One of our clients is looking for a few more songs to round up an upcoming recording session — follow the instructions (don’t submit directly to me!) and have fun! Artist w/ major industry interest seeks songs for upcoming EP.…
Could You Use a “Stop Doing” List?
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…
The Post-Payola Slippery Slope
The folks over at Downhill Battle are understandably excited about Spitzer’s investigation. For their part, labels are a little excited and a lot relieved at the prospect of removing some of the promotion bulk from their budgets. (It’s not like…
Tapping Friends and Family…
On this afternoon’s conference call, I name dropped Heidi Drockelman from Indie-Music.com, who worked with us when I was over at World Cafe. Heidi’s got a great article about tapping the deeper resources of friends and family that you really…
Validations for 2005
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…
We now rejoin spinme.com, already in progress…
Thank you for your outpouring of sympathy and support over the past few weeks as our family has been helping my wife deal with her recovery from emergency triple bypass surgery. We’ve been shouting out updates from her weblog, and…
What I Did On My Christmas Vacation…
Thanks to our clients, friends and readers over the past few, grueling days. Although the auto-pilot posts still appeared on schedule, I’ve been out of the office since December 22nd. A few days previous, I wrote a post about preparing…
Upcoming Conference Call: Open Phones
If you own a copy of any of my books or you’re a member of IndieBiz.com, join me this Tuesday night at 8pm ET for "open phones." It’s your chance to ask me anything about your music career. Visit your…
Upcoming Conference Call: Alternative Sales Channels
Record stores are lousy places to sell records. Find out why, and what you can do about it, on today’s call for IndieBiz.com Members. You only have a few days left to join, so sign up now to join us…
The Long Tail
Wired’s Chris Anderson is expanding his theory of the "Long Tail" to book form, and is blogging the process. Read the original article to see why it’s an important theory for you to be thinking about.
Someone’s gonna find a fan club president under the bumper of an SUV…
Lots of buzz about the Chely Wright situation. We’re shocked, shocked to hear that someone in the fan club encouraged folks to pose as military family members to encourage jocks to play the single. Of course, this has been going…
Blanks and Postage
Here’s a neat idea for a community site: Blanks and Postage. Fans send blank CDs and cover postage costs, and get great live shows on disc in return. Bands pay $50 for inclusion in the directory, which will surely expose…