dc The Community for Working Musicians en-US Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:50:07 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/search.php http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cd-duplication-experiences#post-1162 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:58:25 +0000 AgnesCornell 1162@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>Congrats! </p> <p><a href="http://www.play-itdirect.com/">Cd Duplicaton NYC</a> </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cd-duplication-experiences#post-1161 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:55:46 +0000 AgnesCornell 1161@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>First of all Congratulation buddy. If your from NY I know a company that duplicates CD and they give a good price on it. </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cd-duplication-experiences#post-678 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:48:59 +0000 Anonymous 678@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>congrats on the album! 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I&#39;m glad it worked out so well. </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cd-duplication-experiences#post-407 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:48:42 +0000 ajhmusic 407@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>Just wanted to update now that I&#39;ve gone ahead and now released the album. In case anyone is interested I went with CopyCats Media for the project (which I found through this site!). They were great - easy to work with, had good pricing and turnaround time. </p> <p>And if you&#39;re interested in checking out their work, and mine ;), the album is now available on my website and CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com/ahartmansm).</p> <p>Thanks to all for your input! </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cd-duplication-experiences#post-384 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:33:59 +0000 reubster_3 384@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>I have been searching for great software to manage and promote my band. 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Yes, $5.49 per CD is steep, but you invest nothing!</p> <p>If you want to buy larger quantities for yourself, prices do get cheaper. As low as $0.72 per CD for 10,000 or more.</p> <p>Go sign up and check it out:</p> <p><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/main/signup?referrer=A483410" rel="nofollow">http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/main/signup?referrer=A483410</a> </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cd-duplication-experiences#post-373 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:15:56 +0000 James 373@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>Ok. I own a CD Manufacturing company, So I could be a tiny bit bias. Your more than welcome to try us out. Some of the companies that are mentioned above are very good. I will say that i think are print is really high end, and that are customer service is very personal. If you need any help in coming up with ideas, or how many you print - then please feel free to call me or email me 310-999-4493 - <a href="mailto:James@unifiedmanufacturing.com">James@unifiedmanufacturing.com</a>. You can check out our blog for ideas <a href="http://www.unifiedmanufacturing.com/blog" rel="nofollow">http://www.unifiedmanufacturing.com/blog</a>. I wish you all the best </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cold-calling-or-emailing-musical-groups-as-an-accompanist#post-351 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:15:51 +0000 noedg 351@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>I don&#39;t have a copy of the e-mail I sent as it was over a year ago, but I&#39;ve re-wrote something along the same lines.</p> <p><blockquote>Hi there.. I&#39;m an 18 year old lead guitarist/backing vocalist from London.. I&#39;ve been listening to your aritst [NAME] for a while now after coming across his myspace page, and I really like what I hear.</p> <p>I was just wondering if there would be any possibilty of an audition for the live band? If not then no worries, I&#39;ve attached a copy of my CV anyway just incase. I&#39;ve been playing professionaly for over a year and recently finished a tour with a show from the West End, but I&#39;m currently trying to break into the pop scene.</p> <p>Anyway, my number is 07777888889 just incase.</p> <p>Many thanks and I&#39;ll look forward to hearing from you &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/kopete/smile.png&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>Noedg (obviously I would put my actual name there haha)</blockquote></p> <p>And the reply I got was far less formal, but I wouldn&#39;t risk going any further formal or informal than that personally.. You never know if a person is going to be hella posh, or totally the opposite.. but that seems to be about half way. I&#39;ve used the same approach for most things including endorsements, and have been successful most of the time. </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cold-calling-or-emailing-musical-groups-as-an-accompanist#post-350 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:21:05 +0000 David J. Hahn 350@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>noedg - </p> <p>Very cool, congrats on the great gig.</p> <p>I&#39;d love to see an example of your first email. Do you think you could post it here for us? </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cold-calling-or-emailing-musical-groups-as-an-accompanist#post-349 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:31:50 +0000 DC 349@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>noedg,</p> <p>Good points and congratulations! I agree with adding more &quot;humanity&quot; to the message. My original though was to &quot;get in and get out&quot; quickly. By being simple and to the point, I could at least get the person to read my inquiry and send it along to the appropriate person. My intention was not to waste anybody&#39;s time. My next round of messaging will reflect more personality. </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cold-calling-or-emailing-musical-groups-as-an-accompanist#post-346 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:16:25 +0000 noedg 346@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>Hi..</p> <p>I&#39;ve been a reader of the blog for a while, some very interesting posts! The site deserves to be a hell of a lot bigger than it is in my opinion, I&#39;m sure in time it will catch on.</p> <p>I registered purely to reply to this post but I&#39;m sure I&#39;ll stick around some more.</p> <p>So I&#39;m 18 years old (prefer to remain annonymous as I hate being googled) so I was searching like crazy for pop gigs, chart bands etc. So I decided to do what you did and &quot;cold call&quot;. There was an artist very popular over the internet who I heard of with thousands of fans worldwide, signed to Universal but yet to release an album (being released in March 2010). So I decided to send his manager an e-mail asking about auditions, I got a reply saying I needed to send them a photo (the pop scene is as much image as it is music in my opinion, unfortunate but hey). </p> <p>So then they asked me to go and audition in London, so I did, got the job (name dropping a little helped me), did a sell out tour, played live radio shows, met a hell of alot of contacts that I&#39;ve now got other live and studio work from. We&#39;re also playing all the big festivals over here like Glastonbury, V Fest and Ocean Fest, aswell as touring the states, australia, and europe. It&#39;s also got me way more work with other people including a big tour I have coming up with someone off of the xFactor over here.</p> <p>Sorry for the essay here, I can talk for britain.. but what I&#39;m saying is, cold e-mailing is definately a good thing, but don&#39;t make it cold.. with all due respect to DC&#39;s post, you gotta remember the people you want to work for are human.. being a people person goes a long long way in this business. And I know I&#39;m young so I don&#39;t mean to lecture, but you need to have a balance of not sucking up to them, but not sounding like you&#39;ve copy and pasted the e-mail to a hundred other people. </p> <p>But then again what do I know (apart from without cold e-mailing I would still only be playing in pubs and clubs), I&#39;ve just been lucky so far.. could all go down hill anywhere along the line I guess &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/kopete/smile.png&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/rates-for-teaching-private-lessons#post-344 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:20:03 +0000 brian 344@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>Awesome David! Thanks. That&#39;s perfect. I&#39;ve been thinking somewhere in the range of 20-25% should be reasonable especially since there&#39;s a registration fee upon sign up which is a pretty standard thing. </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/rates-for-teaching-private-lessons#post-343 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:19:05 +0000 David J. Hahn 343@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>Hey Brian - </p> <p>I asked around for some numbers for you. I don&#39;t know if this is helpful, but here&#39;s what I found from one friend.</p> <p>She teaches at a music shop in the Virginia Beach area of VA. At their shop they have the option of 30, 45 and 60 minute lessons. Here&#39;s the break down:</p> <p><u>30 Minute Lesson</u><br /> Student pays: $25<br /> Teacher receives: $20<br /> Studio receives: $5<br /> <strong>% to studio: 20%</strong></p> <p><u>45 Minute Lesson</u><br /> Student pays: $35<br /> Teacher receives: $27.50<br /> Studio receives: $7.50<br /> <strong>% to studio: 21.43%</strong></p> <p><u>60 Minute Lesson</u><br /> Student pays: $45<br /> Teacher receives: $35<br /> Studio receives: $10<br /> <strong>% to studio: 22.22%</strong> </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/rates-for-teaching-private-lessons#post-342 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:00:12 +0000 Joe Stone 342@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p><blockquote>If I were making what I should be per student i could pretty much work almost half as much and make the same amount of money if I wanted to.</blockquote></p> <p>That was the one thing I left out of my previous post and definitely something for you to consider as well. </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/rates-for-teaching-private-lessons#post-341 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:33:29 +0000 brian 341@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>Joe</p> <p>I do have a fairly steady stream of students. I maintain roughly 25-30 right now. There are dry periods though where no new students come in for a while and my number of students goes down some, but overall it&#39;s a decent flow of students.</p> <p>But I&#39;m realizing that I&#39;m not just nit-picking over details of a few percentage points difference. If I were making what I should be per student i could pretty much work almost half as much and make the same amount of money if I wanted to.</p> <p>but yes i am thinking carefully of his side so that I can better know what his efforts should be worth compared to mine. </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/rates-for-teaching-private-lessons#post-340 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:15:04 +0000 Joe Stone 340@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>On his side, you have to consider how much his efforts are bringing in students. In other words, if you worked at another local shop that didn&#39;t do as much marketing and advertising, would you have less students and be making more per student but possibly less overall? Or would you be making about the same?</p> <p>The other question to ask <em>yourself</em> is, are you making a good amount, and it&#39;s just this percentage that&#39;s bugging you? If so, you might want to forget about it. </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/rates-for-teaching-private-lessons#post-339 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:35:00 +0000 brian 339@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>DC,</p> <p>Yeah see i was thinking along the lines of 25-30% for him and 70-75% for the teacher. When I finally have a sit down with him about it I&#39;m worried about the argument he&#39;ll be making saying something like &quot;I need to turn a profit&quot;. But I feel like having anywhere from 150-200 students that the store now has (I think) even 25% should be enough to cover the cost of bills, advertising and still turn a profit. Of course a big factor in all of this is going to be whether or not other stores in the area have a similar setup of which to compare to. Is your setup pretty much the standard in your area do you know? </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/cd-duplication-experiences#post-338 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:14:25 +0000 DC 338@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;m working on a project with a friend and an doing the design work with him. He&#39;s chosen Disc Makers for the duplication and printing. </p> <p>I&#39;ll post about the experience when it&#39;s done. So far so good though. I got the templates I need in formats that I can use. </p> http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/filmtv-sideline-gigs#post-337 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:04:40 +0000 DC 337@http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/ <p>This is a very interesting idea. Anyone try something like this? </p>