Music Management Skills: Build Your Professional Development Library

Music Management

Sure, I might be a little biased, having written my own music management book, and everything. But, some days I feel like a handful of books should be required reading for anyone wanting to get into this business. Furthermore, I’ve been getting e-mail from a few readers who tell me that some scammy music managers [...]

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Music Management Skills: Organize Your World

Music Management

I recently found myself leading a productivity seminar once a month here in the Philadelphia area for professionals from a variety of different fields. Overachievers in the group share a common ability to stay focused, regardless of the systems they use. Music management professionals require this level of dedication to achieve great results for their [...]

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Music Management Skills: Learn to Stop Over-Analyzing

Music Management

It’s easy to be a music management novice with your head in the clouds. You’re dreaming about the great things you’re going to do with your first band. You’re looking at all the great letterhead and logo ideas you’ve scribbled out. You’re playing with the website layout that you think will make your agency look [...]

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Music Management Skills: Commit to Your Client

Music Management

In Music Management for the Rest of Us, I lay out some basic math. If you’re earning 10-15% in commissions from a client, and they’re just about at the point of replacing their “day job” with a full time music career, you probably need four or five other clients to make enough money to quit [...]

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Music Management Skills: Stop Searching for Perfection

Music Management

“I have learned… that my present is perfect.” That’s the first quote from Thomas Leonard‘s book, Simply Brilliant. In it, he boiled down the collective wisdom of decades of self-empowerment research into 1,800 quick learnings. And that’s the one that made it to the top of the list. What Thomas wrote about in his books [...]

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Music Management Skills: Prioritize Your Day

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I’m not going to try to convince you that I’m the most organized person in the world. However, I can tell you that making an effort to prioritize the actions you take every day can make a huge difference in your music management career. Developing an artist doesn’t just take time and patience, it takes [...]

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Site Update: You may notice the plane tilting slightly toward the cliffs…

Announcements

For folks who have been asking… YES! There is still a 2010 edition of Grow Your Band’s Audience on the horizon. Not only have I been taking extra time to update the case studies, I’ve been reworking the original manuscript into a format that’s going to work well on the Kindle and the iPad. And [...]

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Music Management Skills: Stop Procrastinating

Music Management

It took me six weeks to get to work on this series, even though it had been percolating for months. When I first started working on a live mastermind group for the spring, I knew that I wanted to go beyond the usual conversations about how to make it as a music management professional, so [...]

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Music Management Skills: Getting Comfortable with Risk

Music Management

Music Management Boot Camp has been doing wonders for my thought process about the future of the music business. Putting the wolf at the door forces you to overcome the blocks in your creative work. One of the biggest blocks I’ve ever encountered is that fear that my idea’s going to fail, or that I’ll [...]

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Top Ten MTV Specialty Shows

Editorial

By the late 1980s, MTV’s programmers weren’t content with scattershot ratings, so they experimented with original series and specialty programming blocks. Today, MTV’s harshest critics blast Jersey Shore and The Hills as having nothing to do with rock and roll, but each one of these groundbreaking series dealt with similar complaints: #10: The State In [...]

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