Starting your own Music Label Part 1

THE ARTIST'S GUIDE TO
STARTING AN INDEPENDENT RECORD LABEL


So you want to start your own record label? And why not, there are plenty of reasons to do so. Here are a few:

• Artistic and Monetary control
  
• Record companies do not have a reputation for making small artists money
  
• Keep in direct contact with your listeners.
  
• No legal junk to deal with. (Not much anyway)

All of this is now possible in the world we live in mostly thanks to the Internet. (This is a good time to mention supporting Net-Neutrality.) Having you're own business is an exciting challenge and extremely rewarding. How far you take it is up to you and the amount of work you put into it. In this part of Starting Your Own Music Label we're going to look at the basics to get your company up and running. We'll look at:

• How big do you want to be?
  
• What it costs
  
• Where to start
  
  • Picking a Name
    
  • Setting yourself up with a Performance Rights Organization
    
  • Picking and registering your company name
    
  • Location, location, location
    
  • Business license and filing
    
• How your company looks on paper and on the web
  
  • Your Logo
    
  • Letterhead, Business Cards
    
  • How to get YOURBUSINESS.COM
    
• Banking
  
• Bar Codes
  

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