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Summary: Excellent resource!
Review: I'm about to put out my first CD and found this book extremely enlightening. It's made me think of my music as a business and I'm working hard to form a marketing strategy as Daylle suggests. I've read other books but this one is the clearest and most useful for me as a beginning label. While it doesn't offer false expectations, it does provide hope. Daylle's encouragement made me feel that I had a shot at being successful, however small. I highlighted many of the promotional strategies and will keep this book with me through it all. Anyone thinking about starting their own label should read this!
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Summary: Definitely worth the money!
Review: I've been in the industry for a few years now, have my own label, and I still loved this book! I bought it out of curiosity and couldn't put it down! She really knows what she is talking about, as it comes from her own personal experience of owning and operating a label from start-up. I really reccomend this book to anyone who is even thinking about starting a record company, or anyone who is fairly new at it (less than 5 years). Great job Daylle!!
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Summary: a beginners book
Review: if I see or hear the word D.J again IM going to blow up, IM kinda pissed, I wanted to know how much you get in radio royalties, and how much I can get for my products from distributors on an average or certain forinstances. This book is for a real beginner person who only knows how to press play on their CD player. I wanted to know more about copyrights and publishing, i wanted to hear someone's exact deals, kinda layman's sketch, not a pipe dreamers sketch, i dot think i really got a lot from this book, i hope i can find a better one some ware
Shawn
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Summary: a beginners book
Review: if I see or hear the word D.J again IM going to blow up, IM kinda pissed, I wanted to know how much you get in radio royalties, and how much I can get for my products from distributors on an average or certain forinstances. This book is for a real beginner person who only knows how to press play on their CD player. I wanted to know more about copyrights and publishing, i wanted to hear someone's exact deals, kinda layman's sketch, not a pipe dreamers sketch, i dot think i really got a lot from this book, i hope i can find a better one some ware
Shawn
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Summary: Get a real reference, not this chatty ego trip
Review: If you're serious, buy "This Business of Music" and pass on this tripe.
This book gives one a lot of expensive advice on the subject of promoting, financing, and distributing and independent record, the problem is that this advice clearly does not work. The author of the book, known as "The Rappin' Teach" of all things, offers words of wisdom as if she were a music business success story... when it is clear from reading between the lines this is not the case. My advice is that if you want to make it big in the record business, you should work on developing contacts and making important friends before you ever record a song. Become a music lawyer or something, don't waste $25,000 or more trying to shop your music around unless you absolutely don't need the money back and you can afford a lottery ticket at that price. Your success depends on who you know and your perceived coolness in your market - coolness can only be bought by those with access to mass media, again leading us back to who you know. So save yourself some money and think about who your friends are: if you know 100 or more opinion leaders within your community and they all agree your band is the coolest thing ever, you will make it; if your dad is the VP of A&M, you will make it. Either way you don't need the book. Sweeney's book sucks too, because reading a book has never improved anyone's perceived coolness among 10-15 year olds, aka the music buying public. Spend your money on hair gel and stay away from the Rappin Teach; get a serious reference with sample contracts on CD-ROM if you are really going to run a label.
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Summary: Start and run your own record label
Review: Really informative for the pro just staying sharp and for novice
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Summary: If your looking for real info, don't bother with this one.
Review: So you want to start a record label, first you'll need a business licence! This is the level of advice your going to find in this book. I was reading.. and reading waiting to see something other than the obvious, but it just isn't there. Most of the advice can be found in any "start your own business" book. And this is the second edition.. makes me wonder how lame the first one was.
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Summary: INDIE LABELS THE LATEST TOPIC FROM POPULAR SEMINAR PRESENTE
Review: The follow-up to her popular Billboard book, THE REAL DEAL: HOW TO GET SIGNED TO A RECORD LABEL FROM A TO Z, seminar entrepreneur Daylle Deanna Schwartz turns another popular seminar topic into a Billboard Books title: START AND RUN YOUR OWN RECORD LABEL. While most new artists dream of signing with a major label, others, such as fellow New Yorker Ani di Franco (Righteous Babe Records), opt to take the entrepreneurial path. Author Schwartz speaks on this subject with experience, reporting with devilish enthusiasm how she-as an artist-found no majors interested in signing a white woman artist who boasted rapping as her stock in trade. Revenge, she says, was sweet, and Revenge was also the logical name for Schwartz' start-up record label, which enjoyed success during the five years she kept it going. The book-like the seminar-covers the obvious but necessary topics: setting up a business, working with contracts, signing your artists, marketing and promoting your products,touring your artists, doing business in the international arena, and aspects of Internet marketing. Ron Simpson, School of Music, Brigham Young University. Author of MASTERING THE MUSIC BUSINESS.
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Summary: Is this lady even in the music business?
Review: The other books she has written are about women and relationships. Nice for dealing with your girlfriend, but I want to sell records. Pass on this one.
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Summary: Great Start
Review: The Rappin Teach is a lame person to aspire to be, but provides basic info on where to start.....
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