Get the power you need to make your mark in the new music economy. Twelve chapters of resource-rich information and strategies to help you create the music company you've been dreaming of. Here's a partial list of what's inside: * Updated look at crucial trends in the music content business * The key players in the biz and how income flows in the recording industry * Tips on how to use the internet for your business/market research * How to put together your A&R program * Checklist for assessing the feasibility of a new business idea * Sample contact management system * How to use music trade associations to further your company's success * Copyright and song clearance know-how * How to obtain credit card merchant status for your business and increase sales * Record label personnel flow-chart with task assignments * Sample music production budget log * A step-by-step guide to writing your label's business plan * The essential points of selecting a music producer, recording studio and record manufacturer * Complete explanation of bar codes and how to obtain one for your label * Sample artist contracts with commentary * Sample partnership, master licensing, parental consent agreements and MORE * How to incorporate your business for greater tax savings * Special tax guidelines for the small label or production company * How to set up your company web site * Guidelines for raising capital and investor formation * The legal rights & issues facing small labels and production companies * How to calculate artist royalties * Examples of music licensing agreements * Music-related tax deductions sheet * Where to look for artists, songs and producers * Tips on how to deal with CD manufacturers * Expanding your business activity through new revenue streams,

Indie Power

Peter Spellman

Music Business Solutions

Indie Marketing Power

From booking agencies and indie record labels to web services and music production houses - we're seeing a groundswell of music entrepreneurial activity galvanized by segmenting markets, loads of small business support resources, and empowering digital tools and media. Indie Business Power focuses on serving this fast-growing population of "micro" music businesses. Indie Business Power helps focus the lens on music opportunities today and provides the guidance needed for starting &amp; growing a new venture to meet these opportunities.

Indie Business Power: A Step-By-Step Guide for 21st Century Music Entrepreneurs

Business & Money

Spellman, Peter W.

Job Hunting & Careers

Indie Marketing Power delivers market intelligence, smart strategies and fresh perspectives on essential music marketing ideas and practices. It covers everything from discovering your unique market niche and assessing your current marketing practices, to tapping the power of your audience, securing profitable license deals and expanding your music overseas. In between you'll discover the best promotional practices for live performance, selling merchandise, engaging social media, building your mailing lists, securing radio airplay, finding the right distributors, attracting sponsors, and much, much more. The final chapter walks you through the process of writing a results-driven marketing plan, and three glossaries and a 38-page Further Resource Guide top it off. This is the sister volume to Indie Business Power. That book helps you plan and set up your music business; Indie Marketing Power shows you how to find your market, arrange your promo tools, and take your music product to the world.

Indie Marketing Power: The Resource Guide for Maximizing Your Music Marketing, 3rd Ed.

Marketing & Sales

Indie Business Power helps focus the lens on today's music opportunities and provides the guidance needed for starting &amp; growing a new venture to meet these opportunities. Covers everything from self-assessment to opportunity discovery, from understanding how to smartly use business resources to expanding into global markets. In between you will explore the best business practices for writing a powerful business plan, sourcing capital, building teams, grass roots marketing, managing company operations and small business finance. In addition, a context for understanding current business changes in the music business is provided as well as a detailed analysis of six "megatrends" taking the music industry into exciting new directions.

Spellman, Peter

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

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Indie Power

Indie Marketing Power

Indie Business Power: A Step-By-Step Guide for 21st Century Music Entrepreneurs

Indie Marketing Power: The Resource Guide for Maximizing Your Music Marketing, 3rd Ed.

Indie Business Power: A Step-By-Step Guide for 21st Century Music Entrepreneurs