Quick tip 214 Work through highs and lows
I’ll be honest with you, my motivation today has been low. It was a rainy day, and my foot had been troubling me, so I could not go out for a run. So I felt like doing nothing… But if…
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Quick tip 213 Facebook page update
Posted at November 4, 2015 by
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I assume as a musician you have a Facebook page? Not your personal Facebook profile, but a page. If you do, there are few new updates on the way and this particular one I think is great improvement. I know…
Quick tip 212 Commit to something
Posted at November 3, 2015 by
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I get frustrated from time to time with messages from people where they are basically asking for the shortcut. By this I mean something along these lines: “could you please check out my new single and share it with your…
Quick tip 211 Keep moving
Posted at November 2, 2015 by
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All the planning in the world will not get you anywhere without action. I am a strong believer in execution over excessive planning. I did not start this blog by having a massive content plan. I just wanted to have…
Quick tip 209 Make noise
Posted at October 29, 2015 by
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As an artist we tend to think in terms of getting signed to a label or getting a manager as smoking of starting block in the business. It’s like we are not in the business until we have been validated…
Quick tip 208 Go off the topic
Posted at October 28, 2015 by
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No body wants to hear you scream about your new album over and over again. It’s fine, we know you are exited about it and at the same time scared as the sales figures are not going through the roof….
Quick tip 207 Don’t trust everything you read
Posted at October 27, 2015 by
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A completely unrelated issue making big news this week got me thinking about how easily we read something and take it for a fact. Newspapers were always in the business of selling ad space and shifting units, the importance of…
Quick tip 205 Don’t use the lack of money as an excuse
Posted at October 23, 2015 by
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We all know professional quality recording done in a high-end studio is expensive business, as is professional quality videos. We look at the major label artists and envy their budgets and dream about doing something similar some day (don’t forget,…
Quick tip 204 Have something to promote
Posted at October 22, 2015 by
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You can have the best promotional plan in the world, but if you don’t have something to promote, it will al be for nothing. Even if you reach out to a professional PR company and pay them good money to…
Quick tip 203 Don’t only ask quote, ask deliverables
Posted at October 21, 2015 by
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There are thousands of services out there ready to take the money most musicians have worked very hard to earn, in exchange for promises of fortune and fame in music business. But too often the promise is much more than…
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