Lauren Pierce — Blog — The Entrepreneurial Musician

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TEM68: Start small but start now

Topics Covered:

You don't need to go to school for four years to learn marketing - you have to market stuff
Don't wait for things to be perfect - you have to start somewhere
Don't talk about things instead of doing them
The importance of networking a lot so you can get good at it
Market for a small charity as practice
How soon can you start

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TEM57: Lauren Pierce on building a popular YouTube channel, knowing when to quit and teaching herself how to code

Lauren Pierce is a professional bass player, teacher and entrepreneur.

Topics Covered:

How she went from only being accepted to one music school to being a professional bass player
Why she changed course multiple times before she even finished school
How isolation after school and a lack of anyone to perform for inspired her to start her incredibly popular YouTube Channel
How she always jumps in head first whenever she tackles any new project
What she learned by having a less-than-ideal first video shoot
How she went from being terrified of video editing to loving it
How you don't know what you don't know when you are first embarking on a new task
How her online content directly led to her getting an agent
How she built her Skype lesson studio
What went into deciding to go with a membership-based model for online lessons
Why she joined Codecademy and learned how to code
Being willing to email Wordpress support 10x a day until she understood everything
How all failures are a learning opportunity
When to quit and when not to quit
How she prioritizes things

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Favorite Quote:

"The work never stops. You just get better at opening those doors."

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