Are you doing everything you can to ensure that you’re capitalizing on every opportunity to monetize your music and performances? Click through to check out a quick list of tasks you need to accomplish, organizations you need to join, and things you need to consider including distribution, rights, streaming, publishing, social media, live performances, sync, SoundExchange, and Performing Rights Organizations. The article includes tons of links to even more information provided by the team at Symphonic, a great place to get started to wrap your head around getting up to speed as a professional, independent musician.
- Release your music on every platform
- Market your releases
- Register with SoundExchange
- Familiarize yourself with Neighboring Rights
- Live steam and monetize with a 3rd party or digital tip jar
- Register with the Mechanical Licensing Collective
- Register with a Performing Rights Organization
- Seek opportunities to collaborate and co-write
- Print your music as sheet music and make it available for sale
- Sell tickets online
- Make and sell great merch online and at performances
- Get serious about YouTube
- Pitch for syncs
- Create split sheets that detail who owns what on each of your songs
- Create instrumental and clean versions of every song
- Engage your fans on every social media platform and don’t forget to monetize that content too
Please visit Symphonic to view the full article by Randi Simmerman.
