What I Did On My Christmas Vacation…

December 28, 2004 By 5 Comments

Thanks to our clients, friends and readers over the past few, grueling days. Although the auto-pilot posts still appeared on schedule, I’ve been out of the office since December 22nd. A few days previous, I wrote a post about preparing for the unexpected. I didn’t think we’d get the punctuation mark on that sentence, but [...]

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Upcoming Conference Call: Open Phones

December 24, 2004 By Leave a Comment

If you own a copy of any of my books or you’re a member of IndieBiz.com, join me this Tuesday night at 8pm ET for "open phones." It’s your chance to ask me anything about your music career. Visit your member area for details, or buy a book today to get on the call!

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Upcoming Conference Call: Alternative Sales Channels

December 23, 2004 By Leave a Comment

Record stores are lousy places to sell records. Find out why, and what you can do about it, on today’s call for IndieBiz.com Members. You only have a few days left to join, so sign up now to join us on this call!

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The Long Tail

December 21, 2004 By 2 Comments

Wired’s Chris Anderson is expanding his theory of the "Long Tail" to book form, and is blogging the process. Read the original article to see why it’s an important theory for you to be thinking about.

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Someone’s gonna find a fan club president under the bumper of an SUV…

December 21, 2004 By 4 Comments

Lots of buzz about the Chely Wright situation. We’re shocked, shocked to hear that someone in the fan club encouraged folks to pose as military family members to encourage jocks to play the single. Of course, this has been going on for years, this is just an interesting new flavor. But look at the public [...]

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Blanks and Postage

December 20, 2004 By 1 Comment

Here’s a neat idea for a community site: Blanks and Postage. Fans send blank CDs and cover postage costs, and get great live shows on disc in return. Bands pay $50 for inclusion in the directory, which will surely expose new audience members who want to get as much as they can from the site. [...]

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Even Orrin Hatch Gets Mailbox Money

December 20, 2004 By Leave a Comment

Our IndieBiz.com members participated in a great conversation about songwriting royalties the other day. Here’s an example I wish we could have discussed — did you know that Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, one of the folks who legislates issues affecting the music business — actually earned $33,000 in songwriting royalties last year?

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Upcoming Conference Call: Direct Mail

December 20, 2004 By Leave a Comment

E-mail’s not very good at getting fans to your shows. Learn how to use some old school techniques to boost your audience on tomorrow’s conference call for IndieBiz.com members at 7pm ET.

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Three more chances to work with me on your career in 2005…

December 17, 2004 By Leave a Comment

We now have THREE slots available for musicians to join TCM’s Music Biz Coaching program in January. We did this by juggling some things around and adding a few hours to my coaching schedule each week, but I don’t think we’ll be able to do it again until much later in the spring. (Once we [...]

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