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I just uploaded three great recordings from last week’s live calls to the member area.

One of our members wants to know how to run the zone strategy of booking more gigs without eating up his profits.
Another member has lots of commitments, his own record label, plus the desire to break out on his own. [...]

Uh, no.
They simply had the misfortune for their servers to be located at a web host that was affected by the power outages in Los Angeles yesterday.
If my inbox is any indication, it got a lot of folks thinking about what would happen if MySpace suddenly disappeared. If you’re only using “free” sites like MySpace [...]

I’ve been wanting to do something around street teams for some time now. That’s why, every Tuesday in October, I’ll devote an hour to showing our members how to put together the ultimate street team.
Frankly, I’m not even so fond of the term “street team” these days, since so many folks use it to describe [...]

Derek Slater’s doing a great job boiling down key moments into bullet points and podcasts over on PaidContent’s music page…
So far, it’s sounding like not much real dialogue is happening — the big playas want to prevent the TiVo’ing of new digital radio services, the little folks just want access to audience, and the audience… [...]

On more than a few open phones conversations in the past few months, artists have asked me about breaking into the film-and-television song placement business. Besides keeping track of tip sheets, music libraries, and other common trends, I often urge artists to form relationships with independent filmmakers in their region.
Even if you make no money [...]

Two great live classes for members this week:

Wednesday morning at 9am ET (6am Pacific), it’s an early-bird edition of our open phones conference call. Dial in to our hotline and ask me anything at all about achieving success as an independent, working musician. (This is also the perfect call for our friends in the U.K. [...]

David’s been on me about this for a while, and so have other folks. But I wanted to get through our launch period with a small group of folks on board. Thanks to our charter members, we’ve shaken the bugs loose from our (still fairly new) member mentoring service.
Now, it’s your turn to join us. [...]

I have been on a bit of a blogging hiatus this week… between helping my clients and leading classes, I’ve been working on the first major overhaul of our members area. We have totally revamped the software, so it is SO much easier to find what you’re looking for. We’ve streamlined the conversations, so you [...]

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