How I Make $100,000/year in the Music Business (Without a Record Label, Manager, or Booking Agent)

by David Hooper

Book Overview

Why wait for other people to pay attention to your music? "How I Make $100,000/year in the Music Business (Without a Record Label, Manager, or Booking Agent)" will explain, step by step, how you are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930575165
• ISBN13: 9781930575165
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Omni Publishxpress Llc
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

this is the book I have been waiting for!!

Easy to read, entertaining, and full of good advice for the independent musician who wants to make more money making music. What more could you ask for? I have been waiting years to read a book like this. I especially liked the part about how to promote your music online. I have seen David Hooper all over the Internet and now I know why. He knows what he is talking about!!

If you're open minded and serious read on!

I own Moontower Management and represent an artist out of Orlando, FL named Jeff Coffey. Since my success depends upon looking at the Music Business as just that - purely a business, I decided to order David Hooper & Lee Kennedy's book titled How I Make $100,000/year in the Music Business (Without a Record Label, Manager, or Booking Agent). I have over 7 years professional experience in Business and Marketing with a successful track record and have implemented most of the strategies in this book, but this reading has advanced my skills in the music business incredibly.Although it is written for the individual musician, I would recommend it as a must read for anyone serious in taking their career in music to the next level. It teaches you to step back from your current situation and look in from an outside view that will gain the favorable results you desire. No matter where you are in your career this book will guide you through those tough areas of the business and give you real life true stories from artists like yourself. Use this information and strategy to do what you love for the rest of your life...play your music...and get paid well for doing it.

Highly Recommended for The Serious Indie Musician

Buy it. This is a very practical book about the reality and truth of making it as an independent musician. Work through this book, apply what you learn from it and see if you don't start earning more money and taking yourself and your career more seriously. All indie artists should have this book on their bookshelf as an outline of how to earn a living in their music career. There is basic music business knowledge here that is invaluable, opportunities and markets that you may not have thought of, practical tips on how to present yourself and your music to increase your bookings, your CD and merchandise sales, website traffic and publishing deals. Great ideas and advice about promotion, designing your press kit and website, how to make your own video, playing live, getting air play and press, the reality of touring, how to build relationships in the business, using direct mail and fanbase mailing lists and getting corporate sponsorship. Also a great section with A & R staff, music publishing companies and Film/TV supervisors speaking out about what gets their attention and what they are looking for. This book is a good start to taking your music career to the next level of success. Buy it, read it, apply it and don't look back. You'll be on your way to a good living in this business of music before you know it. I highly recommend it.

Best Money I Ever Spent!

Wanna' get a 'Record Deal? - increase gig attendance? - Sell your own CDs? - get airplay, press attention or learn marketing basics? Then read this book!I wanted to promote my band but didn't have any real idea what to do. I thought, "Hey, we're great - we'll just call the right person and - bang! - we'll be a success." Wroong!This book is filled with clever, inexpensive ideas and lots of motivational stuff that gets you thinking about how you can 'stand apart' from all the other talented people out there. You learn how to develop relationships with people who can help your career, create good promo and press releases, build up your fan base, sell more CDs and increase attendance at gigs. You get 'energized' just reading this thing and it give you what you need to 'take charge' and really do something with your musical career.I couldn't get my lead singer away from his 'club band' mentality - one gig at a time with lots of beer. Gave him a copy of this book and now he's on fire with good ideas and PR.We're becominging more successful in lots of directions at once - yeah, because we work at it but mostly because we know what to do - thanks to these guys.Best money I ever spent!

No Nonsense

This book is packed with a vast amount of knowledge that will help any serious independent artist, booking agent or manager hit the streets running on a solid foundation. Every chapter has many useful do's and don'ts based on the real world experience of the authors. There's also a bonus articles section with tips from many other music professionals that taught me how to generate over 2,000 song plays (which you now get paid for) at mp3.com within a two month period! How I Make $100,000/year in the Music Business (Without a Record Label, Manager, or Booking Agent) by David Hooper, Lee Kennedy made me re-think the way I have been developing the business plan for my next album. It provides me with sound advice from the expert authors along with a plethora of resources to access contained in this 190 page book! It's a reference well worth the small amount of purchase which you will get back if you use the information contained within.