42 Revenue Streams for Musicians

SONGWRITER AND COMPOSER REVENUE

1. Publisher Advance

2. Mechanical Royalties

3. Commissions

4. Public Performance (PRO) Royalties

5. Streaming Mechanical Royalties

6. Composing Original Works for Broadcast

7. Synch Licenses

8. Sheet Music Sales

9. Lyric Display

10. Ringtones Revenue

11. Songwriter Awards Programs

12. Publisher Settlement

PERFORMER AND RECORDING ARTIST REVENUE

13. Record Label Advance

14. Record Label Support

15. Retail Sales

16. Digital Sales

17. Sales at Shows

18. Interactive Service Payments

19. Digital Performance Royalties

20. Master Use Synch Licenses

21. AARC Royalties

22. Neighboring Rights Royalties

23. Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund

24. Sound Recording Special Payments Fund

25. SAG-AFTRA Contingent Scale Payments

26. Label Settlements

PERFORMER SESSION MUSICIAN REVENUE

27. Salary as Member of Orchestra or Ensemble

28. Shows/Performance Fees

29. Session Musician/Sideman Fees for Studio Work

30. Session Musician/Sideman Fees for Live Work

31. Non-Featured Artist Payments

KNOWLEDGE OF CRAFT: TEACHING AND PRODUCING

32. Music Teacher

33. Producer

34. Honoraria or Speakers Fees

BRAND-RELATED REVENUE

35. Merchandise Sales

36. Fan Club

37. YouTube Partner Program

38. Ad Revenue

39. Persona Licensing

40. Product Endorsements

41. Acting

FAN, CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION FUNDING

42. Fan Funding

43. Sponsorship

44. Grants

OTHER SOURCES OF REVENUE

45. Arts Administrator

Source http://money.futureofmusic.org/40-revenue-streams/

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10 Business Ideas You Can Start with $1,000 or Less

10 Business Ideas You Can Start with $1,000 or Less

The following ideas wont work without determination

“starting” and “succeeding” are two different concepts!!!”

1.Buy items in bulk and sell them individually

2.Selling Eggs. Buy already grown road runners,give them layers mash and feed them mainly on your lawn and scraps and sell their eggs for $4 a dozen, to make the chickens lay up to 3 times each a day, you can use the light trick, where you turn off the lights and the hens think its night, when you turn the lights on again the hens will think its another day and lay again,

3.Become a coach, advisor and help people in your area of expertise

4.Create coloring books

5.Become a direct sales representative for  companies like Econet

6.Buy real estate with no money down - this is called Wholesaling where you get a contract or option to buy a property and sell that contract to another real estate investor for a premium

7.Bread Baking

8.Selling everyday consumer items door to door.

9.Start an intuitive counseling business

10.Start an Insurance Business.you can start a one-person health, life, annuity, long-term care and disability insurance agency for less than $1000. Of course 

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Egg Hatching Business

Since everyone in Zimbabwe is now into poultry farming, Chicken hatching would be a great business idea with a ready market


The eggs you find in grocery stores are not fertile and cannot be hatched.

Avoid excessively large or small eggs, or misshapen eggs. Large eggs hatch poorly and small eggs produce small chicks.


Consider if you want to use incubators or broody hens


A broody hen is one who thinks that she is incubating eggs to hatch. It doesn’t matter that there’s nothing under her, although sometimes there is. She’ll sit on eggs that the others have laid. Sometimes a broody will kick a hen out of a nesting box and in her deranged state smash the very eggs that she’s claiming. Sometimes a broody will even sit on top of a hen that is laying. Incubation is three weeks and a broody hen might stay in a box for that entire time. Or longer. Some hens are genetically programmed to go broody. Some never do. There are breeds more prone to broodiness, such as the Cochins, Silkies and Buff Orpingtons.


Couchin Chicken

Silkies Chicken

Buff Orpington Chicken


Electonic Incubators are unbelievably cheap on amazon, you can check them below





You can also run an Incubator buying and selling business in Zimbabwe, since not so many people in Zimbabwe have the opportunity to buy stuff online on amazon or go to China in person

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