Archive for October, 2009

The business of music has gone through a lot of changes that affect a lot of areas of society and of life, as we know it. One of the biggest changes that affect it is the advancement in technology that allows the entire world to be a part of it and participate in it.

The other enormous factor that has played a big role in it are the sweeping changes in the legalities that had to be made to enable the new technology to be regulated and to govern the production and distribution of music in the digital age.

We’re going to enlighten you with some of the statistics that will show you the phenomenal growth. We used a service called Grab Stats to show us the figures from 2006

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by Greg Wilson

What is the one thing that you simply don’t have to waste? At first I’m betting that you said money. But let’s think just a little deeper than that for a moment. In actuality, even if you are low on the financial totem pole you can usually find money for needed things. The one thing that you don’t have any to waste is time.

That is precisely why you need to look into the online freelancer market. There is a plethora of virtually untapped talent out there all across the world that are itching to make a few bucks using their talent. For the most part these folks are extremely talented and ready, willing and able to give you the best that they can give.

This group of individuals also is a great place to outsource jobs that might be outside of your particular skill set. Maybe you yourself are a great recording artist but wouldn’t know the difference between Photoshop and Woodshop. A freelancer can fill that gap.

You give them an

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by Greg Wilson

Everyone knows that the best way to get people that have never heard your music to want to buy it note unheard and spend their personal hard earned cash on your product and take it home and fire it up, is to grab them by some means. Obviously if you are talking about someone that is just perusing CDs in a store or over the Internet there is only one way that you are going to be in competition with the national releases. You packaging has to be as attractive and as catchy as the multi-million dollar products that the majors are releasing.

I know, you don’t have millions of dollars to invest in your

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by Greg Wilson
It seems that a lot of musicians these days are re-living the Jackson Brown song and simply running on with no direction or purpose and really no clue as to where they are heading. In the back of their minds they have a clue that they would like to be rich and famous but they really have no clue how to get there.

They basically think you go out and play some gigs and the powers that be will come to you, discover you and make you a star with very little effort on your part. Well, I hope everyone is suiting down out there because that is not

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Enjoy working at home and freedom doing what you love

The advancements that transformed the internet over the past years have brought a pool of opportunities in various careers as well as business domains. Many people have always wondered how it is possible to make money online and enjoy the

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THE RECORDING INDUSTRY By Greg Wilson mMC Creative Department

In what seems like an eternity ago to me at this point, when a musician wanted to make a record on his own he had to price compare studios in different towns. And those studios were often hard to find, over booked and under geared. In order to get a decent rate you often had to take the graveyard shift hours.

I remember the first studio session I ever had there was an amazing 4 tracks of state

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How to make more money in the music industry doing freelance online. (myMusicCircle.com)

Many people have for so long heard the gospel of tapping the business opportunities galore in the cyber landscape but not many have taken that first step to establish what kind of opportunities really exist in the internet world. What you need to know is that the current internet landscape is by far different from the initial internet landscape known as web 1.0 which was characterized by static web pages where web surfers had no input nor

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THE DIGITAL DOMAIN
by Greg Wilson mMC Creative Department

The digital domain has forever changed the face of music and how people do business in the music industry. Not very long ago in the scheme of things there were clearly written and defined lines about the rules in the music industry.

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