Become A Sponsor Of the Business Side of Music Podcast

The Business Side of Music is a monthly podcast that teaches musicians and singers vital information about the workings of music industry. It is hosted by Tom Sabella, an established music industry consultant/educator, and Traci Snowe, a popular indie artist. It is produced by Page 2 Management and often features notable industry guests.

Key Facts:

• The podcast receives 1500-2000 downloads every month.* The average podcast on iTunes is downloaded 140 times. 
• http://www.businesssideofmusic.com, the primary webpage that hosts the podcast, receives 5,000 visitors every month. The same page can be reached at www.page2management.com.
• Page 2 Management’s combined websites received a combined 50,000 visits per month.
• The podcast is produced once every moth. With the funding from sponsorships, the plan is to add a monthly videocast (video podcast) as well. 
• The podcast primarily reaches musicians and singers 18 years of age and older.
• The podcast is also available on iTunes, Stitcher.com and just about anywhere else where podcasts are downloaded. It is listed in over 50 podcast directories.

The Offer: 

• One 30 sec spot in each podcast
• Credit on each video podcast
• Banner ads on all web pages and the Page 2 management blog
• 2 live 15-second endorsements on the podcast

Sponsorship Cost: $250 per month.

Contact:

Tom Sabella

President

Page 2 Management

Tom@page2management.com

*Numbers of podcast downloads is approximate due to the fact that no one has found a completely accurate way to track all downloads. Every service used has claimed to be accurate but results have varied from 2,000 downloads each month to over 100,000 each month.

Being a Music Industry Professional

by Jason Giroux

There is no doubt about it, music is fun- and it should be. For many, however, music is work. For these people music pays the bills, supports their livelihood, and puts food on their table. For these individuals who work in the music industry whether it be as performers, technicians, music teachers, managers, journalists, or marketers maintaining a level of professionalism is essential.

Debunking the Music Industry Myth

Music is often seen by the uninitiated as little more than entertainment. To the outsider or even amateur touring musician the level of hard work needed to succed is often not apparent which leads to an inaccurate view of the discipline involved with being successful in such a competitive field. Because of this many romanticize about having a career in the music industry and are unequipped to engage in the hard work and apply the determination needed to be successful.

With this in mind, if you are an inspiring professional musician or music industry professional you may want to keep a few simple things in mind to increase your chance of being successful by establishing yourself as a dedicated professional:

Shake the “Rock Star” Ego

This may have worked for Jim Morrison and Johnny Rotten, but the truth is that this is good way to shorten your career and lessen the number of people wanting to work with you. Just remember that you are an artist but you are also part of business, and that your business is dependent on others who can help you get ahead. Keep a Regular Schedule Working in the music industry means the potential to be exposed in a lot of late night activities. Of course this is obvious for performers but it applies to any other professionals in the industry as well. Be sure to keep a regular schedule and don’t partake in every late night party. When you do attend industry events remember to always remain professional.

Make Friends, Not Enemies

This may seem obvious but it is quite important and cannot be emphasized enough. Like many industries, the music industry can seem quite small and word gets out quick. If you are a music writer and publish inaccurate information, plagiarize, or don’t follow through with assignments word will spread quick throughout the blogosphere. Similarly, if you are a venue with a reputation for shorting your performers when it comes time to pay up at the end of the night or a music teacher that cancels too many lessons you will find that you will have a hard time being successful.

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March Podcast/Goal Setting

March Podcast/Goal Setting

The Business Side of Music Podcast is up and ready for you to download. Go to thebusinesssideofmusic.libsyn.com and check out the special offer. Amanda and I are very excited about the podcast and everyone that has written to us. We are receiving e-mail from all over the world.

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Coming Soon!!!!

Podcast Network

In our continuing effort to help musicians make it in the music business we are working on a podcast network called Page2radio.com.(the link is not working yet) This will be a place that all podcasts from Page2 will be accessible from one web page.

Also coming very soon is our latest podcast called The Gina Galardo Show-Your Inside Music Connection. Gina and her co-host will give you information on the inside of the music business. Gina is an up and coming artist and a regular visitor of the Nashville music scene. We are very excited to have her with us at Page2.

Our network consists of three podcast already. The other two are The Mike Pachelli Show and The Phil Keaggy Show. You can check them out at podguitar.com

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Sending Multiple E-mails

I found this article and thought it was worth passing on.

So you've received this great joke that you want to pass onto your family and friends. Fair enough. I love to pass on a discriminating selection of good stuff occasionally too, and sometimes it's not a joke. It could be a particularly insightful opinion piece, some important security information, or... whatever. The important thing is that you are about to use the great medium that email is to mass distribute something quickly and easily. (I'm not even going to go into chain letters and various hoaxes here. There's just one simple rule for those: Do not forward them; delete them.)

Before you hit that send button, there's something you should know. Please don't put all of the email addresses of your family and friends in the "To" or "Cc" fields of your message; put them in the "Bcc" field! By putting the addresses in the "Bcc" field, they do not show up at the top of the messages that each of your contacts receives. We've all received those kinds of messages -- you know, where you have to page through reams and reams of email addresses before you can actually get to the message that the person wants you to read? Yes, those ones. This is a "bad thing"^TM for the reasons explained below.

Viruses:

Privacy:

Spam:

Copyright © 1996-2008 Craig Hartnett

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Karitos Christian Arts Conference

Tom will be one of the featured speakers at Karitos Festival 2008.

If you are in the Chicago area make plans to attend.

Karitos Festival 2008
July 31st. thru August 1st. & 2nd.
Living Waters Community Church - Bolingbrook, IL

For more information call (847)749-1284 or email bob@karitos.com

www.karitos.com

Page2 Management

The Business Side of Music Internet radio show

The show is really growing. The last show has already tripled the listeners of all other shows.
We have so many good people working on the show to make it a success. Amanda Keane is my co-host and Bradley Raines is our producer and engineer. The shows are recorded at our new Records on the Wall Studio. Which is also the name of our publishing company.

To listen to the Show click on http://thebusinesssideofmusic.libsyn.com/rss

If there is a topic you would like us to cover please e-mail your suggestions t0 podcast@page2management.com

Get Connected
Our first Get Connected was a huge success. This was a night of just meeting and talking. We felt that there needed to be some thing other that a writers night for people in the business to meet. The Sync@nettwerk was very gracious to let us use there space to hang out. There were 30 in attendance and from all the e-mail we received everyone had a great time. The comment heard most was that there was no competition everyone just got connected with someone new. Plans are in the works for our next Get Connected.

Get Your Music to the next Level
Have you been asking yourself that that question. We have the plan to help you get to the next level of your music career. Everyone is looking for the manager to help them make it in the music business our plan works and it is affordable. Contact page2managment@gmail for information on getting to the next level.

GMA Hall of Fame Awards
I was honored to be at the 2007 GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Where my long time friend from Ohio Phil Keaggy was inducted into the hall of fame. Also inducted that evening was Joe Moscheo who has help me so much since i have moved to Nashville. Both of these men are a huge inspiration to me. Congratulation Phil and Joe.

Book Tour
I will be doing some traveling starting in 2008. I am going to start speaking and touring my book. I have been ask about going to different cities to put on seminars about The Music Business. More and more musicians are learning that they need to know the business. And that is what it do best. If you are interested in a seminar in your town contact me at tom@page2management.com