Sunday, October 18, 2009

Make Money Playing Music at Churches and Weddings

Photo by Kelleys-Creations. Make money playing music at churches and weddings.

If you know how to play the piano or organ you can make some pretty good money playing at churches and weddings.

Some churches do not have volunteers to play the piano or organ on Sunday mornings. Here is where you come in. You can leave your card with the church minister, reverend or priest. You may find yourself hired for one or two jobs each Sunday. Some church services are at 9:00 a.m. and other church services are at 11:00 a.m. Hopefully you can find two churches fairly close together and make extra money.

Remember that some churches are open on Friday nights as well. You may want to contact them so you have a steady job for Friday nights as well.

Once more and more people see you playing for churches on Sunday mornings, you may be asked to play at a wedding. This is excellent exposure for your music talents. Other ways to advertise that you play the piano or organ is to use word of mouth. Tell your friends, family members, co-workers, spouse’s co-workers, etc., that you play the piano and/or organ. You can let them know you have reasonable rates. You can also give them a cassette tape or CD so they can listen to you play the piano and/or organ.

Of course, hang signs and cards up at your local businesses and surrounding areas. Design an eye catching sign with your phone number on so people can call you for more information. You may want to burn a lot of CD’s at once so you can hand them out whenever the situation arises.

Save your receipts on the paper, computer ink, business cards and CD’s that you use for your business. Once you get hired you will want to keep track of the mileage that you drive so you can write that off on your taxes as well.

For more information on how to make money playing music at churches and weddings, please visit http://www.preparednessmentor.com/. 

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