Today I´m going to share several tips, based on my own experience of working in the music licensing business, that will help you license more of your music, more often.

Produce Great Tracks! I´ve said it before, and I'll say it again, you have to have tracks that are well produced and sound great if you want to place your music in Television, Films, etc.  How great? Well they need to be what are considered ¨broadcast quality¨.  In other words, the mixes that you submit need to be high enough in quality that no additional work needs to be done to the mix in order for it to be used wherever it´s being used.  Your songs need to be ready to be placed when you pitch them.  This is different for example than when you are trying to pitch songs to publishers that find songs for recording artists and then have the song re-cut by whatever artist picks up the song.  Generally speaking, in the context of TV and Film, your music will be used as is and not re-recorded.

If you're not producing your own tracks, then consider partnering with someone else who records music in exchange for a percentage of your future earnings.  This is an arrangement I´ve made many times in order to get my tracks recorded over the years.  If you don´t have any credits in the music licensing industry you might have to pay for the first song or two that you license.  But once you have a little bit of a track record it should be fairly easy to find people who are willing to come up with creative arrangements for financing projects.  Craigslist is a great resource for finding people in this regard and I have made relationships with many musicians via this free resource.  Visit www.craigslist.org