Why I FAILED

TOO Funny

What did he say?

Birthday Greetings from Joe Cocker

Seen on a Billboard

Life shrinks or grows according to ones courage.

links for 2008-07-03

• 8 Good Reasons to Be a Lousy Musician - Stepcase Lifehack
  8 reasons music is universal and special for everyone.
  (tags: music music_business personal_development)
• Techdirt: What If Movies Went Away?
  This’ll make you think
  (tags: life music_business)
• 100 Places to Go for Good Answers Online - Distance Degrees.com
  100 alternatives to Wikipedia
  (tags: life)
• The Media Equation - Live Music Thrives as CDs Fade - NYTimes.com
  This is what’s REALLY going on folks
  (tags: music_business money music marketing success)
• Headline-Making Garage Discoveries - ‘Lost’ Beatles Interview Found After 44 Years (GALLERY)
  44 year old, 9 minute Beatles’ interview found.
  (tags: music_business music)

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Highlight the Opportunities

From his 2003 commencement address to University of Texas grads:

“Circle the pitfalls and highlight the opportunities. Then build a vision of how it could all be better and work like hell to make it happen.”

- Michael Dell

links for 2008-07-02

• Digital Music: Bono agrees with U2 manager’s attack on Internet service providers
  What do you think?
  (tags: music_business money success)
• M.E.L.O.N.: Music Biz: Live Nation Slows 360s
  Tide may be turning on 360 Deals - we’ll see. This post has links to move in depth discussions too.
  (tags: music_business money marketing success)
• Earth’s Cries Recorded in Space - Yahoo! News
  “The whole world is groaning, waiting for the sons of God to be revealed” - 2000 years ago.
  The article - today.
  (tags: life personal_development)

Prepare to Live

Thanks to mybusinessmag.com for digging up support for something I’ve believed for some time: we are miserable because of the media.

The Wall Street Journal and Businessweek have both posted articles about the disparity between the reality and perceptions of today’s economy. Historically speaking, we have very small problems and we are likely to get through them effectively. As one author points out, 94% of Americans are not at risk Mortgage foreclosure and most that are won’t lose their houses anyway. Furthermore, most people are NOT trying to sell their homes so a down market is simply a headline.

Am I (or the other authors) saying there aren’t problems, no, but I do want to emphasize sanity. First of all, the media is incapable of reporting middle of the road news. The entire mechanism works off of sensationalism and arguments. Even if 99% of scientists say such and such, the reporter will find a representative of the 1% for “balance.”

Second, the world economy is exploding and new opportunities arise every day. Is it disruptive? Changing? Scary? Sure, but don’t blame anyone but yourself if you’re not keeping up with what’s truly going on and exporing, learning about and preparing ways to ensure a life for yourself.

The Music Business is Not

From The Small Business Blog:

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”

Van Morrison (b. 1945) Irish musician, The Times (July 1990)

links for 2008-07-01

• Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog: Heaven and Hell, by Don Felder
  Just in case you believe all the crap about the “good ole days” in the music business.
  (tags: music_business money)
• Great Leadership: Ethics and Leadership
  Terrfic story about integrity. It matters more than anything else. Period.
  (tags: personal_development life success)
• Lifetime Value of a Customer is Unlimited | Duct Tape Marketing Blog
  I wrote a great post about this that never appeared on my blog. No worries, John’s post stands on its own just fine.
  (tags: marketing music_business success personal_development)