Or perhaps youre not as good as any of these music icons but youre good enough.
How do you translate your skills into something more?
How do you make money with your music?
Chris Wood prepares to Dj at The Bricks Ybor on Saturday, September 1, 2018. Chris Zuppa/The Penny
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Create a Website
A website or blog is a great way to showcase and even sell your music.
you’re free to also advertise your availability for gigs.
No idea where to start?
you might use a platform designed specifically for band websites, likeBandzoogle.com.
Ithas a free 30-day trial and plans starting at less than $10 per month.
Or to create your own site, follow our guide tohow to start a blog.
In addition to creating lessons, you could record yourself performing and put the videos on YouTube.
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Offer to be a stand-in for any sick or absent band members.
You might soon have a following.
Book Gigs
Is your act ready for prime time once live music cranks up again?
Start setting your sights on booking paid gigs.
Small bars and restaurants are some of the easier places to start, but events can pay better.
Parties, small festivals, art fairs and corporate events are all possibilities.
Write Songs
Selling songs outright isnt common, and thats probably a good thing.
Who wants to make just a few bucks on a song that might become a big hit?
Instead you typically get mechanical royalties or performance royalties.
Mechanical royalties earn you a statutory rate of $0.0755 per song, per manufactured unit.
So if the song you wrote is on 10,000 albums, you would make $755.
Youll earn performance royalties whenever the song you wrote is performed.
To collect those, you have to join one of these three performing rights organizations:
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For example, theInternational Songwriting Competition(ISC) hands out cash, prizes and recognition to 71 winners.
ASCAP maintains alist of songwriting competitions.
But its not all about The Voice and American Idol.
Look for local competitions that will help you get noticed and let you web connection with other performers.
Sing in Church
It isnt common knowledge, butsome churches pay their singers.
Harris Sockel made extra money to pay the rent by singing at an Episcopalian church in New York City.
He brought home $100 for singing on Sundays.
For holidays like Easter and Christmas he got $200.
Try Fiverr
Youll find manyways to make money on Fiverr.com, but can you do it with music?
Turns out it’s possible for you to.
The company makes money through advertising and subscription fees.
That amount is the artists cut.
Raise Money on Patreon
OnPatreon, you get patrons who offer to fund you regularly according to some criteria.
For example, someone might pledge to give you $10 every time you produce a new song.
Steve Gillman is the author of 101 Weird Ways to Make Money and creator of EveryWayToMakeMoney.com.
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