Music Success in Nine Weeks

Updated: Wave 3 starts October 11, 2010

Any aspiring DIY Musician serious about their business needs to read on.

It’s a tall order, however, Ariel Publicity announced last week that they are launching a fresh new round of their nine week blog challenge for aspiring and established musicians.

The background to the challenge is to blog your progress over the full nine weeks with a 3-month Cyber PR headliner campaign (worth over £1000) being the grand prize to the artist who blogs all 9 weeks.

Another update: Bandzoogle will give you a premium website with hosting for 2 years and Airplay Direct will be offering a yearlong Pro account.

There are three reasons why you might want to seriously consider this blog opportunity, or at least grabbing yourself a copy of Ariel’s book “Music Success in Nine Weeks” and those are:

1. Goal setting is critical to any success in life. You need a heading on the horizon to have your game together.  By choosing to take on such a challenge you are making the next step towards personally committing to succeed.

2. The source is trusted.  I had the pleasure to witness Ariel in action at TAXI‘s songwriter’s road-rally in Los Angeles last November and I learned more in one hour than most musicians learn in a year.  I’m serious.  What there is to know about Social Networking will blow your mind.

Did you know My Space has over 5 million artists subscribed?  Only 1575 of those artists release albums that sell more than 50,000 copies.  Only 5945 (less than 2%) sell over 1000 albums.

3. It’s about success.  The Music Business today is about you owning your own business and business plan.  Don’t wait to get signed.  As the Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw once said,

“The people who succeed in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

You might want to consider this for a second.  There are 1.3 billion people with regular internet access in this world.  If you can attract 1% of 1% of 1% of them – that’s ten thousand fans.

A close friend and very talented singer/songwriter, Nikki Loy, has already snapped up the challenge on her own blog.  Check her out.

Good luck and join in the fun on twitter. If you’re already taking part or thinking of taking part let us know in the comments below.

Further Reading:

• Week 1
• Week 1 – My Goals
• Week 2
• Week 3
  
• Week 4
• Bandzoogle
• Nikki Loy