Mental endurance in music business
Back in the late nineties I was playing in a band, that was making waves locally. We had a residency here in Dublin, and it was pretty much packed night after night. We crowd sourced our first album well, by…
Music promotion
Automation
It’s another sunny day in the beautiful island of Ischia. I am drinking my morning coffee overlooking the bay of Napoli. Down below Ischia Porto goes about its daily business. Even though I am high up on a hill, the…
Break the Business podcast
I had such a great time chatting to Ryan and Dave on the Break the Business podcast 🙂 I am especially happy that it turned out as information packed as possible, and I also had to know what happened to…
Are you ready to embrace the change
What is so wrong with getting rid of the middle man? The middle man has had a great run, not only at the cost of the artist, but also at the cost of the music consumer. We all are scared…
Entertainment industry is no place for the weary kind
What good is all the success in the world if we cannot enjoy it, if we are in emotional turmoil? There is a resent study conducted in Australia by the Vitoria University that highlighted a shocking rate of mental health…
Involve your audience in your story
The regular readers here know I can sometimes take the long road to get to the point 😀 So strap your self in, here we go again. I was reading an article on how Twitters shares dropped earlier in the…
Patreon of the arts
I haven’t been as nervous about anything I’ve done in the music business for a while now. But the past week I have literally been on the edge of my seat 😀 This was in the plans for a while…
Open the door when the opportunity comes knocking
I’m sure you have heard that old story of a religious man sitting on the top of his house during a flood believing god will save him. His faith is so strong (blind) that he refuses the help from everyone…
Connection
We stand in the footsteps of a new world. It might seem like a silly idea, but things are changing. Slowly, but they are changing. And why are things changing? Because of the availability of information. I can write a…
Record deal
Ok, this is a short post, in fact a damn short post 😀 But the reason I am posting this here, and not just as a social media post, is the fact that I always wanted my blog to be…
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