Marketing with Podcasting

“Prior to the Web, bands that didn’t have a major label behind them couldn’t hope to get national or global attention.” So starts a recent post from Web Ink Now decribing yet another example of how the music business is increasingly fractured...

Dreams of Stardom and Making a Living

Dreaming of stardom can be a trap. I’m all for following you heart, and I believe that the biggest challenge facing mankind is small thinking, but even so, dreaming of stardom often traps musicians and artists into dead end lives of quiet desperation. Why?...

Freelancing

I linked to a GREAT post today on a blog called beetlegrass. Written by a freelance illustrator who is celebrating 17 years of working on her own. In honor of that milestone, she has passed along 17 things that she’s “learned over the past years, listed in...

Money and Happiness

As a rule, most musicians can’t make up their minds about money. On the one hand they want to be a star and make lots of it but on the other hand, they’d rather starve than “sell out” their creativity. The fact that our entire society is...