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“WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET AUDIOSLAVE ON WKSS THIS WEEK?!!?”
That’s one of the e-mails that New York State’s Attorney [...]
I’m getting ready to schedule our live conference call classes for September! I already have some great ideas for session topics, but I would love to know if there are some specific issues you would love for us to cover. Drop your ideas in the comments!
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Music Industry Internships — more folks stumble onto this site looking for information about music business internships than anything else. Therefore, our members get to participate in a great LIVE discussion about identifying opportunities to get your foot in the door, no matter where you live.
Join us LIVE on the call this Wednesday, July 27th [...]
Ever since I started working personally with musicians on improving their income, I’ve noticed that 80% of my first discussions revolve around time management and task management. For years, I subscribed to the Franklin Covey school of prioritizing tasks. While I still believe in the "four quadrants," I love the way that David Allen’s book, Getting [...]
I keep yammering on about the importance of band agreements — not just for what can happen to you if you don’t have one, but what can happen if you don’t honor one. Two former members of the Doors found out the hard way this morning that they have to fork over all of the [...]
Ashanti just lost a lawsuit and must pay her demo producer over $600,000 in damages. Why? Because said producer was promised in the demo contract that he could produce two tracks on her first major label release.
Ashanti apparently failed to live up to her side of the bargain because, among other things, the project studio [...]
We were just talking about Tiger Woods in the member area, and here’s another sports analogy for you…
I keep admonishing musicians that want to just “get signed,” thinking that someone’s going to wave a wand and grant them wishes. Instead, all of my techniques rely on slow, steady, incremental changes.
Just like Lance Armstrong…
He just put [...]
David’s got a great set of suggestions to maximize your investment in books about the music business. As I discussed on our member call about The War of Art, you can easily trap yourself by reading about success without doing anything about it. (Scott and others call it music business porn!) So, as someone that’s [...]
spinme.com members can now enjoy a 40 minute video presentation about identifying key roles on your success team…
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A new 80’s Hits compilation in the UK has a huge bar code on the front cover. Three problems:
1. Confused cashiers are scanning this big bar code, instead of the real bar code on the back.
2. When scanning the huge bar code, it works (!) and the price comes up at about 40% off the [...]
