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9 min 1 sec

Lawyer Moonlights Music Production Tutorials

When a lawyer’s after-hours hobby of music production draws interest, he creates a series of video tutorials that leads budding producers to an online course.
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What It's About

An after-hours hobby leads to an extra $2,000/month.

Words of Wisdom

Evan shares some helpful advice on how to deal with trolls, “The main thing I wish I'd done earlier is turn off YouTube and email push notifications. Nothing like having a nice night when you get an alert on your phone with someone talking crap about you.”

Fun Fact

There are now over 37 million Youtube channels - that may seem like a lot until you realize Youtube has over 2 billion logged-in visitors every month. With that much traffic, there’s potential in every niche.

Notes from Chris

Episode 1697

Evan Oxhorn has a demanding day job as a lawyer. But when letting loose at night, he engages in his favorite hobby, producing beats and making music. Over the course of the last decade it’s become a true passion for him.

It’s a passion that’s easier and more accessible than ever, even for a one man band. Gone are the days where you needed a full band or sound studio. That’s been replaced by a laptop and music production software. Software that’s known as a digital audio station—DAW for short. You can think of DAW software as a recording studio in a box.

There are a lot of DAWs on the market, but Evan uses a relatively less popular one called Reason. And, over the course of ten years he became quite an expert at it. In fact, he liked the software so much that he became an active participant on their official forums. He’d often provide guidance to folks just starting out, as well as anyone who wanted to level up their skills. Overtime, he became somewhat of the go-to guy for advice.

That got Evan drumming up an idea: surely, he thought, making video tutorials about making music would be more effective at helping people than writing about it—so he started his own Youtube channel with the intent of posting how-to guides and tips for producing great music with Reason.

Startup costs were effectively zero. He already had the equipment he needed to start recording. Although, as he discovered, producing high quality videos was easier said than done. In his haste to get content out, he didn’t really focus on quality. That led to a lot of hurtful comments, including some from people claiming he shouldn’t be teaching others about audio, if he couldn’t even be bothered to touch it up on his own videos.

Eventually, his channel ended up with over ten thousand subscribers and he explored additional monetization strategies including; affiliate marketing, where he recommended products on his site and would receive a commission for each sale, as well as ad revenue from his growing views and subscriber base. He even started one-on-one consulting for those that wanted a little more instruction.

With all those streams of income, it’s little surprise Evan is now making a solid two thousand dollars per month from his musically-pleasing instructional side hustle.

 
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