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31 Music Business Tips for Songwriters

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Build your songwriting business with advice from a renowned songwriter. This course offers a month's worth of daily tips to help you build your network and sell more songs.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Do more with the business side of your music
  • Build your songwriting business
1. Organization
  • Staying organized in the music business
  • Finalize your lyric sheets
  • Learn how to embed metadata
  • Learn how to email a link to a song
  • Set up a regular place to write
  • Schedule a regular time to write
2. Song Demos
  • Demystify the song demo process
  • Decide which songs to demo
  • Research demo studios
  • Schedule your demo
3. Marketing
  • Marketing is essential
  • Set up your social media accounts
  • Learn how to make a lyric video
  • Look for a pitch opportunity for one of your songs
  • Pitch one of your songs
  • Follow up on your song pitches
  • Think outside the box for your song pitches
  • Join a pitch organization
4. Networking
  • Organic networking
  • Research music conferences to attend
  • Find local writers' nights
  • Start a writers' night
  • Join a songwriting organization
  • Start a songwriting organization
  • Join a songwriting group of your peers
  • Start a songwriting group of your peers
  • Reach out to a new cowriter
5. The Music Industry
  • Navigate the music industry
  • Read a music business book
  • Schedule a songwriting consultation
  • Make a list of publishers you want to meet
  • Research signed songwriters and their hits
  • Research recording artists and their labels
  • Find out who's looking for songs
  • Join a performing rights organization (PRO)
  • Register your songs with your PRO
Conclusion
  • What's next

Taught by

Cliff Goldmacher

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