The Make Music Income Podcast

Nov 04 2024 133 ep. 58 mins 14
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In this weekly podcast, composer, producer, and educator Eric Copeland of Make Music Income talks about his continuing journey to Make Music Income with Sync Licensing, Stock Music Licensing, Artist Income, Online Channel Income, Music Publishing, Music Teaching, and Music Production for clients. Co-host Steven Beddall of the Production Music Academy also joins Eric in many episodes, as well as Dave Kropf and many others. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makemusicincome/support

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EP112. A Bewitching Sync Licensing Talk with Sonnet Simmons of 2Indie | Exclusivity, Sync Agents, Pitching

Nov 04 2024 73 mins  
Sell Your Music Direct to Non-Exclusive Libraries: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH For this episode airing on Halloween, we have some very scaaaary sync licensing stories that may or may not have been told by a witch. Ok, so that’s not exactly true. They aren’t scary stories and aren’t told by a witch…or

EP119. Cassettes & Regrets for Such a Time as This | Plus Some Music Industry News Concerning Identifyy

Oct 28 2024 53 mins  
Do you ever feel like you just made the wrong decisions in your music life through the years that have left you in a place now where you can’t succeed in music the way you want to? Today, I look back at my old music life, when I was taping and scraping by, and generally not in a successful place and thought I might never get to a place where I am now - almost completely living m

EP118. Stock, Sync, Spotify, Sheet Music, Content ID? Strategies to Do it All Together!

Oct 21 2024 46 mins  
Upload Your Music Direct to POND5 and More Non-Exclusive Libraries: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH Just about every week, just about every video I put up, I get the same question in the chat, in the comments, in email… Can I put the songs I have on Pond5, or any other non-exclusive library on Spotify? Can I pu

EP117. Start with Pond5 - Revisited! Pond5 Review and Online Course on Best Practices in 2025!

Oct 14 2024 58 mins  
Upload Your Music Direct to POND5 and More Non-Exclusive Libraries: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH In this video, I want to revisit this video I made 3 years ago or so, as well as show you a little from the Stock Market course where I go over Pond5, how to become an author, and then update at the end with a little

EP116. Pond5 Pays Out BIG With A.I. DataSet Earnings! How Much and Why? Music Income SCIENCE!

Oct 07 2024 52 mins  
Upload Your Music Direct to Non-Exclusive Libraries: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH I’m not going to bury the lead here: yesterday myself and likely hundreds if not thousands of music creators checked our Pond5 accounts and saw a HUGE deposit called Dataset Earnings. The Make Music Income Discord blew up with p

EP115. Networking to Sync and More! With Marcus Manderson | PMC, Music Summit, Sync Pitches

Sep 30 2024 62 mins  
So how do you Make Music Income? Well, you have to start by making music, and that will be part of today’s video. But you also have to get out there, get in touch with people, and get into things. Today’s guest is Marcus “Da Fingaz” Manderson! Get in touch and Follow him at: LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dafingaz/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/dafingaz/ YO

EP114. Sync & Stock: It's All Music Licensing | Why You Should Do Both in 2024/2025

Sep 23 2024 41 mins  
So there’s lots of ways you can license your music. On this channel we talk a lot about sync licensing to TV, film, advertising, and gaming, and micro-sync or stock (micro-sync is the cool word for it now wink) for YouTube, presentations and other uses. Now, many people think of being on TV and Film and Ads as more prestigious and bigger money, and I would say it is. It’s wher

EP113. $2,000+ in PRO Sync Income...from STOCK?? What the What?

Sep 16 2024 49 mins  
So with this last BMI check, like we all do, I was hoping for a higher check than the last. You know, to show that things are progressing with my sync career. Well, I looked at my business account and lo and behold it was $2600 HIGHER than it should have been. Checking the register I saw not one, but TWO checks for over $1000! What the what? — THE STOCK MARKET COURSE! Find

EP112. A Change in Focus | How to Solve Music Life Problems

Sep 09 2024 58 mins  
Almost everyone has some really good things going on. Sometimes TOO MANY good things. And it's easy to get lost in that. I've experienced this myself lately…and here's what I've had to do about it. Need someone to talk to about this? Email me at [email protected] -- ONE-ON-ONE COACHING FOR COMPOSERS AND PRODUCERS:Eric has been helping artists and song

EP111. Getting Music Placements with Michèle Vice-Maslin | LA Veteran Sync Producer, Songwriter

Aug 05 2024 50 mins  
In this video we speak with Michèle Vice-Maslin, a longtime veteran in the LA Sync Industry or as she calls it "Music Placements." She is an Emmy Winning, #1 hit music producer/Music Arranger/Songwriter, Music Publisher who composes (both music & lyrics) and produces-arrangers for artists/films/television/ads/ promos/ games, etc. She has had numerous hit songs and cu