We found Modern Musician as we were…looking for new listeners We found Modern Musician as we were looking to promote a new music release. I highly recommend this company if you are looking to grow your fan base, connect to new listeners and find fresh ways to create income as an artist. They are on top of their game!!! You definitely should be ready to do a lot of work to move your creative entity forward. This isn't a publicity campaign--where you hire someone to do the work for you and hope for the best. But why would you want that? This is a mix of education, coaching & publicity implementation. Modern Musician gives you so much innovative information as well as a lot of technology training so you can find your ideal fans, connect with them and take your music career to the next level.

A perspective to consider Modern Musician sells a tactical strategy that can be very effective for certain kinds of personalities and musicians. If your audience is one that expects and buys merch, that’s great. And if the direct appeal works for your audience and you, even better. For a solo female artist this approach was not for me…The customer service is attentive enough but also not too good — they want to drive you to the pricier “gold” level. I found customer service to be very friendly and supportive. But the software while having lofty aims does not deliver. There are better CRM programs and way better email programs — I just didn’t have enough experience and didn’t do research, so believed their statistics and pricing comparisons. The social media integrations are not as functional as others and for a small band pretty unnecessary. I learned a lot from this business, most of it being how to sell because they did such a great job of it. I truly got a lot of value just seeing how they operated. I have since moved to an email service with a way better delivery rate (that I never would have sought out of this hadn't been such a failure!) and changed my strategy altogether. I’ll let you know if I end up finding the master strategy but I think it’s a better course of action. I’m writing this to provide someone else with a little more color on the MM experience from someone who was really invested and implementing for 3+ months — I’m happy for those who have had this approach and community work for them and their music but it was not something that worked for me despite best efforts. Best of luck ~

Taking the Gold Artist Program at Modern Musician Taking the Gold Artist Program at Modern Musician was a big step in my music career. I learned a lot of valuable things that helped me improve my habits and outlook on my music career, and I had a lot of breakthroughs that changed my thinking and approach around monetization, merch, email list building, and more. The best part of the program was getting to know other musicians and to have a really practical, inside view of what they're doing—the nuts and bolds of how an ad performed, how much they spent on shipping merch, how they figured out how to monetize their livestream, etc. One thing that holds me back from giving a 5-star review is the fact that, after following the coursework and really putting in the work, I'm operating at a STEEP loss which does not make my current setup viable in any way for me. Some of the business systems that have proven profitable for members of the Modern Musician team haven't worked as well for me—for example, the ad system that seemed to work well for others are insanely expensive for me to run, and shipping costs from Canada erase the profit margins on physical goods. I've spent a large portion of my time re-engineering the systems that were said to work when I joined the program. Becoming monetized and profitable was the main reason I joined, and that was a huge selling aspect of the course, so truthfully I am a little let down that I'm not seeing any returns. So, in the end, I'm going to get a result that works for me, but it's only because I'm willing to really put in the work and redesign it all, based partially on concepts I learned in the course. Overall, this is a fantastic group of people. It's a lot of work to implement the coursework, but if you do, you'll end up with a more organized system for running your business, connecting with fans, positioning your merch, and other aspects of being an indie musician!

Great People that truly care about who… Great People that truly care about who you are as a person and how they can help you be the best version of yourself so you can in turn go and serve your fans better than you could have before. All the coaches are top notch and give honest feedback about how you are the artist can serve your fans better. It's been the best experience I have ever had with coaching in the music business.

Modern Musician and it’s incredible… Modern Musician and it’s incredible team members are able to take the wild, woolly world of music marketing and distill it into a digital music ecosystem that makes sense for the fan journey. They’re masters at connecting the dots so things can be happening while you sleep—also freeing you up to make more music that connects with more people. Can’t say enough good things about this company and crew!