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Sunday, July 19, 2009

How To Start Your Own Record Label Company

By Paige W. Connor

To start a record label involves many steps, and you will be the one in charge of making it all happen. Your actions will directly cause its success or failure. Carefully research this business venture and you will see exactly what your role is. The following compilation of tips, dos and dont's should help any entrepreneur.

For starters don't plan any vacations for a while. Starting a record label will take a lot of your personal time. When you get the record label going and money is being made you'll have time for a vacation and an expensive one at that.

Now that you understand that you will have a lot of work to do, get to it. What you need to do is take care of registering for a business license and register a name that will be popular and people will remember.

The next step is to make your presence known. When you start an independent label you have to have places that people can go to see what you're doing. Web pages are needed. Make a Myspace page. Make a Facebook page. Get your internet presence strong. These pages can be used later to sell your music also.

Now that your record label is created it must be endorsed to drum up business. Either your business partner can take charge of this aspect of the business or you can. A good way to make your record label thrive is to place ads in papers, get your band on radio stations, and do magazine interviews.

Getting your music played on air is necessary for a successful record label. Ask popular radio, high school, and college stations to play your music. Persuade your friends to call radio stations and request your records most popular songs. Getting people to hear your records and know your label could lead to a sold out show where you can also sell records and promote your label.

Live concerts are a great way to promote your label and music also. Make sure that you have banners with your website on it. If the audience likes you they will go to your website and keep up on your progress.

Make ring back tones of your songs for cell phones and give them away on your website. This is a new thing that labels are doing. When you start an independent label you need to be creative with things like this.

Even in the beginning you can have a lot of copies of your records made, plus it is actually cheaper to have a lot of copies made in one batch. You want to use your money wisely when starting a record label so find ways to cut corners.

These are just a few basic things to think about when you want to start an independent record label. Starting a record label is not as easy as some people think. The formalities are easy, but the work is unrelenting. - 18780

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