Taking care of Business

For all those indie and aspiring artists and performers. Once you have established your stage name or pseudonym make your name an entity. Go to your local clerks office and get the paper work to start the process of incorporating your name as your name now becomes the brand. Decide if you want to remain a sole proprietorship, partnership (if its you and someone else), limited liability Corporation, or a C or S Corporation. Then set up a bank account under your company name. Once these steps are complete your on your way. You must also trademark your name to protect yourself. Always remember that in this entertainment field it's 85% business and 15% music



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Helpful books

Here's some books that will help, they can be picked up at your locale library or you can purchase them.

The Self Promoting Musician by Peter Spellman
Copyright 101

Copyright

First and foremost COPYRIGHT, COPYRIGHT, COPYRIGHT. I can not emphasize it enough. NOT THE POOR MAN'S COPYRIGHT. The goverment copyright. http://www.copyright.gov/ the cost is $35 if you file online and $45 if you file via mail. You do not have to file each work song, or poem, or artwork individually. You can start off by submitting a bulk of your works as a volume and later pull out the individual works for a individual certificate number. Hope this helps come back next week wednesday for the next post.


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Welcome Address

Welcome to the first of many blogs to come. This blog site was has been created to help all those independent artist/musicians/writers/poets with sound advice and things to do to further your career in the business and not have to pay for the price of knowledge.