Contents

• Investors : the high costs of low finance
• Why advances seem a lot like loans (and vice versa)
• Some unvarnished truths about royalties
• Personal management
• Managing your business
• and your financial future
• When your job is more than a gig
• Record producers : are they as sharp as their points?
• Getting your record heard : a practical guide to marketing and promotion
• Touring concerns
• Merchandising : your band, your brand
• Audits : truth or consequences
• Music publishing : the odyssey of the song
• The pros and cons of being your own music publishing company
• When Rodgers meets Hammerstein : determining songwriter credits
• Copyright issues : a sampler
• Compliance with copyright laws in the world of cyberspace
• Internet entrepreneurship
• Urban music : hip-hop
• Classical music