Learn how to structure a financially successful music career...
In the 5 key areas of your artistry.
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"Marketing Mindsets That Free You From the Artistic Cave" (Video 1 of 18)
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Indie Basic Training 🥊
Indie Basic Training is designed to solve nearly every mindset, marketing and business problem that every independent artist will face.
Spend an hour with me every day for the next 5 days through video lessons, checklists, and step-by-step guides to train the weak spots in the 5 biggest areas of your music career.
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Class starts the very same day that you enroll! Take the class fully online.
TIME
5-Day Intensive
Every day for 5 days you will get roughly an hour of video marketing training, documents, and checklists.
THIS CLASS IS FOR
All Artists & Genres
No matter your situation this class will level you up!
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This purchase is covered with my "burn the ships" money-back guarantee.
As with all my trainings, this comes with a 14 day money back guarantee.
But it's unlike any guarantee you've probably ever heard of.
Here's the thing about guarantees... it gives you a way to back out from achieving what you want. It allows you to give up too easily on something you want to accomplish.
So if you purchase, go through a couple of trainings and decide to give up, then there is NO GUARANTEE.
There is no way that you did the amount of work needed to achieve your goal. I'm not going to let you give up that easy.
But if you go through the training, do all the work and ON DAY 14, you feel that this was a mistake? You are covered.
I'm doing this because I truly believe it's the best way to ensure you succeed. I know how easy it is to refund something because it's easier than the pain of hard work day after day.
Here's a quick video that I think will change your beliefs about guarantees:
☑️ DO THE WORK and take responsibility for your own success
☑️ Contact [email protected]
☑️ Show me that you've done the work and that you'd like a refund and I'll GLADLY refund you.
I don't want you to ever be unhappy with any purchase you make with us. My team and I will go above and beyond to take care of you. But my first priority is to turn you into the musician you were meant to be.
So all I ask is that you make that guarantee to yourself first, and I'll do everything I can to push you towards your vision of success.
So take action and let's get started right away. Click the button to begin!
P.S. - If you were skimming and just wanted to see what the offer was for, you're joining my brand new intensive called Indie Basic Training and you're getting nearly 5 hours of video content (one hour per day) to give you clarity on the five most important areas of your music career and how to stop the leaks in your income, social media strategy, song release strategy, artist brand, and on Spotify.
Here are some frequently asked questions:
What if I don't have any music out yet?
This is called "basic training" will the lessons be basic in nature?
I have only a few hours a day to focus on music. Will this be right for me?
I learned a lot on YouTube from you. Is this the same stuff?
I struggle with technical stuff... Will I be able to do this?
What artists are saying...

✅ Verified Review
“Ever since joining I’ve had a boost in my sales on Bandcamp, I’ve had a boost in my subscribers on YouTube and my followers on Instagram, but most importantly I’ve had a boost in the response to my music. One of the key things that Ryan at the Indie Music Academy keeps driving home is that you need to share your music through storytelling… and now I’ve been spending a lot more proactive time instead of wasting my time… I really recommend it!”

✅ Verified Review
"It’s such an oversaturated market today that so many underground artists are struggling to get heard and honestly I was one of those artists. But thanks to Ryan and the Indie Music Academy, thousands of people around the world were able to listen and love my music like I thought that they should, and that would have never happened without the resources at this academy. So if you have any doubt in your mind about whether or not this is the right choice for you…it is."
✅ Verified Review
"Ryan is a brilliant songwriter, musician, and music production guru. Ryan also runs the Indie Music Academy where he has trained thousands of independent musicians (including me) on collecting from the complex network of music industry royalties, setting up a performing rights organization, thinking through the fan journey, and a host of other present-day music industry imperatives. Ryan has been instrumental (is that a pun?) in helping develop my ecosphere of websites, social media, and all the behind-the-scenes technologies needed for music promotion, communication, and effectiveness. Even in the midst of Ryan and his wife re-locating from San Diego, California, to Nashville, Tennessee, Ryan made himself available to help me with a crucial promotional challenge, to assure my successful release."
You are ready for this if you are:
Passionate about your music career and ready to improve drastically.
Done making excuses to your family about when your music is going to really “take off.”
Sick of seeing others in the industry being more successful than you (and less talented).
If you've been wondering why nobody is engaging with you online.
Ready for it to be easier to brand yourself and tell your story.
Willing to go all in on your music the right way.
You know what you need to do to become successful. What are you waiting for?