🎵 The Music Business LLC Workbook

Setting Up Your Publishing Company & Record Label

15Weeks · 4 Blocks
30+Action Items
10+Revenue Streams

A step-by-step semester system to legally form your publishing company and record label, register for every royalty stream, and become investment-ready.

RecordLabelSetup.com · Music Business Course · St. Petersburg College

📈 Your Progress

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🎓 Final Portfolio Report

🔨 What Do These Buttons Do?

ButtonWhat It DoesWhen To Use It
🎓 Final Portfolio ReportOpens a formatted, read-only report of ALL your work — every answer and checkmark, week by weekAnytime to review your progress; in Week 15, use Print → "Save as PDF" to create your final submission
📥 Export Portfolio (JSON)Downloads a data file of everything you've entered — your backup ("save game")Every week or two, and before working on a shared/lab computer. Your work lives only in THIS browser!
📤 Import PortfolioLoads a previously exported file and restores all your work ("load game")When switching devices — export at home, import on campus, everything reappears
🗑️ Reset AllPermanently erases every saved answer and checkmark in this browserOnly to start completely over, or to clear a shared computer. EXPORT FIRST — there is no undo

The routine: work normally (everything auto-saves) → export weekly as a backup → import if you switch devices → never touch Reset unless you mean it.

💡 How This Workbook Works

Work through each week in order — every module unlocks the next, like foundation layers of a house. Your answers and checkmarks save automatically in this browser. You will finish the semester with TWO documents: the Final Portfolio Report (generated by this site — your gradable coursework record) and your Master Business Document (your business action plan that lives on after the course). Export a JSON backup regularly. Week 15 is reserved for final presentations.

Block 1 · Foundation (Weeks 1-4)

Week 1

The Big Picture & The Vocabulary You Need

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Week 2

Understand What You Own

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Week 3

Business Name Research — Publishing & Label

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Week 4

Business Classification & Virtual Infrastructure

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Block 2 · Build the Entities (Weeks 5-8)

Week 5

Form Your Publishing LLC

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Week 6

EIN & Operating Agreement

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Week 7

Record Label DBA & the W-9

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Week 8

Banking & Distribution — Two Accounts

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Block 3 · Activate Every Royalty Stream (Weeks 9-12)

Block 3 Kickoff · Read First

💵 Revenue Collection Roadmap — The Three Pillars

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Week 9

Protect Your Assets — Copyright

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Week 10

SoundExchange — Register Both Sides

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Week 11

PRO Registration — Writer + Publisher

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Week 12

Mechanical Royalties — MLC, MRI & HFA

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Block 4 · Capstone (Weeks 13-15)

Week 13

Maximize Every Revenue Stream

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Week 14

Investment-Ready — Business Bible & Money Map

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Week 15

Final Presentations — Your Label, Live

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