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Most Common Business & Networking Terms |
Don’t be the person who doesn’t know how to operate your part of a business in a room with people who do. If you can. Reading this is definitely a great start for you if you’re here to use these for your own work with a fresh team, collaborators & similar. Thanks to several business majors who approved the post & some life experience Throughout the years I’ve come across terms I’ve not seen or heard before by reading & along with that there was several instances where I’ve fa
motcollective
11 hours ago


Core Departments In A Major Record Label | CULTUR:ED
This piece is both for the artist who wants to be signed to a label as well as someone who’d potentially work in one. Let’s generalize it first: A label is basically Creative + Marketing + Business + Data + Network All working together to turn: an idea → into a cultural product → into money → into a financially ideal career You can consider it fact that some way or other any major label knows this as a key concept: The truth is simple: people don’t just follow music. They f
nycto
12 hours ago


Unspoken Tasks Of Independent Artists | CULTUR:ED
I think it might be a common thing, though. But I also know that I’ve got a long list of like, shit I do, that none of the people around me actually know about. It all seems like nothing. Then you start to tell people and suddenly it might start sounding like making music is now being an influencer who’s also a marketing genius with generational wealth. Being an independent artist or producer often means wearing many hats at I can’t exactly imagine doing this whole thing ag
nycto
13 hours ago






What are masters, publishing, distribution etc? CULTUR:ED
Masters, Publishing, Streams, what’s the main info? You can read that here.
nycto
Mar 25


New Successful Artist Standard & how to see AI as a good thing | CULTUR:ED
AI took over the internet & we’ve all started to use it one way or another. What was once impressive even to someone who doesn’t care about art is now standard to see. There seems to be more people who use their given AI tools to make the content for them instead of the AI tools helping them with the content they want made. Despite “AI slop” cluttering the field entirely, it’s made it harder for anyone to be a full time project based artist. Ironic, because it’s never been e
motcollective
Oct 29, 2025


How To Figure Out Your Social Media Hook & start reaching your audience | CULTUR:ED
Welcome to the 7th part of Cultur:ed. This one kind of requires a pen and paper, or pull out the marker & whiteboard because you might just start getting into it for real. It might not be clear to every creative that there’s a similarity to any type of content people put out. There’s a framework & using it isn’t as time consuming as it might sound. There’s no point in using your time to post for no views. It should be important to start showing yourself and your work appropri
nycto
Oct 13, 2025


Learn about types of tattooers before you walk in | INK:ED #1
Are you someone who is willing to finally get that tattoo but you don’t know where? Do you still want to find the cheapest spot to get...
nycto
Oct 1, 2025


Income Streams for Music Producers in 2025 & after | CULTUR:ED
In the past, producers were limited to working in studios with artists, hoping for placements or credits that could turn into royalties....
nycto
Sep 30, 2025


Understand the TikTok algorithm | CULTUR:ED
You are now reading the 5th part of our ongoing producer /artist/independent artist series titled “Cultur:ed”. We are now getting into...
nycto
Sep 27, 2025


Examples of ill scenarios with music distribution | FEATUR:ED
Welcome to FEATUR:ED- our new segment in which we share a particularly large scale situation within the music, culture & media space from...
nycto
Sep 23, 2025


From Bedroom to Streams: How Paid Independent Producers Release Today | CULTUR:ED
Releasing music independently isn’t just about uploading a track & making one TikTok video for it a day. If that was your only option it...
nycto
Sep 2, 2025


Routines of Rest: Why Producers Burn Out (and How Not To) | CULTUR:ED
Welcome to cultur:ed. A segment in which our in house artists write the most important cultural aspects & shifts - this time in music...
nycto
Sep 2, 2025


Before you try producing music | CULTUR:ED
Making music isn’t only fun & before you begin here is a solid review of it.
nycto
Aug 21, 2025


What is this website and what is BNS?
Here is one website made by a group of creative people who want to contribute to the culture they're in and do their best while they're at it which, luckily, is more than solely writing.
nycto
Jun 8, 2025
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