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EP209: Here's How Rick Barker Launched Taylor Swift's Music Career on Social

Perpetual Traffic

Tier 11

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8849 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We know you’ve heard of Taylor Swift—but you may not have heard of the person who helped her rise to fame: Rick Barker.

Rick is a music industry legend. He’s the former manager of Taylor Swift and now teaches everything he’s learned about digital marketing in his online courses and books. Rick talks to Ralph and Molly about his content marketing secrets, how he’s utilizing paid traffic, and what it was like launching the career of one of the largest pop stars in the world. 

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

  • How Rick landed the job as Taylor Swift’s manager without any management experience
  • Rick’s strategy of treating each platform (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) like its own venue 
  • The 3 content strategies to abide by: talk to your audience, show up every day, and create valuable content
  • The right way to ask your warm audience to watch your content and subscribe to your profiles (without asking them to subscribe)

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Taylor Swift’s Website

The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice

The Product Launch Workshop | Jeff Walker

The Music Industry Blueprint Podcast

Rick Barker’s Music Business University

Social Media For Music

Rick’s Website

Rick on Twitter

Rick on Facebook

Rick on Instagram

Episode 112: Music Marketing: How to Grow an Artist’s Following & Sell More Concert Tickets

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:17.9

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1:23.7

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1:26.9

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