We finally got the OG Busy Works Beats on the Morning Show for an interview with Dylan as well as Live Q&A with the community. Busy Works Beats has over 700K subscribers on his Youtube channel as well as over 100M views and over 3000 videos on music production tutorials, mixing & mastering tutorials, music business advice, music producer psychology & philosophy, and more. In this episode we talked about music producer ownership & entrepreneurship, how to grow a bigger audience, and Busy Works Beats’ come up story going from a premed college student with a broken laptop to owning multiple businesses and working with multimillion dollar brands & companies.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:51: Episode Overview: Busy Works Beats
05:50 Busy Works Beats joins the stream
07:24 What Busy Works would do if he was just starting out from scratch: Importance of having haters, having faith as a producer, living in truth, finding an audience of commonality
25:42 Greatest books Busy Works has read: The Basic Study Manual, The Science of Thought, Factors
40:29 Busy Works Beats: Funnels conversation
50:33 Busy Works Beats: Experience on working with artists, selling bundles, thinking bigger by chasing brands instead of placements, thinking about the bigger picture
01:12:08 Busy Works Beats: The economic hitman concept, business intentions, producer ownership
01:47:00 Busy Works Beats: Why Native Instruments laid off 1/3 of their workers
02:01:06 Busy Works Beats shares his foundations as a person
02:02:35 Busy Works Beats Shares his come up story: Starting out as a rapper, going to school for biology and wanting to be a doctor, starting a pre med club while in college to create opportunities for interns, finding out he is an entrepreneur while in college, back being against the wall and going all in on YouTube
02:12:54 Dylan shares his back against the wall moment, Busy Works Beats starting at the bottom and making beats from a broken laptop
02:17:31 The most powerful tool a piece of paper and a pen, deciding at some point of time to go all in
02:21:58: Quote for the people form Busy Works Beats: “Every tree comes from a seed but every seed doesn’t turn into a tree”
02:24:01 Q&A with Jay Netic
02:32:21 Q&A with El Segundo: How to add more value to clients who come to your studio, incentivizing people without money
02:45:43 Q&A with Ben: Royalty free business model
03:00:41 Q&A with Alec: Best way to market yourself and brand yourself
03:08:12 Episode Outro: Homework for everybody from Busy Works Beats
