Whether you’re coping with higher gas prices for your ailing van, or concerned that the flight you’re taking for your west coast tour might leave you stranded, it’s tough to factor travel expenses into the equation for booking. Keep these…
Should we build our own day planner?
I’ve been toying around with the idea of releasing a spinme.com day planner that can accommodate all the stuff we talk about on our calls — two pages per day with space for booking and technical contacts, built-in goals tracking…
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Thanks to David and Bob for sharing my September 1 letter with their readers!
Avoiding Debt, Running a Label, and Making Time for Yourself
I just uploaded three great recordings from last week’s live calls to the member area. One of our members wants to know how to run the zone strategy of booking more gigs without eating up his profits. Another member has…
Is MySpace GONE?
Uh, no. They simply had the misfortune for their servers to be located at a web host that was affected by the power outages in Los Angeles yesterday. If my inbox is any indication, it got a lot of folks…
Arriving in October: Street Team 101
I’ve been wanting to do something around street teams for some time now. That’s why, every Tuesday in October, I’ll devote an hour to showing our members how to put together the ultimate street team. Frankly, I’m not even so…
Future of Music Policy Summit
Derek Slater’s doing a great job boiling down key moments into bullet points and podcasts over on PaidContent’s music page… So far, it’s sounding like not much real dialogue is happening — the big playas want to prevent the TiVo’ing…
Indie Movies and Indie Music: Perfect Together
On more than a few open phones conversations in the past few months, artists have asked me about breaking into the film-and-television song placement business. Besides keeping track of tip sheets, music libraries, and other common trends, I often urge…
This Week’s Live Classes: Open Phones & Make Your Website Pay for Itself
Two great live classes for members this week: Wednesday morning at 9am ET (6am Pacific), it’s an early-bird edition of our open phones conference call. Dial in to our hotline and ask me anything at all about achieving success as…
No More Excuses: Try spinme.com Mentoring for $1
David’s been on me about this for a while, and so have other folks. But I wanted to get through our launch period with a small group of folks on board. Thanks to our charter members, we’ve shaken the bugs…
Big Changes In the Members Area
I have been on a bit of a blogging hiatus this week… between helping my clients and leading classes, I’ve been working on the first major overhaul of our members area. We have totally revamped the software, so it is…
Remaindered Links: September 07
Lefsetz Letter – So Close: Keywords: business, music