How to Make it in the Music Industry Today?
How to Get into the Music Industry? We’ve all thought of it at least a few times during our lives: How great would it be to be a rockstar? A music mogul that travels...
Category: Music Business Program
Recording Connection mentor Jony Mansilla on Being a Business & an Artist, Constantly Creating & more.
Recording Connection mentor Jony Mansilla is both the founder/owner of Jony Studios as well as a busy singer/songwriter who’s consistently producing his own music. We caught up with the entrepreneurial creative to discuss being...
How to Become a Music Entrepreneur
Some might say there’s no such thing as a “music entrepreneur.” We say all working music producers, composers, songwriters, audio engineers, and DJs are undoubtedly entrepreneurs. Aside from the product or service, entrepreneurs all...
How to Get Your Music on Television
You’ve been making music for a few years now and you have a sound that would blend in perfectly with a tween drama on streaming TV, or just the right pulsating hook for your...
For Engineers & Producers: Time Sucks and How to Avoid Them
Salary.com once released a study that found nearly every worker in every industry wastes at least 30 minutes a day while on the job. Sometimes up to three hours! Reading social media, daydreaming, or...
Authentic Branding Ideas for Artists and Producers
Bands of the 70s and 80s knew how to use their brand. The distinctive lettering of KISS, Judas Priest, and Def Leppard or the logos of Van Halen, Night Ranger, and ACDC, their fans...
What is a record deal?
Caveat Emptor Rules Ever since Robert Johnson “sold his soul to the devil” in order to become a famous musician as chronicled in his song “Crossroads,” record deals have been looked at as a...
What it Takes to be a Music Producer
To become a successful music producer, you need to have passion and drive, a great work ethic, a sense of responsibility, strong business smarts and, last but not least, musical skills, knowledge and abilities....
What is the Purpose of a Record Label?
The Traditional Role of the Record Label Don’t let anyone fool you, the purpose of a record label is to make money. Traditionally, to achieve that goal, record labels found music artists, developed them,...
What is a Record Label Responsible For?
It used to be that record labels were responsible for just about anything and everything to do with getting music to the consumer. From discovering the artist, to nurturing and developing the artist, to...
