Quick tip 138 Concentrate on your strengths
To succeed in music business you need a large set of skills. In fact you need more than you can manage by your self. In the beginning part of your career (which can sometimes last years) you need to know…
July 14, 2015
Quick tip 137 Unit price v income
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Here’s a quick tip that I touched on a bit before, but let me spell it out clearly. Unit price v income. Optimal unit price becomes an important thing when you sell a lot of products. You need to optimise…
Quick tip 136 To succeed tomorrow, you need to sacrifice today
Posted at July 13, 2015 by
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The work-life balance can be a tricky thing, especially if you are your own boss. This is the case for most musicians. Some musicians, especially early in their career lack direction. They don’t know what to do, and often resort…
12th of July Blog update
Posted at July 12, 2015 by
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It’s a cloudy overcast day in Dublin, but still warm. It feels like there is a thunder-storm on the way. But then again, that feeling has lingered around for few days now. We have a house quest for the next…
135 SumoMe Welcome Mat
Posted at July 10, 2015 by
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I talked about SumoMe app before in these Quick tips (HERE). Yesterdays I got an email from them telling me about their new Welcome Mat feature. To be hones I was gobsmacked! This is something I wanted to try out…
Quick tip 134 Practice your setup
Posted at July 9, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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If you ever played in a band night that has several acts, or even open mic night, you must have seen that one act that just takes forever to set up. It is frustrating to everyone involved. The band taking…
Quick tip 133 Working with sound engineer
Posted at July 8, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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In your early days playing shows you need to perfect some skills. One of the most vital ones is to learn how to work with venue sound engineers. The sound engineer is extremely important person to you, and you need…
Quick tip 132 Booking shows for beginners
Posted at July 7, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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By far the best way to promote your band is to get out and play a lot of live shows. For most of us this also is one of the main reasons why we got into music in the first…
Quick tip 131 The misconception of getting signed
Posted at July 6, 2015 by
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Too often musicians build their career around the goal of getting signed. So today I am going to make it as clear as I can, that this concept is outdated and will only slow down your career. Gone are the…
Quick tip 130 Twitter update
Posted at July 3, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
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Twitter has been busy working on some of their new features. There are quite few updates to their advertising platform, for example a quick “promote your tweet” feature, which is not too far from the Facebook’s boosted posts. But the…
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