Where’s The Killer Product?

I’ve written two posts in the past week unpacking my thoughts on the music industry’s “problem” in terms of both the music consumer and music maker (um, you.). Now it’s time to tackle the “imperfect product” topic and talk about...

The Music Maker’s Dilemma

In my last post, I highlighted The Music Consumer’s Dilemma using a comment from The Family Records’ Wesley Verhoeve where he says: “The music consumer doesn’t have a problem right now, merely an imperfect product.” It’s Not Their Problem There...

The Music Consumer Dilemma

Music Industry Blog writer Mark Mulligan recently posted the right question when he asked “Can The Music Industry Afford Pandora to be the Shape of the Future?” Here’s a quote (thanks to John Pisciotta for the link): “The future of music...

Target Customers

In my post entitled Marketing as Strategy, I talked about the value of thinking about marketing instead of strategy because marketing is always customer focused. As I said: “…everything in marketing revolves around “the group of consumers or organizations...

Michael Hyatt on Marketing

On the heels of several posts of my own on the subject of Marketing, Michael Hyatt wrote two insights-full posts on the subject that I had to pass along. Both are written to authors, but every last word applies to musicians or anyone pursuing a career in the arts....