What every art-oriented person must keep in mind

If you are young, talented, musical, literary, or artistic in any way, you should scoop some wisdom from here.

I know you are dreaming of blowing. Yes, you can blow. You can if you stay true to your art.

It is the digital age, you can promote your art by yourself.

Start wherever you are. Start little. Build your brand!

If you are a young writer, don’t bother about being published by HUGE Publishers.

Publish yourself. Start from your social media pages. Start from your blog.

To publish a book doesn’t cost a fortune anymore. You can publish within your financial capacity.

I have helped people achieve their dreams of becoming authors and it didn’t cost them a fortune.

Start small.

In that process, big brands won’t be able to ignore you.

But when you keep running after them to help you with your art, you have put yourself in a terrible condition.

You’d be a slave.

Talent alone is not enough. You must know and properly understand the business side of your gift.

If you have a musical gift, start posting your recordings online.

Create official social media pages for your music across the platforms.

Stop waiting for a Label to sign you on. Sign yourself on.

Don’t be the next victim of the establishment.

Negotiate from a position of power.

Timaya once said:

 “Music in our days wasn’t even like this. You did not have to wait for a record label to sign you before you start working.

There were no sponsors but for the love of music we kept going. 

What am I saying?

Young talents don’t have to wait for a label to come to them.

Keep working , if you dream big , you won’t submit to just any kind of label.

Every label owner wants to make profits and they will use you in a way that you might not even be comfortable with it.

You might cry and no one hears you, you might even lose everything. 

Just like business people start small and grow big, you can start small and grow too.”

What Timaya said should be extended to every form of art.

Stop waiting for validation. Validate yourself. You can be everything you ever want to be.

You must do the tedious part of the job. You must stay within your niche. You must be consistent. You must never give up.

*Joshua Idowu Omidire, is a language enthusiast, writer, merciless Headitor, publisher, and digital media strategist.