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“So my first listing on Airgigs was for the incredible price of $10 per song.”

Charles Berthoud, at 1:25 of “I've Secretly Played Bass On 1000+ Songs” on Charles Berthoud’s channel.

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  1. 1:11 So you make a profile, you set a price, and then people hire you to record on their songs.
  2. 1:17 I was aware that nobody really knew who I was at this point, so I decided to set my price really low just to draw people in and hopefully start building
  3. 1:25 up a collection of five-star reviews. So my first listing on Airgigs was for the incredible price of $10 per song.
  4. 1:33 Quite the bargain, if you ask me. Luckily, this strategy did actually work as I hoped, and I managed to get quite a lot of five-star reviews,
  5. 1:40 which allowed me to raise my price to something a bit more respectable.

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