Friday, February 22, 2008

The Record Deal v. Endorsement Deal

In my blogs, I have been discussing having distribution creativity in the music business, creativity in making money in the music business, creative uses of your music money, and PatchWerk's Music University IV's artist management panel's discussion of all of that. I said that the artist management panel at the PatchWerk's Music University IV said that artists and managers need to look now for endorsement deals in addition to record deals. Why is this important to songwriters? Because songwriters and their managers need to not just look to pitch songs to artists who have record deals but we also need to pitch songs to artists with endorsement deals. So here's a great video on endorsement deals v. record deals:




Enjoy!



Thedy B, Attorney/Songwriter,

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