To put it simply, Tim Sweeney is the music industry's most highly sought after expert and consultant in the fields of artist development, label development, distribution, publicity, radio promotion, internet marketing and retail marketing. His career in the industry spans from his days as an artist himself, to almost every position at a major label to becoming the President of a successful management company to becoming the author of one of the International Best Selling books regarding the music industry today: TIM SWEENEY'S GUIDE TO RELEASING INDEPENDENT RECORDS .

Over the last 20 years, he has helped several major labels (Columbia, Epic, MCA, Universal, Warner Bros., Capitol, Mercury, Polygram, Revolution, Hollywood (and their sub-labels), and well known independent labels (Restless, Metal Blade, Enigma, Accretions, etc.) develop the careers of some of their most promising and successful artists of all time.

Tim has personally worked with and developed the careers of more than 1,800 artists to date. Over the last five years, he presented over 250 free music business workshops around the country (at his own expense) to more than 20,000 artists, songwriters, musicians, managers and independent labels. He has also been asked to be a featured and keynote speaker at music conventions such as SXSW, EAT'M, The Songwriter's Expo, The Northern California Songwriter's Association and The Richmond Music Conference to name a few. He has also been asked by organizations like NARAS to speak at special events like Grammy's In The Schools. Borders Books & Music asked him to be a featured author at the Los Angeles Book Festival (which is attended by 100,000 people).

Tim Sweeney's Guide to Releasing Independent Records