Music Is Your Business
For SERIOUS Musicians Only!
Christopher Knab and Bartley F. Day's 280 page, newly revised, and
expanded Third Edition of Music Is Your Business is now filled
with MORE insights into the business side of being a successful
musician or band. The new edition is 100 pages longer and is filled
with essential information to help you help yourself with the business
of music. Included are chapters on both Internet and traditional
music marketing methods. Plus, the essential legal issues you need to
know are explained, with additional chapters covering music publishing
and recording contract tips, as well as info on how to license your
music. This expanded edition will also help you learn how to attract
distributors, get radio airplay, negotiate contract offers, and create a
demand for your music. The new edition of Music Is Your Business
also includes several updated music industry charts, samples of an
artist bio, a music marketing plan, and checklists for jump-starting
your career and/or running your own record label! Find
out more...
Chris
Knab's Music
Business Classes Chris hopes to offer a new music business class sometime in the late spring
or early summer. If you want to be informed of any possible classes he may
offer in the Seattle area and be on his mailing list for information on
upcoming FourFront activities and news just email him at Chris@Knab.com
How
to Promote
Your Music
on the Internet
This step-by-step guide to online music promotion will provide you with all the knowledge you need to sell music
on the Internet! Find out how and where to target visitors most likely to buy your music, increase your CD sales
via the web, promote your music successfully using
Internet radio, accept credit cards (without a merchant account), optimize
your web site for the search engines and much more! Buy now and receive the PDF version of the
next edition of this book
FREE! It will be emailed to you automatically!
WANT
A CONSULTATION? Interested in a one-on-one consultation with Christopher? Click
here to arrange
for an in-person or phone consulation on marketing or
promoting your music.
Chris Knab's "Music Is Your Business" Podcast I am pleased to present to you a new feature for this website, the "Music
Is Your Business Podcasts." It has been my intention for some time now to
give you all some information about marketing and selling your own music in
a more portable form than the many articles posted here,or the information
in my book Music Is Your Business. So, in cooperation with David Nevue of
The Music Biz Academy and my talented and professional
producer Andy Boyd, welcome to the MIYB podcast series. I hope you enjoy them and will check back every
few weeks for new additions to the series. As I say in the introduction
to each program....This series of podcasts is dedicated to helping you
help yourself with the business of music."
Christopher
Knab
P.S. Drop me a line at Chris@Knab.com and let me know if you like
what you hear and please feel free to make any suggestions for future
podcast topics.
Podcast: If you're new to visiting this site, this first "Music Is Your Business" podcast introduces you to your host,
Christopher Knab, his background and comments on what the series is about.
In addition this podcast takes a look at the state of the recording industry
as of late 2006 as it relates to Independent Musicians and Bands. It also
includes the first in a series of comments on the topic of "Why Musicians
Fail, and How Not To." To play, click on the play button above or right-click
this
link and choose "Save Target/Link
As..." to download
the mp3. Or you can open with Windows
Media Player or another
player.
Podcast: Part 1 of 2: Steve Fisk talks about being a musician himself (Pell Mell, Pigeonhead)
and discusses the differences between recording his own music vs a client’s
records. He gives tips about things new artists do wrong, and how they can
learn how to record properly. He also defines what a producer and an engineer do. Steve
gives a brief history of how alternative music recording evolved from the early
80’s to the present, and his involvement with that music, and wraps up the
first part of the interview with tips on how to edit professionally, and the
psychology that is needed to work with a variety of artists with their many
different personalities and work habits.To play, click on the play button above or right-click
this
link and choose "Save Target/Link
As..." to download
the mp3. Or you can open with Windows
Media Player or another
player.
Podcast: Part 2 of 2: Steve Fisk and Chris Knab start
out with some controversial thoughts on what is wrong with music today. They
also discuss the currently popular theory called “The Long Tail” and how it
relates to all independent artists and bands. Also discussed is the eternal question of which is better:
to work with a major label or an independent label? As the interview continues
Steve has several comments on the issue of copyright infringement and warns
listeners to be careful what material you may wish to “appropriate” for their
recordings. Steve also talks about a film project he is working on about Kurt
Cobain, for which he wrote the soundtrack. To play, click on the play button above or right-click
this
link and choose "Save Target/Link
As..." to download
the mp3. Or you can open with Windows
Media Player or another
player.
Podcast: Chris Knab goes solo on this podcast. As a music business
consultant Chris goes through a series of questions that he asks his clients
about their knowledge of the music business, what their goals are, and what
they have done to promote and grow their careers. This podcast is a VERY useful
one for any serious musician or band. Chris helps you THINK about all the key
issues involved with the business of music, and where you stand as you prepare
to market your music. or to launch your career. Take a notepad with you as you
listen to this podcast and note all the things you may or may not have done up
to this point in your career. Remember too that Chris is available as a
consultant to help you help yourself with the business of music. Just email him
for details on his service at Chris@Knab.com. To play, click on the play button above or right-click
this
link and choose "Save Target/Link
As..." to download
the mp3. Or you can open with Windows
Media Player or another
player.
How
to Get Airplay on Non-Commercial
Radio Here is a new article from
the upcoming 3rd
Edition of my and co-author Bartley F. Day’s Book Music Is Your Business.
It was written by John Richards who hosts the morning show on one of the
nations MOST IMPORTANT alternative music stations. You can find them on the web
too at www.kexp.org.
John has the real skinny on how to submit your music to
them, and most alternative non-commercial FM stations.Read it, Print It, Post it in a place you
can’t ignore it!
What
a Record Label Should Know about
Music Retailers Record sales are the “report card” for record labels. There are only two grades on a music retail report card. It’s the
pass/fail system; either you sold records or you didn’t. Article by Chris Knab.
An
Introduction to the FourFront Music
Marketing Concept I have been involved with independent music for over 25
years. In order to help you understand what must be done to plan your career,
and/or implement a record release, I have conceived a Music Marketing Concept
that will help you professionally develop your music for the marketplace. This
concept can be used by any dedicated and hard working
musician or independent record label to build and/or further their careers as
talented artists.
WHO'S
CHRISTOPHER? FourFront Media & Music's Christopher Knab provides a unique consultation and education service for independent musicians and record labels. Through private consultations by phone or in-person in the Seattle area, Christopher helps musicians help themselves with the business of music.
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