at GodandGigs.com/120.Connect with  Chris GreenwoodSmartMusicBusiness.com – Mentoring and Coaching for ArtistsRead other books by Chris Greenwood Join the Get More Spotify Streams Challenge After Hours Entrepreneur: Your Guide to Profitable, 6-Figure YearsQuit your job. Make more money.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

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Week 6 Review, Week 7 Preview and I hash it out with Chris Greenwood

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This man has been involved in dance music, clubs & festivals since a lucky break landed him a DJ residency in New York in the mid 1980s. From programming venues to building his own, in the form of the super successful Cargo in East London, to working with brands at over 100 festivals to launching his own dance festival in Croatia.  Things have since calmed down just a bit, with a move into running restaurants & cafes in south London yet he still finds time to do radio shows on Mi Soul, SOAS & Netil radio, plus promoting a new series of exciting live gigs in churches called Altar_Native.

Is it possible for a music artist to overcome multiple childhood tragedies, build a massively successful music career AND reach a goal of financial freedom -  all while never compromising their faith and calling? If you follow the example of Manafest, the answer is yes. Chris Greenwood, known in the music world by his stage name Manafest, is an award-winning Canadian Christian rock artist who has reached the pinnacle of success as a performer, songwriter, music industry coach, online entrepreneur and motivational speaker.Employing tenacity and an incredible work ethic,  he began to experience unprecedented success with his music, receiving multiple awards, charting on Billboard Christian Songs list, playing international tours, shows and festivals, and building a huge, dedicated fan base he dubbed his “Fighters”.  An independent artist since 2015, he has successfully crowdfunded several new releases. Read full show notes and transcript at GodandGigs.com/120. 

Today I spoke to Chris Greenwood, from Morganbury Meats, about the hard-working, dedicated family man D'Arcy Byrnes.  

Chris Greenwood, known by his stage name Manafest, is an award winning Canadian rapper and rock artist from Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He’s the founder of Fanbase University and coaches artists like you on how to grow and monetize a fanbase so you can make a living and an impact with your music. In this episode, Chris takes us on his artistic journey and lays out how to properly market your music online, grow your Spotify streams, make an income and fully capitalize on your new releases. If you want coaching from Chris Greenwood visit: https://bit.ly/FanbaseUniversity You can also sign up for Michael's Walker's FREE Fanbase Growth Workshop Here: http://bit.ly/FanbaseGrowth To learn more about Modern Musician visit: www.modern-musician.com ( http://www.modern-musician.com )

Today’s show is going to be a great one! I’ve got one of my best friends in the entire world on the program today. He’s an incredible entrepreneur and a certified rock-star - Chris Greenwood a.k.a award-winning recording artist Manafest! On today’s show you’re going to learn: How Chris achieved his dream of becoming a successful recording artist. How online business, entrepreneurship, and memberships gave Chris true time freedom and control over his life. How Chris got out of mountains of debt by making two simple changes in his budget! Plus - Chris is going to detail he got 7, (yes, 7) passive income streams that give his family the freedom to pursue their dreams today!

In this episode Matt and Morven discuss all things holidays, as many countries close their borders in an attempt to stop the global spread of Coronavirus, and we continue to be advised to avoid travel unless absolutely necessary, it seems 2020 has become the year of the staycation.Morven McIntyre speaks with Senior Tourist Insights Manager for Visit Scotland, Chris Greenwood, to find out our current holiday trends, what the pandemic has meant for the UK tourist trade and where he predicts the future of the tourism industry heading.And in our local heroes segment, Dan McLaughlin chats with Harry Taylor, who tells us about how he balanced working night shifts at the Guardian with doing voluntary shifts at the Royal Free Hospital in North West London.Alone Together is a Laudable production, written and produced by Matt Millard, Morven McIntrye and Dan McLaughlin, and is edited by Matt Millard.

Digital strategy expert Emil Spangenberg from Frame & Work, and VisitScotland's Senior Tourism Insight Manager, Chris Greenwood, join host Julia Sutherland to talk about getting your marketing messages right, as we begin the process of restarting tourism in Scotland.

Digital Tourism Think Tank's Nick Hall, and VisitScotland's Senior Tourism Insight Manager, Chris Greenwood, joined host Julia Sutherland and discussed the role of sustainability within the ‘new normal', the importance of involving communities to mitigate tourism impacts, as well as how tourism can help to rebuild the local economy. 

We are doing this podcast while not being the same room for the first time, using Zoom. We start talking about how the pandemic and social distancing, and how that has affected us. Jimmy states that he's in the best shape of his life, and has put on like 10 lbs of muscle during the shutdown. Today's main subject is a NYT article talking about how this pandemic economic shut down is affecting Americans. According to Pew research, for people making $50k to $59.9K per year, it would take them 2 years to save enough money to cover 4 weeks of expenses, on avg. For people making $200k/year, they could save 4 weeks of expenses in as few as 2 months. We talk about how people making $50K per years should be more than enough, "as long as you're conservative with your money." We talk about how Gary Vee is always preaching "why are you buying $7 coffee" "why are we buying a car or house we can't afford to impress people we dont even like?" QUOTE: Better to have a friend with a bass boat than have on yourself. We talk about horn players who need to work almost daily to keep up their embochure. I mention a friend trumpet player who stopped playing to keep up his embochure because all he loses is the high notes and the only people who care about the high notes on the trumpet are other trumpet players. Jimmy talks about his friend who started playing piano, neglecting his trumpet, and how quickly in a matter of a few weeks "lost his lip". If a friend has a house with a pool, does that mean we need to get a house with a pool as well? or does a pool table substitute adequately? We talk about how there are more great guitarists with incredible facility on the instrument (as seen in IG and other social media posts) than ever before, but we wonder how they can incorporate that high level of musicianship into other musical situations, or wonder if maybe being an IG influencer is the end game for them. Major Youtube stars like David Dobrek and Pew Die Pie are making $10millin plus per year. I discuss Chris Greenwood and his excellent artist coaching (affiliate link as promised: https://fanbaseuniversity.com/fanbaseuniversitynow?affiliate_id=2376098). According to his experience, Youtube pays much better to musicians and artists performing songs than Facebook does. We discuss if Instagram pays similarly to Facebook since they are the same corporation. We discuss whether musicians activity will change any after this pandemic shutdown is over. Musiicians who have discovered Facebook and Youtube Live, etc, as a source of revenue, will they go back to playing live the old way, or change their behavior after this shutdown is over? We discuss how it is possible for people making $50K/year to be struggling. I mention that in my home town an income of $20k to $30k is really adequate to live without real needs. According to the NYT article, only 52% of low income workers are affected by the pandemic, income wise. We are both surprised its this low. We discuss how some jobs (Fed Ex, UPS, Amazon) are working overtime during this shutdown. Find us: https://www.facebook.com/jimidandthewolf https://www.instagram.com/jimidandthe... https://jimidmusic.com/ https://thetimwolf.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thetimwolf/ https://www.instagram.com/jimidmusic/ Check out our guitar instruction website: https://www.AnyoneCanLearnGuitar.com/

In this Best of Episode we help Daniel decide if he's expert enough to start his online business. This episode was originally published on July 10, 2018.  You can check out the original episode here:  http://flippedlifestyle.com/podcast212 FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn: Hey, y'all!  On today's podcast, we help Daniel decide if he's expert enough to start his online business. Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work.  We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online.  And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life?  Alright, let's get started. What's going on everybody?  Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, it is great to be back with you again this week!  Super excited to have another member of the Flip Your Life community on the show today. I've been looking forward to this specific interview all week, and you're going to learn why here in just a minute. Jocelyn: I'm pretty sure he's talked about it like every single day.   Shane: Every single day.  I'm so pumped up right now to welcome Daniel Hulsman to the show.   Daniel, what's up man?   Daniel: Hey, how you guys doing?  It's really good to be out here and talking to you both!   Jocelyn: We are pumped to have you here, as Shane has mentioned.   Shane: I am super pumped to have you here! Jocelyn: Shane loves telling stories, so I'm just going to let him take it away.   Shane: Alright, here's how Daniel and I got together, okay? Jocelyn: Something I should know?   Shane: No, no.  This is a G-rated show, Jocelyn.  Alright, so Daniel sent me an email during a recent launch.  A few weeks ago, we opened the doors to the Flip Your Life community and started giving everybody out there a month for free.  Daniel apparently heard this and signed up and you know, and he went through a couple of the emails and things like that. He had not joined yet, he had not joined the membership yet.  So, I wake up one morning, and I get this email because yes, we check our emails, okay. And I get a message and the first line -- what was the subject line on this? Daniel: I'm just shaking my head over here.   Shane: I know, right.  There was some hater-ade in this email, people.  This is a critique, is what I'm about to show you, I'm not going to read the whole thing.  But Daniel's sends me this email and says two things -- a little smug Daniel, I'm not going to lie -- but it said two things: "One, your customer service link in this email leads to a 404 page.”  So that is not a good sign when somebody pointing out a broken link. Jocelyn: When your email starts like that it's probably not going to go too good. Shane: And he made the emoticon, it wasn't even the Emoji.  He actually used the type of symbols of a smiley face with a tear.  That's sad, guys, we're supposed to have all this together, right?  And then he goes on with this giant block text of paragraph about just all sorts of stuff he didn't like in our marketing and things like that, but here's what drew me in.  Are you ready for this Daniel? This is the turn to the positive, this is the turn to the light side of the force. Daniel: (sighs) Shane: So he's critiquing all of our sales techniques and blah, blah, blah, and I just heard all of this skepticism in all of this stuff.  And then he said, "And you gave me a heart attack on Episode 200 when you said goodbye because I did not want your podcast to go away.”   So that's where the turn was and it says, "You are changing lives of people like me who want a better life for their families.”  I read every word of this email and it was really long, and that's the point where I was like, man, I saw something there. I was like, “This guy wants a better life.”  Then he went on to say, "I've been struggling to get my website off the ground for a few years, and your story inspires me to keep trying." So, all of that criticism, all of that critique, when I got to the end, I realized it was just frustration.  It was just a little frustration, a little skepticism, a little "Is this real?" and you've been doing this for a while, and I sent him a message back, my email.  I purposefully had to write more words than you did. Daniel: Oh, that was a good little novella.   Shane: Yes, yes.  There was some massive… this was a no-sugar soliloquy.   Jocelyn: Oh, now we're going to get tons of hate mail, so people will get to have--   Shane: Yeah, everybody will just send me hate mail now, like, "Shane will write me back if I do that!”  Here's what's funny though. This is the difference between me and Jocelyn. I was writing this email, and when I was doing it, Jocelyn was like, "Are you still writing that guy back?"  And I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, I'm still writing. I'm doing it!” Jocelyn: I'm trying to talk to him about stuff, and get things done.  And he's like, "No, no, no, I'm writing this email!” Shane: "No, Daniel is getting a message back from me.”   Jocelyn: I'm like, "Okay.”   Shane: I could have gone a thousand ways with this email.  I could have gone, "How dare you find my broken link.”   Daniel: Or just deleted it.   Shane: Or just deleted it and I could have just ignored it.  But I really just felt drawn, and there was potential there and you wanted something more, and that's what we're here for -- that's our mission.  So basically I won't read the whole soliloquy. Jocelyn: Please don't.   Shane: I won't, I won't.  I won't read this parable that I wrote you back.  But in the future book, it will come out. But my main point was, “Are you going to let a link that goes to a 404 page or a sales page hold you back, and are you going to look back again in a few years from now and say, ‘Man, I've struggled for a few years and I'm done,' or are you going to look back and say, ‘That was the moment I actually took action and took my next step.'” And I challenged you.  I just said, "Go join! It's free for 30 days.  You go look at every course we've got and you see if it doesn't move you forward.”  And I said, "Instead of critiquing our sales process, watch the magician's hands. You've been struggling for a few years, and we have it.  Maybe there's something there. Maybe there's something we're doing differently.” I've got to read what you sent me back. Daniel: Oh, yeah.  Please go ahead, I was angsty. There was a long time of just reflection before I sent anything back.   Shane: I jumped up, man, and you can ask Jocelyn.  I started going crazy and pumping my fist because I was so excited.  You sent me this message back, and it said, "I started to spend a few minutes, trying to think of a clever yet grateful response to your candid feedback--" and I like how you said 'candid feedback' because if anyone saw this message, it was pretty candid.   Daniel: Yeah.   Shane: And it says, "But I think I'll just shut up and get started instead.  Sounds like I've got some work to do. I just finished the form, I'm logging in, and when I get home, I'm printing your email and hanging it on my wall next to my computer.  Thank you for the much-needed kick in the (blank)!” So I just want to say, you're welcome for the boot print on the back of your pants. Daniel: Thank you, sir.   Shane: And I am so glad that you are a member of the Flip Your Life community now, and that we turned a critic into a customer.  After you followed up, and I saw what you have going in your business, I know that you've got a great, great potential to do something with it, okay, so Kudos to you, man.   Jocelyn: We love these kinds of stories so much because it's just awesome.  So many people want to point fingers at other people and say, "You're doing this wrong, you're doing this wrong.”  But most of the time it's more like a mirror. They're looking back at themselves, and thinking, "My life is not perfect either.”  None of our lives are perfect. So that's the cool thing about this, is that we're able to help each other and we don't just give up on people. I mean, if you were like a blatant hater or... Shane: There is a difference in a critic and a troll.  I was actually very thankful you found that link.  Before I wrote you back, I emailed our team and I said, "We've got to fix this link.”  That's how I started my email back to you, so I was actually really grateful that you sent email in the first place.  It helped us, and I wanted some reciprocity there to help you back. Jocelyn: And so we knew that we had to talk to you because of this crazy story, and we just love it when things like this happen, so thank you for being here today! Daniel: No problem.  And I'm sure my wife's going to get a real kick out of listening to this as well because when I finally told her that you had offered to speak with me this morning, she was like, "Why?!" And then I had to tell her the whole backstory.  And she's like, "I am a little surprised that you sent that email, but sounds like you deserved your response." Shane:  That is absolutely hilarious!  Jocelyn: Okay.  If we're being honest with ourselves, like everyone listening to this show, myself included, we've all done something like this.  This is not something-- we're not trying to pick on you and say like, "Oh, you shouldn't have done this or whatever." Shane: This is like when you get mad and you honk at somebody or give them a rude gesture on the highway for doing something you did a week ago.  It's all it is. I've seen so many emails like that. There's a difference between a troll, and a guy who's like, "Guys, I really like what you're doing and I'd love to have it, too.  And I think I could get it, but I'm frustrated, and nothing's just working and I'm just trying to vocalize that, and I don't know how to do it." Daniel: Yeah, I mean, I feel like I've been beating my head against a wall for years.  The whole way that I started my current website, I actually bought another course, a $500 course years ago.  I've been a longtime listener of that podcast, and I signed up. They're very adamant, don't skip any steps. As a good little soldier, I did all the steps and at the end I had ended up with this website and like a tiny little affiliate sale every now and then.  And a website that I felt was nice, but it was a website, it wasn't a business. I just didn't know where to go after spending all this time pouring myself into this and years later here I am still not sure how to course correct. Shane: Well, listen.  You're not the only person that's ever done that.  The next step is always the most frustrating step that never goes away.  We're sitting here figuring out our next step just like you are. It's just at a different level.  That frustration is part of the journey and hey, man, we'll get you past it, and let's get you to the next step and that's what we're here for so we can help you do that.   Jocelyn: The reason that we started this trial because we feel like there are so many people out there who are frustrated, and they don't know what to do next.   Shane: Or they've been burned by that $500 course in the past and nothing happened.  Like I got burned by a course like that! What happened in 2012, when I first started this, the first thing I discovered was Google ad marketing, like where you make a niche website that has like five pages and you put Google ads on it and the gurus all said you'd be a millionaire in six months.   Jocelyn: All that was before the big Google smackdown, they call it.   Shane: So I built a couple of these sites and, granted, it did make our first ad click, which was eleven cents that inspired us that it's possible to make money online.  But I'm paid a dime and a penny! If you can't pay my groceries with this thing, you can't even get the cart at Aldi! That's a quarter. For anybody that has an Aldi, you know what I'm talking about here, you can't even get the cart out at the grocery store for a dime and a penny.  But what happened was -- it's so funny-- I got frustrated, but once we figured that out, I bought another course about email marketing. I noticed, not that that guy was email marketing for affiliates.  I noticed that his email marketing was to sell his course on email marketing and he was selling his own product.  That was really the epiphany that we had was, it's not about partnering and JV Partnerships. That's cool, that's later.  It's not about affiliate links, it's not about ad clicks, it's not about Amazon and all that. You're not going to make any money that way.  It's about figuring out how you can serve other people, creating a product that solves their problem and that's what you promote. That may be the next step for you too.  Alright, so rewind! Jocelyn: That was a lot of information. Shane: It's still one of my favorite stories ever and it always will be, and I'm going to be so proud of you, not only because you joined, but I can't wait to see you succeed.   Jocelyn: I can't even express the joy that Shane had when you decided to join the membership. Shane: Oh my gosh, when you joined the membership, I was like, "That dude joined.  Holy cow, that's unbelievable!” Jocelyn: That's his mission in life.   Daniel: You know what it was.  It was the last line in your email.  It just went off on me and then at the end, the last time was just 'Finish', with a link back to the form that I didn't complete.  That was just the word that echoed in my subconscious until I did it. Shane: Oh yeah.  I see it now.  It just says 'Finish:' and then the form.   Jocelyn: I hope that, if nothing else from this story, I hope that people understand that we really do care about you and we want what's best for every single person listening to this podcast.  That's the reason why we do what we do. Yes, we are a for-profit business. We have to pay our bills, but we want everyone out there to succeed, and that's why we're offering this free trial.  So I hope that if nothing else, people understand that we really do want what's best for every single one of you. Shane: And I also realized too, there's a lot of movement out there.  People want to shut everyone out of their lives and all these gurus are like, "Well, if anyone hates you, delete them, and if anyone critiques you, screw them, and if anybody, whatever, whatever, whatever," but like man, 90% of the people that even send you feedback, they're just really asking you for some advice.   Jocelyn: And if somebody has taken their time to email you, even if it's something you'd really don't want to hear-- Shane: They care.  They at least care.   Jocelyn: They care enough to send the email.   Shane: Love it, hate it, but never ignore it, man.  Help somebody next time they send you a bad email, send them back and say, "You alright?  What's going on? Can I help you?" Jocelyn: That being said, please don't send us a lot of hate mail! Shane: I can read through the fake hate mail guys.  I know fake hate from real hate. Okay, so let's do it!   Jocelyn: Alright.  So before we get more into the story, let's go back just a little bit.  We want to know about you, your background, and what you have started so far online.   Daniel: Sure, so, by day, I'm a father.  I live in Boston and I am a full-time music teacher at an inter-high school in Boston.  I grew up in Delaware. Go Blue Hens! Our mascot's a giant blue chicken, really exciting!   Shane: We have a mascot in the Kentucky school called, “The Hilltopper.”  It's literally a red pile of dirt. That's what he is. The Hilltoppers and the Blue Hens can go to war.   Daniel: I don't even know what to say about that.  That's so strange. But you know, why not? Sure.  I graduated with my music education degree looking to be a music teacher, and then that was 2008 and then the economy crashed.  All the arts jobs disappeared so I had to kind of scramble and figure out something else to do. I ended up working for Apple for a few years doing B2B sales, and then I just started nerding out on online marketing stuff after reading the Four-Hour Work Week.  I ended up getting a job at a marketing software company called Hubspot. Worked there for a year before getting back into teaching.   So it's been kind of a bit of an eclectic journey professionally.  But then on the side of that, two years ago, as I said, I started, you know, I did an online course and at the end of that I had a website for video game composers because I love video game music and I've always loved to do games and stuff.   Jocelyn: Okay.  I need to just stop you right there because in your intake form, it says I manage-- Shane: 'Intake Form.' That sounds like he's getting up for parole, and your intake form-- "Your podcast application" would be better, probably. Jocelyn: On the podcast questionnaire, how's that?   Daniel: Perfect.   Jocelyn: Okay.  I just have to ask you about this because I don't know what this means.  Okay, it says, "I manage a choir that records professional video game soundtracks twice a year.” So let's back the truck up. Shane: That seems like the coolest job ever!   Daniel: Alright, sure.  So I ended up by networking in the Boston scene here, which actually there's an orchestra called the Video Game Orchestra in Boston and they started as a club out of Berkeley College of Music, and then they ended up becoming a full-blown professional orchestra that records the live music for video games.  I happened to meet and befriend the guy who runs that. Over a couple of years, just because he knew I was a singer, I ended up getting pulled into a choir to record a trailer for a game called, “Final Fantasy 15.” Shane: Are you kidding me?  You sang on Final Fantasy 15?! Daniel: I did.  I sang on the trailer, and then I sang on 10 tracks on the soundtrack.   Shane: Dude, I am so glad you wrote me hate mail! Jocelyn: Who gets this job?   Shane: Yeah, this is amazing.   Jocelyn: "Yeah, I sing on video games.”   Daniel:  It's a very fun thing to drop in a conversation.  I've got to admit. I mean, you know, it's very few and far in between, but the gigs are extremely fun.  I've just wrapped up a second one or our first one for the year. It's just a lot of fun. But the third grader in me is just elated.  Every time I go into the recording studio and get the recorded video game music, I got the music pumping into my headphones, and with the school to sing-- the instrument that I was trained on was voice.  And so it, you know, I'm really thankful for that because now I get to go and sing on video games. Jocelyn: My nine-year-old son would think this is the coolest thing ever.   Shane: Oh yeah, because he loves music, he loves video games.   Daniel: Then you know, he and I, we understand each other, then.   Shane: What's cool about this, too, man, is I can see where this is going.  One thing that people love about the Flip Your Life community, and once again there are needs for life coaches and business coaches, but everybody doesn't have to be one.  The variety of niches and our community is second to none. Like we have people, we talk about it all the time. We've got people doing everything you can imagine. Ninety percent of our people are doing something besides life coaching.   And you hear about this, I would never think, oh, there's a niche for video game music composing.  But even as you say this, we've got a member named Chris Greenwood, he goes by the name, Manafest. Really big Christian artist, awesome guy.  His songs, though, one of the ways that he markets his music is he licenses it for games and licenses it for movies. And now you're actually recording original tracks for things, so there are so many niche markets out there that you wouldn't think people would want to get into.  But then you're like, "Well, wait a minute, if you're doing it and he's doing it and somebody else is doing it, well, there are probably thousands of people that want to do it.  Right?" And uh, that's where this kind of came from. Jocelyn: Okay, so your site is about this video game music, correct.   Daniel: Yup, to help new and aspiring video game composers.   Shane: What is it called?  What's the domain name?   Daniel: VGMacademy.com Shane: videogameacademy.com, okay.   Daniel: You can go to either videogamemusicacademy.com, or you can go to vgmacademy.com, and it'll redirect you.   Shane: You actually own a three letter domain?   Daniel: vgmacademy.com Shane: Wow, that's really awesome that you have that, you know what I'm saying?  Because those are hard to get. Daniel: Well, it was kind of those dot academy ones, I wasn't that fast.   Shane: I got you, I got you, I got you.  Now tell everyone a little bit about where your community is, because you've actually built a community, an audience around this.  We've not monetized it yet, which is very common, right? So tell everybody else about the other assets that are around the website.   Daniel: Yeah, sure.  So I've got an email list that has got currently over 2,600 people on it, which I feel pretty good about that number.  I just obviously don't know what to do with it at this point. I've got a pretty sizable Twitter following of like 4,500 people or somewhere around there right now.  But my thing that I really liked the most at this point is that I've got a private Facebook group that has just reached 1,000 members.  It's like a no-spam, no-self-promotion zone for people to get in there and get questions and ask help, but also engage in anything that's going on with the website.   I've got a community challenge that I run over the summer.  So this is the second time I'm doing it, starting in a couple of days in July.  It's a 21-day challenge for composers to get in there, and just write something, even just like a little tiny something.  One little musical idea, just write something new every day for 21 days straight to make it a habit, and everyone goes in there.  Last year it was awesome! Everyone posted, you know, put up a graphic for each day. Shane: Is this free?   Daniel: Yeah, this is free! Yup! Shane: Do you make them opt in to get in the challenge?   Daniel: Yes.  Yeah. Shane: Okay, that's good.  Do you create content regularly on your website?  Like blogs or videos or anything like that? Daniel: I used to, but this past year, to be completely upfront and honest, I've just been kind of burned out and frustrated.  I feel like anytime I come back and pour energy into it, I feel like it's misdirected, or it doesn't really move the needle on anything.  So this past year, it's been pretty inconsistent. Shane: Listen, you have no idea what you've got in your hands.   Jocelyn: You're doing so many things right!   Shane: So many things right, so many things that other people can't even figure out how to do or won't figure out how to do.  Like how to do a challenge, how to opt in for it, how to get them in a private Facebook group. And your audience? I mean you have 2,500 emails.  Do you know how many people would drive to Boston and punch you in the face to steal 2,500 emails from you? You have this Facebook group with a thousand people, Twitter followers.  You have an audience that you've built! When Jocelyn and I launched our first product that did like thousands of dollars, we had less than 400 emails total, and it did like almost three grand in like the first week.  So you've got the people, you've got the thing, you've proven that people want this, and these challenges, you've proven that people will opt in. It's not a large stretch to just say, "Well, what if I charged for a challenge that got more involvement with me?" Jocelyn: Or at the end of my challenge, I'll give them their next step and I charge them for it?  Daniel, this is not hard! Shane: Yeah, you got this, man, dude.  I want to talk about two things, first, really quick is fears and obstacles.  Something's holding you back because you've got the tools in place. Jocelyn: What's going on inside your head that's saying, "I can't do this?   Shane: What are you afraid of?  What's the fear that's holding you back?   Daniel: The biggest thing is that I feel like-- and this is again a part of the result of that original course.  I ended up with a website and a community that's really looking for someone. In some ways at least I feel like I'm not qualified enough to take people to the next step that they want because I'm not a full-time working video game music composer.  I'm a music teacher. I know a lot of basics in terms of songwriting and composition. But in terms of like a lot of the technologies that people want help with the digital audio workstations, people can spend and waste countless hours of time diving into the audio technology and the audio engineering part of it.  And that's just something that's a huge time investment. I'm not able to become the expert on that as fast as I think I would need to be at this point. I feel like I'm in a lot of ways behind the ball of my audience in terms of the audio engineering component.  But that's the biggest thing: I kind of feel like in some ways I'm just not qualified. In other words, I think I am.  I think that I know a decent amount about marketing, I know a little bit about negotiating, which is something that comes up with freelancing.  So I got some transferable skills, you know, music theory and that kind of stuff. But I just don't know if I'm at a point where I have put myself in a position where I can be as helpful as I originally intended to be.  I think I have really big and ambitious dreams. But then becoming a parent, apparently you have a lot less free time and energy. So yeah! Shane: You have less time than the millennial on the beach in Thailand? Daniel: You know, believe it or not, I have a little less time than them, you know.  And that was the thing that shocked me. That was, I was definitely one of those, "I'm going to make it, I'm going to figure out how to manage this and make it work for me,” sort of people.  But then I had a kid that didn't sleep for two years. Jocelyn: Okay, let's push pause on that because that's a different issue.   Shane: Let's pause! Okay.  We've pulled out a fear and an obstacle.  The obstacle is kids that don't sleep on time.  We'll get to that in a minute. Now the fear is this: let me do a mock conversation for you here, okay.   I walk up to you and I'm like, "Oh man, I would love to compose music for video games.  Man, that'd be a cool job. I would love to do that, but Daniel, I think you could maybe teach me how to do that, but you know what?  Like I just want to make sure that you're even expert enough.” So then it comes back to you, "You look at them and say, 'Have you sang on Final Fantasy 15?' And that guy goes, 'No,' and you look at him and you say, 'I have.  Sit down and listen.'" Okay, so let me just dispel that: you're expert enough!  What you're trying to do is what a lot of people do: you think you have to know every single thing ever about your topic.  There are things that we don't know about online business. I meet with people that are very high level all the time in different spaces.  I'm in a mastermind group with some ballers and they're good dudes and we all do our businesses very differently and sometimes they say things and I can't even wrap my brain around it, what they're talking about.  But that's okay because I don't teach that thing even though it's still online business. What we teach is how to start, how to find an idea, how to get your website going, how to get your product created, how to get it out to market, how to start a membership site and create stable recurring income.   I don't know anything about JV partnerships and affiliate marketing, but I've got a friend who's made millions of dollars doing it, but I don't teach that.  I don't have to teach that and I don't have to go learn that. You don't have to learn all the digital audio mixing and stuff like that.  You could partner with someone who sells that and be an affiliate for them though, and then you could teach composition, negotiation, how to get the job, how to keep the job, how to make sure they call you back because you're getting called back.   You got to teach what you know and then point them to other people.  We don't teach people to do public speaking even though that's a big part of some brands.  Jocelyn and I, the only public speaking we do is at our own live events, we don't have time to go do all that other stuff.  But if I wanted to send someone to teach public speaking right now, I would send them to my friend, Grant Baldwin, The Speaker Lab, because he knows how to teach public speaking.  But I'm not going to go learn how to teach public speaking just so I can create a course about it, that doesn't make sense for us. Jocelyn: Let me tell you, and everyone who's listening, a secret.  And it's not really a secret. But you are not for everyone.  We are not for everyone. There are people out there who say, "You know what, I've grown my business and you know, I'm making a million dollars a year, and your stuff is beneath me.  Like I don't know how to get to the next level, and you're not going to be able to help me.” No, we're not, because that's not who we serve. Shane: I don't want to help you get to 10 million dollars a year.  Fine, you're a millionaire. You figured it out! You know what I mean?  Like that's not our point. Our mission is to help 100,000 people start their online business, and get to a point where they could have the decision to quit their job.  That's our mission is to help people start that journey. Our mission is not to take the person from a million dollars to 10 million dollars.  I'm not going to go try to figure that out. I'll leave that to somebody else. Same thing here, don't think you've got to teach all these other things.  I don't know the Video Game Music Act that requires you to have so many hours of certain degrees to teach people how to get into the industry. That doesn't exist.   Jocelyn: Let me tell you what this is, though.  This is you looking at yourself saying, "I'm not perfect in these ways, and I don't want someone to point out those flaws," and let me tell you how I know that because this is my everyday life.   Shane: Yeah, Jocelyn always does that.  We might have a deficiency. Like, one of the things that we struggle with is leading our team.  Jocelyn and I are very much like visionary, mud-on-the-wall, let's go, let's figure this out, and sometimes it's hard for us to pull back and lead our team.  But we have a really big team and we've got to actually go and sort this out. We have to be better. Jocelyn: It's just not something we enjoy doing.  Therefore, we don't want to do it. Shane: But we do share our struggles with our community.  We share our struggles on our podcast, and those struggles are just as valuable as someone who's got it figured out.  You could even talk about that. Listen, what if someone is a composer, and understands music because they went through music, and the band, and choir, and all these things, and they went to college, and they were vocal, and they learned how to sing.   What if the millions of people who do that never learned how to use these digital audio things?  And now you can say to them, “I don't have this skill, but I made it. I figured it out and I can help you do it, too!” Jocelyn: Do you know what the beauty of having a community for this is?  You don't have to know all the answers. You are surrounded by lots of other people who are interested in the same thing and guess what?  They might be strong where you're weak. It's just like our community. Like there are things that I'm not fantastic at, but there are hundreds of people inside our community, and a lot of them might have experience with it where maybe I don't.   That's the awesome thing, is that I can go in and say, "Hey, I've never done this, but our member, Kevin, has done this," or, "Our member, Karen, has done this.”  You know, I can pull out names of people who are an expert in this field and I don't have to be. So that is the awesome thing about doing that. Shane: That's one reason that we always say people come for the content, but they stay for the leadership in the community, because the leadership guides them to what things that leaders don't even know.  Like I can at least point to you the direction where you need to go, and the community fills in gaps of knowledge because if we have thousands of entrepreneurs in one place that are dealing with the three-year-old who doesn't sleep, that are dealing with the fear of being expert enough, that are dealing with how do I overcome this software plugin or whatever, then now we get to fill in the gaps and we get to work together and you can create that same dynamic.   You've probably seen this, I bet, in your community, haven't you?  Like people are talking about things and giving feedback that you didn't even think of and conversations and challenges. Have you seen that in your community? Daniel: Yeah, yeah! It's funny that you mentioned that because you know in a way I haven't needed to talk about the technical stuff in terms of the software in the Facebook group because a lot of times when people ask that question, which is not as often as I would've expected, but when those questions do come up, a bunch of people jump on them.   Shane: Exactly.  And that's why a community is really important in this kind of thing because what you have to do is say, “What CAN I teach people?  That's the most important question. “What problem CAN I solve?” And we so often get bogged down in the things that we can't solve.  "Well, I can't solve this for them. Well, I can't teach them this so I must not be sufficient," but you are sufficient. You are good enough and you are awesome at these things.   You have to make a bulleted list of “What Can I Teach Them?”  Well, I can teach them to the composure. I can teach them to negotiate.  I can teach them where to look for these gigs because you've probably got an idea of that, you know, you can teach them all those things.  That's what forms the basis of your content and then your leadership with coaching or community and things like that, that's going to guide them to the next step.  And that's what you are. You're a lantern bearer on a dark path, you're going down a path, you're showing them where to go. Jocelyn: You've already found the lantern.   Shane: That's right, you got it.  So you know where to go. You came back and got somebody else.  Now, you're taking them to where you were. And another thing I really sensed from you is you really want these people to do this.  Like, you know this is awesome, and these people want to do it. And you're like, "Man, I really would love for everybody to get to sing on Final Fantasy 15, right?" Daniel: Yeah, I mean, one of the biggest kicks I got doing this challenge last year was that, I was blown away by -- I was very clear with the community that I was really only looking for you to show up and write two to four bars of music a day.  A few seconds of music, a little idea. People really just created some really beautiful, some really awesome tracks, and a lot of them were doing full-blown, completed tracks almost every single day. That to me was a huge win. There was so much really great music that came out of it.  And I was just really happy! Jocelyn: But here's the problem.  You pumped the brakes, you gave them something awesome.  And he said, “Okay guys, see you next summer. We'll do this again.”  Daniel, stop it! Shane: You're like, "Look, I'd love to create a course, but I got to write some hate mail to Shane.  That's what I've got to do here." Daniel: I've got emails to write.   Shane: “I've got emails to write, y'all.  I know we're making great music, but I'm writing great copy here.”  I love your mission that poured out right there. Your mission is to help people write great music.  Your mission is to give them a doorway, an opportunity to go the next step. Your mission is not to teach them the mixer, teach them the thing, get them the job, all of that.  The first step that you can teach everybody is that you can do this. because you do it every day in your classroom, you do it every day in your group, you do it on all these challenges. You can teach people to make music that's changing their world, the people around them.  They're releasing new things into the world that never existed before, and then they have the opportunity to go the next step, And then they have the opportunity to learn the technology. And then they have the opportunity to apply for the job, but until they write that music, until it's released into the world, they don't have that opportunity.  Your endgame for them might be to do what you've done, but you have to help them get started and give them the opportunity. Jocelyn: And I'm going to tell you something.  I talked about this a few weeks ago on the podcast.  I feel like I can speak freely with you because, well, this whole podcast this week is kind of crazy.   Daniel: Yeah, it's free, pretty free.   Shane: There's been some free speaking.   Jocelyn: But here's the thing.  I talked about this, I think the 200th episode.  You are being selfish by holding this gift back, so stop it.  You have to do this. You owe it to these people who have a dream, who have something that they want to do, you're being selfish by not giving them the next step.   Shane: Your mission is not to get people a video game job.  That's a result! Your job is to help people unleash music that's inside of them into world through the conduit of video games.  I play Fortnight with my son. Daniel: Nice! Shane: Isaac and I play all the time.   Jocelyn: Not so nice for me.   Shane: Yeah, Jocelyn loses about an hour and a half a day of her life, so we play Fortnite together.  We play almost every day. I love the music at the beginning of Fortnite. I just love it, it makes me happy.  But going back before that, before I had kids, and right up when we had kids, I played Halo, that very famous game.  And I looked it up one day. Jocelyn: That music haunts me.   Shane: Yeah, the music haunts her.  It's not just the music. I looked it up one day and it keeps all your stats, and me, my brother, and my two best friends from high school, we lived far apart from each other when we were adults, right?  So Halo was a way that we got to connect every night. We got to get together for an hour before we had kids and we could actually play games and we got to connect virtually. When I hear Halo's music, I don't just think of the video game, I don't just think of the actual looked-up-in stats, ninety days of my life in actual hours, that I put into that game over a few years in Halo 3.  I don't think about that. I think of laughter, and I think of joy, and I think of all the good times and good conversations that I got to have with my brother who lived five hours from me, with my best friend who lived five hours from me.  Like that's what I think about. If that guy doesn't write that music that was the soundtrack of that game, then those memories don't happen and that nostalgia doesn't come back when I hear that music again.  That's your mission, bro! It's the help these people unleash music that can be used in these games, not only for them, but for all the people that are going to hear it. You've got no choice, man. You got to do this and you are expert enough. There is no degree, there's no certification that can make you more qualified for what these people need. Jocelyn: And I want to say, too, before we move on from this, think about people that you respect as leaders, just in everyday life, maybe in online business, every different area of your life.  Do you respect somebody more who is perfect and never makes mistakes, or somebody who says, "Hey, I don't know everything, but I'm going to help you. I'm going to do the best I can to help you get to the next step," and I feel like that's why people follow us because we're not perfect, we're not polished, we're just regular people who are trying to help other people have a better life.  So, who do you prefer to follow? Shane: Yeah, let me tell you a story about a guy.  This podcast may never end. We're going to talk for a while, we're just sitting back.   Daniel: This is my first day of summer break.   Shane: You're good.  Alright, cool, man.  Our kids are probably doing something right now.  I haven't seen them in about an hour, whatever. They'll be all right.  I can see the lake behind our house. So as long as they're not going into that, we're cool.   Okay, so I had a very influential man in my life who was a teacher of mine in high school.  He actually was what made me even consider being a teacher when I got a history degree because he was my history and political science teacher.   He really taught me a lot about how to argue politics, and think about deep issues and you know, look at both sides, and not be so hateful like everybody is on Facebook these days and all this other stuff.  He was very good at playing devil's advocate and arguing socratically. But that's not where he made the most influence in my life. I actually took a media class and I got to be the director and producer of our school news show when I was a senior in high school.  And I was a hoodlum! But when people see what I do now and my teachers, they're like, "Wow, you're not in jail! That's pretty amazing.”  And then when people see Jocelyn, like from her high school, they're like, "Why did you marry that guy? Because he had very great potential to go to jail.”  For him to give me a leadership position like that and give me that opportunity, it was amazing. I so appreciated it because he knew that I had a passion for the video editing, the audio editing, and the production of it.  I still have a passion for that stuff today with our podcast, with our videos and things like that. Here's why this story is so related to what we're talking about.  He took the media class because he liked the journalism aspect of it. He liked the telling stories aspect of it. He couldn't use a video editor. He could barely use a VCR.  We're going way back now. He didn't know which way to put the tape in the VCR.  It would've been upside down, inside out and he didn't understand how to use anything technology-wise.  And we had got a grant, and they had bought us all this video editing stuff. So this was like professional tape editing stuff back in the day, right?   Daniel: Yeah.  We had the same stuff.   Shane: Yeah.  So we go in and he's like, "Shane, you're the producer, you're the director.  So you've got to figure all this stuff out. I don't know how to do it, but I'm going to tell you how to organize the show.  I'm going to tell you how to lead your team. I'm going to tell you how to do this.” And we would sit in there.  I would remember me sitting at the station just slaving, I would stay hours after school.  I'd leave the school at like 8:00 in the night right after school. Loved it, editing the broadcast for the next day, and he never left me.  He was always right there beside me, and it's really emotional, thinking about it like right now, how much that changed my life because it kind of was a foundational thing for now, like what we do.   I always remember him just sitting there with his leg crossed, reading his newspaper and every once in a while, he'd look over and go, "Shane, how's it going?" Or I'd look back at him and say, "Hey, do you think this story should go before this story?  How should I edit this?" But I had to figure out the technology. He had no clue how to do it. But he taught me how to lead and he taught me how to put things in the right order and how to compose the show. And it didn't matter if he didn't know how to do the editing, and it doesn't matter if you don't know how to use the technology.   You're leading them and you're teaching them how to compose and you're pointing people in the right direction to figure it out.  He gave me the instruction manual. I just had to read it. And that's really what you're doing for your people is you're just leading them, and you're helping them compose and you're giving them the chance, the opportunity, and who knows what happens to those people 10 to 20 years from now?  That's up to them. You're going to give them the chance and they're going to pay you for it, and then some of them probably the minority are going to do something with it. It's going to be inspiring and it's going to be world changing, and that's going to be because you made the decision, "I am qualified to do this, and by God, I'm going to teach it.”  Okay. Whew!   Jocelyn: Whew! That was a lot of information.   Shane: Oh my gosh.  I'm sitting in here, teared up thinking about that guy, and how much it changed my life and it tears me up because I know we've changed lives, but not all of them, the minority because the majority can't cut it.  And if you're in the majority, you need to get over in the minority, if you're listening to this podcast. I know you can change lives and I know that everybody listening has something but they can do! All that guy did was sit beside me and read the newspaper, answer a question here and there.  He didn't answer every question. He answered maybe one question a day. We'd sit there for four hours together.   Daniel: And he just gave you the opportunity.   Shane: And he just gave me the opportunity, man.  That's what everyone listening to this podcast right now has to do, is release what you know into the world and give people an opportunity.   Jocelyn: Okay, Daniel, we have said a lot of words.   Shane: Which, for an introvert like Jocelyn, this was like triple the word count of the normal podcast.   Jocelyn: I know, my word count for the day is over, so I'm not going to be talking anymore.   Shane: Oh, yeah.  Now, my wife will not speak to me until tonight!  I know that she's going to go into her cave, watching Netflix and it's over.   Jocelyn: Okay, but in all seriousness, alright, how do you feel about all of the stuff we just said?  I know it was a lot to process, but how do you feel about that and how do you think that it can hopefully help you to move forward to the next step?   Shane: It's not what me and Jocelyn think your next step is.  It's, what do you think your next step is? Daniel: I think I need to stop trying to be everything and really focus on what I know.  As I was listening and I had been thinking about this and going through the content in the Flip Your Life community this week, I think what's kind of been slowly shifting to the surface is this idea that I know music theory, I know how to teach that.  I know how to teach the basics of composing a good tune. And that's something that is missing a lot in this niche. A lot of people go towards the technology and they go towards the audio engineering and spent hours and hours and hours and making a really basic thing sound really complicated and expensive but the music is forgettable, so it doesn't take it anywhere. So, I think I need to focus more on the piece that I know, and divorce myself from the piece that I don't need to focus on.   And then I guess in terms of specific steps, I need to come up with a core product offer I can lead people to.  Get them the end result of getting their music, getting music that is not only memorable but the music that they'll like themselves the next day, which I think is like a huge pain point.   I think that I'm thinking of like a lot of the people who get into this niche, they have these composers that they've been listening to since they've been growing up.  And there's this one Japanese composer who is like the John Williams of video game music. Shane: John Williams is the greatest composer of all time who did Star Wars -- I just want to show my nerd cred. Daniel: Well done, sir.  Well done! Tip of the hat to you.  People constantly are comparing themselves to this guy.  They always hold him up as the example that they want to aspire to.  He was fantastic at writing great melodies and he was fantastic at using, you know, really beautiful harmonies and then people go out and they write these like beats and there's no melody, and they have no idea how to get over that hump. I think it's just a piece that's missing because they went to the technology but they don't have music education, the formal education.  The technology's there, they have access to that. They've got a lot of resources to learn that, but not everyone went through a formal music education degree or knows where to look or what the problem is. Jocelyn: Right.  And I think that we can really help you craft your offer in the community.  Like, that's something that our community members can really latch onto and help you with because I really think that you need to launch something off this next challenge.  That is really, really important. So we can definitely hash through all that. Shane: And it could be ready in 21 days.   Jocelyn: Absolutely, yeah.   Shane: It's already named, it's the Video Game Music Academy, right?  So you have to open a membership area, and your whole thing is give them the training they need to write these things, and then give them a place where they can share music for you to listen to so you can tell them what to do next.  That's it! That's the whole concept of your membership, is that they need someone to show them how, a place to let people hear it, and some feedback, and then they can go and take the other courses that you make, like How to Contact the Video Game, how to submit your music, how to do that stuff.   Jocelyn: We will get into that inside the community a little bit more, and I wanted to touch on one other thing that we kind of glossed over.  It was the time aspect because we've talked about this a million times. Everyone has the same amount of time, but here's the thing: Once you can get clear on your mission, and you can get clear that you are enough of an expert or whatever mindset hurdle is holding you back, I promise that time will not be as much of an issue going forward.   Shane: You've been obsessed so far with how to monetize a product.  That's not exciting. But now, you have a passionate mission to reach into people's hearts and unleash music into the world that can change other people's lives AND maybe make those people a living.  That's deep, dude! That's going to make you find the time, that's going to push everything that's taking up your time to the side, except the things that matter, your mission, your family, your focus.  You're going to see your calendar changed dramatically over the next couple of weeks. I promise you. Daniel: Sounds good.  Sign me up! Jocelyn: Alright, Daniel.   Shane: I'm signing off.  Jocelyn usually signs off, but listen, man, I am so glad that you wrote me that email!  I'm so glad that you wrote it in the way you did, where it was a critic, but it wasn't hateful.  You let yourself be vulnerable there and you were like, "Man, I'm just frustrated, and it frustrates me that you're doing this stuff.”  I'm just really glad that you were also responsive to my feedback back to you and most importantly, that you took action because if you don't take action, right, wrong or indifferent-- I'm not going to say that that hateful email was right, wrong or indifferent.   But like if you don't take some action, right, wrong or indifferent, nothing happens.  You took action and it turned into another action, and then it turned into a better action and now you're going to take even better actions going forward.  And that's how we all get to where we want to be, is just taking action. So, hey man, I'm glad you're in the Flip Your Life community, and I cannot wait to see how you change the world through this music business and it's going to be awesome watching your journey going forward, Daniel.   Daniel: Yeah.  Thank you, thank you both!  And for anyone else who's listening, who is not sure about whether or not to finish that form, shut up and do it.  You'll feel a lot better. Like I said, I've been through a course before. I was super impressed once I got into this.  I mean, you know, everyone's in there, everyone's doing the work and I've been checking in every day and, the videos, and it's like... it's bulletproof.  At the end of every video, there's a giant yellow button telling you what to do next. I'm not confused. I know what I need to do, so I'm feeling better.  I think I know what I need to do next now, and I'm looking forward to having you help me out craft my offer. Shane: All right man.  Awesome stuff, dude!  Welcome to the community!  Let's get it going. Daniel: All right.   Shane: Hey guys.  Thanks again for listening.  We hope you enjoyed today's podcast.  If you still need more help with any of the topics that we discussed today, or maybe you have a question about something that we went over, we have all the training and support you need inside of the Flip Your Life community.   With over 50 training courses on dozens of online business topics, active community forums, and live member calls with me and Jocelyn every single month, the Flip Your Life community is your opportunity to get the help and support you need to make your online dreams a reality.   And the best part is you can get started today for free.  That's right! All you have to do is go to flippedlifestyle.com/free, and you can get full unlimited access to everything we offer inside of the Flip Your Life community at no cost for 30 days.  Your first month is absolutely free! If you sign up today, you can get unlimited access to all of the courses inside of our training area, unlimited access to all of our community discussion forums, and you'll get to attend our next two live member calls with me and Jocelyn, where you can ask questions about your online business.   And it's all free for the first month.  All you have to do is go to flippedlifestyle.com/free and start your free month today.  That's flippedlifestyle.com/free. We can't wait to see you inside! Shane: Before we go we like to close every single one of our shows with from a verse from the Bible.   Today's Bible verse comes from Proverbs 11:3 and the Bible says, "Honesty guides good people.  Dishonesty destroys treacherous people.” Make sure you are always building on an honest online business that's full of integrity and you treat people the way you would want to be treated.   That's all the time we have for this week! As always, guys, thanks for listening to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast.  Until next time, get out there, take action, do whatever it takes to Flip Your Life. We will see you then. Jocelyn: Bye! Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Daniel's Website Flip Your Life community PROLIFIC Monthly Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Join the Flip Your Life Community NOW for as little as $19 per month! https://flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife

Are you creating a professional profile on Spotify that is attractive to your fans (and future fans)? Do you want to connect with your fans in a new, face-to-face way on Instagram? Are you making the right kind of playlists on Spotify? Listen to this episode of the Music Industry Blueprint podcast to hear Chris Greenwood of Manifest and I discuss Instagram live/streaming and how you can make the most of Spotify right now!

Are you creating a professional profile on Spotify that is attractive to your fans (and future fans)? Do you want to connect with your fans in a new, face-to-face way on Instagram? Are you making the right kind of playlists on Spotify? Listen to this episode of the Music Industry Blueprint podcast to hear Chris Greenwood of Manifest and I discuss Instagram live/streaming and how you can make the most of Spotify right now!

Do you come across a TON of broke bands? Do the artists you spend weeks recording get ANY amount of traction with their music? Are your recordings ever ACTUALLY being enjoyed by a large audience? Chris and Brian interview Chris Greenwood, aka Manafast, and discuss artist development. If you take the time to A. Help artists fund their music with Kickstarter B. Help them market their music so it ACTUALLY gets heard and C. Connect them with an industry expert that can help their career, you can help your career immensely. The bottom line is this: If they win, you win. In this episode you’ll discover: Why engineers and producers have an easier job than artists Why we rely on the success of artists How you can make good connections to further your career Why artists need producers, not engineers Why you have to ensure that artists have money left over for marketing Why you need to focus on the long term success of your clients What you need to understand about the future of the music industry How the “arms race” in audio has changed in the past decade Why learning about crowdfunding can help you get more clients For full show notes, go to www.thesixfigurehomestudio.com/65 If you want to suggest a guest, an idea for the podcast, or you have some general feedback, then you can submit that via email to podcast@thesixfigurehomestudio.com

Chris Greenwood has had an amazing career as a musician with his band Manafest. But jamming out on stage as a Christian rock star isn't enough for this high achieving entrepreneur. In addition to selling a ton of records he has built an amazing online business. So amazing he currently makes $50k+ PER MONTH from all of his digital products. Here's his story. We have to start with the fact that Chris was a musician first, then became an online entrepreneur. Chris: I actually started as a network engineer before I even started my music career. Doing the 9-5 and driving an hour each way to work. I am still doing music full time, but I kind of got tired of constantly traveling. My streams had gotten big enough where I didn’t have to tour. Then I learned how to market my music online. This led to me creating courses to teach other musicians how to do the same. I started using Facebook ads and YouTube ads to sell my music with upsells on posters, T Shirts and other merchandise. When I would travel I would check out local thrift stores and look at books. I found a book called The Millionaire Messenger by Brendon Burchard for $0.50. This book taught me that I could teach what I know and get paid for it. This led to many more books that taught me all about marketing and selling my products. Jeff: Once I get ideas and start implementing I am looking for immediate success. But what usually happens is crickets. It takes time. But when you do get that first check no matter how small it is still exciting. So at what point did you feel like ‘oh wow, this is real?” Chris: I learned a lot from a lot of different sources, books, podcasts, etc. It did take some time to start implementing things. I remember creating my course and putting it up on Udemy. I didn’t make a lot of money in the beginning, but I was selling my course and making money. It took off from there. My wife is an artist and she teaches others artists how to sell and market their art. She also started with courses on Udemy and Skillshare. Her name is Melanie Greenwood and you can find here here: https://visioncity.biz/home18695682 We have so much more freedom now which allows us to spend time with our daughter. It’s not always easy, you have to work for it, but it is so worth it to push through. Jeff: What was the evolution of the things you offered and the ways that you were able to monetize the online business. Chris: When I took my course off of Udemy and started hosting on on my own platform, then I increased my prices and my value. Then I started getting around people that were doing similar things. I hired them to help me get to where they were. Get into that coaching program or mastermind. Shorten your learning journey. You will get there faster and avoid some of the mistakes. You can find Chris here: https://www.manafest.com/gohttps://smartmusicbusiness.teachable.com/  

Today we are going to talk about the best investment to build wealth and get you on your way to earning a six figure income. One of the most common questions I get is “Jeff what is the best investment for me, what is going to make me the largest return on my investment?” Most people are expecting me to give them a hot stock tip! When I tell them the best investment, in my opinion, I get a really strange look. Because this investment takes work. It takes some hustle, grit, and some personal investment. It puts you in a position where you may fail. So let’s find out what this invest is right now……. One of my favorite authors, Chris Guillebeau wrote this book Side Hustle - From Idea to Income in 27 Days. The side hustle is the best investment you can make. Why? It’s no surprise that less than 40% of Americans have $1,000 in their savings. We all know how much minimum wage is right now, we are just not making a lot of money. So how do we increase our income? We do that by starting a side hustle. That is how you get that income insurance or protection. In the book Chris refers to the side hustle as ‘it is more than just another stream of income, it’s the new job security.” Of all the things you can invest your money into, why would you chose a side hustle over stocks or mutual funds? It’s the benefits. Some of the benefits of starting a side hustle: low cost, minimum experience, you don’t need an MBA, no employees, no advanced skills. So what DO you need? You need an idea, time, and determination (grit). Starting a side hustle doesn’t bring in money overnight. You have to stick with it. You have to have the determination to push through the obstacles to get where you want to be. When I talk about a side hustle, I am not talking about UBER or a part time job. I am not talking about trading TIME for MONEY. Instead, we are building an asset that will potentially deliver passive income in the future. This is something where YOU are in charge. You are controlling how you want to do it, how hard you want to work at it, and when you want to do it. So you may be thinking ‘I have no ideas, what can I do” You have to take some time to think about some of the things that you can do. Take the time to sit down and brainstorm. If you are still having trouble check out Chris’s book or his Podcast - Side Hustle School. He interviews so many people that have started a side hustle and are making $500 to $1,000’s of dollars a month. Just to show you that no idea is too crazy, I pulled some from the book: One guy in the UK makes $700/month writing fish tank reviews, another is making a killing making saddles for pet chickens, another sold 75,000 unit of a homemade Gin kit. These people are making bank on a passion that they are interested in. These are just a few ideas to show you the possibilities. But what if you want to make six figures? Well I have some examples for that too! Jeff Jones was the drummer in a popular Christian band. He created a side hustle selling custom drumsticks. He started this side hustle with $600. He expanded to custom bats, coolbats.com. Evan Burse has been a cartoonist for as long as he can remember. This led to him getting a job with Marvel. He started a YouTube channel - the cartoon block - teaching people how to draw. This led to a membership site - Cartoon Block Academy - that has grown to a full-time gig. Chris Greenwood is a musician with a band Manifest. He learned how to use online marketing to sell his music. Now he teaches others, to the tune of a multiple six figure income. Holly Johnson, Clubthrifty.com, is a fellow blogger that started a side hustle of freelance writing. Now she makes over 6 figures a year writing articles, blog posts, and her course Earn More Writing. Michelle has a blog, Making Sense of Cents, and started writing on the side. Now it is her full time gig making $100-$150K/month. So, how do you get started? Take one of your ideas and make $100. Figure out a way to make $100 from this side hustle idea. I want you to know how it feels to implement it and make money from it (without scamming anyone). If you can push past that, you will be blown away. So what is your side hustle idea? If you are brave enough, share how much you made and how long it took you to make that first $100.

On this episode of the Music Industry Podcast, Rick interviews Chris Greenwood aka Manafest, music marketing genius and indie artist. Chris shares his successes as an artist and how his business - Smart Music Business - has helped other artists achieve the same level of success. Tune in to get the practical advice that will help you in the long run.   “A band got 10 million streams and the label gets all of that. I'm about to get 10 million and I get all of that.”-Chris Greenwood   What do you want to hear from the Music Industry Blueprint Podcast? Tell us here!   ***Want to be a guest on the Music Industry Blueprint Podcast?*** Send an email to podcast@musicindustryblueprint.com With the following information: Name, website, social handles, questions you would like to ask Rick and contact information   Time Stamps: 1:45 - Chris Greenwood and his career 6:53 - Putting old songs to work 8:48 - Why Chris felt it was important to spend money to get the audience 12:26 - Getting the audience to participate in a transaction with you 15:14 - How does Chris get the people to buy from him 18:53 - Chris' way of touring Resources: Manafest.com The Smart Music Business Podcast Manafest Facebook Campaign People mentioned: Gary Vee Connect with Chris Greenwood: Smartmusicbusiness.com YouTube - Smart Music Business YouTube - Manafest Connect with Rick: Facebook Instagram Youtube --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/music-industry-blueprint/message

On this episode of the Music Industry Podcast, Rick interviews Chris Greenwood aka Manafest, music marketing genius and indie artist. Chris shares his successes as an artist and how his business - Smart Music Business - has helped other artists achieve the same level of success. Tune in to get the practical advice that will help you in the long run.   “A band got 10 million streams and the label gets all of that. I'm about to get 10 million and I get all of that.”-Chris Greenwood   What do you want to hear from the Music Industry Blueprint Podcast? Tell us here!   ***Want to be a guest on the Music Industry Blueprint Podcast?*** Send an email to podcast@musicindustryblueprint.com With the following information: Name, website, social handles, questions you would like to ask Rick and contact information   Time Stamps: 1:45 - Chris Greenwood and his career 6:53 - Putting old songs to work 8:48 - Why Chris felt it was important to spend money to get the audience 12:26 - Getting the audience to participate in a transaction with you 15:14 - How does Chris get the people to buy from him 18:53 - Chris' way of touring Resources: Manafest.com The Smart Music Business Podcast Manafest Facebook Campaign People mentioned: Gary Vee Connect with Chris Greenwood: Smartmusicbusiness.com YouTube - Smart Music Business YouTube - Manafest Connect with Rick: Facebook Instagram Youtube --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/music-industry-blueprint/message

Within the music industry, Chris Greenwood aka Madera Verde has done a bunch. In our conversation at his house in South London Chris talks us through the journey his entrepreneurial spirit and passion for music has taken him on over the years; From humble teenage beginnings trying to sell soggy firewood with a mate in Barnes, to having a pretty sweet summer job in the States DJing in the Hamptons, to returning to London to run his own nightclubs, festivals and everything inbetween. His stories are enough to make you drip with envy and wish you were there with him - like those times he hung out with the Beastie Boys in New York, or when Bjork used to sing at the Giles Peterson & James Lavelle jam sessions he helped facilitate and Wesley Snipes dropped by Bar Rumba for a boogy- you know, the usual days at the office! We talk about his epic vinyl collection and where his collecting habit started - visiting vinyltheques in Brussels with his mum, and amongst many other things we cover the seemingly organic progression towards eventually running Shoreditch based nightclub Cargo for 10 years before being drafted in to co run The Big Chill festival for over 5 years too. You can now find him most days & nights  at Louie Louie, a hybrid cafe/bar/restaurant he co owns in the Walworth Road, SE17. It was a real pleasure to chat to Chris being a huge fan of his radio show and the music he champions (World music 2.0 if you were wondering!), so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and you take something away from the picture he paints of what it is like to be a part of the ever changing music industry. Want To Hear More of Chris? You can visit his new venue Louie Louie at 347 Walworth Road London SE17 2AL, listen to his monthly SOAS radio show here;(https://soasradio.org/music/podcasts/madera-verde-on-soas-radio), and his weekly radio show on MiSoul here: (http://mi-soul.com/madera-verde/). Chris' Mixcloud archive can also be listened to here: (https://www.mixcloud.com/bonanzamusic/) and I thoroughly recommend doing all of the above! 

Pastor Chris Greenwood brings us his testimony this week.

In this episode we talk Udemy v Premium courses, platforms, promotional material, marketing channels and so much more. There is plenty of opportunity to build a profitable and rewarding online course business. Today we look beyond the confines of Udemy and the options you have to host and promote your own courses.Creating premium courses over discount Udemy courses.The real money (and satisfaction) is in controlling the platform and the pricing for your course.There are many models available. You can restructure and remodel your course material to suit most budgets while still earning what the course is worth.Membership sites offering monthly instalments or a one off discounted annual fee is just an example.The Problem with UdemyMany instructors are leaving Udemy because of the constant rule changes. While Udemy will give you an audience, they also enforce very restrictive rules on your pricing and communication.The problem with platforms such as Udemy is that they make the rules and you never know what they are going to come up with next.I can guarantee that any changes they make will work in the favour of their bottom line as well as making courses more your valuable courses more available to bargain hunters, leaving your best interest the last consideration (if that is even considered at all)Restricting Yourself To Udemy Equals Losing MoneyRegardless of how much money the top instructors on Udemy are making, you can make substantially more by creating a premium course.If you want to learn more about creating premium courses, choosing the right hosting platform and the various ways to market and promote your course check out the Online Course Creation Summit - week two is about to start and access is currently free.Promoting your course.There are a number of option when it comes to promoting your course, both free and paid.Facebook and Facebook Ads. Video Facebook Ads work extremely well.YouTube, you can take single lessons from your courses and upload them to YouTube. Make the title and description keyword rich so it has a better chance to be found.Blab is a great way to get online and be discovered by people who are interested in the topics you teach.Emailing friends and family is always a great place to start.Podcasts are also an extremely effective way to reach and build an audience.Placing ads on related websites… (this is hot!)Affiliates… build an army of marketers to promote your course for you.When starting out just pick two channels to focus on and do them well. Trying to be all places at once will just become to stressful and you won't be able to focus your efforts.We cover a lot of tips and tricks in getting your YouTube videos ranked higher in search so make sure you listen to this interview, take notes and let us know what you think.To learn more about Chris please visit his websites -http://www.manafest.comhttp://www.smartmusicbusiness.comLooking for an amazing platform to host your courses? Claim your 14 day free trial to ClickFunnels today! This is the same platform that I use to create all my websites.If you have a question about any aspect of online course delivery, from concept to market, please feel free to send me an email at AskTim@EcourseDomination.com. I'd love to hear from you and your question could very well feature in a future podcast.I want to deliver relevant material so keep those emails rolling in.

In this episode we talk Udemy v Premium courses, platforms, promotional material, marketing channels and so much more. There is plenty of opportunity to build a profitable and rewarding online course business. Today we look beyond the confines of Udemy and the options you have to host and promote your own courses.Creating premium courses over discount Udemy courses.The real money (and satisfaction) is in controlling the platform and the pricing for your course.There are many models available. You can restructure and remodel your course material to suit most budgets while still earning what the course is worth.Membership sites offering monthly instalments or a one off discounted annual fee is just an example.The Problem with UdemyMany instructors are leaving Udemy because of the constant rule changes. While Udemy will give you an audience, they also enforce very restrictive rules on your pricing and communication.The problem with platforms such as Udemy is that they make the rules and you never know what they are going to come up with next.I can guarantee that any changes they make will work in the favour of their bottom line as well as making courses more your valuable courses more available to bargain hunters, leaving your best interest the last consideration (if that is even considered at all)Restricting Yourself To Udemy Equals Losing MoneyRegardless of how much money the top instructors on Udemy are making, you can make substantially more by creating a premium course.If you want to learn more about creating premium courses, choosing the right hosting platform and the various ways to market and promote your course check out the Online Course Creation Summit - week two is about to start and access is currently free.Promoting your course.There are a number of option when it comes to promoting your course, both free and paid.Facebook and Facebook Ads. Video Facebook Ads work extremely well.YouTube, you can take single lessons from your courses and upload them to YouTube. Make the title and description keyword rich so it has a better chance to be found.Blab is a great way to get online and be discovered by people who are interested in the topics you teach.Emailing friends and family is always a great place to start.Podcasts are also an extremely effective way to reach and build an audience.Placing ads on related websites… (this is hot!)Affiliates… build an army of marketers to promote your course for you.When starting out just pick two channels to focus on and do them well. Trying to be all places at once will just become to stressful and you won't be able to focus your efforts.We cover a lot of tips and tricks in getting your YouTube videos ranked higher in search so make sure you listen to this interview, take notes and let us know what you think.To learn more about Chris please visit his websites -http://www.manafest.comhttp://www.smartmusicbusiness.comLooking for an amazing platform to host your courses? Claim your 14 day free trial to ClickFunnels today! This is the same platform that I use to create all my websites.If you have a question about any aspect of online course delivery, from concept to market, please feel free to send me an email at AskTim@EcourseDomination.com. I'd love to hear from you and your question could very well feature in a future podcast.I want to deliver relevant material so keep those emails rolling in.

Dennis J. Smith and I talk with Chris Greenwood, a musician who profits $4,000 a month selling music online. Chris Scott Greenwood (born July 19, 1979), better known by his stage name Manafest, is a Canadian Christian rapper and rock artist from Pickering, Ontario. He has been nominated and won multiple awards for the GMA Canada […] The post Episode #11: This Musician Profits $4,000 A Month Selling Music Online appeared first on Skillhance.

Manafest blurs the boundaries between rap, hip-hop, rock, and pop. Manafest meets The Antidote for a frank conversation about the music business, going independent, and his upcoming album Reborn.

International rock artist Manafest (real name: Chris Greenwood) knows the saying well; his uphill climb began at age five when his father committed suicide. Years of childhood insecurity and fear gave way to a promising skateboarding career, but then an injury took that away, too. Music soon filled the void, and it would prove to be a perfect fit. Putting words to driving rhythms gave Chris a way to be a visible light.

Chris Greenwood aka "Manafest" joins Chris and Tim to chat about life in California, Writing and his new CD "The Moment"