
Explore music entrepreneurship and monetization, learn how to start a company around your music, choose business entities, and handle legal, tax, and government paperwork.
Outline the course format as a modular mini-series, splitting content into six parts with forty to fifty videos per section to keep learning affordable and paced.
Avoid get rich quick schemes and build sustainable music businesses through passion, hard work, and avoiding debt for long-term retirement.
Define small business as independently owned and operated and not dominant in its field, and explain the entrepreneur concept and the four objectives: service, profit, social, and growth.
Small businesses face typical problems like limited money and higher risk when competing with large firms, testing ads such as TV campaigns, while owners also handle management and regulatory pressures.
Technology accessibility and global operations empower small businesses to prototype, outsource, and manufacture globally, weighing cheap offshore production against domestic options and shipping challenges.
Define the profit objective as earning more than cost by pursuing innovative classes that profit from their success and by attracting more customers, since profits come from risk.
Identify a company's core mission by outlining high-quality music education, innovative classes, and community advocacy, with 1.5x yearly growth, as presented in the opening business plan.
Navigate regionality in music entrepreneurship, understanding how country and state rules shape United States business entities, including proprietorship, with notes on Minnesota and Michigan and legal guidance.
Choose a proprietorship for a single-owner, loosest form with no real separation between owner and business, where taxes and liabilities pass to the owner and paperwork stays low.
Explore how an S-Corp avoids double taxation by passing taxes to owners, and recognize the 100-member limit and its impact on fundraising and setup versus a C corp.
Understand a limited liability partnership, a form of partnership that limits liability and passes taxes to owners. These partnerships are allowed in states and for professionals, such as law firms.
Explore the basics of family limited partnerships (FLP) as a tax-efficient family business structure, highlighting how it avoids double taxation while addressing gift and land transfer taxes.
Explain that a nonprofit corporation is not about making you rich; you can't be paid to own it, tax-exempt status aside, and funds must serve the organization.
Decide your company type, but start with an LLC for easy setup and protection, then convert to an S-corp as you gain investors and money.
Learn to file a certificate of assumed name (doing business as, DBA) online, use it to open bank accounts, and understand state name differences for bands and businesses.
Identify general information section of the operating agreement, record name and members' mailing addresses, define members as owners, and list partner organizations to show who to call; update with consent.
Explore management structures for music entrepreneurship LLCs, choosing between member‑managed and manager‑managed setups, and cover election rules, voting rights, manager pay, roles, job descriptions, and member noncompete considerations.
Explore decision making in a music business, comparing weighted ownership voting with equal votes, and establish salary vs distribution rules, burn rate targets, and proportional profit sharing.
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Welcome to the COMPLETE Music Entrepreneurship Guide!
This is a class designed for the average person who is ready to take their music career (or music interest) and turn it into a business. Whether you are an active musician, an aspiring musician, or an aspiring music manager or agent - this class is perfect for you.
In this course, we will use the real-world experiences of the award-winning instructor and university music business professor Dr. Jason Allen. But don't be worried - Dr. Allen is best known around campus for keeping things simple, accessible, and useful.
Dr. Allen is the founder of a number of successful businesses and is a top-rated Udemy instructor. In 2017 Star Tribune Business featured him as a "Mover and a Shaker," and he is recognized by the Grammy Foundation for his music education classes.
Getting your career off the ground as a professional musician can be a long and scary task. It requires a lot of work and dedication. But with this course, I want to simplify that process for you. We will draw on my experience both as a professional musician and as a University Professor in the music industry. I'll walk through all the steps that the professionals take to set up their career as a business.
MUSIC Entrepreneurship FUNDAMENTALS, PART 1: MONETIZING YOUR MUSIC includes all the tools you need to write a complete business plan for your music career.
In this course, we will focus the entire course on the steps to start a career in the music business. First, we will focus on the advantages and concerns of new businesses, specifically in the arts. Next, we will walk through the different types of businesses - from corporations to family businesses, to nonprofit organizations. Most importantly, we will learn what is best for your business, and walk through the step-by-step process to set up and register your business. Last, we will walk through the steps needed to create your most essential founding document: the operating agreement.
By the end of this course, if you follow along, you will have your business officially created and ready to open the doors for business.
Some of the step-by-step guides in this course will be:
The steps to take to start your music career
Deciding on your business type
Filing your legal forms
The 8 parts of the business plan
The course is a roadmap to launching your career in music Entrepreneurship.
All the tools you need to prepare, organize, and start your career are included in this course and the entire course is based on real-life experiences - not just academic theory.
Please click the "Take This Course" button so you can launch your music career today.
** I guarantee that this course is the most thorough music Entrepreneurship course available ANYWHERE on the market - or your money back (30 day money back guarantee) **
Closed captions have been added to all lessons in this course.
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Praise for Courses by Jason Allen:
⇢ "It seems like every little detail is being covered in an extremely simple fashion. The learning process becomes relaxed and allows complex concepts to get absorbed easily. My only regret is not taking this course earlier." - M. Shah
⇢ "Great for everyone without any knowledge so far. I bought all three parts... It's the best investment in leveling up my skills so far.." - Z. Palce
⇢ "Excellent explanations! No more or less than what is needed." - A. Tóth
⇢ "VERY COOL. I've waited for years to see a good video course, now I don't have to wait anymore. Thank You!" - Jeffrey Koury
⇢ "I am learning LOTS! And I really like having the worksheets!" - A. Deichsel
⇢ "The basics explained very clearly - loads of really useful tips!" - J. Pook
⇢ "Jason is really quick and great with questions, always a great resource for an online class!" M. Smith
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