When I’m not sending out emails about new Sonicbids gigs, I’m on the road, meeting our members in person. This weekend, I was in Atlanta at the Atlantis Music Conference. Close to 100 Sonicbids members were selected to showcase, and you can see some of them on the Atlantis media player at http://www.AtlantisMusic.com.

I spoke on a panel called “Making Money in the Music Industry: How to get that BLING in your THING,” along with Jonathon Alexander, the CEO of Tap it Fame, Aaron Arnold, the CEO of Music Is My Business, Glenn Litwak, Entertainment Lawyer, Jeff Beal, Director of Business Development, Hardline360, and Brian Calhoun – Owner of Label Management Systems, Inc. Jonathan was an excellent moderator, and I learned a ton from Aaron and Brian.

About 60% of the audience at the panel were Sonicbids members! The panel discussion included all kinds of different ways to make money with your music, mostly branding, sponsorships and licensing. Some of the things that got a great response were ideas around NACA and optimizing sales at live gigs. I was able to chat about some new features we’ll be launching on the site, money-making gigs, and some of the things I do for my own band to make money with our music.

I also met a few our members, Reggie Perry (Nobody Famous), an MC and producer, and his manager, Kareem, Brian Mazzaferri, a singer/songwriter from Illinois and Elli Perry, a singer/songwriter from Atlanta. I learned a ton about the kinds of gigs open to MCs, what it takes to break into a new genre and taking the plunge and hitting the road. I’m the one with the orange purse.

I hope I get to meet more of you guys down the road. As always, “Thanks for Reading!”

Jen

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