Reply To: LINKEDMUSICIANS FORUM WILL SOON CLOSE AND TRANSITION TO OUR SUBREDDIT

[LinkedMusicians]

I’m working on a logo for the LinkedMusicians subreddit — following Reddit’s standards. But I realize that it won’t be ideal with our dark and light feature on the site. By the way, this site will be redesigned without the social media / forum functionality, maintaining all of the free resources, plus I’m looking at adding a section that allows reviews of sample libraries, plugins, and — I’m not sure about this — adding a price comparison engine that I was previously working on (and already partially paid for).

So, I don’t want to give everything away so that it can be copied, but what I’m doing will be different, and I believe significantly more useful than typical price comparison affiliate marketing sites like Music Software Deals. If you’re familiar with Consumer Reports, think about how they do brand reliability studies. They poll their members. They actually have turned to affiliate programs to fund their operations, which at first, I was appalled at, but later came to see that it was financially necessary for their survival. I basically am looking at doing something similar for this industry and I’m very confident that no one else is interested in doing it, because they’re all focused on making as much profit as possible. I’m driven by passion. I might be able to make a profit on it after a few years, but I’m looking at making things pay for themselves.

This has been a passion project that frankly, after we lost our deal poster, we lost 1 year. This reconfiguration is something necessary, not only for LinkedMusicians to continue, but for it to grow, and I believe it can grow at a rate far beyond what is possible with the present configuration. I will no longer be tied to laborious deal posting, but will focus on sharing only truly compelling deals, while working on automating the process. That enables me to not focus on deals, but on growing the community and the creative side and encouraging members to create and develop as musicians and music producers.  Candidly, while I’m a deal addict, and it’s fun to acquire stuff, the real joy here is in making music. That is what LinkedMusicians was created for, and spending so much focus on only deals is not something I want to do and there’s no need to do after automating the mindless task of deal posting. But I need to get off of the grind of mindless manual deal posting to focus on automating the process and creating a resource that doesn’t yet exist that I believe should exist.

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