<p>Hi everyone - </p>
<p>I help write for a website called [MusicianWages.com[/url</a>]. A few musician friends and I started writing the website in 2008. It's all pragmatic articles on how we're making a living as working musicians. Not how someone could make a living, but how we are actually doing it. </p>
<p>The site contains a lot of advice that I wish I would have known when I was a music major, and I hear our readers say that a lot. Nevertheless, most of our readers are other working musicians, and not very many music students.</p>
<p>So I wanted to introduce our site to everyone here. I think it would help a lot of people out. If you have any advice on how we might reach more music students, I'd be really grateful.</p>
<p>I'll leave you with an example of an article I think music students could really benefit from:</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/moving-to-the-big-city-and-finding-work/%5DMoving">http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/moving-to-the-big-city-and-finding-work/]Moving</a> to the Big City and Finding Work](<a href="http://www.musicianwages.com%5DMusicianWages.com%5B/url">http://www.musicianwages.com)</p>
<p>I wish I'd had this article when I was a music student!</p>
<p>“Practical” and “music students”?</p>
<p>“Musicians” and “wages”?</p>
<p>Must be oxymoron day ;)</p>
<p>But in seriousness, thanks very much for bringing to our attention the site. It looks very helpful potentially.</p>
<p>Good point, CompGrad. There are about 23 of us that are writing for the site now, all working musicians mostly in NYC and LA. I suspect that most of us weren’t very practical as music majors either. Most of the info on the site is the stuff we had to learn the hard way between the end of college and now.</p>
<p>I think you must be a comp student? You might dig this article. One of our writers quit his job at Verve when he figured out how to work this technique:</p>
<p>[How</a> To Effectively Promote and Sell Your Music on iTunes](<a href=“http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/how-to-effectively-promote-and-sell-your-music-on-itunes/]How”>http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/how-to-effectively-promote-and-sell-your-music-on-itunes/)</p>
<p>I hope I’m not posting too much - one more thing though. </p>
<p>We did a group-blog event last week. Basically, we pick a topic and asked any music and musician bloggers to write about it on the same day. Our topic this time was:</p>
<p>“If you could go back to 1999 and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?”</p>
<p>There ended up being a huge amount of advice for the college version of ourselves. I think the music majors here would really find the content relevant and interesting. Try it out:</p>
<p>[Dear</a> 1999](<a href=“http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/dear-1999/]Dear”>http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/dear-1999/)</p>
<p>dave, the site does have some potentially valid and useful info for music students and grads.</p>
<p>I’m not a moderator, but you may want to read this site’s terms of service, specifically in relation to posting links to personal websites, blogs, youtube type links. Just a bit of friendly advice, as some might see your posts as begining to stretch the envelope.</p>
<p>There are ways of posting the info other than a direct link, including suggesting googling the website’s unlinked title.</p>
<p>I’d hate to see potentially useful info get deleted.</p>
<p>Oh - sorry. Thanks for the head’s up. Yeah, you’re right, that’s probably too much promo. I’ve probably made my point, I’m sorry if it’s turned into spam. I hope we have some info music students find valuable. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Glad I could help. Would hate to see some valuable insights “disappear”.</p>