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It’s been a little quiet over at spinme.com lately. Today, I get to explain why.

Last week, I agreed to allow a partner and good friend to acquire the primary business of Taylor Creative Management. I’ll take over the role of Creative Director at the combined company, RevenFlo.

While it’s an exciting time for me – this change means I’ll be working at a growing marketing agency – it also means that I’ll have much less time to spend working with musicians.

Although I intend to continue working personally with our current roster of coaching clients, we won’t be taking on any new personal coaching clients, nor will we be soliciting any potential management clients.

Our mentoring program at spinme.com will remain online until January 31st, so members can continue to ask me questions about their careers and strategies. Current members will no longer be billed their monthly dues, and will be able to access the member archives through the end of January.

If you would like to participate in the spinme.com mentoring program during its final few months, you have 48 hours left to purchase our “book blastoff� package. (That’s all four of my music business books for $67, plus shipping and handling.) After Thursday evening, we’ll still be selling our books, just not at this deep of a discount:

http://spinme.com/u/18

I have been able to speak with a few close friends and colleagues about this change, and you might share some of their concerns.

First, let me assure you that my decision is based solely on the kind of opportunity presented to me by joining RevenFlo. Before opening Taylor Creative Management, I spent over ten years as a journalist and producer, and this new opportunity will allow me to reconnect with the kinds of production challenges that I love to tackle. If you’re curious, I’ll be using a lot of the strategies I’ve written about to help a variety of businesses connect with their customers more effectively.

Second, spinme.com isn’t going anywhere. In fact, I will probably have a little more time each week to blog about the music business. I’m simply closing down our advanced mentoring and coaching programs because I won’t have the time to lead fresh classes every month. As the size of our online archive has grown, our members have been asking fewer and fewer questions – it doesn’t feel right to me to charge a monthly fee for a service that many people are paying for and few people are actively using. In the new year, a lot of our archived material will find its way over to the public website, so more musicians can take advantage of it.

When I first wrote “Grow Your Band’s Audience� as a series of magazine articles in 2000 and 2001, I envisioned a world where fans and musicians would connect directly with each other for their mutual benefit. Six years after the brainstorming session that started me down this path, I consider myself blessed and honored to have been a part of so many success stories.

Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your success, and I hope you’ll continue to visit spinme.com on a regular basis.

Sincerely,
Joe Taylor
spinme.com

P.S.: Between now and Saturday, we will be moving our spinme.com mailing list to a new host provider. You’ll receive a message from me that will ask you to follow a link to confirm your registration. I will continue to post to spinme.com and send out a weekly newsletter for working musicians – but you must follow the instructions in my next message to continue receiving our newsletter. Thanks again for all your support.

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