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…
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Joe Taylor Jr.
Music Management Skills: Stop Searching for Perfection
“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…
Today’s Recommended Links April 12, 2010
Amazon exec lashes out at music industry – CNET Business students turn class project into music company – Red and Black ‘I’m With the Brand’ – Wall Street Journal Where are the modern-day ‘Runaways’? – CNN McLaren formula won fans…
Music Management Skills: Prioritize Your Day
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…
Testing New Featured Links Collection
In addition to piping out random links on Twitter throughout the day, I’ll be using Pinboard to collect those links into some more organized posts here on the site. These won’t appear on the front page, but will show up…
Site Update: You may notice the plane tilting slightly toward the cliffs…
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…
Music Management Skills: Stop Procrastinating
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…
Music Management Skills: Getting Comfortable with Risk
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…
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Top Ten MTV Specialty Shows
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,…
Announcing the Music Management Boot Camp
Over the past few months, I’ve seen a huge surge of interest in my third book, Music Management for the Rest of Us. It could be that a bunch of folks are thinking about pursuing music industry careers, in the…