Jumpstart Your Music Career is for every musician who wants to earn a living—and to sustain a long-term career—making music. It offers the musician a path to proactively manage and develop their own career, by focusing on:
Made it in China features the personal experiences and lessons of international entrepreneurs who have left their own country and built successful businesses in China.
China is the issue for business in the 21st century. Since the country initiated its market reforms at the end of the 1970s it has made huge strides and now virtually every business around the world, whatever its size and wherever its location, has to include the “China factor” in its business planning.
The book focuses on the practical experiences of nine entrepreneurs as they grew their companies in this new and developing market—each of these entrepreneurs was invited to participate for the expertise and focus they bring to the book. Their stories are both practical and entertaining, combining first-hand anecdotes about the challenges they faced and how these were met with their own observations and thoughts for dealing with each situation.
Making music is only half the story if you want to earn your living making music: the other half is the business. Rocking Your Music Business:
introduces the business of music, and
tells you how to set up and run that business–both in terms of what you need to do, and the tools you need to run your business at home and on the road. As part of this, the book also looks at how you can use your existing tools, such as a desktop computer, a laptop, or a Smartphone/iPhone, to carry your office in your pocket.
You don’t need a major record label to have a career–especially with all of the changes that the industry has been undergoing in the last few years–but you do need a successful business and business infrastructure, and Rocking Your Music Business is the handbook that should be on the bookshelf of every musician who wants to take their business as seriously as they take their music.
As the article notes, there are many opportunities to make money from music. These opportunities exist for the musician and the entrepreneur, and while the music industry has seen its business convulsed over the last few years, the new business opportunities continue to grow.
There will always be a place for new artists. This provides the music entrepreneur (whether a performer or someone working behind the scenes), with a guarantee of access to the market. However, when coupled with these recent industry developments, the music industry becomes a highly compelling place to be. Just look at some of the changes:
Your career in music begins today: decide to begin your career and you’re off. Don’t wait for a record company to call and offer you a contract, because they won’t. All you need to do is decide to start your career.
Building a Successful 21st Century Music Career is about how you can proactively start, and manage your own music career so that you can earn your living through making music—whether as a musician playing pop, rock, soul, R&B, classical or any other style of music; as a songwriter or composer; or as a producer.
Jumpstart Your Music Career is for every musician who wants to earn a living—and to sustain a long-term career—making music. It offers the musician a path to proactively manage and develop their own career, by focusing on:
Made it in China features the personal experiences and lessons of international entrepreneurs who have left their own country and built successful businesses in China.
Making music is only half the story if you want to earn your living making music: the other half is the business. 
Your career in music begins today: decide to begin your career and you’re off. Don’t wait for a record company to call and offer you a contract, because they won’t. All you need to do is decide to start your career.
