We all must have seen that Frank Zappa interview like a million times by now, if you haven’t please google “Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business” and spend some quality time learning some fundamentals that today’s experts either openly quote or simply resell when talking about marketing and music business.
Budgeting (of time and money) was, is, and will always be a huge part of the music business. There were times when the independent musician was not even a possibility, unless you were Florence Foster Jenkins (assuming you would only receive her attributes regarding her wealth, otherwise you wouldn’t be much of a success no matter what budget you put in your project).
Each signature label that we either have posters from their album arts or actual LPs of came with that one person who budgeted the whole thing; besides the epic musicians that made the music and incredible sound engineers that recorded the whole thing and, of course, amazing album cover designers that presented the epic musicians and the incredible sound engineers in their album art designs. Hence, signing to a label meant more than just finding the right people to work with; it meant a financial safety net, distribution guarantee, and promotional support. Today though, the musician is figuring out ways of self-standing, and independence musicianship is gaining more and more recognition all around the world.
Hardly any composer until Beethoven put ink on paper without a contract or a promise, no matter how innovative, rebellious, and/or unique their music was. The ones we have at least heard their names of were the ones who surely got the job done and then went beyond it by their own will. But since then independent musicianship has been on the rise, taking the risk on your own is on the rise, and today doing it all by yourself seems to be more possible than ever.
How can it be done though? We have to be our business managers while being musicians as well. One of the many hats needs to be the “budget planner” hat. Because, here it goes, the essence of this article; time is money, good gear is money, and educating yourself is money. In the meantime, money can buy time, and good gear and established knowledge can save time. The trick is to find the sweet spot and invest in the thing that will pay itself in the quickest way possible, which often can be the time it saves that you will be spending to make more money in the end.
So, an independent musician’s responsibility is to organize themselves around all façades of the music business and fix their time and money budget around in the most cost-efficient way. And that is where we can get in to help with our premade album cover art and our social media-aimed promotional designs; because our album cover design collection can help you save up in both currencies; time and money. All this while your chance to make money gets higher with our top-notch high-quality premade album cover designs.
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