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A Big Day For DIY Artists

July 9, 2008 By Graham English

This announcement comes from Last.fm today: This is a big day for DIY artists as it marks the first time that musicians not affiliated with a label or royalty collection agency can collect revenue direct from a free streaming music platform. We're … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: artists, Business, DIY, iTunes, Last.fm, money, Music Business, music marketing, Music Publishing, musicians, podcasting, podcasts, royalties

For Those Of You Interested In Making Money With Your Music

July 8, 2008 By Graham English

I'm running a little poll to help me better serve you. If you could take just a moment to answer the following question, I'd greatly appreciate it. If you were just beginning as a musician and wanted to make a living with your music, which of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Business, money, poll, questions, survey

Fail In Search Of Something Bigger

June 17, 2008 By Graham English

Seth Godin, as usual, nails it. The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Business, failure, LifeHacks, perfection, Seth Godin

1,000 True Fans And The Long Tail

March 6, 2008 By Graham English

Kevin Kelly writes that the long tail is a blessing for aggregators (Amazon, Netflix) and consumers. But not so for creators. The solution is to find 1,000 True Fans. A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: advice, aggregators, Amazon, artists, Business, Kevin Kelly, long tail, marketing, Music Business, Netflix, The Long Tail, True Fans

Seth Godin Draws Some Lessons From The Sinking Music Industry

January 11, 2008 By Graham English

Seth Godin dishes 15 tips to musicians on the cusp between old and new media. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least right now Past performance is no guarantee of future success Copy protection in a digital age is a pipe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: advice, Bob Dylan, Business, digital-age, DRM, marketing, Music Business, Music Industry, permission, Seth Godin, tips

Make Money Easily Leave Your Prospect’s Hands

August 10, 2006 By Graham English

People travel through many states of mind throughout any given day. We may feel tired when we wake up, refreshed after a shower, energized after our morning coffee, and bored during a company meeting. Most people go through life letting the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Business, communication, emotions, HowTo, hypnosis, Hypnotic Influence, influence, Language, mental states, money, motivation, NLP, NLP exercises, persuasion, relationships, states, submodalities, tools

How To Make People Do What THEY Want

August 9, 2006 By Graham English

A lot of what I'll be revealing to you is about the psychology that motivates people to do things. If you're in business, one of your primary objectives is to motivate people to see the value in your services and... ...give you their money. To … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Business, communication, HowTo, hypnosis, Hypnotic Influence, influence, Language, Map of the World, money, motivation, NLP, persuasion, relationships, subjective experience, submodalities, tools, Unlock The Game

An Introduction To Hypnotic Influence

August 8, 2006 By Graham English

Have you ever learned or come across something so valuable that you wanted to share it with everyone? And have you ever received less than an enthusiastic response when you tried to share it with someone? Maybe you were puzzled that they just didn't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Business, communication, HowTo, hypnosis, Hypnotic Influence, influence, Language, NLP, outcome-based thinking, persuasion, relationships, tools

Pubsub Implosion

June 7, 2006 By Graham English

From Pubsub Implosion: Blog search engine PubSub had massive layoffs today after last minute merger discussions with knownow fell apart. It looks like a shutdown is imminent. This really sucks. I've used pubsub for a long time now. I even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: Business, news

The Long Tail

March 19, 2006 By Graham English

From Anything but business as usual: Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, coined "[tag]The Long Tail[/tag]": A [tag]theory[/tag] based on "the world of abundance" where instead of being obsessed with the head of the tail--the 20 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: blog, Business, download, filters, Internet, money, musicians, RSS, Technology, The Long Tail, theory

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