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| | The Minding Your Own Business Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Record company | Views: 1543 | | Oct 09, 2006 9:43 pm | | Record company | # |
Emily Hendricks | | Any advice on starting up a record company? I'm especially interested in the Christian music genre. I don't have much experience in the industry, but I have some experience in arts marketing and am a musician myself. I would also be interested in assisting anyone else with their companies (in marketing or anything else)Any advice/links/contacts would be very helpful. Thanks!
-Emily Hendricks Private Reply to Emily Hendricks | | Oct 09, 2006 11:21 pm | | re: Record company | # | 
Kurt Schweitzer | | I happen to know someone who owns a small label - Dynamic Recording, at http://www.dynrec.com/ . The impression I got from him was above all else you need a good lawyer to deal with the copyrights and contract issues.
Good luck!
Kurt SchweitzerPrivate Reply to Kurt Schweitzer | | Oct 10, 2006 12:12 am | | re: re: Record company | # | 
Alex Blom | | What great timing!
I'm in the process of doing something similar in my local area / booking live events! Haha, I was intending on making a similar topic today.
Alex Blom
Media Diseno - Website & Media Development, Hosting and SEO
http://www.mediadiseno.comPrivate Reply to Alex Blom | | Nov 01, 2006 11:29 pm | | re: Record company | # |
Ashley Morgan | | Hi Emily, the biggest asset you have is that you are a musician yourself.
I'm a pro trumpet player and I run a small independent label called Big Arena Records. We sell via the major download services such as iTunes and Napster as well as building websites for the artists to sell direct to the public.
Take a look - http://www.bigarenarecords.com
And our first signing - http://www.enormousreloaded.com
Good luck,
AshleyPrivate Reply to Ashley Morgan | | Nov 01, 2006 11:53 pm | | Record company | # | 
Anna Rachelle | | Well, would you like for me to come and sing for you?? lol......If you send me your email address I have three songs on mp3, I would love to send you. Private Reply to Anna Rachelle | | Nov 10, 2006 6:54 am | | re: Record company | # | 
Jessica Sellers | | If you would like some candid, no-nonsense advice on the music industry, have you read any books by Jason Blume (This Business of Songwriting) or John Braheny (The Craft and Business of Songwriting?
I know it says songwriting but they also have alot about record companies and the actual Business of musicianship.
Maybe you have read these already, but if not, they are good places to start to get a general overview of how things work.
I took a songwriting class at BYU and the teacher, Ron Simpson, actually owned his own music publishing company and published alot of his own songs. We had to read books by those two authors for the class.
Ron made it somewhat his life's work to compile a huge directory of useful books and other resources by topic to help people who are interested in the music industry. I haven't used it much, but I hear it is very useful. Maybe I could look up topics for you if it would help you.
Hope this helps,
Jessica Sellers
P.S. By the way, anyone here had any luck with or noticed any interest in a retail outlet for local artists and musicians to sell their stuff? I think it would be fun.
Private Reply to Jessica Sellers | | Nov 11, 2006 10:47 pm | | re: re: Record company | # | 
Chris Wolfeagle | | I have connections to a replication company for replicating your CD!
Through them you may also get connected with some info.
Warmly
Christina Thompson
Chandler AZPrivate Reply to Chris Wolfeagle | | Nov 26, 2006 9:44 pm | | re: Record company | # |
Ralph White | | If you already have a business plan you might consider
visiting the Fund My Ideas website at http://lnk.in/43es
They have a program the shows you how to obtain business
funding. I used the information and was able to get some
funding for a project that I was working on.
Good luck!
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