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| Nicole Camacho - Photo by Erika Kapin |
As a star-eyed dreamer music student, I heard beautiful,
difficult sonatas, and hungry for a challenge, bought the music and threw on the
metronome at a ridiculously slow tempo to start a journey that I knew might be
a year or two or a lifetime! I saw my teachers on stage and marveled at
their careers for years thinking their days consisted of "practicing"
and their evenings "performing!"
In pursuing a career in music, I wouldn't dare have asked my
amazing teachers for time from our lesson to talk about "business".
Truth be told, I had no idea I was destined to be a "business
owner." I was in serious denial and not at all looking forward to
the day I would have to "wake up".
Inspired by this "WAKE UP" analogy, here are a few
ways for you to "wake (yourself) up" to the ideas you will pursue as
a "small business owner":
1) Stalk artists you LOVE in many different genres on
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms. Why? It's called
MARKET RESEARCH. You begin to notice how people "advertise" and
notice how they find innovative ways to communicate their dreams and ideas.
Its quite possible you are already stalking these people! And so
now just look at it from the perspective of you one day needing to communicate
your own creative ideas. Watch and learn!
2) Follow blogs! Golden advice can be found in
these, and they are often free! Blogs I appreciate:
Emerge Already! by Concert Pianist Jade Simmons http://jademedia.org/blogs/unleashed/
Seth Godin's Blog http://www.sethgodin.typepad.com/
99u http://99u.com/
3) Organize a type of "studio class" for a
business talk. Perhaps you and some of your colleagues are ready to teach
young students or have a performing group which would like to play events for
pay. Set up this class! Ask your questions about etiquette when
working with customers, writing contracts, and how much money you should charge!
Perhaps you can open up the class to others and do a door fee of some
sort so you can pay the speaker/ teacher or just split the fee with your
colleagues for the session. It is your choice, but definitely be
proactive in creating friendly environments to have such discussions.
Rehearsals and lessons are sometimes too precious to steal time away for
business advice. Business learning is way too important of a topic to
constantly do in passing conversation!
Activities like these will play a big role in preparing you
for running your small business in addition to being a vital part of the
businesses of your colleagues.
Wishing you all the best!
Find Nicole online at:
Website:www.NicoleCamacho.com
Twitter: @Flutana
Facebook: /flutana
Instagram: flutana
Tumblr: www.flutana.tumblr.com
Music Unboxed Concert Series:
Twitter:
@MusicUnboxed
Facebook:
/musicunboxed
FUTURE OF FLUTE project:
Twitter:
@FutureOfFlute
Facebook: /futureofflute
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