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 [...]
Music Management Skills: Learn to Stop Over-Analyzing
April 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Music Management Skills: Stop Searching for Perfection
April 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“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 [...]
Music Management Skills: Prioritize Your Day
April 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Music Management Skills: Stop Procrastinating
April 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Music Management Skills: Getting Comfortable with Risk
April 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
