After the horrors of yesterday, today turned out pretty damn well. Slept in forever, then just kinda sat around this afternoon and worked on some stuff. I'm really starting to lean more towards moving up to Richmond or DC for awhile before moving to L.A. Do kind of a "test run" of sorts. Instead of getting a job, I'm going to *gasp* jump into the joys of freelancing. I'm gonna go ahead and continue with getting RAM set up as an LLC and all of that, and start selling out of my apartment. I've got a couple of ideas I've been kicking around today:
The big one, obviously, will be selling CDs of all the bands and labels I work with who are interested, which, honestly, is most of them from what I've heard. So it'll be like CD Baby, just for goth/industrial artists. I'm also going to branch out into other merch items, such as t-shirts, pins, stickers, whatever. As an added incentive, I'll be throwing in all sorts of fun promo items every time someone buys something, since I always have a whole box full of demos, extra cds, stickers, flyers, business cards, pins, etc.
I'll also start booking shows, and take a meager door cut. I've actually had bands offer me 10% of their guarantee, but I think I'd only take 5 or 7, so it'd be a good deal. Plus that would include me having a table of my own to sell and promote from.
I'm going to do a little more web and graphic design hopefully. I've also had the idea of buying a new server where bands can buy in for a small amount a year and get a matching message board for their site instead of trying to install one themselves or using the proboards stuff.
I'm gonna launch the radio station servicing program and perhaps do a package deal type thing where for a certain amount of money I'll ship out their demo to my growing list of RAM-friendly radios all over the world.
Still thinking up more ideas of things I could do. In the end, though, I realize that I won't be able to make enough just doing this, so I'll still do as much overhire for theatre and such when I can. But, dammit, I'm so tired of working for other people. I just wanna be free.
So, I had a good evening too. Me, Dana, and Drew went to Awful's for dinner and a few beers, then went back to Drew's and went swimming. We talked for awhile, and both of them are really itching to do some more music, so I hope maybe I can have both of them help me a bit with my stuff, which would rock. So, good times!
Gonna crash early tonight, and get another good sleep in. Going to hope tomorrow lasts a lifetime, because I'm not looking forward to Monday.
The big one, obviously, will be selling CDs of all the bands and labels I work with who are interested, which, honestly, is most of them from what I've heard. So it'll be like CD Baby, just for goth/industrial artists. I'm also going to branch out into other merch items, such as t-shirts, pins, stickers, whatever. As an added incentive, I'll be throwing in all sorts of fun promo items every time someone buys something, since I always have a whole box full of demos, extra cds, stickers, flyers, business cards, pins, etc.
I'll also start booking shows, and take a meager door cut. I've actually had bands offer me 10% of their guarantee, but I think I'd only take 5 or 7, so it'd be a good deal. Plus that would include me having a table of my own to sell and promote from.
I'm going to do a little more web and graphic design hopefully. I've also had the idea of buying a new server where bands can buy in for a small amount a year and get a matching message board for their site instead of trying to install one themselves or using the proboards stuff.
I'm gonna launch the radio station servicing program and perhaps do a package deal type thing where for a certain amount of money I'll ship out their demo to my growing list of RAM-friendly radios all over the world.
Still thinking up more ideas of things I could do. In the end, though, I realize that I won't be able to make enough just doing this, so I'll still do as much overhire for theatre and such when I can. But, dammit, I'm so tired of working for other people. I just wanna be free.
So, I had a good evening too. Me, Dana, and Drew went to Awful's for dinner and a few beers, then went back to Drew's and went swimming. We talked for awhile, and both of them are really itching to do some more music, so I hope maybe I can have both of them help me a bit with my stuff, which would rock. So, good times!
Gonna crash early tonight, and get another good sleep in. Going to hope tomorrow lasts a lifetime, because I'm not looking forward to Monday.
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