My final reinterpretation of Eldino’s great series on how to start a netlabel ends with Part 3 of Come aprire una netlabel.

  1. Pace yourself, or more to the point, pace the releases of your netlabel. Just because you have 10 releases ready to go, don’t put them out all at once.

    Moreover, in times of “lean” have something to be published and you can maintain a pleasant frequency and regularity in publications, rather than, for example, publish 10 releases immediately and stay three months without publishing anything.

  2. Don’t feel force to publish a release as well as this will lead to a distinct lack of quality.
  3. If you begin to lose interest in your project, think of a new way to reinvigorate your interest in the netlabel whether through website redsign, start a contest, etc.
  4. Have some knowledge of English. Okay, this won’t be such a big problem for me, but the counter to this if you have only a knowledge of English, force yourself to visit German, Italian, Russian or Spanish sites. Use Google Language Tools, though not exact it will assist you in understanding what’s going on in foreign language sites.

A big thanks to Eldino for writing out this great roadmap on how to begin a netlabel. I only hope my “translation” did his original posting justice.

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