ABSTRACT

Making It Happen is a comprehensive guide to navigating the modern music industry, that redefines what ‘making it’ means for musicians, and inspires and educates musicians on the different options for generating revenue from their art.

This book offers theoretical and practical advice on making music, creating promotional content and embracing traditional and emerging social media platforms into your marketing strategies. Through interviews with music industry experts, readers can expect professional tips and advice, as well as clear instructions on how to build a dream team, make content, share that work and grow an audience to enable long-term business sustainability. In the modern music industry, having multiple revenue streams leads to a stable income.

Making It Happen offers unique insights into the innovations and technologies available to contemporary music makers, making it essential reading for independent musicians, music business students, music producers and marketers.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part One|38 pages

Clarify

chapter 1|10 pages

Making It

chapter 2|9 pages

What Do You Want?

chapter 3|10 pages

What's Stopping You?

chapter 4|7 pages

Why You Should Just Do It

part Two|86 pages

Calibrate

chapter 5|11 pages

How To Start?

chapter 6|11 pages

Carving Your Own Path

chapter 7|17 pages

It Starts with The Music

chapter 8|13 pages

Building Your Dream Team

chapter 9|18 pages

Distributing Music Digitally

chapter 10|14 pages

Sharing Your Work

part Three|128 pages

Create

chapter 11|33 pages

Creating Content

chapter 12|15 pages

Protecting Your Work

chapter 13|60 pages

Making Money

chapter 14|8 pages

Evolving

chapter 15|10 pages

Conclusion