This blog post will be the first of many that I’m going to keep up with. I’ve had a lot of musicians starting out asking me various questions that in someway can probably help other starting musicians out there. This is all from my opinion and would love for the music community to chime in with any advice I may have missed.

Getting Started, there are two types of musicians I see all the time. The musician that just jams with friends in their basement and those that want to get out there are play shows. The musician that just wants to jam in his basement is doing it to keep up their skill and have fun. The one that wants to play shows is starting a business even if their only aiming to play local shows.

A business does not just pop up with the hopes of having a few sales. A band doesn’t play shows in hopes of only having a few people show up. That being said, the business creates a business plan to help maintain marketing, expenses and future outlook. You bet a band should be creating a business plan as well and keeping to it.

So what type of musician are you? Have you created a business plan? Set goals and achieved them?