Musicians are notoriously underpaid (if they are even paid at all) - and that is the single largest obstacle that you have to over come if you want to succeed in this business.
How else are you going to:
The list goes on. This is not an easy business. You have chosen a hard path.
So what is the solution? To find your leverage points, and start to apply pressure.
For most bands, that money making machine is performing live - which is about the oldest model in the books (but hey, it works!).
But despite this being an old model, bands haven't gotten any better at navigating it. And that's why we made this episode.
In this episode you'll learn:
You can listen to the episode here.
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Distrokid (our recommended music distribution service)
Close.IO (Malcoms recommended CRM)
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