how to turn your content into passive income as a producer..

[00:00:00]Hey, what's up? My name is Prod by Flames.

[00:00:02]Uh probably for those who don't know me, I make drums, I make kits, and I already gone kind of viral among the producers and industry producers like Metro, uh Allen Ritter, C1 like Sub Urban Music Producer, and many more people who are using my kits daily. And I building my sounds and brands through years. And today I'm going to drop some knowledge about my personal branding. And also I would like to uh show some insights how to build your personal brand as a producer in 2026.

[00:00:38]And I think this kind of interesting topic. You have to understand uh first it takes time. Uh my videos back in the days look like this. Uh and right now it looks like this.

[00:00:50]And definitely one of the most important insight I understand through years, you need to find your passion and content creation and develop your own style. And commit it at least for 1 to 2 years.

[00:01:03]Because you know, it's hard to make something that you generally don't like. And you you need to find something uh you ready to grind for no money and at least for 1 to 2 years. If you're already on this point, this definitely cool for you and for example, your first YouTube video will probably not perform. Your first reel probably will get like 100 views.

[00:01:28]And uh there are some people who like getting blow up who blow up as a producer in one video only, but trust me, >> [laughter] >> it will take time. And second, I think it's super important about the personal brand is not just visual aesthetic, cool beats, and fire sample packs. I think it's about your vision, like your principles, your perspective of the world and stuff like that. You definitely need your angle because people love your visual style, love your vision because your angle of, you know, watching this world. For example, for me, I love gaming aesthetics. I love dark aesthetic like old computer stuff, old errors like 2000 sounds, and I definitely trying to create something like that around my, you know, visuals. And without this passion, you can't create visuals like this because you don't understand how it works, >> [music] >> and you definitely looks like you're larping on it. So, I think this definitely super important.

[00:02:36]Sec- like third, I think when you got the angle and you got uh you know, your vision, I think this definitely super important to get uh your skills.

[00:02:50]Um it's time to develop your skills.

[00:02:52]Once you get your angle to figure out, it's time to you know, create some identity.

[00:02:57]I recommend you research like follow some good creators on Instagram.

[00:03:03]Find cool creators on Instagram, especially who create visuals, and create your own mood boards like on the Pinterest, on the other, you know, platforms where you can, you know, trying to create something like this.

[00:03:18]Research visuals, figure out how you can uh use it, especially what you like, what you dislike. And for example, I like black colors, as you know. I spent a lot of time thinking how I can use black colors in my, you know, aesthetic.

[00:03:33]And after that, I research how to fit them naturally. And when it comes to skills, you can learn everything on the YouTube, TikTok, you know, some Patreons and things like that.

[00:03:47]Um I think there's nothing special about that right now. Back in the days, it was kind of hard to find good courses, good videos, but right now you can just scroll on the internet and find everything. Next step, I think it's super important about the making your way and your personal brand is a good product. Right now, we see that kits dropping every day, like a lot of stuff coming every day, and definitely it's hard to sell them because people don't understand why you should buy this kit, why you should buy that. And you need to develop your own good product, especially to build understanding how the people will use it, like uh this is not just another one kit, this is something different. For example, for me, I try to research for the Soviet scenes, record them themselves, and create another package for, you know, uh just spend my time to create something different from the community and discover new things. Once you have strong strong product, it's definitely a lot of easier to find your niche and find your audience.

[00:05:00]And when you got product, when you got angle and vision, you got visuals identity, like you're like me.

[00:05:09]Uh after that, you are going to use socials to promote your stuff, like to promote your vision, to promote your music, to promote your product and stuff like that. This doesn't matter, it will be YouTube or Reels.

[00:05:22]Uh and you just go go all this, you know, audience to the website and convert them all to the your digital income, which allow you to travel around the world, like selling your music online and making, you know, passive income or like active digital income, how it works for you, it doesn't matter. But I think there are some fundamentals about how you can build your brand in 2026.

[00:05:49]Uh always remember, I think it's super important to be yourself and create great music because if you don't have cool products, if you don't have great music, if you don't have, you know, your identity which you especially love, this definitely will not perform for you and you just lose your time because you can simply get a job and can keep can you know, actually make some money just by getting the job. And I think this this the reason why so many people stuck in this point because they just making things they don't like. And I think this definitely something you should master when you are going to create some music and sell some digital products.

[00:06:33]Uh if you like this content, definitely I recommend you follow my Instagram. I'm posting a lot of stuff about my way.

[00:06:39]Also, if you didn't check out my latest kit, Operation Ghost, feel free to reach out. Uh links in down below. And also, I'm going to post more content about, you know, marketing, business style, and things about how to build your brand, how to sell your music, how to, you know, automate your routine and stuff like that on the Hive channel. This is will be my next um you know, another product and another brand which I'm going to grow for in the next years probably. So, definitely recommend you follow this if you want to learn something about business stuff in the music and especially in the content.

[00:07:19]Thank you for watching. Peace.