Entrepreneurial tips for up and coming Naija music stars

Found in Channel : Business Talks, Music — Damilare @ 2:26 pm 7 Comments »

I have learnt over time to apply entrepreneurial approaches towards all endeavors, and I learnt the hard way. More often than not, we become so blinded by what we have passion for that we fail to see reasons to be shrewdly smart about them. This makes us almost a loser at the long run. While some becomes used and dumped, some just lose touch of reality!

Music is becoming a serious business in Nigeria lately; thousands of young people are making demo tapes of songs made from fruityloops or cakewalk, while they roam the streets of Lagos, looking for a record labels to float on. Some of theses dudes (or gals) are as bad as a humming mosquito, while some rocks like a gangan drum on steroids!

A close study of these two, the bad and good, shows that the bad ones come to limelight because they have been able to apply basic entrepreneurial tips. Tune to a typical local Nigerian TV to get more gists. I hope the good ones, can find this piece and turn the table around.

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