Building a fan base Quotes

I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.

If you don't come from film family, it takes time for people to register you. When you don't come from film family, the connection with the audience takes time to build up; it happens eventually.

Do what you LOVE to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again and again.

For a while I was a completely unknown artist with no fan base and no draw in the clubs. The only people that would give me a shot were the gay clubs. Gay clubs were so open to me coming in and trying things out.

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.

You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz.