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…
September 29, 2015
Quick tip 183 Engage with your followers
Year and nine months a go I decided finally do something about my solo career that I had been putting on hold for as long as I could remember. I had been busy with the bands, and when I wasn’t,…
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…
Quick tip 178 Follow what others do
The first thing most of us do when we take on a new task is to look for advise. But unfortunately the advice given to us sometimes can only be a half truth. Too many people still today see their…
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…
Quick tip 177 Don’t be your own worst enemy
We are so quick at blaming others for the lack of our own success. The time is not right, people are not ready for my music, the system is corrupt, I can’t find people who have same work mentality… I’ve…
Quick tip 176 Just do it
I am borrowing the famous catchphrase from Nike for today’s blog post. I did an interview few days a go and in the interview this point came up, so I thought to share it with you here in bit more…
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…
13th of September Blog update
Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading out for twelve days for some serious unwinding 🙂 As a result, obviously I had loads of work to be done before I run away from everything. So to sum up my week, I have…
Quick tip 174 Show me the money
Don’t pay for any service that asks for advance payment. There I said it! There are too many cowboys out there in the music business waiting to take your money and run, or do a half ass job. I know…
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