It’s easy to be a music management novice with your head in the clouds. You’re dreaming about the great things you’re going to do with your first band. You’re looking at all the great letterhead and logo ideas you’ve scribbled out. You’re playing with the website layout that you think will make your agency look […]
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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 made it to the top of the list. What Thomas wrote about in his books […]
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 your music management career. Developing an artist doesn’t just take time and patience, it takes […]
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 beyond the usual conversations about how to make it as a music management professional, so […]
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 I’ve ever encountered is that fear that my idea’s going to fail, or that I’ll […]
