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The Artist Development Academy by IACM

Your music deserves to be heard.

Three practical courses on the side of music nobody teaches. How to get booked, how to grow an audience and how to get paid properly. We're putting the finishing touches to it now.

Free to join. You'll be the first to hear when it opens.

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What you'll learn

Three courses, step by step. Each one ends with something you can use straight away.

Course 1 · 8 modules

The Working Musician's Toolkit

Get booked. Present yourself like a professional and reach venues, agents and promoters with confidence.

  1. 1. Positioning Yourself as a Professional

    • The mindset shift: you are a service provider, not just a performer
    • What venues, agents and promoters look for in the first 10 seconds
  2. 2. The Musician's CV and Cover Letter

    • What goes in a music-specific CV
    • Writing a cover letter or pitch email that gets read
    • Common mistakes that get applications ignored
  3. 3. The Electronic Press Kit (EPK)

    • What a professional EPK actually needs
    • Compiling and structuring it
    • EPK mistakes that make bookers skip past you

Course 2 · 7 modules

Artist Branding & Social Media

Grow your audience. Build a brand that feels like you and a content plan you can keep up.

  1. 1. Defining Your Artist Brand

    • What "brand" actually means for a musician
    • A SWOT exercise adapted for artists
    • Identifying your target audience
  2. 2. Platform-by-Platform Profile Optimisation

    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    • YouTube
    • Keeping a consistent visual identity across all three
  3. 3. Content Pillars and Sustainable Content Creation

    • What content pillars are and why they prevent burnout
    • Building your own pillar framework
    • Batching and planning content

Course 3 · 4 modules

The Music Business Essentials

Get paid properly. Understand rights, royalties and distribution before you release.

  1. 1. How the Music Business Actually Works

    • The two copyrights in every song
    • Who gets paid, and how
    • Why collecting societies (PROs) exist
    • Old model vs. streaming model: how money flows today
  2. 2. Digital Distribution

    • What a distributor actually does for you
    • Comparing DistroKid, TuneCore and Ditto Music
    • What to check before signing up
    • Choosing the right distributor for your goals
  3. 3. Copyright Basics for Independent Artists (UK, US & EU)

    • What copyright protects, and what it doesn't
    • Automatic copyright vs. formal registration
    • The composition/master split in practice
    • Common copyright myths, debunked

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