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Managing Money from Your Music Career

You finally got your loan proceeds and ready to kick-start your music. Your next challenge would be how not to blow it all and make sure it’s spent in the most productive way possible, so you can pay off your loan. Otherwise, you are going to end up applying for another loan, running the risk of ruining your finances, and just prolonging  your dreams of becoming a musician because of financial issues...

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How to Land Your First Sponsor - A Music Artist's Guide

With all the expenses that you need in leveraging your career as a musician, choosing it means you need funds to pay for everything that you need. From musical instruments to new fits, travel expenses for your tours, meals, recording studio costs, and all the other things that come with it. You need to know everything you can to get your music funded. This includes how to get...

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The Guide to Independent Rap Artistry

More artists have chosen to go independent and deviate from the usual dream of being signed by a Major Label nowadays. In fact, they now make up nearly 40 percent of the global music industry. But what does it mean to become an independent musician and how...

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Music Funding 101

Grants are financial assistance awarded by the government, an organization, or a person to individuals for a specific purpose - music, arts, studies, projects etc. Unlike loans, the recipient needs not to pay the money. However,  if he decides to abandon the reason why the grant...

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Starting a Home Studio

“A home studio, or a project studio can cost anywhere from three or four hundred dollars up to, you know, 10, 20, $30,000 to build. A professional studio starts around 40 to $50,000 on up to a few million, or better.” – Rick Camp, RC1 Productions & Master Mix Live, Las Vegas, NV...

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