Hï Ibiza DJ Cristina Lazic got Demos SIGNED to Labels from Instagram
Summary
TLDRIn this engaging conversation, a DJ shares her journey from a hobbyist to a professional, inspired by electronic music and a supportive community. She discusses her experience with the Artist Blueprint course, highlighting its impact on her technical skills, community building, and confidence. The course not only provided practical knowledge but also fostered a sense of belonging among peers. Her story illustrates the power of content creation, networking, and persistence in the music industry.
Takeaways
- 😀 The speaker found a hobby in DJing during maternity leave as a way to take 'me time' and escape from daily routine.
- 🎧 A friend introduced the speaker to a DJ course, sparking the beginning of their DJ career.
- 💡 The speaker continued DJing even after returning to full-time work, highlighting the importance of not giving up on passions.
- 🌐 The speaker joined the Artist Blueprint course to overcome a sense of being stuck and to seek growth in their career.
- 🤝 The course provided a supportive community, showing that the speaker was not alone in their struggles and aspirations.
- 📈 Learning practical skills such as social media content creation and demo submission was a key benefit of the course.
- 🔊 Overcoming fear of judgment was a psychological takeaway, encouraging the speaker to post more freely and authentically.
- 🎶 The importance of showing oneself as a DJ through videos to boost visibility and bookings was emphasized.
- 📹 The creation of the Vinyl Select series on social media helped the speaker to build a network and even secure a record release.
- 📈 TikTok engagement and the importance of focusing on one social media platform for better results were discussed.
- 🔄 The speaker learned to alternate between video and static content for better engagement on social media.
- 🎉 The course helped the speaker to build confidence, technical skills, and a sense of community, all crucial for career growth.
Q & A
What was the initial motivation for the interviewee to start DJing?
-The interviewee started DJing as a hobby during her maternity leave, looking for personal time and a way to take her mind off the routine of motherhood.
How did the interviewee get introduced to the DJ course?
-A friend of her husband named Mina Lazich, who was not a relative, reached out to her and invited her to join a DJ course because she knew the interviewee loved electronic music.
What was the turning point for the interviewee to continue DJing even after returning to full-time work?
-The interviewee loved music and electronic music so much that she decided not to give up on it and to push as much as she could even after going back to her full-time job.
Why did the interviewee join the Artist Blueprint course?
-The interviewee joined the course because she felt stuck in her career, wasn't seeing proper growth, and needed motivation and understanding of how things work in the industry.
What was the main benefit of joining the Artist Blueprint course according to the interviewee?
-The main benefits were learning technical skills, gaining support from a community of people in similar situations, and boosting her confidence and motivation.
How did the Artist Blueprint course help the interviewee with social media?
-The course taught her how to post content on social media effectively, build a matrix of different types of content based on themes, and alternate between video and static content to increase engagement.
What specific advice did the interviewee receive from the course that helped with her social media presence?
-She was advised to focus mainly on one social media platform, not be afraid of judgment when posting, and to show herself playing to remind people that she is a DJ, which could lead to more bookings.
What is the 'Vinyl Select Series' that the interviewee started?
-The 'Vinyl Select Series' is a content format where the interviewee explores and showcases music from vinyl-only labels or specific artists she likes, playing their records and sharing them with her followers.
How did the 'Vinyl Select Series' contribute to the interviewee's career?
-The series helped her build a network, get noticed by label owners, and eventually led to her releasing music on one of the labels she featured, Bondage Music.
What was the impact of focusing on TikTok as suggested by the course?
-Focusing on TikTok helped the interviewee grow her follower base organically and maintain high engagement, which is crucial in the current social media landscape.
What advice did the interviewee receive from the course regarding posting older content?
-She was advised to not be afraid of posting older content in a new format, which can help maintain her online presence and engage her audience.
Outlines
🎧 DJ's Journey and Artist Blueprint Experience
The speaker, a DJ and electronic music enthusiast, shares her journey into the music industry which began during her maternity leave as a hobby. She was introduced to DJing by a friend of her husband and has since released music, performed internationally, and balanced two careers. The speaker discusses joining the Artist Blueprint course to overcome a creative plateau, gain new insights, and connect with a supportive community. She highlights the course's practical lessons on social media strategy, content creation, and demo submissions, and expresses gratitude for the motivational and psychological support it provided.
📈 Boosting Social Media Presence and Bookings
The speaker elaborates on how she applied lessons from the Artist Blueprint course to enhance her social media presence, particularly focusing on Instagram. She experimented with content types, such as videos showing her music's chart progress and static images, to increase engagement. Overcoming her fear of judgment, she began posting more frequently, including videos of herself DJing to remind followers of her skills and boost bookings. The introduction of her 'Vinyl Select Series' on TikTok, showcasing her love for Eastern European music, led to networking opportunities and a record release with a respected label, illustrating the power of content in building a career.
🚀 Key Takeaways and Personal Growth from the Course
Reflecting on her experience with the Artist Blueprint course, the speaker identifies three main takeaways: acquiring technical skills in music production and promotion, gaining a supportive community that provides psychological strength, and building self-confidence through consistent content creation and peer encouragement. She emphasizes the importance of not giving up, learning from the community, and the personal growth she experienced as a result of the course's holistic approach to artist development.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡DJ course
💡Electronic music
💡Maternity leave
💡Artist Blueprint
💡Social media
💡Content creation
💡Vinyl select series
💡Engagement
💡Booking
💡TikTok
💡Confidence
Highlights
Introduction to the interviewee as a DJ who found her passion during maternity leave.
Mina Lazich's influence in starting the interviewee's DJ journey.
The interviewee's transition from maternity to full-time work while pursuing a DJ career.
Joining the Artist Blueprint for career growth and support.
The importance of community and support from the Artist Blueprint course.
Learning practical skills like social media content creation and demo submission.
Overcoming fear of judgment by posting content and gaining confidence.
The impact of focusing on one social media platform for better engagement.
Creating engaging content by alternating video and static content on Instagram.
The strategy of showing DJ performances to boost bookings.
Initiating the Vinyl Select series to explore and promote niche music.
Networking success story with Bondage Music leading to a record release.
The significance of content creation in building a follower base and network.
The role of TikTok in the interviewee's content strategy and growth.
Participation in the 10-day TikTok challenge to boost content visibility.
Reposting older content in new formats to maintain engagement.
The three main takeaways from the course: technical skills, community support, and confidence building.
Transcripts
hello Hi how are you I'm great happy to
be here in this shed this very like a
virtual shed with you so for those who
don't know who you are can you I thought
i' just give you kind of get them you to
give us a little rundown of you and kind
of how we got together how how we kind
of got to where you are now and just
kind of a little brief overview of
yourself yes okay so I am a d that has
been around for like five years I
actually started playing during my
maternity I was looking for a hobby to
to get some me time and to just you know
take away my mind from you know nap peas
milk and all of that and uh actually
when I was looking for a hobby this
friend of my husband whose name is Mina
lazich and they're not relatives she
reached out to me and she told me hey
Christina I know you love electronic
music I'm starting a DJ course why don't
you come with me to do it I think you
would love it and uh I finally found
another DJ course because I was
breastfeeding and that course was not
close enough to my house but yeah but
then that's how it started I basically
started this DJ course and long story
short I I've always loved music and I've
always loved electronic music and I saw
that that's something that I really
really liked so when I had to go back to
full-time work after the maternity I
decided to not give up on music and
actually you know to push as much as I
could on that and uh five years after
I'm here with some music that has
released some International gigs and me
doing two parallel careers and trying to
survive survive among it all so
obviously the beginning of 2021 we
started working together you join the
artist blueprint on my first ever
version of the ice blueprint and thank
you very much for joining us and I just
going to kind of ask you remember what
your motivation was for joining it and
let's talk about that just quickly yeah
of course I mean I joined the course I
remember we had you know a call before
me joining officially the course because
I was in that moment where I was like
you know I am a bit stuck I think I'm
doing things properly but I don't see a
proper growth bookings are not there I
don't know exactly what is my path how
to communicate what I do well I do
marketing so I think that I have some
basics of communication and marketing so
that clearly helps but I still needed
some uh motivation some uh understanding
of how some things work and that's why I
reached out to you and I think it was
super super useful to do the course
first of all because I met a lot of uh
interesting people and I saw that I was
not alone like I mean the feelings that
I have are the feelings that many people
have so many people need a boost could
be just you know from a technical
perspective from a process perspective
or just a psychological perspective and
so I found that kind of save space in
the in the course like people in my same
condition that needed to like you know
support each other uh so that's
something that I really enjoyed H but
then of course I learned a lot of things
like uh you showed us for example how to
post content on socials and how to build
a kind of a matrix of different type of
content based on themes which I applied
and it worked very well you showed us
how to submit demos to to labels and of
course I I
followed so yeah very useful course from
a you know practical perspective but
also psychological perspective and I
like how we all keep in touch and we all
support each other and I like to see
sometimes I post and I see some people
from the group commenting and they do
the same I mean it's nice it's a nice
little Community isn't it it's really
growing it's a lovely little Community
that's got going now and there loads of
them in the chat coming to see come to
speak watch you today as well which is
lovely thank you co MERS so that track
came out and then can we just sort of
talk about kind of what you took what
kind of you pushed on from maybe took
from the course you kind of pushed on
from the course that you used to push
that and kind of then took on how you
then took a bit further on from that yes
well for example I remember you told us
clearly reals were not so much of a
thing at the time as they are now yeah
but I kind of focusing a lot on on
Instagram and I applied that rule that I
learned from the course that you should
focus mainly on one social and do it
well so I thought Instagram should be
the one but because I have a a good
follower base and I can you know I know
this social quite well uh so I focused
on that for this release and I remember
that I I made a video of me like showing
how the track was at you know number X
in the chart and how to help me to bring
it up and I made it kind of fun and then
got of Engagement and then I posted a
picture because at the time it was also
useful to alternate video content and
static content so a picture of me just
holding a kind of piece of paper with
number four or number five because I was
remember yeah
yeah they a lot of Engagement so all
these ideas they came thanks to to the
court because you were telling us in
what way you could make it more engaging
and uh you were also telling us don't be
afraid of the judgment of others I'm
always scared of posting things and
people will think why is she doing that
but actually people like it so now I'm
less scared of posting one other thing
you told us was you know show yourself
in playing and this way people will
remember promoters will remember you're
actually a DJ and they will book you
more so I started showing videos on
myself playing and that you know helped
boosting my social and also boosting the
kind of you know booking part and all of
that that's Lu Wicked then didn't you
start as well your vinyl select series
which you
don't that came also thanks to the
course so if you see behind me there is
this kind of light yeah yeah because I'm
remaking this table I'm actually getting
a custom DJ table once it's ready I'm
going to start it again so I have my
turntables and the mixer and I have
created this kind of vinyl peek of the
week format where basically I explore
labels that I like mainly vinyl only
labels or producers that I like so so I
would show videos of course now reals
are very short so I would show parts of
videos on me uh performing and playing
on vinyl music from these specific
labels or specific artists one thing
that I want to say is when it comes to
vinyls I like a lot the vibe from
Eastern Europe like ROM minimal Romanian
minimal that style so it's mainly that
kind of vibe in my V pick of the week
series but I have to say that also
helped a lot just as an example I
actually uh started posting about this
label called bondage music they are
label from Germany very respected they
released a lot of uh you know artists I
love like ntfo Michu like you know just
to name a couple the owners are porn
bags two guys from Germany and uh I had
actually built this format of the vinyl
pick of the week tag them in there and
they follow me so I was like oh they
follow me because I I made the V pick of
the week on bondage music and then I I
remember I went to Love Fest last year
this Festival in Serbia because I played
there and I saw that Apollonia added all
the vinyl you know bags and in one of
them there was a vinyl from bondage so I
took a m picture and they sent it to
bondage and then this you know created a
good relationship among as and then they
told me why don't you send us your demos
and then in few months later I released
my AP with them also so now I have
releas an A on bondage music thanks to
the vinyl peck of the week if you think
that's so sick that's so sick yeah oh my
days I love that so literally because
you started that content series then you
then it started the networking and then
it started the kind of connection then
it started the the rec the record signed
yes I flipping love that I flipping love
that yes amazing content content wins
again amazing yeah it's very important
to you know to communicate things and to
you know make actually people like that
I'm putting out my recommendations there
going back to what we were saying about
Spotify with the VY piek of the week I'm
making people get to know labels that
they would not know otherwise or
producers that maybe are a bit more
Niche and uh I think that you know in
that respect I was able to build my
little very little follower base and the
people that you know Associated me with
finding new music so I would get a lot
of you know direct messages of people
asking me do you recommend these label
do you know them post about them and
that's how you know I created some sort
of network after building content after
also release the music that's epic and
it's only what you're doing on the D
it's like for me it's always only what
you're doing on the dance FL when you're
playing those records to a whole dance
floor it's only what the same like
you're going this is the record I like
and it's and without sort of saying it's
on the list label and it's this artist
but it's the same thing it's like this
is the record I like and this one and
this one and you should listen to more
of these it's the same as social media
for me I remember before you played get
lost um you jump back into the weekly
group calls from the course and we ched
about your content and how you going to
kind of what how you could basically
maximize that exposure did that actually
help you and kind of did those kind of
calls help you yeah I mean for example I
remember that you gave us this 10 days
real challenge yeah but I mean you were
right because Tik Tok is a thing now and
you told us you need to build more reals
like you do the 10 res Challenge and I
don't know if I did 10 but I definitely
invested on reals and it helped a lot
because I saw that I continued growing
or organically well a lot of people that
have not done real even if they have
like 50,000 followers engagement has
gone down massively so you know these
kind of tips are super useful and then
some of the tips that you post on your
on your social are very useful for me my
selfconfidence like don't give up you
know just uh you know post thing you
know videos of you playing even you know
why not posting even older content and
in a different format so that's
something that I've also done so yeah
definitely useful to that support
obviously we' kind of covered your music
now covered you obviously
that you're part of my course I just
going to ask you if you could kind of
sum up how the coures course was for you
and kind of like the main takeaways you
got from it and kind of How It's helped
you along the way yeah so the takeaways
are three one is about the technical
stuff like I've learned a lot about
things that I didn't know for example
how to uh you know how to build the real
or how to use Hep edit or how to submit
demos these are technical skills that I
didn't have because I was not in this
industry before okay I worked in music
publishing but not as an artist so the
technical part is very important uh then
is the part of the community that you
get the support from other people and
that's very you know important the
psychological aspect and then it's the
that comes also with the psychological
aspect the confidence that you gain
maybe the first time you post the video
or the picture you don't get much
traction but then you talk with the rest
of the group and you see that you are
all on the same boat but then you do the
second post and the third post and
eventually you get the traction so yeah
that's another thing of believing in
yourself and not giving up so these are
the three things the technical part the
community aspect and then the kind of U
you know motivation and the boosting of
confidence these are the three things
got from the course love it love it
thank you so much love that
Weitere verwandte Videos ansehen
Intervista a Valentina Multari
Mental Health Radio par Stencia avec Drea Dury | Rinse France
He saved TIME on Social Media as Music Producers
Why Salome Salvi Did Porn and Became An Adult Content Creator | Toni Talks
Success testimony Rupa saini flp testimony | success forever living India #rupa saini #flpindia
Leading Ladies - TeQuion Brookins
5.0 / 5 (0 votes)