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.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Do more with the business side of your music
- Build your songwriting business
- 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
- Demystify the song demo process
- Decide which songs to demo
- Research demo studios
- Schedule your demo
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What's next
Taught by
Cliff Goldmacher
