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SMIA Workshops: Music Industry Contract Essentials, Copyright and Monetising Intellectual Property
This workshop was delivered by Jonathan Tait – an Entertainment Law Solicitor with a music industry background. Jonathan has many years of music industry experience including A&R, artist management, tour management and much more. He shares his broad and expansive understanding of the workings of the music industry and enables you to understand how to protect…
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SMIA Workshops: Running Your Music Business More Efficiently
This workshop explores topics including: – Getting to grips with working for yourself – Generating your S.W.O.T skills analysis – The 7 key business skills and how to develop them – Market Research and Marketing – How to streamline your business – Time management and productivity – Business Checklist 2018-19 This workshop is delivered by…
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SMIA Workshops: Social Media Engagement and Digital Marketing
This workshop was delivered by Gerry McGhee of Braw Robot – a specialised and successful social media management and marketing service based in Glasgow who ran social media for The SAY Award in 2018. This workshop explores: · The Basics · Working with content · Engagement and Growth· Other Digital Options· Promotion· Disaster Comms ·…
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SMIA Workshops: Cashflow and Managing Your Finances
This introductory workshop by Gillian Caughey (Fearless Financials) will enable you to understand what a cashflow forecast is, how to develop a forecast for the next year and why it is important to monitor your progress against it on a regular basis. We will look at identifying where your business is financially; what you need…
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SMIA Creative Conversations: Mike Grieve (Sub Club)
Sub Club opened in 1987 and is the longest running club in Scotland, residing on Glasgow’s busy Jamaica Street. It has been home to some of the world’s most exciting DJs and artists over its 32 years and they have consistently supported local talent from across the country, being voted the UK’s Best Small Club…
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SMIA Workshops: Crowdfunding for Music Projects
Tim Wright is Director and co-founder of twintangibles – a management consultancy that helps organisations create value from accessing the crowd economy. In this practical and accessible workshop, it will provide: – An overview of the forms and models of crowdfunding, and some market sizing information and key characteristics which make this form of funding…
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SMIA Workshops: Partnerships and Working With Brands
This workshop, delivered by Richy Muirhead, explores how you form partnerships in the music business, how you develop these relationships and best practices to evaluate and find out what works. The workshop is suitable for anyone looking to collaborate with brands and grow their business, whether you’re just starting out and formulating ideas for a…
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SMIA Workshops: Running Your Music Business More Efficiently
As part of the SMIA’s innovation-led development programme, designed to help nurture business talent and build infrastructure in Scotland’s music industry, the SMIA hosted a workshop on Running Your Music Business More Efficiently delivered by Jill Connell at the Summerhall in Edinburgh. This workshop explores the following topics: – Getting to grips with working for…
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SMIA Workshops: US Visas for Performing Artists
In an exclusive workshop for SMIA members, Julianne Wagner, Associate Case Manager for TAMIZDAT, explains in detail the requirement, legal position and processes surrounding travelling to, and doing business in, the US for musicians and music business professionals. This intimate workshop was captured (using a Mevo camera) in the SMIA Workspace in Glasgow. Learn more…
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Introducing PPL
Have you performed on commercially released music? Do you own a record label? If yes, then you should know what PPL does. We are delighted to team up with PPL to offer this very valuable resource for all performing artists and recording rightsholders (record companies). PPL focuses on obtaining royalties/licensing revenue from the use of…
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Music Business Model Innovation Panel Discussion (XpoNorth 2018)
In the Music Business Model Innovation session, recorded live at XpoNorth 2018 in Inverness, four respected panelists evaluated the potential that music businesses can achieve by pivoting their position in the market to access new revenue models. With reference to inspiring innovative examples of companies who have broken the mould and made it rain, Scottish…
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Curated Resources and Guides
As well as providing our own resources, we thought it would be useful to signpost to resources created by other organisations. We’ve broken these down into different categories below: PRODUCERS Becoming freelance (via Cultural Enterprise Office) LIVE Wish You Were Here 2017 (via UK Music) Live Music Kit (via MU) Reporting Live Performances (via PRS)…
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SMIA Creative Conversations: The SAY Award – The Value of a National Music Prize (BBC Radio 6 Music Festival Fringe)
The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award, launched by the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) in 2012, is Scotland’s pre-eminent and most exciting arts prize. Respected by artists and valued by the industry, The SAY Award is responsible for a surge in musical discovery and an explosion of impassioned debate on social media year…
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SMIA Creative Conversations: Stuart Cosgrove
SMIA Creative Conversations are a series of inspirational events hosted by the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA). The events take the form of a chat show style interview, with a different music industry practitioner being interviewed at each event. The purpose of SMIA Creative Conversations is to allow insights, experience and best practice to be…
Category: Resources
Learning resources for music business practitioners from the Scottish Music Innovation Agency