Shotty's Hip Hop Blog

 Shooting for the Stars with Shotty Mills Oilfield to the Sales World Podcast Shotty Mills It all started for Shotty Mills working long and tedious hours in the oilfield industry. From dragging heavy vac hoses to closing 10k deals in the sales world. The origins of Shotty Mills started at humble beginnings. Now shoot ahead to years ahead, and you see him now closing deals, and running a podcast that has reached a worldwide audience.  It's outreach has expanded on a global scale. When you transition careers, it can be such a big decision within the range of your lifetime. In Shotty Mills latest podcast episode he alludes how shifts in career can be do drastic, but they can help you get in touch with your higher self. And working in the sales world has truly done this for Shotty Mills. It has altered the way that he thinks about sales. As sales surrounds all of us from the businesses that are around us to the advertising done. The truth is there is no shortage of advertising tha...

 Shooting for the Stars with Shotty Mills Knowing your Value Brought to you by Buzzsrpout When you know your value in the marketplace and your network. It will change everything in Shotty Mills new podcast episode he touches upon how knowing your value within your network can be a valuable asset to have. The value that you provide to your network can ultimately come back to you in ten folds.  Those that you network with can have a drastic effect on the life that you create. The Shooting for the Stars movement serves a blueprint to place more emphasis on encouraging people to realize their potential. Your value should be never be devalued in the eyes of another person.  Sometimes it takes losing value of yourself to truly see the value within yourself and those around you. Now, think about the value that you provide in the world for a moment. Does it provide value to those around you and empower you? If not it's worth the breathe of fresh air. In Shotty Mills new podcast e...

 Sales and Business Development By: Shotty Mills Sales and business is as lucrative as it gets. When interacting with different people, you know that within sales you will be in direct contact with a wide range of different people. The business world is always innovating in more ways than one. In order to develop business one must understand the basis of how the business is ran from top of the executives to the bottom. In sales, you always see how closing deals goes down. When you close a deal, you are ultimately building that rapport with the future client or lead. A lead in business is described as an investment into having a future client or future business opportunity. Sometimes the opportunities that present themselves in the landscape of business come in the form of abundance. While at other times they can come at an even higher cost. When you grow a business at the beginning. It can almost feel that there is no traction that is leading you in the right general direction. But...

 How to Grow a Lasting Brand? By: Shotty Mills YouTube is one of the fasting growing social media platforms out there on the web. With it being known worldwide by numerous people on a global scale. In order to make a brand last in a fast paced world today, you must keep up with the trends of the world that are happening. There is always trends that you can hop onto as content creator, and use this as your leverage to grow a lasting brand. If you are looking to grow a lasting brand that will help you branch out and develop more a network. You must know how to build up yourself as a brand. Since as a brand it is how you represent yourself and how other people will see you. The brand that you create will create a mental picture in the mind of people that come into direct contact with your brand and how you choose to run your overall marketing campaigns. Get your professional book posted today with sqribble: https://sqribble.com/cb/pro/?hop=shotty&fbclid=IwAR0nKU_AT6qYFaZP3AL_...

  Building a Community With Shotty Mills By: Shotty Mills When building a music community, it can be a daunting task to many involved. But the benefit of building a music community pays dividends in the long run. When asking Shotty Mills about how his upcoming release has helped him establish building a community. He says that, "Syndrome, depicts the idea of how we struggle within a community. But a valuable part of building a music community requires one to know to connect and network with others accordingly. The community that we build around our music movement can create more space for more opportunities to present themselves. We are either with the music community and we use it to our mechanical advantage. On the contrary, you can be forced upon the opposing force, where your music community works against you. But as an artist, musician you have to know how to connect with your community. To build yourself from the ground up, and this would be a big asset in growing and develo...

 Syndrome by Shotty Mills  Post Release By: Shotty Mills Shotty Mills track Syndrome has made waves since it's release date on January 27th. This song is be labelled as Shotty's more sought after release. Since the beginning of Shotty's emerging rap career that continues to rise up from the ashes. Shotty has caught the Syndrome already. The question is: have you caught the Syndrome yet?  Rap fans: what are the symptoms of your Syndrome? The syndrome circulates around us like an oscillating fan. We all have our own Syndrome within all of us. In Shotty's Mills new track Syndrome he expresses on a profoundly level the agonizing experiences that he encountered.  When you think about it. Our Syndrome is like labelled as our experiences that we must overcome, in order to overcome the sickness within all of us.  When asking Shotty Mills himself about how he feels about the newly released track. He himself says that he his hyped about the release and what it brings to t...

 Shotty Mills New Single Syndrome Releasing on January 27th!! By: Shotty Mills Brought to you Shotty Mills and Exposure Music Marketing Shotty Mills the upcoming and emerging hip hop and rap artist out of Drayton Valley, Alberta is dropping his new single Syndrome on Spotify, Apple Music and all music platforms. This new single has a profound storytelling vibe behind it, which will entice the ears of many of it's listeners.  What story does your Syndrome tell and what does it speak to you? The truth is there's a sickness that circumnavigates within all of us. If there's a Syndrome within all us. What is your Syndrome and how do you cope with it?  We are our enemies sometimes as they say, and Syndrome that circulates can be your greatest sickness. This hard hitting hip hop track from the one and only Shotty Mills will inspire the likes of other upcoming storytelling rappers. It will be highly influential, and the lead the way for Shotty to share the creative juices that Sh...

 Are You Ready to Catch the Syndrome? By: Shotty Mills We are approaching the upcoming release of Shotty's new track Syndrome. There is two weeks away before the highly touted and anticipated release. The question is: are you ready to drown within your Symptoms? What are your symptoms rap fans? And how do you cope within the sickness of your syndrome.  In Shotty's new and hot track releasing on January 27th/22. You will see the impact of the syndrome. Can you handle this Syndrome that is throw directly at you? We all have symptoms that circulate through and our system.  We all have a story within us #catchthesyndrome. For anyone that shares Shotty's upcoming single utilize the hashtag #catchthesyndrome and tag Shotty Mills directly within that post. It would be greatly appreciated. Every "Syndrome" carries a symptom. Can you bear witness this to rap fans with Shotty's upcoming single release Syndrome? Put yourself in shoes of your own sickness and come to term...

  Are You Ready to Catch the Syndrome? By: Shotty Mills What is a syndrome and why are you dropping it? A Syndrome is characterized, as a disease or particular type of sickness that you catch. And the truth sometimes, you get tired and fed up of the syndrome that you catch. The syndrome can be found right where you left it, but the sickness circulates around you like wrapped barb wire. It’s a desire fed with ambition and full rounds of ammunition. I have the caught the Syndrome once, and I nearly overdose on the Syndrome that caught. It left me out bleeding on my bed with open wounds and multiple stab wounds. I am the Syndrome. Now, what are you? I am the Syndrome that is born inside made up in your heart and soul. For you are about to catch the sickness and become a victim of your own sickness that you carry. Now, as you bury, where do you carry it. Our symptoms made up within all of us vary from person to person, and each of us carries a sickness. And in which that ma...

 New Single from Shotty Mills "Syndrome" Overview By:Shotty Mills With Shotty's upcoming release "Syndrome" it has a unique storyline behind it. It will entice an audience, as it carries a sickness for any hip hop listener to catch. And once you catch it, you better count your symptoms. This new single from the hometown artist out of Drayton Valley will exhibit the idea of how we all carry a sickness within in us. But it's up to you how you manage those symptoms and utilize it to fuel your engine. This song carries a more melodic flow and tone to it that will draw in listeners on a global scale. With a plethora of influences from Shotty Mills. This one is inspired by his idol Eminem, J.Cole, Kendrick Lamar and his 2 Pac. The original storyline behind this will give a listeners only a small sample of what is to come firing at you from Shotty Mills in 2022. Recently, Shotty dropped numerous singles in this past year. Despite, the pandemic occurring.  Shotty Mi...

 How Much Music Should You Release in a Year? By: Shotty Mills Within a year it can be a challenge to figure out how much music to release within a given year. But it's still fairly important to understand and counterbalance everything out. Music is such a diverse culture, and it has such a resound impact on society as a whole. The music industry has changing trends that occur on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. But you have to figure out how music, you should release within a year. This way, you can have set goals that are set and stone. To help you set your long-term goals ahead of time when it comes to the releasing of your music. We all see it, and sometimes we underestimate how music you can release within a given year. But it's also important to place marketing as a factor in play as well. If you release too much music within a year, you will get lots of people interested. But however would this be the ideal marketing strategy to help generate more overall leads. These ...

 When is the Right Time to Release New Music? By: Shotty Mills The timely manner of releasing new music is valuable when it comes to releasing new music. With the drastic amount of music being released each day on stream platforms. It would be labelled as vital to know the timely manner of releasing new music. The world has music playing everywhere, and if you can get the music in front of the right audience. Then you will be more likely to gain a wider audience to share or listen to your music. As music artist we all want to know when the right time would be to release new music. But this answer would vary amongst a wide range of people. As new music is being created on a daily basis. It's important that one must understand the just of releasing music.    As artists sometimes we get too caught up in the creative process of releasing music. It's almost that we forget the appropriate time to release music that would be beneficial for the growth of the artist. This is somet...

 How Do You Define Hip Hop as a Genre? By: Shotty Mills In regards to hip hop as a genre. Hip hop is a worldwide known genre to many, and it has influenced the lives of many also around the world. The world of hip hop continually does evolve, and the impact of how artists grow with the genre of hip hop is astounding. And hip hop as an overall culture is very diverse with the amount of sub genres that have developed from hip hop in general. The hip hop industry consists of numerous artists. And the way that hip hop has evolved has allowed more growth within the industry to happen. Even with the early days of Daddy Kane and other hip hop known figures. Hip hop has grown itself into a known genre worldwide. And this allowed for new subgenres to be created within their own particular form. The true definition of hip hop is found from the soul. And I'd say the greatest advice, I have ever been given is to follow your passion for hip hop. And speak from your soul, because when you speak ...

 Targeting your Audience as a Brand By: Shotty Mills As you aim to target your audience as a brand. It's important that you understand the concept behind targeting your audience as an overall brand. As a brand there are numerous ways for you to target your specific audience, but targeting your audience accordingly can pose more of a challenge. Some ways that you can target your audience as an artist is to aim at understanding the demographics behind your audience firstly. Your audience is what you truly do chose to invest into your audience. When you are a brand like Shotty Mills himself, you will know that you yourself are marketing yourself as a business. Therefore, this further stresses the importance of targeting an audience in that marketing yourself as business creates more traction and generates more overall leads.  The moment that you understand who you are audience is and how you are going to target this audience. The more likely you as an audience will find your path...