Tag Archives: music career
Dealing With Adversity As An Indie Artist
© 2009 Vinny Ribas Have you ever had your back against the wall so tightly that you felt like part of the paint? Maybe your gigs dried up. Maybe you hit a prolonged songwriting dry spell. Maybe you just couldn’t get along with a hard-to-replace band member, manager or agent. Maybe the balance between living…
How To Expedite Your Success As An Indie Artist
© 2009 Vinny Ribas The music world is changing every day. The good news is that new developments mean new opportunities for singers, musicians and songwriters. There are more ways for an artist or writer/composer to make money than there has ever been in the history of music!
10 Mistakes Artists Make When Booking Themselves
© 2008 Vinny Ribas Bragging: It is not about how good you are! It’s always all about how you can help the person or the venue hiring you meet their goals! Making too many or unreasonable demands. This sends up an immediate red flag that says, “These guys will be difficult to work with.” Be…
The Leader Of The Band
© 2009 Vinny Ribas Every business has a leader – someone who establishes the personality, attitude, work ethic, moral standards and code of conduct for the rest of the company. The person who founded the company automatically takes on that role from the very first day. Oftentimes he (or she) doesn’t even realize the impact…
A Formula For Making $100,000/yr. As An Indie Artist
Pro Members Only © 2009 Vinny Ribas Many artists believe that the more friends that they have on their social networks, the more popular they are. It certainly sounds impressive to say that you have 20,000 friends on your MySpace site. From a numbers standpoint alone, you have certainly increased your odds of finding real…
Why Am I Stuck? – A checklist for indie artists.
© 2009 Vinny Ribas Let’s be honest. “I haven’t been discovered yet,” “I’m just not one of the lucky ones” and “I’ve just haven’t had that big break yet” are NOT reasons for stagnation or failure in the music business. They are excuses, and nothing else. There are only a handful of plausible reasons why…