TEM Extra: Episode 13 (Bonus Episode with Ari Herstand)

Episode 13 of TEM Extra is a bonus episode with Ari Herstand and is available exclusively to supporters of The Entrepreneurial Musician. Become one today!

On Today’s TEM Extra:

• Ari on what gave him the courage to finally ditch his job at Starbucks to make a go as a full-time musician

• The advice Ari would give to himself if he could travel back to 2009 (his answer might surprise you!)

Love this fire quote from Ari from this bonus episode:

“People don’t have time for mediocrity any more. You have to set yourself above the fray and above the noise.”

—Ari Herstand

Don’t miss Ari in TEM197!

TEM197: The democratization of the new music business and polite persistence - A conversation with Ari Herstand

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TEM198: 40,000 songs a day (TEM Short)

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TEM198: 40,000 songs a day (TEM Short)

Some quick thoughts on a stunning statistic.

On Today's Episode of The Entrepreneurial Musician:

• The insane statistic that Ari Herstand shared in TEM197

• What this statistic means for all of us

• Once we make amazing the work is not done

• A quote from the future!

Links:

• TEM197: Ari Herstand

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And finally, a huge thank you to Parker Mouthpieces for providing the hosting for TEM.

Produced by Andrew Hitz

Show notes for all episodes of TEM including topics discussed, links to all books and websites referenced can be found at:

http://www.andrewhitz.com/shownotes

TEM197: The democratization of the new music business and polite persistence - A conversation with Ari Herstand

Listen via:

Apple Podcasts
Spotify
SoundCloud
Stitcher

TEM197: The democratization of the new music business and polite persistence - A conversation with Ari Herstand

Ari Herstand is a musician in Los Angeles and the author of How to Make It in the New Music Business.

On Today's Episode of The Entrepreneurial Musician:

• The swell of "middle class" musicians in the new music business

• Vulfpeck has no label and no manager and yet just sold out Madison Square Garden

• The old music business had one way to succeed - the new music business has 100 ways you can make a career happen

• The most important thing any musician can do according to Ari

• Why you can't have a Plan B

• The democratization of the music business and the ability of any artist to reach an audience without being granted permission first by a gatekeeper

• Polite persistence

• Ari's very specific advice on writing a great pitch email

Links:

• Ari's book How to Make It in the New Music Business

• Ari's Take

Want to help the show? Here's a couple of ways you can do that!

1. Hear an extra TEM episode every single week while helping me get to my next goal of $100 per episode on Patreon by becoming a patron today: https://www.patreon.com/tempodcast

2. My next Apple Podcasts goal is 150 ratings and 75 reviews. Take just a minute to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts to help me get there. Thank you!

And finally, a huge thank you to Parker Mouthpieces for providing the hosting for TEM.

Produced by Andrew Hitz

Show notes for all episodes of TEM including topics discussed, links to all books and websites referenced can be found at:

http://www.andrewhitz.com/shownotes

Tweet of the Week: @ArisTake

I made a promise to myself when I was young. The only life scenario I was not going to be okay with was this:

Sitting in a rocking chair at my family summer house as a 75-year-old not having “made it” in music and knowing in the pit of my stomach that I didn’t do absolutely everything within my power to succeed.

There is so much out of your control when it comes to making a living in music. Some of us have a longer runway to play with before having to pay our bills with music. Others have very serious situations come up early in life that take away from their ability to devote large amounts of time to a career in music.

But acknowledging all of that, I knew that I was going to empty the tank in an effort to make music be the way I earned a living.

I don’t think having a long-term backup plan in place before I even started would not have served me well.

This does not mean not having a plan in place to immediately satisfy your ongoing need to live indoors and eat food. This means not being all in on pursuing a career in music before deciding it isn’t going to work for you.

And as a quick side note, deciding it isn’t going to work for you is not failure. Our goals can and do change. Life changes. Our calling changes. Change is natural and good. To arbitrarily decide that a goal we set at one point in time is the definitive word on the subject for the rest of our lives is not helpful to anyone!

Your mileage may vary. All I know is I was served well by not having a backup plan!