YT is just for marketing, just like instagram, you don't make money with YT. Patreon is fine for what I do. You can sell dubplates via patreon or insta.
Now Halloween is the target date for the releases. My goal, God willing, is that I have a 4 track EP and a new Mixxx ready for upload on that day. If I fail oh well, but thats the goal.
I have a decent job that is very flexible, we just have busy and slow seasons and I need to be better about budgeting tbh. Also I'm trying to cultivate a side hustle with this music stuff, it's all good. The holidays are starting and I'm gonna make sure to sock away some of the extra money from now until mothers day so the summer isn't so hard.
Plus I need to expand on my YouTube and Patreon hustle again, I was making about 45-50 dollars a month in the past with Patreon, I just need to up my content and get more music produced.
Budgeting for me would be, drink less beer, stop buying pot, make my own tracks instead of paying for them, cook my own meals more instead of eating out or buying deli/bachelor food. I also have got better about leaving earlier and driving my van less aggressively to save on gas and wear and tear. Taking back roads, etc..
It's fine I just had a couple slow weeks at work (plus they changed tipping policy at work and the cooks will get tipped out less) and I'm paying for it now. My rent and child support is paid, that's what counts. I could use a week to focus ngl. Good news is when I signed my new lease they LOWERED my rent by the $30. I was shocked but that will help.
Big things coming, I'm releasing an EP on Halloween called Nocturne and it's gonna hit your speakers hard plus a new Charlie Root is in the works, stay tuned!
@dcc I use F5 sir, and what it seem like if I refresh or log out and back in I can't type anything for the first couple of minutes it gives me an error that it can't connect to the server. I also got too many requests errors several times too.