Sure, I might be a little biased, having written my own music management book, and everything. But, some days I feel like a handful of books should be required reading for anyone wanting to get into this business. Furthermore, I’ve…
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Music Management Skills: Organize Your World
I recently found myself leading a productivity seminar once a month here in the Philadelphia area for professionals from a variety of different fields. Overachievers in the group share a common ability to stay focused, regardless of the systems they…
Music Management Skills: Learn to Stop Over-Analyzing
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…
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…
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…
Site Update: You may notice the plane tilting slightly toward the cliffs…
For folks who have been asking… YES! There is still a 2010 edition of Grow Your Band’s Audience on the horizon. Not only have I been taking extra time to update the case studies, I’ve been reworking the original manuscript…
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…
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…