How To Open Operate A Financially Successful Independent Record Label

The overall retail value of the U.S. record industry was 11.5 billion in recent studies. With the help of this new book you can get a piece of that business by starting your own small record label.

This book covers the entire process in an easy-to-understand way by pointing out methods to increase your chances of success and showing you how to avoid the common mistakes that can doom a startup. While providing detailed instructions and examples, the author leads you through finding a location that will bring success, managing and training employees, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting, and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. In addition, you will become knowledgeable about basic cost control systems, equipment layout and planning, low and no cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales, and low cost marketing ideas. You will also learn how to get your music on sites where customers pay to download your music such as Rhapsody, iTunes, and others. With the help of this book you can turn your love of music into a highly successful business. --Book Jacket.

An indispensable step-by-step guide to releasing your own records and beginning a working independent label. Since the boom of homemade records and independently-minded musicians in the 1980s, the alternative music industry has grown from strength to strength, driven by a policy that privileges the music itself over the aggressive marketing and branding strategies of the majors. You can retain all control and rights to the music you release, allowing you to showcase and sell the music that you believe should be heard. There has never been a better time to begin a label for yourself, and this comprehensive title shows you exactly how it's done, including: Devising a business plan Finding and choosing talent Creating and manufacturing records themselves All aspects of promotion and marketing Distribution and radio Get your company organised and get those records out there right now with the help and advice of this informative guide.

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Starting Your Record Label Starting a record label needs tremendous amounts of dedication and hard work as a result of the music trade is extremely competitive. It conjointly needs a considerable investment of cash to supply music, sign talent and promote your company. However, if you're serious regarding the business, you can be successful. Establishing Your Start-Up Even if you want to start a record label to promote a certain type of music or for your own creative endeavors, it is still a business and needs to be treated as such. When you start a small business, one of your first acts should be to hire an accountant to help you with the financial aspects of your business, including your business plan. Hiring an Entertainment Attorney Entertainment lawyers handle many types of cases, but they don't all work on the same types. You will want to find an attorney that can handle contract law who can write up contracts and negotiate on your behalf with artists, distributors and other people you will have a professional relationship with. Be sure that your entertainment lawyer specializes in music, rather than books or film. For more information click on the BUY BUTTON!!

Releasing An Independent Record is the bestselling book on how to start your own record label in the 1990s. This new 6th Edition has been completely revised and updated, with sections on manufacturing, publicity, distribution, radio, the internet and more, plus directories of over 3,000 contacts nationwide.

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