If you're like most independent artists, you're probably struggling with:
Growing a fan base, knowing what content to make to attract new fans, focusing on the right strategies to further your career, and getting your music in front of the right listeners...
In fact, let me know if this sounds like you:
But what if you could:
This is how we've helped artists go from just starting out and confused to turning down record deals and
selling out tours around the world...
In 2017, Ed Isola of The 502s was looking to launch his band's debut album and grow a fan base...
The only problem was he had no idea how to grow a fan base
He had tried things like running ads to Spotify, posting on social media, and trying to create content people would like...
But, he had trouble reaching and attracting new fans or even knowing what to focus on...
To make matters worse, he was starting to get overwhelmed as time management was becoming a problem...
So, when Ed saw an ad for our music marketing trainings, he didn't hesitate to try us out...
When Ed gained access to our library of music marketing trainings, he started tearing through the lessons and mapping out how he wanted to launch their new album, Because We Had To...
Within a month, he had put together a run of performance videos of the songs from the album using our Fan Finder Method training...
By the Summer, Ed has built a full album launch for the album using our How To Profit From A Launch training...
And, by the end of 2017, The 502s had generated their first million-view video with their debut single "What To Do"...
Overall, Ed was able to launch Because We Had To to a dedicated email list of over 1000 new fans around the world...
The best part?
He generated enough sales to cover the cost of marketing and even turn a profit!
Then, a European promoter saw The 502s Fan Finder campaign and invited them to play a festival in Germany...
So, the next year, The 502s toured Europe, playing whatever venues they could book across multiple countries and even playing in the homes of their new fans...
Flash forward to today - The 502s have:
And, Ed is making enough money from the band to focus on it full time...
But, this is only one of many success stories in our IndiePRO music marketing community...
Because almost the same exact thing happened with Ande Hunter of UK rock band As December Falls...
And with Quebec synthpop artist Caracol...
And with UK singer-songwriter RJ Thompson...
And with Australian alt rockers Cloning...
In fact, this story replays over and over again every year for artists in our community...
We've helped hundreds of artists make 6-figure annual revenue. Our agency has even helped some artists generate millions of dollars per year!
But, in working with 10,000+ indie artists over the last 5 years, we've noticed something important:
Artists that have the highest success rates are
absolutely laser-focused on execution...
Building campaigns...
Releasing music...
Crushing their marketing online from top to bottom, from ads and email marketing, to social media, sales offers, and beyond...
We've seen this success play out inside our community when...
The one key ingredient that has made
these artists so successful is implementation...
To succeed, you need to get things done in your music business...
So, we focus all of our effort on helping you learn, build, and launch campaigns that drive results and growth in your music business every single week:
As an IndiePro Member you will:
What Makes
Different?
Indepreneur teaches what actually works in music marketing so independent musicians can outperform industry marketers and managers.
We know exactly how difficult it is to balance creativity and business goals. We have helped thousands of Indies of all genre and audience size learn the most powerful marketing strategies and use them immediately to advance their music career.
Since the development of this music marketing framework, our staff has earned the trust of major independent artists and nationally touring acts as their digital marketing agency team, IndieX. The IndiePRO strategy library has allowed our team to dramatically increase the fan base and revenue of indie artists.
When it comes to building a fan base and succeeding with an artist brand, many artists follow the examples they get from the music industry. Indepreneur teaches what actually works in music marketing so independent musicians can outperform industry marketers and managers...
We know exactly how difficult it is to balance creativity and business goals. We have helped thousands of Indies of all genre and audience size learn the most powerful marketing strategies and use them immediately to advance their music career.
Since the development of this music marketing framework, our staff has earned the trust of major independent artists and nationally touring acts as their digital marketing agency team, IndieX. The IndiePro strategy library has allowed our team to dramatically increase the fan base and revenue of indie artists.
When you become an IndiePro member, you will:
- Learn the proven fan journey framework that will unlock your ability to turn strangers into supporting fans (and show you why most artists struggle to ever build a fan base).
- Simplify this formula into a set of automated campaigns that will create customers from fans, fans from listeners, and listeners from strangers.
- Use results-getting blueprints and playbooks to build a master-level music marketing system step-by-step faster than anyone else in the industry could.
Some say the music industry is 20 years behind in terms of marketing, sales, and growth. In a lot of ways, the industry is actually still at the starting line. When you apply real marketing strategies that have helped other industries grow bigger in less time, you'll be a mile ahead of the pack. Musicians that understand how to build and monetize an audience win in the music industry. Invest in IndiePro today.
Why? Because the only success to be had in the music industry is the kind that you build yourself - and we're here to help you do that.
What's Possible In IndiePro?
The 502s
One of the first students of Indepreneur trainings, Ed Isola, founded his band The 502s in 2017. Using great content, work ethic, killer songs, and IndiePro trainings and strategies, they went from 0 to 2,000,000 monthly listeners in under 5 years, charting on Billboard and playing sold-out tours across the nation.
Key Strategies:
Spotify Field Guide
Fan Finder Method
How To Profit From A Launch Campaign
As December Falls
After joining IndiePro in 2018, Ande Hunter of the UK rock band As December Falls dove head-first into our training vault. From 2018 on, ADF has sold out a new, bigger tour every year (except for 2021 when COVID shut them down and they created 10,000 customers for their debut album ). This year, ADF opened for Sum 41, Green Day, and Bowling for Soup on festival stages.
Key Strategies:
Selling Tickets for Live Shows
Messenger Marketing for Musicians
How To Profit From A Launch Campaign
Our Team Is Trusted By:
Turns Out... Marketing Works!
Whether you're just starting out or already have a fan base, we've been helping artists like you create drastic results in their music careers for over 5 years now. If you want to find a path you can follow to upgrade multiple levels in your fan base and business knowledge, this is it...
What Experts Are Saying
There is a lot of misinformation about the music industry out there. Indepreneur really understands how to grow an independent artist's business. They have great resources, and they don't hold anything back. I love working with them.
Damien Ritter
Music Entrepreneurs
Club, Beatstars
Lots of companies promise to help indie artists, but Indepreneur actually delivers. They are the best in the business - which is why I hire them over and over again for major and indie label artists. I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Bryan Calhoun
The Blueprint Group,
Music Business Tooolbox
My ability to maximize income from online sales and digital marketing has grown several multiples as a result of taking in their courses and podcast, as well as from working with their agency with clients of mine.
Kyle Kraft
Battle Axe Music
There is a lot of misinformation about the music industry out there. Indepreneur really understands how to grow an independent artist's business. They have great resources, and they don't hold anything back. I love working with them.
Damien Ritter
Beatstars, M.E.C.
Lots of companies promise to help indie artists, but Indepreneur actually delivers. They are the best in the business - which is why I hire them over and over again for major and indie label artists. I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Bryan Calhoun
The Blueprint Group
My ability to maximize income from online sales and digital marketing has grown several multiples as a result of taking in their courses and podcast, as well as from working with their agency with clients of mine.
Kyle Kraft
Battle Axe Music
Your IndiePro Journey
Here is what your next few months looks like inside the IndiePro community:
Trainings For Every Artist Marketing Skill & Campaign
As an IndiePro member, you'll get instant, on-demand access to our entire library of step-by-step Campaign Guides. Whether you need to grow a fan base overall, build an audience on a specific platform, build an email or text list, or get your fans to buy tickets and merch - these instructional guides are battle tested and have been used to drive success for artists of every genre and size.
Fan Finder Method
Normally $135 Standalone
If you don’t have a large fan base or a way to grow your fan base consistently, learn how to set up Fan Finder ads that get you new fans daily…
Spotify Field Guide
Normally $125 Standalone
If you want to grow your Spotify listeners and streams consistently, take this training to learn how the Spotify recommendation engine works and train it in your favor…
How To Profit From A Launch Campaign
Normally $145 Standalone
If you’ve got a fan base and new products or music to launch, use this advanced launch strategy to generate fans, subscribers, customers, and repeat customers in one campaign…
How To Create Your Brand
Normally $135 Standalone
If you’re just starting out and don’t have a brand or if you want to update your brand, use this training to get a killer brand established…
Email Marketing for Musicians
Normally $135 Standalone
If you have a consistently growing fan base, use this training to set up an email list with automation that nurtures and offers to your fans as your list grows…
Promote & Communicate with Video
Normally $135 Standalone
Want to make video a big part of your content and online presence? Learn shooting, editing, and preparing content from our go-to video wizard…
The Buddy System
Normally $65 Standalone
This training covers our overall marketing framework - it will help you understand what stage of development you’re at and what to focus on next…
FREE + S&H Funnel Strategy
Normally $135 Standalone
If you have merch inventory and email subscribers who haven’t become customers yet, this training will allow you to create an avalanche of new customers with a can’t-resist offer…
Selling Tickets for Live Shows
Normally $115 Standalone
If you have shows or a tour coming up and want to pack it with live attendees, use this training to deploy our battle-tested ticket marketing strategies…
How To Generate Sales Year-Round
Normally $135 Standalone
If you’ve already run sales campaigns and have a growing customer/email list, use this training to automate your sales promotions and grow customers and revenue year-round…
Ones and Zeros 101
Normally $65 Standalone
If you have an artist website or online store and are using ads, emails, or text to send people to it, this training will get your tracking set up…
Make Merch That Fans Want
Normally $125 Standalone
If you have a fan base to sell products to and need to make killer merch, learn how to create merch your fans will love and make-it-yourself or hire the perfect vendor…
How To Turn Listeners Into Real Fans
Normally $115 Standalone
If you’ve started building your fan base and getting fans consistently, use this training to learn Education processes that will help you turn new listeners into real, engaged fans…
Fan Page Optimization
Normally $45 Standalone
If your social media pages are all over the place, use this training to get consistent branding and a professional look to your online presence…
Grow Your Permission List
Normally $115 Standalone
If you’re trying to grow your email or text list, use this training to create several can’t-resist sign-up offers and automations that convince fans to sign up…
Messenger Marketing w/ Music
Normally $115 Standalone
If you’d like to engage your fans in Facebook Messenger or Instagram DMs, use this training to learn about the ManyChat chatbot tool and add a new dimension to your fan communication…
How To Run Your Music Business
Exclusive To IndiePRO
Overwhelmed with tasks? Indepreneur is a small team that gets a lot done - learn how we manage dozens of projects every month!
Content Blitz Blueprint
Normally $95 Standalone
If you have a growing fan base but they don’t stick around very long or engage on social, learn how to start a recurring content series that gives them something to show up for every week…
The $1-A-Day Traffic Plan
Normally $65 Standalone
If you are generating fans and followers but want a way to automatically engage and nurture them on social, use this $1-A-Day engagement strategy…
Build The Perfect Artist Website
Exclusive to IndiePRO
If you feel your website doesn’t look or perform great for your fan base or if you haven’t built your artist website yet, use this training to design and optimize the Perfect Artist Website!
Run A Successful Crowdfund
Normally $145 Standalone
This training, originally created by Ian Anderson, has helped hundreds of indie artists raise successful crowdfunds. If you’d like to raise 4-5 figures to fund your next big project, this training will show you how!
Build Campaigns & Systems Every Month With Expert Help
Each month, we'll be leading a live, hands-on workshop for our IndiePro members that helps you install a new system, strategy, campaign, or process in your music career. When you attend these monthly workshops, you're gauranteed to take massive action that levels up your music marketing.
Plus, you'll get access to all past workshop replays:
The Basics of Marketing: WTF does ___ mean?
Normally $95 Standalone
This workshop will help you get the basics of music marketing down so you can actually drink from the fire hose of knowledge and not get knocked out.
The Only Meta Ads Campaign You'll Ever Need
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn a simple ad campaign blueprint that you can use to simplify and improve your entire ads strategy! The one campaign to rule them all...
Fan Funded Growth System
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn how to unify your marketing efforts into a simple revenue-focused system. Discover confidence in making all of your marketing skills work together and in their highest possible efficiency!
I spent 2k on Spotify Ads so YOU Don't have to!
Normally $95 Standalone
Build out the best performing ad campaigns, learn how to track results, and get those algorithmic playlists going.
How to Dominate Social Content
Normally $95 Standalone
Set up a process for generating high-performing content ideas, creating a month of daily content posts in a single day, and finally getting consistent organic growth from social media!
BONUS: Taxes for the Self-Employed Musician
Normally $95 Standalone
In this exclusive one hour class just for IndiePro members, I'll clear away some of the fog and give you a clearer understanding of how taxes work for the self-employed musician.
Fan Finder Best Practices for 2024
Normally $95 Standalone
Refine your strategy for finding new fans so you can spend less time and energy in Ads Manager and more time and energy creating music and amazing videos!
Boosting Strategies to Supercharge Your Existing Fanbase
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn how to be totally certain you're reaching as many fans as possible every single time you post - stop throwing shots in the dark!
Monitoring Ads: Is the House on Fire or am I Crushing it!?
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn how to properly track your results in Meta Ads Manager. You'll discover how to spot the leaks in your funnels and how to fix them so you stop wasting money on poorly performing ads!
Cultivating Your Mindset for Music Marketing Success
Normally $95 Standalone
Get your freaking mind right! This workshop will help you understand how your mindset affects the success of your marketing efforts.
Why You Need Great Content (And How To Make It)
Normally $95 Standalone
Get a solid definition for content and the role of content in your marketing. Learn to create content, simplify your systems, and actually enjoy the process!
Funnels: How To Achieve Any Music Career Objective
Normally $95 Standalone
We believe that funnels may just be the most basic, fundamental tool for improvement in your music career. Let us show you why and how to use them...
Getting Ready For Growth & Profit
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn how to prepare for selling music and merchandise to cold audiences - complete strangers - so that you can scale your career beyond the limits of your organic reach!
How To Know Where & When To Tour
Normally $95 Standalone
Plug and play this surefire research process that will not only tell you if you can and should tour, but also, exactly when and where to tour based on your existing fan base!
How To Grow Your Career Without A Team
Normally $95 Standalone
In this Activation Workshop, DUX breaks down how he went from not knowing how to market his music to handling every aspect of his indie career by himself!
Making More Money From Your Store
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn how to set up checkout funnels that multiply your revenue from every checkout on your online store. Start generating higher lifetime value from your fans today!
Selling Music To Strangers
Normally $95 Standalone
Set up campaigns and emails to sell your products to people who have never heard of your music before (and even have them coming back to buy more a week later!)
How To Grow Instagram & Spotify
Normally $95 Standalone
How to optimize Instagram Reels for a single, simple ad campaign that will grow your Spotify and Instagram at the same time!
How To Sell More Merch & Music With Email
Normally $95 Standalone
Set up automated emails that harvest more sales and revenue from what you're already doing, without having to add more work and stress to your weekly schedule!
How To Build Merch Pages That Sell
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn how to write copy, create offers, and build sales pages that make fans want to buy your products!
How To Run A Black Friday Sale
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn the step-by-step process for creating and running a sales promo that generates a windfall of new sales and customers!
From Nothing To Something: How The 502's Made It Themselves
Normally $95 Standalone
They decided to "buy into" The Buddy System and Indepreneur, and have grown from 0 to millions of fans, sold out shows, and turning down record label offers!
Crafting Killer Content & Building Your Education Bridge
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn how to create engaging, fan-forward content that grabs your casual listeners and pulls them into a fan-artist relationship
6-Step Branding Tune-Up
Normally $95 Standalone
This is a crash course that will teach you the basics of logo design, brand voice, usage guidelines, and everything in between.
Merchandise for Grassroots Artists
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn cost effective, low risk strategies for creating the exact merchandise your fanbase wants from you! Even for small audience sizes and small budgets.
How To Make Video Ads That Don't Suck
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn how to create video ads from ideation to scripting, shooting, and editing - plus, common video mistakes to avoid and how to grab attention with a pattern-interrupt.
Blockchain, Web3, and the Indie Escape Hatch
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn about the fundamental changes coming to the music industry, fan base growth, and music monetization (courtesy of Web3 technologies!)
Show Promo & Tour Booking (for Dummies)
Normally $95 Standalone
We'll give you everything you need from examples of press kits that you can send to venues, advance sheets, all the way up to the funnels and ads used in selling tickets!
The State of Paid Advertising for Music in 2022
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn how advertising has changed in the past year, as well as what's working today for growing your fanbase with paid traffic!
Project Management In Your Music Business
Normally $95 Standalone
Learn effective strategies to ideate, plan, and deliver quality work week after week. If you've been feeling overwhelmed, this workshop is for you!
Members-Only Discounts That Save You More Than You Pay
As one of the fastest-growing brands in the entertainment industry, we have the opportunity to speak with top-rated vendors, software providers, and technicians that help musicians accomplish more. Instead of taking an affiliate commission for promoting their products, we reach out to the best providers and pass the savings along to you as an exclusive discount.
Mixing, Mastering, and Production
As part of your IndiePro membership, you have access to discounted industry-level mixing and mastering from a wide range of engineers. We seek out the very best mixing engineers from our network and negotiate discounts that save you time and money over a traditional studio.
Atomic Disc
Atomic Disc is a boutique CD, Vinyl, and DVD manufacturing company located just south of Portland, Oregon, with over 3,600 5-star reviews from happy customers. Owned and run by musicians since 1993 they’ve been recording, mixing, mastering, and manufacturing for indie artists all over the globe. As an IndiePro member, you can save 25% on CDs in Atomic eco-packs™, Jackets or Wallet Lites™.
TuneSpeak
TuneSpeak helps artists reward their most passionate fans by running viral contests. TuneSpeak campaigns, which feature dedicated support and management of Facebook and Instagram Ads, help artists boost revenues and increase their fan bases. As an IndiePro member, you can save 20%!
XLN Audio Plugins
Co-owned by Max Martin, XLN Audio makes the award winning virtual instruments Addictive Drums and Addictive Keys, each with a growing library of expansion products covering every musical need from the smoothest jazz to the hardest metal. XLN Audio's products are the go-to tools for both today's biggest producers and home users just starting out. Save 30% on XLN plugins with your membership!
...and dozens more plus new deals every quarter!
PLUS: Access To Expert Strategists
To Answer Your Questions 24/7
As an IndiePRO member, you can ask any question from right inside your training area and get a dedicated video response from a music marketing strategist in our agency. This feature makes sure you're only a few clicks away from the best answer to your exact question from someone who markets artists for a living!
Here's just a few of the dozens of questions we've answered in the last few months:
Question:
What should my single release timeline look like?
Answered by Joe Capati
Agency Strategist, The 502s
Question:
How do I connect my audience growth to making money?
Answered by Jesse Gillenwalters
Agency Strategist, Basic Printer
Question:
How can I use our testimonials from customers in our ad campaigns?
Answered by Circa
Founder & CEO, SOMEKIDPUNK
Question:
How do I create a trigger link in Drip to automatically segment those who click?
Answered by Ande Hunter
Agency Strategist, As December Falls
Question:
Should I structure my music business differently?
Answered by Ande Hunter
Agency Strategist, As December Falls
What's My Investment?
How much is stagnation in your music career costing you? How many more singles and albums are you able to release without making an impact? How many lifelong fans have never heard of you because you can't get your music out there? Are you finding fans on a daily basis and making regular sales? Not knowing how to grow your music career may already be costing you a lot.
How much is stagnation in your music career costing you? How many more singles and albums are you able to release without making an impact? How many lifelong fans have never heard of you because you can't get your music out there? Are you finding fans on a daily basis and making regular sales? Not learning the right strategies may already be costing you a great deal.
IndiePro Membership Comes With:
20 plug-and-play music business & marketing strategies
(comprehensive step-by-step training courses)
[$2,160 VALUE]
Access to "Ask An Expert" hands-on guidance
(agency experts answer your questions every week)
[$4,740/yr. VALUE]
Library of time-saving templates & worksheets
[$495 VALUE]
Bi-weekly live workshops and trainings
[$2,340/yr. VALUE]
IndieDEALS Exclusive Partner Discounts
(save on mixing, mastering, production, distribution, software, and services)
[$2,820+ SAVINGS]
Access to private mastermind group
(artists, entrepreneurs, managers, bloggers, bookers)
[PRICELESS]
Total Value:
$7815
What You Save
The IndiePro membership gives you access to over $7000 in training, one-on-one help and strategy, with new trainings released or updated every quarter and members-only live trainings and workshops.
You also get access to members-only discounts with mixing, mastering, software and distribution partners.
Save money while growing and monetizing your fan base.
IndiePro
All of the above for just...
$55/mo
IndiePro+
Join our all new IndieCRM software platform and replace your email/text marketing, funnel building, website, and contact management software - get IndiePro for FREE!
$970/yr.