Funding Your Recording

Two days ago, I wrote about SellaBand, a stock exchange type service that helps fund recording projects for musicians. In that post, I suggested that anyone could do this if they tried hard enough. It just got easier… Introducing Fundable, a business designed to...

Music Publishing Merger

Two huge music publishing companies merged today to become ONE huge publishing company. I’m posting about this only because if you’re going to make a living in the industry, you should know what’s going on, and this article has a lot of information...

A Musical Stock Exchange

I’ve struggled and struggled with what to say to begin this post, so I’m offering the following choices. Please pick one for yourself: – If you had any doubt that the age of the big music company was over, read on. – Tired of being a starving...

Playing to Your Strengths

Being a major proponent of advancing your career through developing yourself in non-artistic areas such as people skills, marketing, branding, sales and financial literacy, I am also aware that you might become the classic “jack of all trades and master of...

The Story of Your Brand

You are never NOT communicating. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of your words. That post was specifically about conversations, but today I want to talk about the bigger picture, and discuss branding. There are plenty of definitions all over the...