This week we've been talking about getting started making money from your audio skills. Whether you work for free or not to get started, in the end, you’ll have to find what’s most important at this exact point in your career.

Demanding top dollar prices when you can’t even show prospective bands what you can do isn’t convincing. And conversely, continuing to work for free once you have a robust portfolio isn’t doing you any favors either.

Although knowing all that is important, it only scratches the surface of how to set up your home studio as a business.

Now, you might be thinking, I can't run a business because I don't have a pro studio?

But you don't need a pro studio to run a successful side business.

Many of the engineers making a living every day from their home studios don't even have clients come into their studio because they do most of their work online or work on-location. You don't need a pristine professional facility to make money from your audio skills.

If you think it's too hard to start a business, I would actually say that it's harder to hack it as an employee.

When you run your own business you're in complete control of your hours, your rate, and most importantly, your freedom!

Starting out from scratch might be hard, but if you're making music in your home studio you've done most of the work already. 

Or maybe you're worried that you're not good enough?

Trust me, I've been there. I used to be terrified about releasing my mixes and showing my work to the world. Even in the early years of Audio Issues I was still worried that people might hate on my mixes. 

I mean, who was I to tell people how to mix if my mixes weren't good enough right?

Well, turns out that this happens to everybody. It's called imposter syndrome and every high-performing individual suffers from it.

I got over it when I started getting praise from my mixes from the bands I was working with. Imposter syndrome goes away real quick when people start complimenting your work. But you won't get to that point unless you put yourself out there and start working as a professional.

If you've already tried starting your own studio business on the side and have problems finding clients, then I also understand your hesitation.

You might also juggle a lot of different projects that keep you busy, but are all those projects as exciting as working on music? Or are they just boring jobs to pay the bills?

Or maybe you think business and marketing is just boring in general?

Yeah, I can totally relate to that.

I've worked with some boring-ass companies that sell products that are so boring they make me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.

But being in the music industry and working on records that make you want to jump, dance, headbang or pump your fist in the air?

That's not boring. That's passion.

How do you not want to work in something you're passionate about?

That's where the Brian's Six Figure Home Studio Webinar will take you.