Entertainment Business

This booklet will be your guide to finding the perfect wedding DJ and ensuring your special day is a success. By listening to this booklet, you will have the confidence to make the right choice and know all the dirty little secrets from the wedding DJs that they won't tell you. With this information, you will be able to save time, money, and stress by avoiding any red flags when speaking to DJs.

Through Starting a Career in the Fashion World: 8 Proven Strategies to Help You Launch a Successful Career in Fashion and Make Your Mark!, build a solid foundation for your fashion career. Learn to create a personal brand that reflects your style and vision, and effectively network in the industry. Shine brightly and leave an indelible mark, propelled by your own unique vision and passion.

I am an award-winning professional voiceover actor. Every day, people ask me, "How can I get into the Voiceover industry?" This book is a simple and straightforward guide to starting your career in voiceover. You will find all the answers you need in order to get started, including all of the equipment needed and the steps to take.

Let's not beat around the bush, Covid made a total mess for musicians, producers, bands, DJs, road crew, venue owners, lighting engineers, and anyone else involved in the industry. The main lesson that I learnt from it all…don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Now, during the aftermath of it all, we see the cost-of-living crisis, and now a recession. So, we need to find new ways to protect ourselves from anything that could endanger our livelihoods again in the future.

In today's digital era, the music industry has experienced significant transformations in how musicians create, distribute, and monetize their art. While the traditional avenues of record sales and touring still play a role, innovative approaches have emerged, empowering musicians to explore new ways of generating income through their music.

I have seen it all—the good, the bad, and the ugly of being a musician—and my aim is to help you find ways to embrace the positives and avoid the negatives. They say experience is the best teacher: let's use mine to your benefit.

With clients ranging from rappers, singers, music producers, authors, and athletes, Lynn Hobson has written a comical yet heart-wrenching account of her career as “the go-to publicist” in the hip-hop community. She keeps it real as she fights to keep her spiritual principlse intact while making it happen in the streets. It is a battle, but she makes it through to see another day, another show, another hit, and another client who has that sparkle in their eyes. This is Diary of a Hip-Hop Publicist.

Did you know that only one in five musicals recoup the initial costs of production? In Marketing Broadway: The Business Behind the Art, you'll learn precisely what makes a successful Broadway show. Marketing Broadway is for anyone who wants to know why good shows don’t always succeed. It’s for the theater aficionado, the business person, but most importantly, it’s for the artist in you!

The music world has changed, and there’s no coming back. The absolute majority of people now prefer to stream their favorite music, and 94 percent use playlists for this purpose. In fact, playlists replaced the radio, and now every artist has a chance to become a newborn music star just from a successful placement in a top Spotify or Apple Music playlist. But what do you need to become “playlist” worthy? What music do you need to record? And, most importantly, how do you get on such playlists?

This audiobook gives the how and why steps in today’s ever-changing entertainment industry to talent now cutting out paying commission or signing 360 deals to talent management or music producers. Talent agencies act. This audiobook is the clear guide for talent to generate high consistent profit by branding themselves through social media sites and other entertainment media platforms - where you amazing talent, have entertainment agencies, and entertainment industry professionals offering you high-paying jobs and industry projects!

Author Adam Cruz takes you on a fast-paced journey through the complicated world of streaming music. In his distinctive narrative style, he details the effects that manual interplay have had on royalties and chronicles the diminishing value of music, the rise of streaming services, and the changing attitudes of music lovers. Cruz also shares tips and tales from his days of running a widely popular NYC disco label at the turn of the millennium.

Breaking In is the must-have handbook for aspiring entertainers who want to avoid the pervasive pitfalls and myths of the industry while accelerating their opportunities to become superstars. It is also the first audiobook of its kind to address the mental preparation, skills, traits, and specific actions required to break in to any aspect of the entertainment industry.

From Jenniffer Weigel's radio show on WGN in Chicago called I'm Spiritual, Dammit! comes this collection of podcasts on spirituality in the business place. Included are interviews with Jennifer Connor, CEO of Mustard Girl Mustard, and Kathryn Guylay, author of Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons from the Slopes.

This book will guide you in starting your own real estate photography business; it's truly an advantage if you are a photographer by profession, but if not, it doesn't mean that you could not open your own small business. This book can help you get the ball rolling with your startup.

"When the Devil don't want your business, that's when you know you low." Blues lyrics. I enjoy using my background in science and technology to invent new technologies, tell stories, and entertain people. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and Nathaniel Hawthorne are great influences.

Are you thinking about taking up photography, but are unsure of where to begin? Are you overwhelmed by all of the settings on your DSLR? Do you already have a camera, but need help perfecting your photography skills? Does the technical jargon used by professional photographers confuse you? If so, you have come to the right place!

Being a successful musician takes more than playing well. This audiobook helps musicians of all styles and levels manage the business side of their career. Megadeth bassist David Ellefson draws on 20 years of recording and touring experience to share his knowledge of how the music industry works - from the musician's perspective. Explores the key areas of management, recording, promotion, touring, and career image.

Would you like your business......to burst into public awareness like Lady Gaga?...to have the long-lived success of Mick Jagger?...to demonstrate the creativity of The Beatles? We don’t normally think of the music business as a source of entrepreneurial insight, but we should. The best bands have longevity, a depth of customer loyalty, and a level of profitability that puts most businesses to shame. And what they know about marketing, partnerships, bartering, and overcoming obstacles isn’t taught in business school.

Less than one percent of all musicians reach megastar-level fame. For the rest of us, a successful music career involves playing in bars, clubs, hotels, corporate gigs, cruise ships, and wedding venues. That career can be just as fulfilling and meaningful—if you’re willing to work on the fundamentals. Gig for Life will teach you those fundamentals. Georges Elchakieh shares his system for every aspect of creating and running a successful business as a musician.

From Words to Music: How to Write Great Songs That Stick with Your Audience is a comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of creating and promoting music. The book is divided into three main sections: songwriting, performance skills, and navigating the business of music.