As we’ve established, samro is an important part of getting paid for your exploits. Understand that in terms of a body that can take care of your payment and copyright, samro is your only option in south africa. I’m going to go through skill’s method 1st. My next post will go through what I heard […]
I’ve been doing a bit of research on how one gets paid from samro membership. As part of that information finding, I asked around to find out how many artists I work with are samro members. For people who take their music quite seriously, very few of them have registered and even fewer have phoned […]
I feel like this list could go on for many more posts. Here are another 4 topics you can add to the other 8 I’ve given so far to prevent beat block. Learn an instrument Learn an instrument until you feel comfortable enough to freestyle with some actual purpose. Your chances of stumbling upon that […]
Ever heard of Beat block? It’s a real thing. Contrary to popular belief, producers are people and they do suffer from beat block from time to time. I’ve just come out from a short spell of beat block myself. I swear it hits you like the flu and you have no desire to make anything […]
I’d like to continue with income generation by talking about tutoring. knowledge is powerful. Why not let it help you build another income stream. The music industry is filled with little niches that you can fill. Do you have a skill that you went to school for? A musical instrument you can teach? A diploma […]
I feel like it’s necessary to have a short break in the posts about income generation to bring up a very important point for beat makers who want to make money off their beats. So you’ve just made sale off a beat? What next? How do you send the goods to your newly found customer? […]
Royalties? Probably the most overused term by musicians that is so poorly understood. I’m only getting to grips with it myself :P. Today we’ll continue with ways we can make money off our music by briefly going into royalties. There are hundreds of blog posts and articles about performance and mechanical rights and money so […]
How’s it going? I just thought I’d get a head start on this blog post and release it a bit early. I’m going to be continuing with my mini series on monetising your craft. Today Il be touching on the old art of running one’s own studio. Let’s quickly break down the typical studio tasks […]
I’ve been looking at different ways to monetise my music business and thought I should share the ways I do it in a hope that people will in turn share the methods they use with me. I’m going to get right into it and talk about beat sales. This avenue probably accounts for 80% of […]
I recently watched a 1 hour webinar that was centred around increasing productivity in your music business. I picked up some golden nuggets of information from a group called GTSmovement. Below is a basic summary as well as some points that I’ve been following that have helped me complete more for my music business in […]
