The next time you kick your own butt for making a boneheaded mistake while promoting your music, remember that it could be worse. You could have paid somebody to screw it up even more, and they could have a trail…
Extraordinary Marketing
Barry at IPac blogs about the "leaked" Fiona Apple record. This will turn out to be one of the most brilliant and — possibly — unrepeatable marketing events in the music industry. It’s entirely plausible that someone at Sony said,…
The Cost of Cool
Matthew at the always-awesome design shop 37signals takes on band websites that forsake any hope of usability for the sake of looking cool.
Clear Channel Shakes Up Talent Buys… How Will It Affect You?
Clear Channel (aka "The Evil Empire" in some circles) is making another really wild business move that may put you on a great footing with your talent buyer. Even for their A-list and B-list events, CC’s live business is abandoning…
Open House Conference Call, Wednesday, March 9th @ 12pm ET
Eat lunch with me! Well, I won’t be eating. What I will be doing is another "open phones" conference call recording for the podcast. Normally, I invite only folks from IndieBiz.com, but every so often I fling the doors open…
“Do you have the fourteen qualities it takes for success in the music business?”
David Hooper wants to give you a FREE CD and booklet (the same set that Amazon charges $39 for!) about cultivating the specific traits that successful working musicians use to build successful careers. Grab your copy before he runs out!
Crispy Keyboard. Or would that just make it Cajun?
We work in the only industry where incinerating and beating (Goodfellas-style) a piece of equipment is a legitimate part of a product demo.
Oh, my goodness.
I knew I shouldn’t have left you guys alone in Las Vegas.
Podcast: Setting up your band’s business.
With the caveat that I’m not an attorney, and an experienced entertainment lawyer can walk you through these steps, I’ve been walking through a process with my clients that shows them how to structure their music business in a way…
Record labels want to send their business your way…
…or so you’d think, since they’re trying to strongarm iTunes and other online music stores into raising their prices. Remember that you can jump into the paid-download game pretty easily by using a third-party distributor like CDBaby, or by adding…
Comeback singer owes big bucks…
Later this week, I’ve got a podcast about structuring your personal business in a way that shield you from lawsuits and allows you to appropriately open up a part of your business to outside investors. Here’s a cautionary tale of…
Capturing Ideas
I’ve been speaking with clients a lot over the past few days about how important it is for you to capture your ideas as they happen. As soon as you tell yourself you’ll remember it later, there’s a part of…