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The Homebase Handbook

Everything Homebase does, explained in order: what to do first, what to do next, and how to actually earn from your music. Read it here or download it and keep it on your phone.

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Homebase gives you the thing every serious artist needs and almost none of them own: a home on the internet that belongs to you.

On social media you rent attention. The platform decides who sees you, and it can change the rules tomorrow. Your Homebase site is different — the people who listen, download and support you become contacts you keep.

Three things it does for you:

•A professional artist site built from a few questions, live in minutes.

•A fanbase you own: every download and every message gives you a real contact.

•A direct way for fans to pay you, with the money going to your account.

You do not need to know anything about websites, hosting or code. If you can fill in a form and upload a song, you can do this.

1. What Homebase actually isYour own artist website, your own fanbase, your own money.

2. Your first 14 days are freeYour site goes live immediately. Nothing to pay to start.

3. Building your site, step by stepSix short steps. Ten minutes if you have your material ready.

4. Your site is live — now whatThe four moves that turn a page into an audience.

5. Your dashboard, screen by screenWhat every page in your control room does.

6. Growing a fanbase you ownEmails and phone numbers beat followers, every time.

7. Getting paidFan support, splits, sync — the money side in plain terms.

8. Promoting without a budgetOne song can carry a month of posts.

9. The Homebase communityA room of artists, and one lesson every day.

10. Put Homebase on your phoneInstall it like an app and get alerts.

11. When something goes wrongThe fixes for the five things people ask about most.

12. The one-page checklistPrint this. Work down it. Don't skip.