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The Future of Music Coaltion Looks to the Past to Understand How Musicians Make Money [Part I, Interview]
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0savesSave Whether or not you’re a musician, over the past ten years or so there have been incredible shifts in the music industry. It wasn’t very long ago that you probably didn’t buy your music over the Internet, or have the ability to listen to any song you wanted to hear with a couple [...]
Continue reading...“Niching Up”: The Importance of Targeting Your Fan Base
31. August 2011
0savesSave Can I have your home phone and zip code please? You hear that a lot when you check out at stores. There’s a reason for this, it’s called targeting. Targeting is a method businesses used to direct products, offers, and specific information about the business to you. Usually it’s based on what interests you, [...]
Continue reading...Things Musicians Say (and Don’t Do): “Let’s play a show together.”
21. July 2011
0savesSave This may become a regular post on here because I’m a musician and am around many any given week. I call this “Things Musicians Say (and Don’t Do)” not to call out musicians, but to make them aware of certain behaviors they (and I included) say aloud but don’t actually mean or do. [...]
Continue reading...Why Nashville? The Last 48.
10. April 2011
0savesSave My last two days in Nashville had more open time to hang out and meet a few more folks. I took my time Tuesday getting out needing time to sleep in and relax a bit. Considering all I had been up to, I wasn’t overwhelmed with the pace of Nashville or all the people [...]
Continue reading...Why Nashville? Tin Ear Studio Recordings
7. April 2011
0savesSave I’m doing quite a bit of catch up here from my trip. I have to say the best part of this trip was going into a Nashville studio to do some recording on Monday. In Nashville there’s a section of town called Music Row. I at first thought it was a bunch of music [...]
Continue reading...Why Nashville? Busy, Busy, Busy
5. April 2011
0savesSave If living in Nashville as a musician is anything like the last two days, I just won’t use a laptop ever again. I haven’t been able to get any time to update everyone on my trip since day 2 and I’m on day 5 here with only 48 hours to go. And technically I [...]
Continue reading...Why Nashville? Those Opportunities…
3. April 2011
0savesSave I’ve just arrived in Johnson City and I must say gas prices are racking up pretty heavily on this trip! But I’m trying not to think of that right now, it effects anyone with a car, but makes me wonder if touring this far is worth it. How much is air fare to Nashville [...]
Continue reading...Why Nashville? Day 1 on My Return to Music City
1. April 2011
0savesSave “Why Nashville?” That’s the question I am asking myself and getting from people here that I’ve run into. Why am I here? It’s a fair question and I don’t know that I have one concise answer for it. There are my focused reasons why. Opportunities that I won’t necessarily get in Washington, DC. Like [...]
Continue reading...Top 10 Most Annoying People at a Gig
16. February 2011
0savesSave Some nights I get home from a show annoyed because somebody (or multiple people) in the crowd just rubbed me the wrong way. I try not let it bother me, but some nights it just does. In my five years of playing as a solo acoustic, I’ve had my share of these instances time [...]
Continue reading...Understanding Music Bloggers & Outreach
28. December 2010
0savesSave Lately this blog has gained some popularity in the DC area and I’ve started receiving emails from fellow musicians in the area asking me to review an album or invite me to a show of theirs. Usually the email goes like this, “Hi, I/We am/are a band in DC. We just put our album [...]
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25. October 2011
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