R&M,

I am not sure what you are asking. You are doing pretty much everything you can do. A "non-performer" frankly does not stand much of a chance in the industry since the entire industry now is about product branding and it all comes back to live performance. While there are many people that use the Internet, the jury is quite out on how successful that ulitmately is. When you are a blip of electronic information that is replace in a nano second by billions of other electronic information, there is not much of a chance that you are going to experience anything other than some personal satisfaction.

And performers have their own problems. We all do. We all now have to do our own crowdfunding, go fund me, find ways to moneytize what we do. There are millions of us, so we have to try to captitalize any way we can.

In my experience, teaming up with artists and people you can know face to face is really the only way to fit into an industry that has no interest in any one fitting in. Now, the only real "funding" is what you raise yourself, beg from friends and relatives. There is not, nor ever has been, the "magic record company fairy" floating down to give money out to deserving artists. Those are only loans, and are only "loaned" if there is a chance to get paid back. If you are moving enough product to pay back record company loans (and interest), you really don't need a record company.

No matter how you look at it, if you want to know your chances in the industry and who is there to help you. Go look in the mirror. That is your industry.

MAB