Partner with Jellysmack and tell them we sent you! → http://www.Jellysmack.com Today we're talking to musician and creator @M.T.V.STHETRUTH about how he used tiktok to market his music and build his career. 00:00 Intro 02:37 Fulfilling Tai's lifelong dreams 03:47 Discovering Tai Verdes 04:58 Tai Verdes' beginnings 07:49 Why Tai Verdes chose music 09:09 Peanut butter and Jellysmack 10:47 College years 13:06 Tai returns to LA 14:15 Is Tai The One? 17:33 The importance of working a job you hate 19:20 How musicians can use TikTok 25:59 Tai's storytelling 28:00 Tai's fitness tiktoks 29:00 Tai Verdes' songwriting tips 32:50 The success of "Stuck in the Middle" 37:10 Choosing a record label 41:28 Making money from music 42:44 Tai Verdes in the rEaL WOrLD 46:26 Tai talks touring 47:28 Tai drops some wisdom 48:50 DRUGS (Acoustic) Performance 51:25 Fist bump OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: http://www.ThePublishPress.com OUR ONLINE COURSE: 🎬 Make better YouTube Videos: http://moment.8ocm68.net/keM6z WHAT WE USE TO MAKE VIDEOS: 🎥 Our YouTube Camera Gear: https://amzn.to/3coHTR2 🎵 Where we get our Music (amazing for Creators): http://share.mscbd.fm/colinandsamir 🎙 Our Podcast Gear: https://amzn.to/2YpfPVC 📈 Our Most Popular YouTube Videos 🎬 Why Mr Beast will be A Billionaire: https://youtu.be/oopD9FX7a_c 🎬 Why David Dobrik Laughs so Much: https://youtu.be/fjZSLHvkg14 🎬 Airrack’s $17,000 Gamble: https://youtu.be/kzBU9gEHx_M RECOMMENDED Reading 📔 Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday: https://amzn.to/3r3jmFl 📓 The Practice by Seth Godin: https://amzn.to/3coyrgA 📓 This is Marketing by Seth Godin: https://amzn.to/3aeg8bf 🎙 Listen to the show iTunes: https://apple.co/2K1pYhu Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2OnTmBC GET IN TOUCH 🌍 Our website - www.colinandsamir.com 🌍 Advertise With Us - travis@spacestation.com Join Our Community 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/colinandsamir 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/ColinandSamir 🎬 Clips Channel - https://bit.ly/3b4mfk9 WHO ARE WE: We’re Colin and Samir, creators based out of Los Angeles California. We make videos about the creator economy, and the lessons we’ve learned over 10 years of being on YouTube. We also interview creators and try and get to the bottom of what’s working on YouTube and where the creator economy is headed. We are currently working on building education with creators, if you want to learn more, sign up for our weekly newsletter. Ask us a Question: Tweet us @colinandsamir or email us at Colinandsamir@gmail.com - if your email is long, we might not read it, but you never know…