Music Licensing Business

8 Tips For Starting A Successful Music Licensing Business (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own music licensing business? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a music licensing business:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a music licensing business?
-> Pros and cons of a music licensing business

Need inspiration?

-> Other music licensing business success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a music licensing business
-> Music licensing business names

Other resources

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a music licensing business:

#1: Aaron Green, founder of Easy Song:

We chatted with with Aaron, founder of Easy Song ($315K/month). In our interview, Aaron says:

Transparency equals trust, coupled with an open/flexible mindset to accept all ideas. If you want to improve, get out of your own head and go out and find out more.

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#2: Aaron Green, founder of Easy Song:

We chatted with with Aaron, founder of Easy Song ($315K/month). In our interview, Aaron says:

Our new Marketplace is an innovative platform that offers professional replica recordings of current Billboard hits across all genres along with a vast catalog of cover songs from the past 50 years.

Additionally:

the ability to visualize every aspect of your business model and understand its path to success is crucial. This isn’t about vague hopes; it's about having a clear, detailed blueprint in your mind.

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#3: Aaron Green, founder of Easy Song:

We chatted with with Aaron, founder of Easy Song ($315K/month). In our interview, Aaron says:

The old entrepreneurial saying comes to mind; ‘you need to reinvent yourself every 4-5 years to maintain success’, which we can personally attest to. Staying rigid and stubborn regarding your original business plan and execution can only lead to dead-ends if you do not experience any hint of the growth you were anticipating.

Additionally:

For future entrepreneurs, you need to be as open-minded as possible. You first need to master the art of the sticky sponge, by finding strong mentors early-on, not being afraid to ask any question and bowing down to others’ expertise and knowledge.

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#4: Aaron Green, founder of Easy Song:

We chatted with with Aaron, founder of Easy Song ($315K/month). In our interview, Aaron says:

If you can truly visualize the entire blueprint of your business model inside your brain and how it will be successful, anything is indeed possible.

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#5: Tanvi Patel, founder of Crucial Music:

We chatted with with Tanvi, founder of Crucial Music ($75K/month). In our interview, Tanvi says:

Stay focused, and keep going. Great ideas need follow-thru. It’s very easy to get sidetracked or give up because it’s really hard.

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#6: Aaron Green, founder of Easy Song:

We chatted with with Aaron, founder of Easy Song ($315K/month). In our interview, Aaron says:

As a small business grows larger, it presents new and more complex challenges in how we accommodate our people where we had to pick and choose our priorities while enforcing a more structured approach compared to years past.