THE KEY TO GOOD BUSINESS IN TECHNO

[Alan Oldham]

I seriously recommend that if you plan on starting a label, try taking a basic business class if you have no previous experience with running or owning a business. While all of it may not pertain to the independent music industry...you'll still learn a lot that can help out along the way. I think the reason this industry is in shambles is because it's mostly built by party people who don't have a grasp on any common sense in business.

thats why someone in malta is still going to college and study Marketing :lol: :lol: :lol:

Man, I love Malta. I'd live there for awhile if it wasn't so expensive. When you guys get the Euro, it'll be better

[djsirround]

I seriously recommend that if you plan on starting a label, try taking a basic business class if you have no previous experience with running or owning a business. While all of it may not pertain to the independent music industry...you'll still learn a lot that can help out along the way. I think the reason this industry is in shambles is because it's mostly built by party people who don't have a grasp on any common sense in business.

thats why someone in malta is still going to college and study Marketing :lol: :lol: :lol:

Man, I love Malta. I'd live there for awhile if it wasn't so expensive. When you guys get the Euro, it'll be better

in one or two years time alan, it will be more expensive anyways, but at least you don't have the hassle of the currency ;)

[davethedrummer]

alan wrote in the post about summer being over something that should be dicussed here i reckon

that is :
what time of year to release your records
summer and christmas are notoriously bad for releasing underground music , ( because everyone is saving/spending their hard earned cash on other things at that time of year , reo speedwagon c.d.s , lord of the rings dvd box sets...you get the picture )
but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't do it.

we do but we keep the runs small , and get prepared to repress for the autumn / spring.
we've found that this helps to keep the cash flow going.

we never used to do it but maybe since there's so many labels in the suf collective now we have to. once you have that much stuff moving it becomes very hard to just stop it.

on the other hand if you are just running one label , then maybe trying to pick your release date is much more important , round about now ( maybe oct actually) is a great time to release techno , why??? search me, but it does always seem to pick up in the autumn.

maybe the oncoming winter just makes you think "boom boom boom'??

i dunno but it's definately a consideration esp. if you are just starting up.

[Evil G]

when i first started out djing it used to drive me nuts that there were so few records released in the summer. every week i would go down to the record shop and try to decide which of the 3 new records sucked the least.

i always assumed it was because everybody who does both production and djing was on tour during the summer. not the first time i've been wrong about how this all works. ;)