FLIPSIDE
  • Home
  • About
    • Marketing & PR
    • Music >
      • About Productions
      • Talent Development Program
    • Combat Sports
  • Music Store
  • Courses
  • Media & Blog
    • Blog
    • Podcast
  • Contact

HOW TO GET A STAFF WRITING DEAL?

8/7/2020

0 Comments

 
Write with signed writers. As I mentioned, the relationship is one of the key factors for a songwriter to get a staff writer deal. To build these relationships, you can always approach the signed writers and write with them. This is a way the publishers and producers working with that writer will notice your work and maybe they will want to work with you. Or if that doesn’t happen in any given case, you’ve lost nothing, and you end up with a new song with a signed writer who can just help using his connections to push the song.

Get to know music publishers organically. If there’s a publisher you are interested in and you are able, go to writer’s nights where they are featuring their writers. Buy them a drink. Meet their writers. Mix and mingle. Go to events where publishers are speaking. Attend industry events. Publishers are much more likely to sign someone they know over a stranger. The more publishers you get to know, the better your chances are.
Picture
 If you are based somewhere else than the city or even country that your favourite producer or written is based, don’t be afraid of approaching them in proper manners. ​​Find their website and find their public email from there. Or find them on social media and send them a polite and friendly message and see where it goes from there. As the time I am writing this, I had signed 9 songwriters who just approached me like this, and we became friends. And most of them are based on countries in the other side of the world.
 
Do your homework. Know what exactly a publisher does before you approach them. If they are a country publisher, playing them your Americana/Polka isn’t going to get you a deal. If they are a pop producer, they aren’t going to be interested in your country songs. The key to getting a deal is to give the publisher something very commercial that they don’t already have. Another homework examples. You might find out in your research that a certain publisher has 3 female writers and one male. That gives you, as a male, a little edge. They may need more male songs. Always find out what they are doing and what they need to get better in the direction they are already in. If it matches your speciality and if it’s what you are good at, then approach them, otherwise don’t waste your time and theirs.
 
Use everything you do well to your advantage. If you build tracks and do your own demos, mention that. That saves a publisher money. Publishers are businessmen and they naturally like to save money. Think of every marketable angle for what you do and make all of that known. Warning – do not make up any of this. There’s no quicker way to ruin the potential for getting a deal than lying about what you can do. Don’t blow smoke. And don’t name drop. A publisher wants to know what you can do, not hear a list of all the people you work with. Be honest and modest and mention what you’re good at that can help them to run their business smoother and more efficient.
 
Write great songs. There’s no easier way to get a deal. If you write hit songs, you’re not going to have to beg for a deal. If you aren’t getting the response you want to your music, this is always the answer. Writing better songs will get you better opportunities and it will open better doors. I promise. That’s the whole nature of this business; to write great songs. Everything else is just complimentary for your great songs to be heard by publishers and producers and to be recorded. If you don’t have the first material in hand, anything else you’d do to approach the professionals is just waste of time!

Author

Hangi Tavakoli is our in-house established and professional music producer with more than 15 years of experience in songwriting, music production, mix and mastering. He has produced more than 1500 and written more than 3000 published songs to-date, including some major hits in international scale.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.


      SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE WEEKLY UPDATES.
      We have one new FREE article on every Tuesday and Friday about music, music industry and the business aspect of it. Subscribe to our email squad to get notified on the updates.
    Subscribe

    Podcast


    Archives

    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    October 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    November 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016

    Categories

    All
    Artist Interviews
    Music Industry
    Others
    Press Releases
    Songwriting


    RSS Feed


ABOUT FLIPSIDE

ABOUT PRODUCTIONS
​
ABOUT MARKETING
​
NEWS
BLOG
PODCAST

MUSIC STORE

FOR ARTISTS

OUR ARTISTS
ARTIST LOGIN
MUSIC RELEASES
TALENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
MUSIC COURSES

CONTACT

hangi@flipsidepm.com
​+65 8558 9773
​

Mon - Fri 9:00am - 8:00pm

SUBSCRIBE

    Receive news and updates in your inbox.

Subscribe to Newsletter


©2014-2022 Flipside Productions & Marketing Pte Ltd
All rights reserved.
  • Home
  • About
    • Marketing & PR
    • Music >
      • About Productions
      • Talent Development Program
    • Combat Sports
  • Music Store
  • Courses
  • Media & Blog
    • Blog
    • Podcast
  • Contact