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Chris Greenwood has had an amazing career as a musician with his band Manafest. But jamming out on stage as a Christian rock star isn't enough for this high achieving entrepreneur. In addition to selling a ton of records he has built an amazing online business. So amazing he currently makes $50k+ PER MONTH from all of his digital products. Here's his story. We have to start with the fact that Chris was a musician first, then became an online entrepreneur. Chris: I actually started as a network engineer before I even started my music career. Doing the 9-5 and driving an hour each way to work. I am still doing music full time, but I kind of got tired of constantly traveling. My streams had gotten big enough where I didn’t have to tour. Then I learned how to market my music online. This led to me creating courses to teach other musicians how to do the same. I started using Facebook ads and YouTube ads to sell my music with upsells on posters, T Shirts and other merchandise. When I would travel I would check out local thrift stores and look at books. I found a book called The Millionaire Messenger by Brendon Burchard for $0.50. This book taught me that I could teach what I know and get paid for it. This led to many more books that taught me all about marketing and selling my products. Jeff: Once I get ideas and start implementing I am looking for immediate success. But what usually happens is crickets. It takes time. But when you do get that first check no matter how small it is still exciting. So at what point did you feel like ‘oh wow, this is real?” Chris: I learned a lot from a lot of different sources, books, podcasts, etc. It did take some time to start implementing things. I remember creating my course and putting it up on Udemy. I didn’t make a lot of money in the beginning, but I was selling my course and making money. It took off from there. My wife is an artist and she teaches others artists how to sell and market their art. She also started with courses on Udemy and Skillshare. Her name is Melanie Greenwood and you can find here here: https://visioncity.biz/home18695682 We have so much more freedom now which allows us to spend time with our daughter. It’s not always easy, you have to work for it, but it is so worth it to push through. Jeff: What was the evolution of the things you offered and the ways that you were able to monetize the online business. Chris: When I took my course off of Udemy and started hosting on on my own platform, then I increased my prices and my value. Then I started getting around people that were doing similar things. I hired them to help me get to where they were. Get into that coaching program or mastermind. Shorten your learning journey. You will get there faster and avoid some of the mistakes. You can find Chris here: https://www.manafest.com/gohttps://smartmusicbusiness.teachable.com/