How To Build Your Music Brand In Under 14 Minutes (Stop Complicating!)

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Today, we’re going to break to give you music branding tips that you can ACTUALLY do right NOW…
…As opposed most of the music branding tips on the Internet which are just “find yourself” or “communicate with your audience”…
Which is all TRUE but unless you are a Zen monk or a Jedi Knight from Star Wars…
Finding yourself isn’t going to ACTUALLY produce tangible results when it comes to gaining fans this week, this month, or even this YEAR.
“Finding yourself”, much like “finding your purpose” is a lifelong journey that goes through periods.
Building a BRAND… Shouldn’t take THAT long. What’s more important is the actual MUSIC.
Let’s give you some tangible music branding ideas that you can use TODAY.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: rapgamenow.com/music-branding...
Easy Definition of A Music Brand
The easiest way to define a music brand is simply how your marketing makes people feel.
And just like the fact certain words, images, and colors, change the way people “feel” when watching a movie…
…The same goes for music marketing. We’ll get into this more in this article.
Music Branding: Logos, Fonts, Cover Art
Logos… we’ll explain where to find the best logos on the cheap (fiverr.com, freelancer.com, and upwork.com)
Which type of font you need to please your audience (“sans serif” font)
…And how to hire somebody to do cover art!
Music Branding: Color Schemes
Color schemes are actually easier than you expect… at least in finding one that will DO for now, and how to replicate it across websites and other marketing materials…
The key here is to be familiar with hex codes, which we’ll explain in full here.
Music Branding: Grammar, How You Write, etc.
The last somewhat unexpected but NEEDED branding trick is being aware of how you write, how you spell online, etc. to help you be consistent in your work. We’ll give you tricks like temi.com and the app “Otter” to help along with this.

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Which music branding tip do you need to develop the most?

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Developing a mental state of "sucessfull music" after years of successless releases.

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having an OF

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Cheers

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Really great info and tips! I guess the trouble is for some people..(ahem, like me) that we aren't sure quite what feeling we are trying to evoke in viewers / listeners with our branding... I guess that's where the "finding yourself" element comes in. Like how do you market yourself if you don't know what exactly you are trying to say with your music and art? Or am I over analysing? 😜

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i’m not very popular in my town but i know that really doesn’t matter truly it does to a certain extent but sometimes true talent can actually propel you, i have the talent but branding wise it’s bleak for me, i know i’m an amazing versatile writer, just need my opportunity so i’m taking on the role as the artist to get my name and work out there

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[@sinamokhtarzada8810]

Hello Drew, i wanted to ask do i NEED a logo? Is it absolutely necessary for branding? Because i cant find any place to fit my logo into... My social media pages profile picture shouldn't there be my picture for example? Where would i even put the logo? I tried looking for some major or even not so major artists using logos but they all used professional pictures as their profile pic for everything... I wonder should i post a professional picture or a logo as profile pics. Or can i have both somehow and if so where should i fit them? Thank you

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True

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Do u think just having a picture would work ??

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May be a stupid question here but does the cover art on my music need to match my brand colors?

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I brand is WAYYYYYYY MORE THEN JUST A LOGO AND COLORS. BRO

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Thats mad, I live next to the man city stadium

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Online Branding: 1. Logos - Fiverr, Freelance, Upwork 2. Font - Sans Serif (Canva) 3. Color Schemes - "Hex Codes" 4. Grammar - Choose your wording (Otter, Temi)

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I have some videos on this topic if anyone needs more info/help :)

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Rapper names are the LEAST of your problems... just pick one and move on...

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As you said.. too move back too the music, but great! A lot of rappers haven't any or very little visual art notions/big interest, imagination and/or talent and are not really intersted about the visual way to express their.. unikness, what defines them. Not willing to be rude or what at all, just saying because all this is really unpersonnal and personnaly, loving visual art since and doing it since before music I need to create all this by my own.

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Thanks most people talking about how to brand yourself dont even bother how to tell you how to brand yourself. Most dont even bother telling you what it even is. They sound more like gurus lol

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If I make my own graphics and what not, are these tools something I should still look into? My profile pic is an example, just the first thing I made to post with my music on SoundCloud.

[@HowToRapOfficial]

Better to get a professional to do it

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Or just start drawing, just a bit in you're free time, learn a bit of basics easily with good yt channels, what I mean is your profile pic is very simple, even me who's very beginner in visual art can make way better ;)

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What am I supposed to do with my logo?

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❤

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EARLY!

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Branding isn't that hard to learn, but it is the most important thing as a music artist 🧢

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Hmm coaching this year at least

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Oasis

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