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People Are Ignoring You On Purpose

As a musician/artist in today’s world, you have a very big challenge: the fact that people are ignoring you on purpose. They don’t mean to, and most are not even aware they are doing it, but nevertheless, you are being ignored. You are being ignored by...

Mims is Hot ’cause He’s Hot

Ever tried to figure out what makes a hit in the music business? You’ll find all the hilarious answers in a Village Voice  article by Rob Harvilla entitled Hot Hot Heat.

Steve Miller’s Manifesto

I linked to some of Steve’s thoughts before, but his post today needs to be seen in its entirety:”People do business with people they like. People do business with people they know. But most important, people do business with people they trust. I really...

Be Prepared for Success

“Never leave home without your tools” is the advice given by Wendy Marx at Fast Company blogs (FC Expert Blogs). She correctly asserts that “personal branders never attend a meeting without their game plan.” And as a musician, you are...

EMI and DRM and Independent Labels

Okay, so I’m assuming by now you’ve heard the news about EMI releasing its entire music catalog to the world without the hassles of DRM, or Digital Rights Management. I think it’s great and I don’t believe it will mean the end of songwriting as...

Reading Seth and You Should Too

I was catching up on my RSS feeds and found several excellent posts from Seth Godin. There’s rarely a day that I don’t learn something profound from him and I hope you’ll take my advice and visit his blog regularly. Here are the posts:Money,...