Are you ready for music business success? Get thee to BOOTCAMP!

Are you in the game yet?

Meaning, are you in the game of creating your music business from the ground up, using the latest in internet technology and the new paradigm of music business which puts you as an artist in direct communication with your audience?

There are 1.3 BILLION people online now, and a nice chunk of them are waiting to hear your music.  I’m sure a good portion of them are willing and able and will be thrilled to give you anywhere from $10 to $100 per year on average for your music and your energy.  If you had 10,000 of those people in your database, you could make a pretty good living, don’t you think?

That’s where I’m headed, and that’s where the industry is headed.  That paradigm.  And there’s an event happening June 20-22, 2008 which may very well be the opportunity of a lifetime to join with others who are forming this new music business:

http://www.bob-baker.com/buzz/indie-buzz-bootcamp.html

There’s only room for 150, and these are the folks who are shaping the future of the music business.

Will you be among us?

Shawn

New Music Strategies – Are you in the game?

If you are a musician looking for new pathways to living your dream – playing, recording, touring, and being a force of nature in the world with your music, there has never been a better time to be in the game.

Why?  Because the game is being re-written.  The old rules no longer apply, and we’re making up the new ones as we go along.  According to Andrew Dubber, author of a blog called New Music Strategies, it’s time to “stop looking around for the new model for music industry. There just isn’t one. You’re going to have to invent your own.”

I find this incredibly exciting.  If you do as well, I want to talk to you about collaborating.  I say that the successful artists of the future are going to be those who figure out how to collaborate, cooperate, and co-mingle our creative efforts to actually create CULTURE together – communities that work in tandem to create beauty, harmony, honor, vision, love, and wealth for all who participate.

There is strength in numbers, and I intend to be one of the ones who creates alliances and bands together with those who are committed to creating a world that works for ALL human beings and fosters creativity and rewards those who create media that inspires, enlivens, enlightens, and empowers the human spirit.

I’ve got a lot to say about this topic, and will be finding my voice as I go here; first off I want to point you in the direction of a resource that will give you a very well-rounded education into the current state of affairs:  Bob Baker’s Indie Music Blog is jam-packed with tips, tricks, news and information about how to promote yourself as an independent artist, which is definitely the best place to start, for it’s only on a foundation of independent success that any of us can help one another.

So let’s get this conversation rolling!

sM

The Starving Artist Is Dead

This blog is for musicians and artists – and the communities that we create – to empower YOU to go out there and make music, create community, and experience sustainable prosperity all along the way.

The good news is that there is a tidal wave of change happening – right now, as you read this. If you are an artist, there are more resources and tools and people available to help you achieve the full realization of your creative vision than EVER before. If you are someone who does business with artists, or simply someone who loves great art and music, those same tools are available to help you participate in the creation and fulfillment of artistic vision.

Everyone wants to make a difference, and every movement to make a difference needs images to represent it and a soundtrack to bring its people to their feet. We are poised at the brink of a HUGE seismic shift in the empowerment of musicians and artists – and the communities who love them.

So hold on to your hats and glasses, because the notion that being a musician or an artist is an automatic sentence to a life of struggle and poverty is falling away, and in its place is arising a new paradigm wherein we as artists function as powerful economic forces in our communities.

Are you ready?

Let’s go.

Shawn