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Editorial

Technical Heads-Up: New Newsletter Address

I am trying out some new software, so if you’re subscribed to our weekly newsletter, you will get some mail from me with the return address:
newsletters [at] joetaylorjr.com
Thanks for helping me keep my inbox organized!
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my Newsletter. Thanks for visiting!

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Reader Mail: Do Teachers Really Get Three Months Off?

Off-Topic

Musicians who check out spinme.com for music business news may want to skip past this post — it’s about one of my extracurricular projects.
As always, I am so flattered and excited when I get to write for my friends at Yahoo! about careers. My editors asked me to look into some jobs that offer more [...]

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Free $25 for spinme.com readers [sponsored]

Announcements

For two years running, the American Idol Songwriter competition has brought a HUGE traffic spike to the site.
Here’s an easy way to help us pay the bills and earn $25 for about three minutes’ work.
Steve Case, who once helped launch AOL, is starting up a PayPal competitor. He’s offering $25 for each new member that [...]

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What happened to subtle marketing?

Off-Topic

Are we so transparent about marketing these days that it’s okay for NBC to just slap a box on their pages that blatantly says, “CROSS PROMOTE?”

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House of Nanking, San Francisco, CA [Off Topic]

Off-Topic

Indulge me over the next few days, since I’m catching up from some time on the road and wanting to use this space to document a few of my experiences that have nothing at all to do with the music business.
Back in January, I enjoyed the chance to visit San Francisco for Macworld Expo. A [...]

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Announcing the Open Book Project

Announcements

Just back from vacation, I see a few notes in my box asking if I have any new books coming out.
Yes and no.
If you haven’t visited the site in a while, you might have missed a list of the topics I’m exploring this year. Somewhere in that list, there’s another book brewing, though I [...]

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Upcoming posts for 2008…

Announcements

While it’s been pretty quiet here of late, I’ve been cooking up some new topic streams that I think you’ll find interesting in the new year. Some of the topics I’m kicking around include:

more information about finding/training music managers
what to look for and what to avoid in music business contracts
how to find (or develop) a [...]

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Yes, I know it’s very quiet here this month…

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Extracurricular: Top Ten Careers

Announcements

As our newsletter subscribers have already heard, I’m spending a little time away from spinme.com to work on some new book projects and to write some pieces that have nothing to do with the music business. One of those pieces was featured on the front page at Yahoo! today, which is both flattering and awesome. [...]

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Send Music Business Radio a Jingle!

Announcements

Here’s one place where exposure — to the right people — can actually help you. Our friend David Hooper over at Music Business Radio is looking for some new jingles and stingers to punch up the production on the new series of the show. You could have fun with this, and get yourself on the [...]

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