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How Much Time Do You Spend On Social Media? And what if you were to be paid/earn from doing something online. Hold that thought.

TIME MANAGEMENT 101?

The amount of time people spend on social media is constantly increasing. On an average teens/students now spend up to nine hours a day on social platforms, while 30% of all time spent online is now allocated to social media interaction. And the majority of that time is on mobile - 60% of social media time spent is facilitated by a mobile device.

The social media platforms themselves are evolving their tools and options to further attract and engage new audiences (e.g. advent of live-streaming features and 360-degree photos/videos). Newer social platforms, including Snapchat, Instagram, and now Musical.ly, are also competing for their share of the market. Accordingly, brands are jumping into social media with social media ad spend expected to reach $36 billion in 2017.

To give marketers a better understanding of the social media landscape, we calculated the time spent across the most popular social media platforms, projected what it means within a consumer’s lifetime, and compared these figures against common daily activities and examples of what can be accomplished with an equivalent amount of time (e.g. walk the Great Wall of China 3.5x, and run 10K+ marathons).

Astonishingly, the average person will spend nearly two hours (approximately 116 minutes) on social media everyday, which translates to a total of 5 years and 4 months spent over a lifetime. Even more, time spent on social is only expected to increase as platforms develop, and is expected to eat further into traditional media - most notably TV. Right now, the average person will spend 7 years and 8 months watching TV in a lifetime. However, as digital media consumption continues to grow at unprecedented rates, this number is expected to shrink in counter to that expansion.

Currently, total time spent on social media beats time spent eating and drinking, socializing, and grooming.

Broken down, time spent on social media differs across each platform. YouTube comes in first, consuming over 40 minutes of a person’s day (i.e. 1 year and 10 months in a lifetime). Facebook users will spend an average of 35 minutes a day, totalling 1 year and 7 months in a lifetime (some statistics include Facebook, Facebook-owned Instagram, and Facebook Messenger for total time spent on Facebook). Snapchat and Instagram come in next with 25 minutes and 15 minutes spent per day, respectively. Finally, users will spend 1 minute on Twitter, spanning 18 days of usage in a lifetime.

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GoViral services cut across multiple industries, these includes online and offline business that need local or global exposure.

Essentially, we simply create and develop integrated advert, sales and marketing strategies in effective sales and online viral presence.

Job Description

As a Whatsapp Social Media Marketer, you’re expected to be experienced in using Whatsapp
Optionally the use of other Social Media is an added advantage
Create and maintain broadcast groups on Whatsapp
Able to consistently build and inform your Whatsapp List
Minimum of 4 broadcasts daily.
Ability to Multi-task chat activities to customers/clients.
Excellent communication, writing and people skills.
Experience in digital marketing
You will be the face of the organizations as a marketer, hence the need to know GoViral Services.
The preferred candidates MUST have the advanced working knowledge of app installation and use of Whatsapp.
Ability to optimize social media for sale and customer relationship management.
Good telephone skills, ability to work as a team and independently.
Disciplined, hardworking, sociable, goal and result oriented.
Ability to communicate effectively and conversant with trendy social media.
Should be a highly motivated individual with experience and a passion to provide assistance and make sales seamlessly


Candidate Requirements
- Whatsapp Account
- Social Media Accounts
- Group Admin on Whatsapp is an added advantage.
- Experience: 1 year or more


Role, Responsibilities & Benefits
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1) Good music isn’t good enough music.
If you think your music is ‘good’....then just keep it as a hobby. The music marketplace doesn’t need more ‘good ‘ music, it needs truly GREAT music, which is a lot easier to get people excited about, and to market. The low cost and advertising hype surrounding the making and manufacturing of music has given musicians the illusion that their music is worthwhile. The sad fact is that in this new millennium mediocre music is commonplace and increasingly more difficult to promote and sell. These days not only can everybody and their sister make bland music, they are making and releasing bland music; so the marketplace is flooded with mediocrity. MUNDANE might be a good name for a band, but keep it to yourself!

2) Know thy audience.
( note: see my updated article on this topic at this website)
The minute you decide you want someone to listen to your songs, you have entered the music business. If you don’t know who would like your music, why would you make it in the first place? Art and commerce not only can work together, in today’s marketplace they must work together. Gone are the days when a musician’s talent alone is all that is needed to succeed. These days record companies develop new artists through time-tested career development tactics that start with finding the right niche to break the artist from. Spend a lot of time asking yourself who your average fan is, and get to know everything about their lifestyle, ages, sex, and income levels. Do that, and a whole universe of inspired opportunities on how to reach them will open up to you.

3) A good idea is worth more than a big budget.
Getting a music career off the ground is not only hard work; it also costs money. But the simplest ideas can deliver big payoffs. Look around where you live, and find simple ways to get your career moving. Create Podcasts to entertain and inform your fans. Or, are there schools nearby where you can play live? Are there non-profit organizations that need volunteer entertainers for fund-raisers? Is there a fair or festival coming up that showcases local or regional talent? How about a retailer or service company that might be approached to distribute and sell your music? THINK!!!… Ideas come to us when we give ourselves time to think. Watch for any bad habits you may have (watching too much TV, too much partying etc.). Use your time creatively and challenge yourself to come up with one original music marketing idea a week! You will be surprised how many good ideas you can come up with, and most of them won’t cost much money at all, if any.

4) Being nearsighted may make you blind.
If you don’t know clearly where you are going, you can easily lose sight of your goal, and miss an opportunity that may come your way. Don’t see only what you think needs to be done with your music. Find out as much as you can about how the music business is set up, and how it works as an industry. See the broad picture, and how all aspects of developing your career are related. Remember that every job, responsibility, and profession involved with creating, developing, and marketing music is related to another part, and they all need each other and work together for the mutual benefit of each other. Do you have a realistic plan for yourself that puts the whole picture into clear focus?

5) Get the job done, and get the job done well.
Do what you say you are going to do, and don’t use any excuses for not getting things done. Everybody you meet in this business, who agrees to help you in some way with your career, may also benefit from your success. When an opportunity arises to get your foot in the door, keep it there. If you treat people unprofessionally, they will remember you. If you treat them professionally, they will remember you. You decide what kind of reputation you want to establish. Also, whatever you do, make it the highest quality you can. Your competition in this business is every successful musician out there. Are you as dedicated to perfection as your competition? Remember, the music business has enough flakes, so don’t become the dandruff everybody wants to get rid of.

6) Weave a thread of consistency in everything you do.
Like it or not, as a musician you are part of ‘show biz’, and as such should be very conscious of developing a clear, honest, and definitive IMAGE of who you are, and what your music is about. If you believe you don’t have an image, go ahead and let the music business create one for you...but don’t complain when they call you something you are not. Only you know what is inside of you. Be sure your artwork, press materials, live stage appearance, and your songs reflect who you are, so that every time you work on a part of your career development, you are thinking consistently about any and all aspects of your image.

7) Work with people, don’t work on people.
The music business is built on relationships. Don’t take advantage of people. Nurture the contacts you make, and spend time building these relationships within the particular music scene that exists for your music. Learn who the key players are in each area of music marketing; the distributors and stores, the broadcast media, the press, and the live performance industry. Give them solid business reasons to want to work with you. Once you have them on your team, communicate with them regularly, and become a team player who is genuinely in it not only for yourself, but for the mutual benefit of each team member.

Expectations kill.
Expectations are different from goals. They imply that you deserve something because of some inflated, premature ego that has put you on your own pedestal; when in reality you haven’t even built the stairs up to a pedestal yet. You’ve met people like this. When any early recognition comes their way they absorb praise like a sponge, and become impossible to work with. Nothing is ever good enough for people like this. They ‘expect’ recognition and can easily get sidetracked into abandoning any plans or goals they have set for themselves. They may rest on their laurels, waiting for some invisible momentum to carry them to a new level. A sure way to fail as a musician is to get the reputation of being difficult to work with, and a pain in the ass. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot; you won’t look good limping about in front of your mirror.

9) On the road to success, there are many detours.
Anticipate trouble and find a way out. If there are any guarantees in the music business, you can bet your amplifier that stumbling blocks to success abound. Knowing that problems will arise, and finding solutions to your problems is half the challenge. The other half is implementing your strategies and tactics consistently and professionally. Many ‘wanna-be’s’ give up when rejection arrives. Rejection is a coat of armor that must be worn at all times. For every yes, there will be countless no’s. Learn from the rejections, the missed opportunities, the failed promises, the lousy reviews, the insensitive label personnel, the crooked agents and managers that you may encounter. Turn every negative into some kind of a positive. See what can be learned from the bad experience, so that the next experience might be good.

10) Stop and smell the roses.
Doing music and nothing else is a bad idea! Too many musicians forget that to grow as an artist, experiences are what matter most. It is so easy to get carried away with your music to the exclusion of everything else... friendships, family, the other arts, nature, and other interests are essential to keep the creative juices inspired and flowing. Do things you have never done before. Go out and eat a gourmet meal, read a poem, hike or go fishing. In fact, go out and do the one thing that you feel is the last thing you have any interest in....that should give you something to write about. Music is a business, no doubt about it, but music is also an art, and as an artist you need to nourish your soul as well as your pocketbook


All the best

1. Trust your taste. In other words, don’t second guess yourself. Who are you doing this for anyway?

2. Stop crapping on popular music for your ego. You can learn from anything. In fact, it’s wise to learn from music that millions listen to.

3. Using loops doesn’t make you a “fake” artist. It’s the end product that counts. Look at the gaming industry. Do you know how many of them use Unity? Or Unreal? What matters is the game. What matters is the music.

4. Same goes with samples.

5. Having a beverage while you produce will make the process much more fluid. Arguably it’s the caffeine. Arguably it’s having something to reach for in between empty moments.

6. Get a nice pair of headphones or monitors ASAP. Frequency response is important. Bass is important.

7. Mixing is not mysterious judo. Go ahead and mix. Make bad mixes. Eventually, you’ll make good mixes.

8. Mastering is not mysterious judo. Go ahead and master. Make bad masters. Eventually, you’ll make good masters.

9. Buy a quality sample pack as soon as possible. Here are some quality packs incuding a free one.

10. Let music you don’t like or understand warm up to you. Chances are you’ll dig it once it’s familiar.

11. Repetition is important and minimalism is key but don’t use these as an excuse to ignore that last 20% of polish. Give your tracks that spit shine sheen.

12. No one cares until they do. Work on your craft and put it out.

13. If there’s no market for your work they may never care. Do you care?

14. If you don’t enjoy listening to your music you’re doing something wrong (or working for hire).

15. Start building a reliable way to connect with people who want your music. Email list is a good idea.

16. Free shouldn’t literally mean free. Give it out for a purpose. Facebook likes? SoundCloud followers? Email subscribers?

17. Think about where people will listen to your music. What is the setting? This should inform your production.

18. Think about what people will listen to your music. Who are they? This should inform your production.

19. Don’t resist learning music theory. Music theory is a map. You can navigate without it but it’s handy to have.

20. Don’t compare yourself too much to professional artists. Especially not early on.

21. DO aim for the quality of these pro artists. But again, do not let them stunt you.

22. You’ll reach a point where your music is actually on par with professionals and you’ll only recognize it looking back.

23. It doesn’t matter what DAW you use.

24. The final production is what matters — not how it’s made.

25. I repeat. The final production is what matters — not how it’s made.

26. Don’t ever make excuses with regards to tools. You can make amazing music with 100% free software. Remember that $400 you spent on synths that Deadmau5 was known to use? You’ll use those for about two songs.

27. New tools do provide opportunities for new directions. Spice up your production once in a while by acquiring a new plugin, sample pack, or instrument.

28. You know that guitar you’ve played for half your life? Stop pretending you don’t want to use it and get an interface. I recommend this one.

29. Invest in a solid microphone to go with that interface. I recommend this one.

30. There are four tiers of audio equipment.

Cheap
Solid enough for pro use. Consumer level pricing.
“Pro” which is marginally better than number 2.
Expensive.
Tier two is good enough. Ignore the rest. When you make a living off of music you can splurge.

31. Never get angry or upset at change. People who yell about the music industry crumbling or that streaming is taking over the world are exhibiting resistance. Accept the world for what it is and look for opportunities. The obstacle is the way.

32. Deadmau5 began his production journey around age 16. He exploded 14 years later. Mostly because of market conditions. Kaskade’s “active years” according to Wikipedia begin in 1989. Aim for the slow burn not overnight success.

33. Start building up a following now. Fan by fan. Never forget the power of one more fan. One more listener. One more email subscriber.

34. You don’t need a million twitter followers to be a success. All you need is one thousand true fans. This may not literally be one thousand.

35. Treat your music promotion like a boot-strapped blog. It’s surprisingly analogous.

36. Your side project of writing and your eventual day job as a game designer will provide incredible perspective on making art. This will inform your music. Vary yourself.

37. Compression is overrated.

38. EQ is overrated.

*Clarification: Compression and EQ are nothing more than hammers in your toolbox. Learn how to wield them. Use them to get the job done.

39. In fact, most technical aspects of production are overrated. Focus on the emotion and the energy. You’ll write a book about this.

40. If you’re sitting on unreleased music for two or more years consider licensing it. Sell the beats. Do something with it. Chances are you’ll just sit on them anyway.

41. Vocals are like cheat codes for engagement and interest in your track.

42. Provide value to others. In time, they’ll provide value to you.

43. The people I’ve seen have the most success do it by physically knowing and interacting the most. Playing the game online can work but it’s harder because the barrier of entry is lower — everyone is doing it, and it’s far less personal.

44. Ignore vanity metrics like “number of tracks” or “song length.” These have no bearing on the final quality of the song.

45. As Rolf Potts says in his book “Vagabonding” about world travel, “If in doubt about what to do in a place, just start walking.” Similarly, if you get stuck with a piece just start messing around. Eventually what you’re looking for will find you.

46. Break all the rules. On purpose. Make this a dedicated effort. You’ll learn why they exist and how malleable they really are.

47. Label and name your tracks and project files. It really really really helps when revisiting things. You still won’t do this even if I tell you to.

48. Never ever export a song and call it “final.” That’s a slippery slope.

49. Use [track name]_[purpose]_[date] where purpose is something like “mix” or “mastered” or “demo” or “forJuan.”

50. You appreciate production more during periods of your life when it’s your escape. I know you want to drop everything and produce but understand it will lose some allure. Opportunity cost is a fiend.

51. Your speakers can deteriorate overtime. This will cause you to remaster an album 8 times in the future. Trust your monitors yet be diligent that their time may come.

52. The real important difference between analog and digital equipment is the ability to play and touch analog. Not quality.

53. In the absence of analog equipment, get a MIDI keyboard with knobs, wheels, and faders if possible. At least knobs.

54. Your family genuinely enjoys listening to your music. Share it with them.

55. You know your friends genuinely enjoy your music if their play count is more than two.

56. If you want to make a big diversion or edit in your track do a “Save As” and name it “[track name]_[reason for edit].” Then feel free to make changes. You can always go back to the initial file.

57. Keep volume at a decent level. No reason to blow your head off.

58. Make sure you check your mixes when the track is loud and when the track is quiet.

59. When the track is quiet you should be able to hear the most important parts of your track clearly.

60. Mixing is 90% volume and 10% remembering it’s mostly volume.

61. Mastering is 90% volume and 10% fixing your mix.

62. Back up your music. Dropbox didn’t exist when you started so grab an external hard drive. Losing your work is awful.

63. Never let dollars impede your creative progress.

64. Producing on a laptop is less enjoyable than having a bigger screen. Get the iMac instead of the Macbook. Or, buy a display for your laptop. Regardless, you’ll use a 13-inch MacBook for awhile.

65. If you’ve spent more than 5 minutes adjusting a parameter you’ve lost objectivity. Set it and come back later. Preferably another day. Or after you’ve substantially disengaged from production.

66. You’re not gonna become famous by creating some crazy new synth patch. Each piece serves the whole.

67. You can’t force your voice. You’ll stumble and mimic your way to a point where your voice begins coming through. Let it. Be vulnerable. Trust your choices. Eventually it comes out.

68. There is a difference between a track you casually throw up on SoundCloud and something you’ve officially released. Put care and value into your releases. People respond to this.

69. Find someone to do visual design for you. Album covers, web design, logos, etc. — they’re all important for creating a holistic experience and meeting audience expectations. Most people don’t do this which means you should.

70. Always pay for visual art. If the person declines compensation buy them lunch. If they won’t take lunch yell at them.

71. Whenever you struggle or doubt yourself remember why you got into this in the first place. Making music is fun. If you’re struggling you’ve forgotten the fun.

72. Sometimes the fun isn’t there. Go do something else.