Crazy busy? Me too.
Jason Womack points out a great exercise that David Allen used on him in a seminar once. It helps you put things in perspective…
Imagine how wonderful, amazing, and successful your life will be 10 years from now?
Got it? Good.
Now imagine how wonderful, amazing, and successful your life will be at lunch today.
Mmmm. [...]
Ever since I wrote Grow Your Band’s Audience, I’ve offered readers "members-only" access to a special part of our website that offers downloads and discussions related to each book in the series. I’m using Moodle software right now, which is easy to administer but, I fear, is really confusing to folks. So I am thinking [...]
Posting’s a little light around here these days because I’m working furiously on some fun projects, including the second draft of my new book, More Gigs Now. So furiously, in fact, that the letter ‘G’ flew off my keyboard the other day, prompting the cat to pounce on it and run away. I did get [...]
Curt Rosengren frames up nicely the kind of conversation I have with artists almost every day. Stop assuming you won’t succeed. Stop assuming you don’t deserve it. Open yourself up to what’s out there, and you’ll be delighted.
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I didn’t realize I doublebooked myself, so I have to punt our e-newsletter subscribers’ open house conference call to 3pm ET / 12pm PT tomorrow. Bridge line details go out in tomorrow morning’s newsletter!!
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The next time you kick your own butt for making a boneheaded mistake while promoting your music, remember that it could be worse. You could have paid somebody to screw it up even more, and they could have a trail of reality show cameras following them.
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Barry at IPac blogs about the "leaked" Fiona Apple record. This will turn out to be one of the most brilliant and — possibly — unrepeatable marketing events in the music industry.
It’s entirely plausible that someone at Sony said, "this stuff is so out there, we will never make our money back if we spend [...]
Matthew at the always-awesome design shop 37signals takes on band websites that forsake any hope of usability for the sake of looking cool.
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Clear Channel (aka "The Evil Empire" in some circles) is making another really wild business move that may put you on a great footing with your talent buyer. Even for their A-list and B-list events, CC’s live business is abandoning advances against draw in exchange for granting 100% of the door.
Now pick your jaw up [...]
Eat lunch with me! Well, I won’t be eating. What I will be doing is another "open phones" conference call recording for the podcast. Normally, I invite only folks from IndieBiz.com, but every so often I fling the doors open to see what questions folks have. One catch — only subscribers to my e-newsletter get [...]
