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We’ve had some spirited debate over at IndieBiz.com the last few days about comparing yourself to other artists, and why it’s important (if frustrating). Bob Baker’s got the science…

If you’re already hitting a block on those new year’s songwriting resolutions, check out these suggestions for patching your personal suck…

We’ve had lots of chatter on the IndieBoard about songwriting and mechanical royalties, and while I was knee deep in the whole formation of SoundExchange because I worked in radio at the time, it’s amazing that word of SoundExchange is…

David Hooper and I were talking about health insurance on one of our IndieBiz calls the other day, and he came up with a link to the company we were talking about. You’ll hear me rant about this issue a…

The few hours I got to work last week, I spent working with my clients on their master plans for the new year. And instead of focusing on what they should start working on, I let them off the hook…

Our friend, Ann O’Brien, has an excellent suggestion to replace "resolutions" with "validations" in the new year. Simply use her exercise to visualize what went well for you in 2004 and ask for more in 2005…

I’ve been having a great thread of conversations with a few of my clients lately about how nobody likes to be on the unhappy side of a "cleared room." You know what I’m talking about… you’re on a bill at…

 Curt Rosengren has some ideas about getting your own Mastermind Group into high gear in the new year…

I spent the last few days wondering where to begin any kind of post about Dimebag. Clients of ours, who happen to live a few doors down from us here in Athens, were openly weeping on their porch. If you’re…

Remember how I wrote in Grow Your Band’s Audience that you sometimes have to uproot yourself and go where your audience is? That’s what Scissor Sisters did, and you see the results of that effort if you happened to have…

Joe answers questions about getting more folks to gigs, finding outlets for kids’ music, handling bad checks from audience members and putting together your own concert events…

The folks in our Nashville Mastermind Group have challenged each other to write as many songs as possible between now and the end of the year. In some side conversations, a few of the participants have told me that, apart…