Everything You Need To Know About Money

Thanks to Scott Adams of Dilbert fame for this succinct, accurate and easily understood 129 word checklist for financial success: 1. Make a will 2 .Pay off your credit cards 3. Get term life insurance if you have a family to support 4. Fund your 401k to the maximum 5....

Writing Love Songs for Money

Writing songs is a lucative corner of the music business. In fact, it’s where most of the money is found. However, like every other corner, it’s difficult to get the breaks that it takes to get your songs heard, picked and recorded. So here’s a...

Armet Ertegun’s Passing

Great article in the New York Times about the recently deceased Ahmet Ertegun, “the music magnate who founded Atlantic Records and shaped the careers of John Coltrane, Ray Charles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and many others”. There’s a wealth...

Thoughts on How To Network

I’d like to thank Bruce Wallace for the following quote: “It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you” It’s the best statement about networking I’ve ever heard. Networking is NOT about meeting people, networking is about people...

Non-Music Cashflow, Part 3

In my last post on cashflow, I highlighted a collection of financial terms. Today I want to talk a bit more about three: cashflow, earned income and passive income. I’m using the term cashflow in these posts for a specific reason: the fact that cashflow is...