TEM197: The democratization of the new music business and polite persistence - A conversation with Ari Herstand

Ari Herstand is a musician in Los Angeles and the author of How to Make It in the New Music Business.

On Today's Episode of The Entrepreneurial Musician:

• The swell of "middle class" musicians in the new music business
• Vulfpeck has no label and no manager and yet just sold out Madison Square Garden
• The old music business had one way to succeed - the new music business has 100 ways you can make a career happen
• The most important thing any musician can do according to Ari
• Why you can't have a Plan B
• The democratization of the music business and the ability of any artist to reach an audience without being granted permission first by a gatekeeper
• Polite persistence
• Ari's very specific advice on writing a great pitch email

Links:

• Ari's book How to Make It in the New Music Business
• Ari's Take

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Produced by Andrew Hitz

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