HOW I DID IT

In 12 months time, I generated $2.2 million in CASH through the mail by selling MP3 files. Yep. Pretty amazing, huh? Contrary to what you might think, it's NOT easy to sell MP3 files. Well, actually, that's not entirely true. It's easy to sell them but the biggest challenge is finding LOTS of buyers and doing it without getting caught. That's the proverbial "secret sauce" of my story and that's part of what I share with you in this ebook.

Before I tell you about my amazing journey, let me give you an example of how money-grubbing the music industry is. (By “music industry,” I mean the music executives who have absolutely no talent of their own.) To give you an example of what I am talking about; back in the 90s, the female group TLC came out with an amazingly popular album called Crazy, Sexy, Cool. It sold over 10 million copies. TEN MILLION COPIES!!! That's a 10 with 6 zeros after it. Do you know how much the members of TLC received IN TOTAL for their multi-platinum CD? Go ahead, take a freaking guess!

FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!

The album generated $80 fucking million dollars for the record company directly and each member of TLC got $50,000. They actually had to declare bankruptcy for God's sake. Can you believe that? Yeah, I know what you're thinking; "If it was in their contract, then that's what they get... blah, blah, blah!" That's true, but artists are signed to contracts initially that are so obscenely slanted towards the record company that it should be outlawed. It's only after you have become pretty much a legend that you start getting the big bucks for your talents (and even then, the record companies take WAY too much for what they do in return.) That's just not fair to the entire spectrum of artists out there.

What burns me the most is that these recording industry executives are like sucker-fish, living off the talents of others. They reap the lion's share of the revenue using the sweat and blood that most artists bring to their work. They should be paid for their efforts, but not more than the person/people who actually create the work. It's soooo prevalent in the music industry. The average Joe Blow on the street would be absolutely shocked if they knew just how little artists make off their music. Prince had it right when he painted "SLAVE" on his cheek during a televised performance many years ago. He was protesting the enslavement the record company had over him. That was the reason he changed his name. He figured if the company owned the name Prince, he no longer wanted to be known by it because they could NEVER own him as a person or his talent. Only after he succeeded in parting ways with the company did he revert back to Prince (and now is one of the few artists that controls almost every penny of revenue from his work, minus the retail mark-up of course.)

So when reading about what I did, go ahead and pass judgment, I can't stop you. But whatever you do DON'T feel sorry for the music industry.

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