31 Music Business Tips for Songwriters

Build your songwriting business with advice from a renowned songwriter. This course offers a month's worth of daily tips to help you build your network and sell more songs.

Introduction

• Do more with the business side of your music
• Build your songwriting business

1. Organization

• Staying organized in the music business
• Finalize your lyric sheets
• Learn how to embed metadata
• Learn how to email a link to a song
• Set up a regular place to write
• Schedule a regular time to write

2. Song Demos

• Demystify the song demo process
• Decide which songs to demo
• Research demo studios
• Schedule your demo

3. Marketing

• Marketing is essential
• Set up your social media accounts
• Learn how to make a lyric video
• Look for a pitch opportunity for one of your songs
• Pitch one of your songs
• Follow up on your song pitches
• Think outside the box for your song pitches
• Join a pitch organization

4. Networking

• Organic networking
• Research music conferences to attend
• Find local writers' nights
• Start a writers' night
• Join a songwriting organization
• Start a songwriting organization
• Join a songwriting group of your peers
• Start a songwriting group of your peers
• Reach out to a new cowriter

5. The Music Industry

• Navigate the music industry
• Read a music business book
• Schedule a songwriting consultation
• Make a list of publishers you want to meet
• Research signed songwriters and their hits
• Research recording artists and their labels
• Find out who's looking for songs
• Join a performing rights organization (PRO)
• Register your songs with your PRO

Conclusion

• What's next