Getting Closer To Catching Riley

*Sigh*. No, I'm not yet close to getting my music out yet, but a way to become financially independent is. Well, one good thing is that I do have a publishing contract for a series. My first book will be out in October. Instead of endlessly searching for things to do to make money, I have focused on three things:

• Writing(my publisher+ Kindle, Smashwords and other websites like them)
• Teaching(online)
• Crowdfunding

 So, I am hoping by the end of next month to be debt free, and therefore able to purchase the software and equipment I need to get my music online and heard by millions of people. So, you will hear from me once more this month, and will hear the final verdict next month. Will I have caught Riley? Will I finally be able to just wake up every day and work at home? Stay tuned and find out....

Christmas Music

Be looking out for a couple of Christmas Mp3's
that we're going to have out. Still working on
various projects and striving to live the Life of
Riley online.

I have a publisher, so that's one good thing.
My first book will be published in February 2012.
Still, gotta take care of the here and now. So I
will do my best to have at least one post a month
until things are the way I want them to be.

It's Only The Beginning....

O.K., last week we put our first ringtone up on a website. Yay!
Right now that same ringtone is on three websites, and submitted
to a third. I'll say where, when we have put together a promotional
plan, so you can finally hear, what we, DNJR are doing and tell
your friends. Gotta go, more next week.

Music Promotion

Every week I'll be listing websites that can
help you promote and sell your music. This is
a four day Internet course I found so you can get
your own Internet radio station started.


http://radio.about.com/c/ec/13.htm

It might be hard(most likely) to get played on
the major stations. So why not create your own
and play your music on it? Once my music
group is heard, I know I'll be doing the same
thing.

Latest News

Musically, we have come to a solution
but we need cash to buy what we need-
which is software.
We still have not found that memory card
for MTV MG.
Presently, we are planning to sell an ebook
this coming Friday which I hope will result
in the sales that we need, which will finally
get us out of this financial funk we've been
in for years. We'll be using the....
Amazon Best Seller Strategy

Even better is that we have found information
online a couple of years ago that helps you
sell products(books, mainly)without having
to do the typical domain name, hosting, website
building, buying traffic, etc. But, these people
who were teaching the course or having a seminar
charged thousands of dollars for this information.

I didn't have it. But now I do. How?
Someone else teaches the same thing, but HE put it
into a book that was affordable to buy!!!
Get this, he had a PDF version of one book, and I
was able to buy it through Paypal using
Associated Content money, so it was like getting
thousands of dollars for free! What did it cost?
$5.95!!!

So, before the end of the month, I'll let you know
how the 'Amazon Best Seller Strategy' goes. Next month,
I'll be giving you music news.

Blast It All!!!

We have so much music, copyrighted,
and more yet to be, but for the life
of me, I cannot figure out how to
connect MTV Music Generator to
the computer. I've been searching
for articles frantically online, and it's
definitely confusing, as one person
says how difficult it is, another that
there is a way to do it. It doesn't help
that my television is an old model and
it doesn't include hookups for the red
and white connectors.

UGGHHH!

As for my other iron in the fire, writing is going
well. I've completed six manuscripts. Two of
them ebooks and one is on sale at Scribd.
Just visit:
http://writegrrl.blogspot.com
to check it out. I am still earning about
$10-$15 a month from Associated
Content (Whoop Dee Doo!) I'm still
trying to figure out how to get more
page views, 'cause if I can manage that,
it will get me one step closer to Riley.
How Close am I now? Let's see...See that graph up there? You can't
really see it that well, I know. I'm not a master of doing my own graphs
yet, I used an online website. What you see at the bottom, the splat,
is where I'm at now. I didn't get past it. The end is where I want to be. the
point where I have caught Riley. I'll do a better graph next month,
and hopefully I can get past that blasted splat!
Peace

Music News

The problem with me is doing multiple projects at one time.
We still have not recorded anything yet, BUT we have chosen
a song, and we had a major meeting last night from about
10:15 pm-11:45 am.

I don't want to just put singles online, and ring tones. The
whole point of this blog is to quit my day job and begin
living the life of my dreams. So, we are thinking bigger.

Stay tuned, there will actually be some news August 09.

Music News

Well, this week is the week for recording. We're going
to be looking through songs we've copyrighted and choose
one for a single, and one for a ring tone.

We're going to choose the songs tonight, so before summer
hits, you should hear what we sound like. Finally!

Ready...Set....

I'm taking a day off of my miserable day job
tomorrow, so that gives me a lot of time-
Th-Sun. to attempt to find my memory card,
create some ringtones, give them away, work
on a single, etc. etc.

I have just finished my very first novel, and
a very, very good friend of mine is helping
me with editing it. She is a published author.
More on that later...

Anyway, I can't remember if I have mentioned
that I have found the "coolest" way to start a
business and promote it for free. Even more
cooler is that I have found an easy way to sell
books.

I want to take the easy way of selling books, and
do the same for music. When I do that, I will be
out of my day job this year, sooner than I
ever believed. So let me get to it!
Want to know how to live the life of your dreams?
Subscribe to this blog and follow me.....

Update

We are searching for our ever loving memory card, which
is still elusive. Last year, I have learned a lot of things
about making money online. And the amazing thing is,
that everything is "free".

It does not take money to make money online.

Of course if you want to buy a course, and by course I
mean actual training. Depending on who you are learning
from it can be anywhere from $197-$5,000+
that's different. It's like taking a college course. But I have
discovered through free teleseminars, that if you do things
correctly, you can have all your expenses paid for.

Just image creating a product-any product and having
someone:

• promote for free
• manufacture for free
• travel for free

and on and on! The information is priceless. So All I have to do is create product, and then start branding myself online. All I care about is making a living online. I don't want to go out to work anymore. If you want to know how I feel about my j.o.b. check out my earlier posts when I started this blog. I know, I know, I should be glad I have a j.o.b., right? Well, if you were in my shoes, you wouldn't be able to live in your homes and support your families! You'd be living in a tent like those poor people in California.

I digress. The main point of this blog is, after all these years, I found the easy button. After believing the lies of marketers/guru's/scammers. I found the Golden Goose. So now I am working on creating products. Still need that blasted memory card, though....

Tomorrow Is The Day.....

I am going to be composing a song-well, ringtone tomorrow, and sometime this week it should be uploaded as an MP3 on several websites. I'll be putting it on MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and any other social network that I'm in.

Oh, it'll be free, so be sure to download a copy and get all your friends and family members to get one too. We'll be doing several of these next month, so you can always come back and get more!

Branding Myself

This month will be the beginning of branding myself as
a musician. I read an article from an Internet guy about
a music millionaire, who used his brain and social networking
(free marketing people, stop using adwords!) to create a
name for himself in the music business.

DNJR will follow in his footsteps one day at a time. We
are in the process of finding our music.(a memory card
is missing!!!) We have created the most recent, and
what we consider best, music using MTV Music Generator.

Don't laugh because it's a video game. Brother and sister
duo Kellin and Taryn Manning (BoomKat) got a record deal
creating songs with it. Yep, you heard me right.

While people are being layed-off and living in tents, there
was a major change where I work. A new director stepped
in(they couldn't stand the last one) and she totally killed
my department. Three people having to do something new.
I'm pretty still in 'can't believe it' mode, the other doesn't know
where she's going, and the last in my department, my boss,
is leaving her heart behind. *Sigh*

Well, I can't complain too much, I worked
myself up(not that I had a choice...) to eight jobs in that
department, so now I'm down to one department.
But, I still have at least five jobs there-on minimum
wage, no less! So, when I read an article about how a
guy-a "rapper" became a millionaire from nothing,
(FREE ADVERTISING!!)you KNOW I am going to follow.

I'll carve out my own niche and customize his plan to
one that's right for me, and then I'll leave J.O.B. for
good.

I Have Found It!

This year, there will be a lot of information on this blog
as well as my other blogs(writing, art, games, film).
I happened to be on a marketers list that gave me a
proven plan, that I can do for 'free' so I can finally start
my music career. :)

Another musician/marketer gave me another idea when
he posted a case study on how someone got 14,000 downloads
in just 48 hours using a free website!

So stay tuned. I will be giving away stuff for free, and
revealing a lot of cool ways on how to live the life that
you want.

June Update

We are in the process of working on a song(s) that we will be

putting on Myspace, and other websites that allow you to

purchase Mp3's.

I've been neglecting, well, putting music on the back burner

for now, because I am still trying to find quality information

online that will actually work, so I can raise the money that

I need.

There are no professional studios here where I live,

so I have to either record myself, or hire

Discmakers to master our demo. The only way to do

that is to raise the money.

I've just completed reading a 16-page report by Willie

Crawford, a very well respected marketer, and I am

going to follow what he says to do for building a list.

'The Money is in the List!' I have tried doing that with

free list builders that have never worked, so now I am

going to try something new, that Willie Crawford has

suggested.

So, I will keep you updated once a week from now on

of my progress, and sometime this year, I will finally

get my music out online!