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A Hot Start to 2020!

February 11, 2020 · by Cre8iv Entertainment

It’s been an amazing first month for Creative Soul Records releasing new music with FOUR new videos, with over 10,000 views on Facebook. We also have several more videos premiering soon, and we’ve also signed two new artists!

CSR artists Chelsea Leah and Jay Powell each released new singles to some amazing numbers.

Chelsea Leah released “Shepherd of my Heart” with no Facebook following at all, and now her page has over 300 followers, and the video close to 5000 views – all in just over a week!

Check out “Shepherd of My Heart” here:
https://www.facebook.com/chelsealeahmusic/videos/181658033077309/

Then we released Jay Powell’s “unreserved” music video after teasing it during the Super Bowl, and the next day it began a journey that has resulted in almost 400 new Facebook followers and also closing in on 5000 views.

Listen to “unreserved” here:
https://www.facebook.com/jaypowellartist/videos/257084975260979/

We have also released Shalette Freeman’s new single “Right on Time” and Count Laws title cut to his new album “Grateful” in 2020!

Check them out here:

Shalette Freeman, “Right on Time”:
https://www.facebook.com/shalettefreemanmusic/videos/171767050591230/

Count Laws, “Grateful”:
https://www.facebook.com/countlawsmusic/videos/181318666444384/

Stay tuned for new videos by Easter Wabo, Falcone Rising, Rosalyn Smith, and more!

New Artists

Creative Soul Records is excited to now be working with Brad Irons and Nicole Falgout on their new ministry projects, and are currently talking with other songwriters and artists about getting their music ministries started.

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A FOUR Release Weekend!

June 18, 2019 · by Cre8iv Entertainment

It was a busy weekend at Cre8iv Entertainment, with not one, not two, but FOUR song premieres across four different music brands.

How did it go? One word: AMAZING!

Let’s look at what our artists and songs did this weekend!

Kerri Lynn, “A Father’s Love”

First on Friday, we went against the grain on Facebook and premiered the YouTube video first. Facebook prefers you push Facebook (or Instagram since they own that too), but we know that YouTube views and subscribers are more important, especially for Kerri’s brand in which she posts a lot to YouTube and is trying to build that channel. The YouTube video has over 300 views.

Then later Friday we updated her brand profile on Facebook. On Saturday we uploaded her video natively to Facebook and it currently has 1000 views, 50 likes (which can be used to invite ppl to the page), tons of comment and shares and a reach of over 2200. This is with no boosting!

Both these pushes also resulted in new likes to the FB page and new YouTube subscribers.

Sarah Peyton, “Broken Song”

This was not only a song premiere (that we co-wrote with Sarah), but also an artist premiere. So stats are pretty HUGE.

For a new artist I prefer to go Facebook centric first, so we reversed the procedure above and uploaded the video (shot by Billy Brown) to Facebook natively. That video has gone very viral and at last count over 3700 views, a reach of over 7000, 80 comments, and 90 SHARES (which is pretty good for a video out for 3 days!! And not boosted!)

Next, as with Kerri we did some FB Page profile updating, and put a post presenting her YouTube channel. For new artists (and YT channels) this isn’t as big a deal to FB followers, but we will see what happens.

Positive Spin, “Happy Father’s Day (feat. Caroline Williams)”

This is our Positive music brand, and this is actually a new version of last year’s song of the same name. We added a new vocalist, and tricked it out with new players, mix, and formal master. All players are featured at the end of the video with their dads or kids!

Being a brand that is not based on a person, it’s difficult on Facebook, and the YouTube page is still growing. This brand takes actual marketing, boosting, and ads to do anything.

It’s even more difficult to push the same song you pushed last year on the same weekend, but with a different singer and band.

I elected to push YouTube first, and have over 200 views on YouTube. On Father’s Day we released the video to Facebook natively and have had about 200 views.

Donna Gray, “The Heart of This Man”

Our final release this weekend was just the start of a week long promotion for Donna Gray’s newest video and song from her album “The Other Me”. While we work on her newest song, we are going back and doing some videos of her older songs especially ones that go right with holidays.

So far after just launching on Father’s Day, the video has almost 700 views on Facebook.

See Donna’s new video here:

https://www.Facebook.com/DonnaGrayMusic
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That’s over 6000 (and still growing) views across Facebook and YouTube, plus hundreds of likes, comments, shares, and other things that make brands grow. We even experimented with posting a video to Instagram/IGTV and will be doing that more on future videos with artists who have Instagram accounts.

And all these videos are already or will end up on our growing Cre8iv.TV and be featured there next after premiering on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.

This is what we do at Cre8iv Entertainment and for our clients at Creative Soul Records and our other brands. And we’re just getting started. This week we are launching a new video from our 88Upright piano and bass brand, followed by another Positive Spin single Monday, and a new Creative Soul Records band premiere video and song later next week!

If you don’t already please join our email list here to keep up with all of this: http://eepurl.com/9ORF1

Ready to make your music and market it to the world? Click here and let’s talk!

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“The Straight Truth”

June 10, 2019 · by Cre8iv Entertainment

“The Straight Truth”

The way it is for Christian artists (whether we like it or not)

(EBOOK) NEW FOR 2019!

This eBook attempts to answer the questions many Christian artists have when they are just investigating recording, starting a ministry, in the middle of recording, trying to market their music, and even trying to figure out if they should even do music ministry at all!

Here’s a few of the questions we attempt to answer with “straight truth”:

• What should I be spending to record Christian music in Nashville? Is there ever a reason to spend more? Or less?

• How do I find a booking agent to get me out there? Is there such a thing?

• What does Radio mean to most independent Christian music artists?

• Should I hire a publicist?

• How do I market my music?

• How do I get my music into stores? Who distributes my music?

• How do I make royalties with my music? What if I am not a songwriter?

• How does copyrighting my songs work? Will someone try and steal my songs?

• How long should I give this? What if people don’t like my music, should I quit?

And the number one question we get the most at some point:

• Will I make any money doing this? Can this be what I do for my living?

Creative Soul works on these problems daily as well as keeps up with the things that work and don’t work for independent artists, especially in small genres like Christian Music.

Find out more about the questions, as well as how to read this book or download! Click here!

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Our New Book “How to Live a Creative Life”

April 29, 2019 · by Cre8iv Entertainment

The new book For the Creative Soul in all of us!

15 years in the making, this book covers all the phases of living a creative life.

How to Get Creative

The How, the What and most importantly, the Why! 12 lessons on how to be more creative in your life.

How to Get Better

The next steps, how to get past mediocrity, and get where you want to be. 10 steps to get there, including how I got there.

How to Live Creative

You’re creative sure, but what about the rest of the world. 10 ways to help you deal with your creativity in regards to your your family, friends, and the daily grind.

How to Succeed as a Creative

What is success for us artistic types? We dive deep with a dozen lessons on defining what success is for you, and then how to achieve it.

How to Work Creative

Now the hard part, how do you make a career out of being creative? And do you really want to put your financial and family’s future in the balance by making a living as a creative?

My Story

Each chapter includes a closing lesson that I learned in actually doing this through 40 years of wandering, wondering, waning, and winning as a creative soul.

As far back as I remember, I have always searched through bookstores (both real and now online too) for books that could lead me to new vistas of creativity. Whether it was a music book, a creative devotional, a business book, or whatever, I always rejoiced when I found that book I could dig into and let it speak to me. It was (and still is) a treasure hunt to find a new resource that can get me thinking new thoughts, trying new things, and feed my creative soul.

My hope is this will be that kind for book for you.

Available at these booksellers:

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Do You Have a Plan?

July 2, 2018 · by Cre8iv Entertainment

Sure you have music. You have thoughts that people might like your music if you put it out. There is no shortage of people who advertise online that work in “Nashville” or “Los Angeles”, or that had a “hit record” or “won a Grammy”, or that used to play for this guy, or tour with that guy. They could all work for you, at the right price.

But will they offer you a plan?

You’re going to need someone to help you find a way to not only make music that is great, but get it out to the world, and then keep walking with you down those roads. Helping you with things like branding, image and identity, photos, graphics, duplication, web sites, music videos, Facebook and YouTube strategy and marketing. Personally help you get radio, publicity, and get your songs to music publishers, TV, Film, Commercials.

This is what a label does for you, which is why people for a century have been trying to get “signed”. But first of all, 99.9% of artists who want to be signed, are never signed. And those who do don’t always retain control over their music and image, or masters!

So how do you find someone to put together a real plan that will work, that will help you make great music, walk besides you to market it, hook you up with all those people in quotes in the first paragraph, and keep walking with you in the plan?

That’s what we have been doing in our business for over 20 years for artists all around the US and the world. And we’re expanding. We’ve been a consistent force and guide for artists and songwriters in Christian/Gospel (including Pop, Rock, R&B, World, and other styles) as well as real players in the Jazz industry (including many Top 30 Billboard Jazz hits), and soon we are expanding to Classical, EDM, and Pop/Rock. We also have a budding sync licensing company starting to get songs into stores, TV, Film, Ads, and more.

We have a plan. For us, and for you.

We know where we are going, and we know how to get there. You know where you want to go, and we are happy to talk to you about how to get there.

Let’s put together a plan for your music, your career, and your goals. It’s a new world out there in making and especially promoting music. Every artists needs a unique plan.

We’d love to help you. Click here. Let’s talk.

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