This month, I chose “Get Venues to Ask You Back: 8 Tips You Can Use For Your Next Show” from Darren Gallop on the ReverbNation blog for our V11 blog post of the month.

While the focus of this blog is getting asked back to venues, the theme of building relationships and maintaining a good reputation is one that you can apply to all aspects of your career.

So check out “Get Venues to Ask You Back: 8 Tips You Can Use For Your Next Show,” and get to work on building lasting relationships with venues.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Steven Winogradsky of Winogradsky/Sobel about common legal and business issues artists face, and what artists can do to successfully navigate these issues.

These issues are paramount to an artist success because according to Mr. Winogradsky, “Indie artists, and artists in general, need to understand that as much as they think it’s about making the music, in some ways it’s really about making money and understanding the business, because if they can’t make the money, they don’t get the chance to make the music.”

What are the top things independent artists should be doing from a business standpoint that they aren’t doing?

Most of the time, they are not getting agreements upfront as to what their business arrangements are.

We are skipping a month on the Post of the Month and taking this time to reflect instead.

Below is the About page from Volume 11′s webpage.  Written in 2007, has anything really changed?
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The model for musician development is in shambles. The industry is facing a period of profound change.

Only 10 years ago, companies wanted to make records, presumably good records, and see if they sold. But panic has set in, and now it’s no longer about making music, it’s all about how to sell music. And there’s no clear answer about how to fix that problem.

David Geffen September 2007