#149: How to Make a Living as a Musician with Jason Ager (Part 2)

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This is part 2 of our discussion with Jason Ager. This time, Steve and Jason discuss the business of making a living as a musician and how technology has changed and continues to change the game. Learn about the importance of and increasing scarcity of quality human curation for small artists, how phone culture has changed the live music experience, possible ways to use AR/VR to monetize performances, how Jason uses "pay as you wish" to sell CDs and get a useful market signal, and learn how one artist made a request show both more fun and more profitable by encouraging a bidding war for song selection. This is a fantastic episode you won't want to miss.

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00:00 - Part 2 Intro

00:56 - Curation & The Death of Radio Stations

08:47 - Live Music & Phone Culture

15:29 - AR/VR Use Cases in Music

27:17 - Pay What You Wish & Thinking Like a Business

40:53 - “Superchats” for Live Music

45:17 - Where to Find More Jason Ager

46:10 - Where to Find More JAG

47:16 - Outro Music

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🎸 Theme Song, “The Rescue Party” by E.Joseph and the Phantom Heart

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