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Building Your Own Digital Music and Distribution Label
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(55 ratings)
353 students

Building Your Own Digital Music and Distribution Label

A Quick Guide To Getting Started
Created byAmed Clinton
Last updated 1/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Students will know how to set up their music business and acquire their DBA or Assumed Name, get their EIN free of charge directly from the IRS, and the process of setting up their business account.
  • Students will know how to acquire their own essential components for music distribution such as their UPC/EAN, International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC), and how to register works with Nielson Soundscan.
  • Students will know how to electronically copyright their works, as well as register for BMI or ASCAP and their importance for mechanical and publishing royalty collection.
  • Student will know how the importance of and how to access social media marketing, press releases, and national radio airplay in regards to creating demand for your product.
  • Student will know how to access software to run their entire music label including national and international digital distribution, book keeping, and promotional tools that enable you to compete with so called major labels.

Course content

5 sections5 lectures2h 50m total length
  • Setting Up Your Business Label32:03

    Students will guided to specific websites and learn how to register an assumed name or DBA, get their EIN free of charge, and start a bank account for their music business.

Requirements

  • Basic Computer Skills
  • A Strong Desire for Success

Description

This course takes you to specific websites cutting out third party middle men and guides each student through the process of setting up your digital music and distribution label. You will go through five modules which will take you directly to each website eliminating lots of research, trial and error, no long reading, just a straight to the point how -to- guide. And the end of the course each student will have access to download my inside scoop document giving you every website and how they relate to your business, putting the control and power of your music career in your own hands.

Who this course is for:

  • Independent artist and individual seeking to take control of their music careers and distribute their music to a worldwide audience and collect royalties from sales, airplay, and publishing.