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Originally Posted by The Beatsmith  well, i had a google, and your studio looks great yoshi. well done! thumbsup
once you set all this up, did people (paying clients) just magically appear? build it and they will come? you're managing to stay open easily? |
Thanks man!
I wouldn't call staying open this year 'easy' by any stretch. But then again even the venerable 40 year old studio in town was very quiet this summer.
I had clients built up from the previous 2 years while working both jobs. Some have been with me since I had a Control 24 set atop an old door balancing on 2 mismatched sets of drawers and have seen all the improvements along the way. I 'made the jump' as it were when I reached the point of my day job not leaving me enough time to do the studio work I had booked.
People do take you more seriously when you're no longer 'working the day job' tho. Seriously. You shift in people's eyes from 'another guy who does recording' to 'actual engineer' and that makes a difference in landing new clients.
Word of mouth client building is by far the best, but it's a slow process. Personally I've been focusing most of my efforts on building relationships with freelance engineers in the area to get them to regularly bring their projects here.
Oh, and it's Yosh!, not Yoshi
