Bootstrapping Strategies for Music Entrepreneurs

In the music industry of 2014, with free or cheap platforms for everything from publishing to distribution to recording to booking, plenty of us are trademark-filing, website-launching, social-media-having bona fide entrepreneurs – and artists? The industry has made them entrepreneurs by necessity.

You: aspiring/new/independent promoters, publicists, booking agents, publishers, producers, label owners, editors, artists. Maybe you have a plan, maybe you’re making this up as you go.

Us: entrepreneurs with successful businesses who bootstrapped, made it up as we went and lived to tell about it. Get real strategies for growing a business or your brand beyond 101 in the new music industry.