I think we have some exciting times ahead. Forget all the fear mongering videos and articles about AI for a second and let's embrace how much AI can be of service and save you tons of time for simple tasks. During the last days I have built an AI assistant with the following features. - managing my emails - managing my calendar - manage contacts - do research on the web - I can talk to it and vice versa At first moment you may think, "why an assistant should care of your emails?" but here is the true power of it. Imagine you had a conversation with someone and you are about to set up a meeting with said person. What would be the process? Opening calendar, creating the appointment (topic, invitation, summary) and send that appointment to your contact. These are quite a few steps. Potentially, with this assistant, I could literally say: Set up an appointment for next week monday, 3pm for about an hour, invite John Doe and send him the summary of project/event x. The great thing, with n8n, the platform I am building this agent on, the assistant can be extended via modules or additional workflows handling all kinds of things. I am currently working on implementing a lead generation module getting you potential customers such as audio directors, CEOs or producers from LinkedIn or even from Google Maps locations. You could also set up a database with your portfolio, bio, project list, writing style, prefered way of writing application emails, etc. ... and let your AI assistant make use of it whenever needed. Thoughts? Comments? Wishes? Feedback? Suggestions?

Hey everyone! I just launched a brand-new course called ChatGPT for Music Composers, and I wanted to share it with you here first. This course isn’t about letting AI write music for you — it’s about using ChatGPT as a helpful assistant to support your creative process and career. You’ll learn how to: - Come up with new ideas and overcome creative blocks - Write more natural and confident outreach emails - Research companies, games, and music opportunities - Even build simple tools to help you stay organized (no coding needed!) Right now, it’s in early access — which means not all videos are uploaded yet, but you can get started today for just $19. I’ll be adding new lessons very soon, and all updates are included. 👉 [Grab the course for $19 here] 🟢 Important:If you’re already a member of the Audio Artist Rise program — good news! This course will be included for free inside the Rise platform as a full module. No need to purchase it separately. If you’re not a Rise member, and you're thinking about grabbing this course — it might be worth checking out the Rise program instead. For just $47/month, you get this course plus weekly calls, feedback, community, and all my content in one place. Let me know what you think — and feel free to ask questions! Alex

Hey everyone, I hope your day started full of opportunities! Let me once more get into this topic because what I want is you guys succeeding out there in the audio business to find paid projects and making connections. It all comes down to your music obviously. However, this is not something special to write good music, it is a basic necessity. On the other end, a lot of music composers think that good music has to be near perfect. I have to disagree. The most important thing is to write solid music that makes your client happy. THAT'S. IT! Nothing else. Now, imagine you bought the most amazing present for your partner... but wrap it up in a few rugs. Not very attractive, isn't it? Now imagine your best music but it's hosted on public services with lots of distracting links or on a bloated website, featuring all kinds of styles and a bio that is longer than the dictionary. Let me give you a few easy things to keep in mind, so you have an almost unfair advantage to everyone else: 1. You need to change your mindset. Pick one target industry = design a demo reel for EXACTLY THIS target group. Imagine you walk into a restaurant and the guy telling you: "Hey, what do you want to eat? We got Asian food from every country, American burgers, original Italian pizza and pasta, the best sushi... each category features over 100 meals." Overwhelmed much? Probably! The same your clients feel when you send them your bloated website with hundreds of tracks or distracting links leading everywhere. 2. Make your demo reel as easy and short as possible. Use a logo at the top, have a picture banner that is drawing the attention of your picked target industry. 3. Use your best 5 tracks that are speaking to your target industry. There is no need to have the weirdest horror music on your demo reel if you want to send this to children's book authors! 4. I am serious with this point. Absolutely nobody is interested when you started playing piano, how many awards you have won, how many plugins you own or that you're always reliable. Everyone can write anything! Okay, at some point there is some trust involved, but focus on what benefits you can bring to the table FOR the company, instead of making this a personal spotlight fest. 5. If you don't have credits yet, create your own. If your music rocks, people will hire you. Period! However, in order to have some visual stuff going on, use one of your tracks, come up with a nice animated picture or use AI to create you a little video of 45-60 seconds. There are tons of tools out there turning pictures into short animations that you can then use to craft a little script... again, that speaks to your target audience.

You are all probably already in preparations for the upcoming holidays and hopefully in chill mode soon! Just quickly wanted to wish you guys happy holidays and a great start into 2025! I also wanted to say thank you again to everyone joining this community. This all would be nothing without you! When I started the Audio Artist Academy in around the summer time of 2024 I would have never thought that we would be 1300 members strong. And the best part is, I honestly never ever have experienced a music community with an almost non-existing amount of toxicity! You rock! Stay as you are and here’s to a new year full of opportunities, projects, career paths and money! Cheerio, Alex

Hey guys, quickly wanted to say thank you! If you check for Skool Music Communities. Out of 375 we are currently on 36 on page 02! I simply wanted to say thank you ... and can we bring this to the top 10? :)