51 Marketing Ideas for Film Music Composers

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Attention spans are short and very demanding. If you want to make your art into a business, you have to brand yourself and then market your art. No getting away from it.

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10 Lessons on “Breaking In”

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I often get asked for a checklist of things one can do to break in to the business. Here is my personal "top ten" of lessons learned.

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Worst Advice for Beginning Composers

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When you are starting out, everyone has an opinion. And here's mine.

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You’re Not Ready

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You've been told you're talented. You just graduated music school. You have your plane ticket. You're gonna be famous. Not so fast, Johnson.

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To Be Busy or To Not Be Busy

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Being busy creates demand for your work. As humans, we subconsciously see what everyone else is getting and we want that, too. Ultimately, you want to create demand for yourself and your music, and perhaps the simple act of being a busy composer, regardless of what you are busy with... will do that for you. Or will it?

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The Burnproof Film Composer

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In our industry, it's go, go, go, go, go, and go some more. How long can you drive on one tank of gas?

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