Fives Paths to $100,000 Per Way Part 1: Gidget’s Way
Pull up a seat and enjoy the first in a five-part documentary (or moc-umentary as I prefer to call it) exploring the lives of artists just like you on their quest to make $100,000 a year as independents.
Though the characters in this moc-umentary are indeed fictional, the facts, figures and techniques are not. These are the same strategies that successful independent performers, artists and bands use day in and day out to profit from their passion for music.
During the course of this short moc-umentary you’ll observe how this cast of five characters arrange their music businesses to arrive at their target of a six-figure- income. So lets start the camera rolling on act one of this story. We’ll Somes Bar homes begin with our first independent artists named Gidget, a solo artist with only one business strategy: get more gigs.
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[Scene One, Act One] Camera opens on one Giddy Gidget, a Folk Artist from Berkeley California…
Gidget is a busy bee. She loves being in front of people and is sold on the idea холодильник Electrolux of performing as the main source of her income. Gidget is always on the look out for new gigs that put her in front of more and more new faces.
At the beginning of last year Gidget made Ани Лорак a new-years resolution of booking herself into LG KU800 three gigs per week – no more, no less. Unlike her other resolution [to stop eating Twinkies dipped in Jif peanut butter] Gidget has actually stuck to, and accomplished this goal.
Since Gidget’s music style and stage presence consistently attract java-thirsty crowds to her gigs, she was able to negotiate a meager $2.50 split of the door for each of her gigs. The managers all conceded with out much fuss because they Тренажер Ab Roket(Master) knew that they made far more than that due to Gidget’s lyrics about social injustice and her croonings about the joys of caffeinated beverages.
Now Gidget is a fairly consistent lady, and so are her audience sizes, which always seem to number exactly 200 people per gig (no more, no less).
If you are keeping tabs on the math then you are already adding the audience size of 200 people to her $2.50 per-person split and realizing that each of her gigs nets
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