I Don’t Need A Record Deal
Author Daylle Deanna Schwartz
Published by Watson-Guptil/Billboard Books
Review By Robin Steeley
This is your Survival Guide to the Indie Music Revolution. Musicians all over the world are seeking record deals when they could be managing their own careers with a more DIY attitude. All the tools needed to do this are readily available in the use of home studios, internet marketing, and self-promotion.
Schwartz uses her own unique style to give you an insider’s view on the guidelines necessary for success. With interviews from 150 industry executives, she will walk you through putting out your own recording and marketing it yourself.
If you listen, she can be the voice that will teach you how to make a business out of your music and run it yourself, while avoiding typical industry pitfalls. If this book helps you pick up one of Schwartz’s other best selling Billboard books, “Start and Run Your Own Record Label” and “The Real Deal”.
A few of the topics covered in the book are:
• Why Be Independent?
• Fame vs. Earning a Living
• Networking 101
• Stoking Your Musical Passion
• Street Team Power
• Marketing Your CD
• Buzzing Online
• Tackling International Markets
• Indie Resources
• Session Work and Jingles
• Putting Together a Domestic Tour
Overall its full of practical ideas that will help you market, record, tour, and perform in a professional manner with all the knowledge and skills to help make your career a success.
