11 Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, Episode 81

SPEAKER_2 (0:07)

You're listening to the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, the number one resource for running a profitable home recording studio.

Brian Hood (0:19)

Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my amazing, bald and beautiful, but not purple shirted. He's actually gray sweatshirted.

Chris Graham (0:30)

It's under the sweatshirt, OK? I'm still wearing a purple shirt.

Brian Hood (0:34)

OK, he's a gray sweatshirt with a purple shirt under it. Chris Graham. How are you doing today, Chris?

Chris Graham (0:39)

I'm fantastic, man. I'm really good. It's beautiful in Ohio. The weather is wonderful. I've had an incredible week.

How the heck are you, man?

Brian Hood (0:49)

I mean, you always talk about the weather as if anyone gives a damn.

Chris Graham (0:53)

I live in Ohio, OK? This is important here. It's very rarely nice.

I also am a jeep owner, and it's not a good day unless the roof is off, the doors are off, and I get to drive around a little bit.

Brian Hood (1:08)

That's so exciting, man. That's the most incredible thing I've ever heard. I haven't been outside yet. I had an interesting week. My air conditioner was out the whole, like, half the week, and it was like 85, 90 degrees outside, 85 degrees inside.

And I tried to avoid my house. So I just worked from coffee shops. But it's been good because I've been working on FilePass. That's been, like, my obsession for a while now, actually.

And things are coming along nice. I'm excited about some features we just released this week. I'm not going to talk about it. But I will say that FilePass is going to be entering the early access stage to a much larger number of people. We've let some people in recently.

We're about to open up applications for even more people to join early access. So if you're interested in that, quick plug, go to filepass.com.

If you're confused with what I'm talking about, long story short, this is a software similar to Dropbox where you upload your songs, you send them a link to their songs, they can listen to their songs, and they can add timestamp revisions to the songs without having to log in or do any of that crap. So it's like really frictionless for your clients, and you can also put the songs behind a paywall so that they can't download until they pay you.

Chris Graham (2:15)

That's my favorite part.

Brian Hood (2:16)

Yeah, that's the quick and dirty part. There's a lot more to it. So if you want more info on that, go to filepass.com, request early access, and then you'll get a notification as soon as we open up more spots for early access.

Chris Graham (2:25)

Here's what's amazing about that, Brian, is I think that FilePass is going to become like an industry standard. And what's cool about it is as it becomes an industry standard and clients get used to the fact that they have to pay in full before everything is done, that solves so many problems in our industry. To be able to say like, yeah, you can continue to ask for revisions, but until you have paid in full, you can't download the mix off of the website.

That's cool.

Brian Hood (2:52)

Yeah, and just to note, about half our users don't even use our payment wall because they already get paid in advance. So that's an optional thing because a lot of people are already getting paid before they even send any songs to people. So that's the ideal world.

Chris Graham (3:05)

Genius.

Brian Hood (3:06)

Not everyone's at that point. Chris, I plugged FilePass in our pre-show banter, which is the first time I think I've ever plugged anything of mine in the pre-show banter. And so I feel obligated to ask you how Bounce Butler is doing.

Chris Graham (3:17)

Well, okay, so here's a story for you guys that aren't aware. I have been working my buns off on Home Studio Lessons, trying to get 2 rolled out, when a couple weeks ago, I mentioned in passing on the podcast that in 2011, I created an app called Bounce Butler. And what Bounce Butler does is, if you're using Pro Tools or Logic, especially as a mix engineer, and you've got, say, 10, 20, 50, 100 bounces you need to do, Bounce Butler will do all of those bounces for you and text you when you're done.

Brian Hood (3:49)

That's even better for people who are still on Pro Tools 10, where you just have real-time online bouncing, and you literally have to sit through the entire song. I wish I had had this back when I had that, because I could have just set a 10-song album to bounce, and then it would just be like, all right, I'm done.