Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition

Winning Marketing Strategies for Today's Music Industry

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On sale Feb 03, 2009 | 352 Pages | 9780823084630

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Start and Run Your Own Record Label is a comprehensive guidebook to building your own record business in the highly competitive world of independent record labels. Written from the perspective of an industry insider who started and ran her own label, this revised and expanded edition of a bestseller has been updated to reflect recent changes in the music industry, incoporating changes in digital sales and marketing and exploring the current avenues of Internet networking and online revenue streams. Topics that are added include working social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook; creating and marketing videos for YouTube, selling ringtones online; marketing through blogs and podcasts; and much more. The author has compiled new interviews with current industry professionals and artists--such as Daniel Glass, founder of Glassnote Entertainment; Jeff Price, founder of Tunecore; and Rev Moose, Editor-in-Chief and VP of CMJ--for the most up-to-date, authoritative, and practical guidebook out there.
Daylle Deanna Schwartz was a music industry consultant, self-empowerment counselor, and successful author of many books including I Don’t Need a Record Deal and The Real Deal: How to Get Signed to a Record Label. She appeared on more than 300 television and radio shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Howard Stern, and was quoted in many publications, such as the New York Times and Billboard. Schwartz died in 2014. View titles by Daylle Deanna Schwartz

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Start and Run Your Own Record Label is a comprehensive guidebook to building your own record business in the highly competitive world of independent record labels. Written from the perspective of an industry insider who started and ran her own label, this revised and expanded edition of a bestseller has been updated to reflect recent changes in the music industry, incoporating changes in digital sales and marketing and exploring the current avenues of Internet networking and online revenue streams. Topics that are added include working social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook; creating and marketing videos for YouTube, selling ringtones online; marketing through blogs and podcasts; and much more. The author has compiled new interviews with current industry professionals and artists--such as Daniel Glass, founder of Glassnote Entertainment; Jeff Price, founder of Tunecore; and Rev Moose, Editor-in-Chief and VP of CMJ--for the most up-to-date, authoritative, and practical guidebook out there.

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Daylle Deanna Schwartz was a music industry consultant, self-empowerment counselor, and successful author of many books including I Don’t Need a Record Deal and The Real Deal: How to Get Signed to a Record Label. She appeared on more than 300 television and radio shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Howard Stern, and was quoted in many publications, such as the New York Times and Billboard. Schwartz died in 2014. View titles by Daylle Deanna Schwartz

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