Author Archives: Vinny Ribas
When Will I Start Making Real Money?
© 2011 Vinny Ribas It’s one thing to be a working musician, and a completely different thing to actually make money at it. So when does a musician actually start turning a profit? Here are 12 milestones to work towards:
With Influence Comes Responsibility
© 2011 Vinny Ribas As an artist who performs in public, you want people to pay attention to you. That’s how they become fans. But in chasing this, whether you realize it or not, you put yourself in a position of influence. You are the man or woman on stage who is telling the audience…
Resources For Songwriters
© 2022 Vinny Ribas Note: The following resources are not rated in any way. The order of listing is completely random.
Reading Your Audience
By Vinny Ribas 2015 Any time you are performing live, it is important to be able to be able to read your audience. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing a coffee house, a concert or a dance club. Knowing what your audience wants and delivering it will win them over as new fans. Building a…
Networking In The Music Industry
© 2011 Vinny Ribas There is no denying that whether you are a band, singer or an individual musician, you need the help of other people to have a successful music career. It doesn’t matter if you can play every instrument, sing all of the vocal parts and make great recordings all by yourself in…
Choosing Your Artist Team – Know Who You Are Dealing With
© 2015 Vinny Ribas It is very difficult to build a full-time music career all alone. More often than not, at some point in time you will need to rely on the help, expertise, skills and connections of other people to do the things that you cannot. The never-ending challenge is knowing that you’re putting…
How to Lead People to Your Music in a Digital Age
by Bill Pere With the maturity of digital delivery and a proliferation of websites that allow easy uploading and legal downloading of music, the old models of making and marketing CDs are gone. The shift from an album-based economy to a track-based economy spawns many new considerations for the Indie artist when the time comes…
How Much Has The Music Industry Changed?
© 2011 Vinny Ribas Everywhere I go, I hear that ‘the music industry has changed’. Just the thought of that has thrown many artists and record companies into turmoil. Some people, and companies, resist change with every fiber of the their beings! But having been ‘indie’ before indie was cool, I thought I would take…
Building Your Indie Artist Support Team
© 2010 Vinny Ribas Over and over I hear from musicians who either can’t grasp the business side of their careers, don’t want to learn and implement it, or just don’t have the time to take on more responsibilities outside of writing, recording and performing. The good news is that there is help! In fact,…
E-Gherming – The New Music-Biz No-No!
By Rand Bishop As in all businesses, the most important and essential contributors to our success in show-biz come from the personal relationships we develop and maintain over the course of our careers. Someone put it very succinctly when he or she said: “It’s not about who you know; it’s about who knows you.” To…