Starting Your Career As A Musician

you must keep a record of miles driven specifically for business. If you choose the stan- dard mile rate, you must use it for th ...

Fixed assets are defined as business items that have useful lives of over one year. An ac- counting period can be a month, quart ...

Some items may be able to deduct the entire cost of an asset in the tax year it was purchased under Section 179 of the tax code. ...

As a self-employed professional, you may be eligible to deduct your health insurance premiums and healthcare costs for you, your ...

the debt becomes totally worthless and uncollectible. There may be instances when a debt is partially worthless, but usually bus ...

The only way to reduce this tax is to reduce taxable income. Regular deductions such as the standard deduction won’t reduce this ...

You’ll need a system in place to keep track of the tax money you’ve collected, prepare a return, and then send off the return, a ...

Chapter 14: Pro Advice on How to Succeed Here’s a news flash. If the music business was easy, everybody would be a rockstar or t ...

beyond creating music. Or, was the predicable path established long ago by the music in- dustry a better way because of its pred ...

This is a new era for the musician; it is no longer about just playing music and putting the blinders on to every other aspect o ...

“I guess my advice would be to learn your instrument well, and to upgrade your recording and production skills. Most of all, I w ...

“I would tell up and coming artists to be students of the game. Learn all you can and put 100% into it. Lastly, take advantage o ...

Relationships are everything, so carefully nurture them and be grateful. Be really good at what you do. If you’re not, then do s ...

Brian Doherty, Solo artist, http://www.briandoherty.net “First of all, figure out what you do well and what your goals are. You ...

Make sure you absolutely kick ass at what you do, whether it's singing or playing an instrument. Show up. In the words of lege ...

working with. If you're not having fun, you are wasting your time and everyone else’s. Always put out positive energy and it wil ...

Try to maintain as much financial independence and control as possible. We worked day jobs in order to finance our band, so that ...

Jagger, “I think of him as coming from the English tradition of the actor-manager. If you watch him get ready to put on a show, ...

back in 2002 in Fortune magazine. Indeed. Their most recent merchandising innovations include a range of ‘as worn by’ apparel, r ...

ough understanding of your audience. Learn what’s important to them and what they want. Then find ways to give it to them. Doing ...