Vocal Careers: How To Find Success
Do you want a vocal career? Do you want a bigger or more prosperous music business? There is no substitute for planning for success. You can't plan for every contingency, as the pandemic era has proven, but without a morphable plan, success is a pipedream - not a real one with legs and not just wings.
Too many people are depressed or defeated in their music careers because they don't do what it takes to be successful at it. They worry, try, hope, gripe, give up or stay in a perpetual state of failing but they don't do the following:
Too many people are depressed or defeated in their music careers because they don't do what it takes to be successful at it. They worry, try, hope, gripe, give up or stay in a perpetual state of failing but they don't do the following:
- Research what it takes to be successful in the chosen vocal career.
- Assess what vocal and music business assets they have going at this point in time.
- Get to work on acquiring those assets they are missing.
- Create a 5 year plan, where do you want to be and what do you want to have accomplished by then?
- Work back... what do you have to in year 1, 2, 3, 4 to reach your goals in year 5?
- Work back further... what do you have to do in each month to work towards your 1 year goal?
- Work back further still... what do you need to do for the next 4 weeks? for the next week? for the next 7 days? Today???
- Create a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly agenda. Know that it will be a plan on rollerskates; revise as necessary but keep moving towards your goals.
- Assess the situation ( where you are right now)
- Know what you want (where you want to be)
- Brainstorm the possibilities (and get other sources to help you do this)
- Evaluate and decide (choose your strategies and tactics according to your life values)
- ACT! (without this step, the others are useless) You may need to do something, face something about yourself, learn something, network with someone, make some calls, try some experiments. Schedule these into your daily, weekly, monthly, yearly plans.
- You are happy doing your art. You are personally satisfied that you are creating something beautiful, meaningful. Don't underestimate the value of creativity in your life!!
- You can afford your investment in your music, and don't consistently go over budget.
- Your music income is at least what your music expenses are (breaking even).
- Your audience gives you the response you need to tell they are deeply impacted by your music
- You win some kind of award or talent show you've entered.
- You have a hit on the radio, the internet, other media.
- You can quit your day job because you're making enough to live on.
A successful career in music demands good business acumen, too. Search out good training for general business operation and strategy - including doing business online! You can listen to my interviews with business coaches Denise Wakeman and Sue Painter.
Don't ever stop dreaming, but do put legs under your wings. Don't waste any more time; do something proactive and get to work, today!
Don't ever stop dreaming, but do put legs under your wings. Don't waste any more time; do something proactive and get to work, today!
Labels: Judy Rodman, music career planning, vocal career
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