Tons of work to do!

So this new writing gig I’ve got is a big one…possibly. I am writing articles again! This time on celebrities though. I’ve decided to go in-depth and try to write biographies for some of the entertainment world’s top acts. This covers comedians, actors/actresses, and musicians. A few other prominent figures throughout history will be profiled as well. So far I’ve got a list of nearly 900+ figures to write about. I plan to have around 25 articles done month.

I’m also picking things up with IndieMusicLounge.Com again. I’ve been slowly clearing the web of some of the past IML stuff and am looking forward to the creation of the IndieMusicLounge.Com social network. I hope that what i have planned for IndieMusicLounge.Com will better suit more indies and now their fans too. You’ll be able to upload a ton of music throughout the site as it has elements similar to Soundclick.Com, Myspace, and Garageband.com. I’ve also decided to designate some areas of the site to major recording artists. I figure if the site gets be (cross your fingers, lol) they may want to use it too. So there will be areas for them to have profiles separate from the indies and there will be areas dedicated to the news happenings of each of the major genres and these section will cover indie artist and major artist news. So much is in store for IndieMusicLounge.Com that I am totally excited. I have even found an investor for when I am ready to launch it (probably not ’til I finish up with college).

Oh yeah, I was playing around with an old keyboard yesterday and discovered synth, lol! I’ve been creating my own tones ever since yesterday afternoon.

Here We Go!

Hey all, got a lot going on right now. I’ve decided to launch a bunch of writing projects right now. I actually got a few writing gigs I’ll tell you about in the future. I’m excited about them though, who can’t use additional dinero.

I’ve gotten back to production (music) and am looking to start posting at least a beat a week up on my Soundclick page. I’m having a lot of fun practicing and getting back in the groove of things, plus I have this young artist I might be developing soon. I don’t know if I’m going to push for him to become a BlackRaven Ent. artist once I launch again, but I’m considering…he’s definitely got the passion for the game. I’m excited about this because developing acts is one of my most favorite things, especially watching them go on to find success. Most are playing regularly and one was just a few seconds away from signing with a major label. I think this is why I enjoy doing IndieMusicLounge.Com so much. I enjoy seeing artists go and reach out for that golden ring.

I also have found graphic designers for the I-Rawk Fashions line that I was doing under IndieMusicLounge.Com when it was a company still so I am happy about that. I was shooting to have a new line of t-shirts out for that by September and now it looks like that is totally possible! Hopefully things go even stronger for I-Rawk Fashions this time out even though I’m just doing it as a hobby sort of thing this time around, but who knows, if things really pick up I’ll almost be forced to look at it more seriously again. I’d actually like this because I enjoy running businesses a ton.

Well that’s enough babbling for me today.

Peace & Luv,

B. J. Marcel

A Better Change

I have been making a lot of changes with my businesses to be. First off I have added a new blog to the Marcel Magazine Blog @ http://marcelmagazine.blogspot.com. This is to increase the amount of traffic in the future to our main site (www.marcelmag.com) hopefully and it is to help earn additional income via the adsense ads we are allowed to use on it. I’m going to use WordPress for the official blogs on the main site because I love all of their plugins so much. Hopefully putting up our main site will lead to mega ad revenue which will lead to me being able to launch the online magazine that I dream of. Marcel Magazine is a men’s magazine covering girls, sports, world news, politics, money/finance, music/movies, and celebrities so I believe there is a future for it somewhere down the road. I’m in no hurry to get there though.

Somethings I am excited about though are these new freelance writing gigs I’ve gotten for myself. I earn residual income on my articles each month for the rest of my life or the life of the sites they are on. I am planning on writing 1100+ articles each year for the next three years for these jobs. I calculated this out and I could be earning anywhere from $21-36,000 a year if I successfully complete this task. It’s great though because once I complete the 3300 articles I’ll be earning this amount, minimum, each year forever without anymore work on my part.

On the music front I am also trying something daring. I heard that Smokey Robinson over the course of his career has written over 4000 songs, well, I wanted to give that a try. I’ve got 197 so far and I’ve got the titles for the next 350 songs so far. I’m going to start writing next month. My goal is 3 songs a day til I reach my goal. I’m also working out some of the details for my artist contracts for BlackRaven Entertainment. I want them to be artist friendly, however, I know just as everyone else does that it is getting extremely hard to make money in the music industry. I am however going to do my best to create fair and just contracts for my artists once I’m ready to sign artists again.

That’s all for now, remember to reach for the moon, because even if you miss you’ll still be amongst the stars

Peace & Luv,

B. J. M.

Dear Diary: 7-15-08

I have been working on the BlackRaven Entertainment business plan and my clothing line business plans mostly lately.  I had them completed in the past but feel now would be a good point to revamp them.

I have lost 33 pounds so far in my weight loss journey and can’t wait to reach my final goal of 181 lbs.  Once I reach that goal I will have lost 100 lbs.  I started a blog, Fitness Forever, to track my journey and to model to others that may want to do the same.  Who knows, maybe Fitness Forever could evolve into another business for me down the road.  That would be cool to help others lose weight and keep it off.

Musically I am starting to finally recover vocally from my sickness.  It has been lingering for about six weeks in my chest area not allowing me to sing properly.  So I’m recording the final songs to my album I’m working on and moving forward with my songwriting career working on Bryan’s solo project and some gospel and country songs too.  I am going to start recording my songs probably late this year, early next year for the publishing company so I’m excited about piecing the instrumentals right now.  That’s about it for now.

TTYL,

B. Marcel

Dear Diary: 6-30-08

I worked intensely yesterday with Bryan on 5 of my songs.  He really liked the newest one She’s Sexy that I wrote (I’ll post the lyrics later).  It seems like I’ve got the right feel for the album I’m creating and that the album is going to be very diverse.  I can’t wait until we get further down the road with it.  The only big thing now I’m worried about is getting vocal training.  I need to learn breathing techniques the most.  Other than that I should be golden. 

Today I just spent working on my business plans and reading a new book: Screenwriting For Dummies.  I have a couple of ideas for screenplays that I’ve had for some time that I am starting to work on.  One I’ve been working on since I was a teenager in high school called The Sisters.  I’ll keep you posted on my progress with it.  That’s about it for today.

TTYL,

B. Marcel

Dear Diary: 6-25-08

I am rolling along with my guitar training.  I am learning so much music theory it’s amazing!  I love this stuff it makes music make so much sense.  I wish I had delved into it years ago.  My keyboard skills are picking up quite nicely too.  I’m considering taking some music courses at college to really get into this stuff.  I want to ultimately become a great producer so knowing this will truely further my personal goals.

I also completed all of the executive summaries for the business plans that I am working on.  So far so good.  The one that I worked on most today was for what is going to be my fan club and official music/business website.  I can’t wait to get these businesses up and running alongside my other ventures.  The entrepreneur in me is bursting for these ventures.

Finally I’ve almost completed transcribing my songs from my notebook to my computer.  This is important because I need to get them printed and copywritten so that I can begin to operate my music publishing company.  I’m so excited about the Cycles of Love cd project, can’t wait ’til Sunday when Bryan comes over and we start adding other instruments to our arrangements.

Dear Diary: 6-16-08

Been feeling a little bit under the weather today so I skipped out on most of my usual work.  I did however get to play around with one of my blogs.  I jumped from 360+ hits a day to 1100 in one day Sunday to over 3500 hits today (and the days not over yet) just by adding FeedBurner to my site.  Its been amazing how fast this system is working in my favor.  I guess I made the right decision to move this blog to wordpress.

I also did a little gardening, damn those weeds! Lol.  I guess that’s a part of the whole gardening thing though.

Lastly I started the dieting portion of my weightloss plan and am actually starting a blog to track my progress and keep me focused.  I’m going to call it fit for life.  I haven’t decided if I want it to be public or not yet, it’s kinda personal to me and I’m not sure I wanna be that naked about it.

Tomorrow it’s back to the working mill, pumping out musical hits and what not.

Peace & Luv, TTYL,

B. Marcel

Dear Diary: 6-12-08

I have recorded two more scratch vocals today!  My favorite is a song called ‘With You’.  No, it’s nothing like the Chris Brown song, lol.  I practiced the guitar today and am picking it up quite quickly.  I can’t wait til I’m competent with the guitar and keyboard because one of my ultimate music dreams is to be a producer and composer.  I can’t wait to relaunch 2 Divine Productions with more knowledge of music especially.

I also worked on another business plan and completed up to the executive summary of it.  It’s going to take up to 3-4 months for me to compile all of the information for all of the different business plans I’m doing so I’ve got my work cut out for me.  The one I was working on today was for a wrestling promotion i want to launch a few years down the road maybe with some partners.

I am planning on visiting a live show of an indie wrestling promotion for the first time in August, the 1st of August to be exact.  It is being thrown by the AWA at the BCW Arena.  If I do successfully launch my promotion I will initially need to ‘borrow’ both organizations’ wrestlers and to rent the BCW’s ring and arena for my first shows.  It’ll be a lot of work in the early going but I’m totally up for it.

Other than that I’ve just been recently blogging for Marcel MAgazine Blog and The Grappler’s Post blog.  Hella fun to me for some reason, lol.

TTYL,

Brandon Marcel

Dear Diary: 6-11-08

I lost one pound so far and boy am I proud, lol.  So today I started the ball rolling with myIcourse.com creating a “university” called the Indie Music Biz Academy for IndieMusicLounge.Com and IndieMusikChick.Com.  I am going to get instructors to teach on various topics relating to music.  You can even charge per course if you want but for starting out I’ll probably have free courses only.  I am really stoked about this even though it’s going to take some time to set up right.

I also recorded to more scratch vocals today.  My favorite one is this song called ‘If You Believe’.  I’m pretty sure it’s going to make it to album.  I’m going to have a choir sing the chorus.  I can’t wait ’til I’m ready to record my works in an actual recording studio rather than my smaller home studio.

Finally I’ve layed out the executive summary to three of my business plans.  I’m working on about ten simultaneously so I’m going to be swamped at leasted for this entire summer.

 

Dear Diary: 6-10-08

Had pizza for dinner, yummy!  Today I was stumping out the executive summary portion for the record label.  It’s a challenging thing to do.  There is so much to it but I know it’s all worth it.  I also recorded three more scratch vocals for the Cycles In Love cd project.  They went okay but I only really am feeling one of them called ‘Without You’.  Luckily I’ll be able to weed the dudds out since I have such a surplus of songs.

I wrote all of the songs I’m recording so there is a certain amount love I hold for each of them, but sometimes they just don’t work out the way that they did in my head.  So I’ll scap the ones that don’t work and only move forward with the hot tracks.

That’s all for today.

TTYL,

B. Marcel