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- KarmaList wishlist?
- Valuable to others, or only you?
- Quit quirks when working with others
- My loss
- I assume I'm below average
- How to get hired
- How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen
- After 15 years of practice...
- How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto's guitarist
- Naïve Quitting
- Thursday = Thor's day
- Architecture awards and relationships
- A real person, a lot like you
- Flip the stick
- Successful SxSW: the Tao of the Conference
- Do you have conference advice for musicians? Want to be in my SxSW talk?
- The Night I Met Einstein - by Jerome Weidman
- First Follower idea is all yours
- Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
- Resist the urge to punish everyone for one person's mistake
- There are always more than two options
- Big catalog = infinite specialty shops
- Seth Godin on spreading music and selling intimacy
- Musician feedback on Ignore Everybody
- Papa Bill: I don't need to worry about you.
- Put buskers online
- "Online" marketing = "Color" TV
- Why I gave away my company to charity
- There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)
- Japanese Addresses: the opposite is also true
- Present one idea at a time and let others build upon it
- Linux Compose Key
- The challenge: Don't speak in future tense
- Trust but verify
- Let pedestrians define the walkways
- Fela Kuti
- Confidence required
- If you think you haven't found your passion...
- Doesn't feel like work (or I've forgotten)
- Learning the theme, not the example.
- How I knew I was done with my company
- You should feel pain when unclear
- How do you grade yourself?
- Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one.
- What's the difference between like, love, and in-love?
- Highest book recommendation: Ignore Everybody
- How to get on a magazine cover
- And if only 1% of those people...
- Does your company really want to hang out with me?
- Biking
- Venue for audience to mix their own audio
- Emphasize meaning over price = More paid sales
- Is there such a thing as too much freedom?
- Write? Write. Sleep? Sleep. Read? Read. Don't fight it.
- Safety
- Imagining lots of tedious steps? Or one fun step?
- ... desperate? Part 2
- Does it help to be desperate?
- climbing ladders
- Unlearning
- My heroes
- How Hog Whitman got heard by 15 million people
- Kurt Vonnegut explains drama
- How to send personalized emails
- Sprezzatura
- What do you hate not doing?
- Idea: Musician's own website as definitive source of all info
- How I use Twitter
- No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no.
- Ideas are just a multiplier of execution
- A computer that would require kids to be creative to use it
- TED Conferences
- I miss the mob
- Listen to my music, and let me know what I should do
- Meet-ups in London July 18-19 2009
- Barking
- The power of no reward
- The mirror: It's about you, not them.
- Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
- Semi-experts: profit by saving us time
- Nothing to waste: The advantage of being under-funded
- Version 0.1 = Start lo-fi
- Early drafts of great work are encouraging
- Fundamental reading on marketing
- Doing the opposite of everyone is valuable.
- Long interview from Practical Personal Development Podcast.
- Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers.
- Why do we get some songs stuck in our head?
- Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy
- Behind-the-scenes with a great promoter: Planetary Group
- Read these books.
- Pandora
- Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.
- Grow your own fresh air
- That's version ∞. First launch version 0.1.
- Show success before asking for help
- Why you need your own company
- MusicThoughts update : inspiring quotes for music-makers
- Does quantity + learning = quality?
- How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy.
- You have enough.
- Are you future-focused or present-focused? The marshmallow experiment.
- Some people like to pay. Let them.
- Are fans telling friends? If not, improve, don't promote.
- What do musicians and entrepreneurs have in common?
- Interviewed by CIRAA
- What super-power do you want?
- Talent increases. Resourcefulness decreases. Are you sustainable?
- My $3.3M mistake
- Have you looked under the chickens?
- Not what it used to be!
- Dreams are here. Details have changed.
- Backwards
- Character predicts your future
- Sammy Cahn said thank you
- Goals shape the present, not the future.
- video interview about promoting and marketing your music
- Interview
- Accelerate change
- Aimee Mullins
- My favorite fable
- What do you do for feedback on a new song you're writing?
- Me, we.
- Ideas to Reality
- A free, open song contest idea
- Elizabeth Gilbert on creative genius
- MIDEM Conference Interviews
- TED Conference : opening night party is already overwhelming
- MusicThoughts.com
- Success Stories : Amber Rubarth (how to be a full-time touring musician)
- My new business cards : guitar picks
- Advice for a 19-year-old guitarist who wants to be a session musician.
- Conferences I'll be attending in early 2009
- Complainers
- The Dokkodo
- Don't... if you think it's going to make you happy
- Getting past it
- Nobody's going to help you. Does that encourage you or discourage you?
- Happiness is letting someone make you the villain
- Attending a music biz conference? Here's the REAL way to do it....
- Mystery : Are people asking themselves questions about you?
- Real rebellion is going to school wearing a clown suit
- Double-speed! Half-speed! Up an octave! Down an octave!
- Song lyric inspiration from Jenny Holzer's Truisms
- Popkomm interviews with exhibitors
- Nobody knows the future - and it doesn't matter!
- Books you need to read first!
- Are foreign accents a reflection of identity?
- The Grand Pursuit
- Uncomparable: anchor a new mama
- What would you ask the biggest names in Digital Distribution?
- The list of books I've read in the past year
- Should I put my music on LOTS of websites, or just a few?
- Is your album a starting line or a finish line?
- Ebert is reviewing again!
- Mastering entrepreneurship?
- Small actions changing self-identity
- Iceland
- 6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee
- Inspiration is a good start...
- Interview at Wired Listening Post
- Reversible business models
- Tim Ferriss interview
- Bye-Bye, Baby!
- Abraham Maslow's 8 Ways to Self-Actualize
- Should you go digital-only, and skip the CD?
- Ah, to own nothing!
- Songwriters / Lyricists / Composers (who don't perform)
- Who to ask for recommendations
- Action-Reaction
- Heartwarming compliments about my e-book
- A Musician's Advice About the College Market
- Trip diary from Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong
- Across the Universe
- Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn
- Selling music by solving a specific need
- I'm a stereotypical entrepreneur
- Sakurajima
- Avoid advance promotion. Be buyable first.
- ... until I know how to do it, then I stop
- How was India?
- Rule-breaking songs?
- two three four ONE, two three four ONE
- Moving to a new country
- Aim for the edges.
- Some things I've learned this year that turned my world upside-down and I'm still trying to wrap my head around
- Lyric inspiration : listening in to others' loves, hates, wishes, feelings
- Restrictions will set you free
- Get specific!
- eliminating the time between thinking something and doing it
- If I had a record label, would you be signed to it?
- How would microcredit work for musicians?
- Circle of influence - Circle of concern
- What's really keeping you from where you need to be? (It's not piracy.)
- 5 tips for musicians
- It's great to be a beginner again
- What should I do when someone says, “Let me know what you think!” of their music?
- Never have a limit on your income
- Best articles on piracy I've ever seen
- Whatever scares you or excites you, go do it
- Happy 10th Birthday to CD Baby - and an announcement
- Aiming to please big clients versus little clients
- Wikinomics at work
- the public you is not you
- 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
- What it would be like to open up ALL aspects of CD Baby
- Compass in Your Gut
- If this is draining your energy, please stop!
- Stay In Over Your Head
- Extreme results = extreme actions
- Be a novice marketer, not an expert
- Have someone work the inside of the industry
- Assume the basic sale, and go for quantity
- Go where the filters are
- Photos of your audience on your website
- Make your success a we or us. Include everyone.
- Put your fans to work
- Call the destination, and ask for directions
- Your Interactive Website
- Promo box on your desktop
- Know the important skills
- Or you can not talk at all
- Have fun - do NOT be corporate
- Think like a person or poet, not a musician
- Blah blah blah... What NOT to say
- Tell people why they should care
- Hillbilly Flamenco
- How to describe your music
- A short description - 10 seconds or less
- Why words matter more than ever
- More thoughts about people
- Make these habits, and they won't seem hard
- Shining example: Rayko
- Life is like High School
- Small gifts go a long way
- Don't be afraid to ask for favors
- Get personal
- Always think how you can help someone
- Meet three new people every week
- Database tips
- Get used to the idea of database and quantity
- Stay in close touch with hundreds of people
- Persistence is Polite
- Be a friend, not a mosquito
- Someone you know
- Captain T
- Business is Creative
- This is only a test. See what happens.
- DIY = Decide It Yourself
- Was 10%, now 90%
- A good biz plan wins no matter what happens
- Test. Improve. Perfect. Announce.
- Well-Rounded Doesn't Cut
- Even conservative legends were extreme
- Be an extreme version of yourself
- Imagine a play with 1000 actors on stage
- Leave 'em wanting more
- Never use corporate-speak
- Touch as many of their senses as you can
- Bad Targeting Example: progressive rocker targeting teenybopper
- If you target sharp enough, you will own your niche
- The Most Expensive Vodka
- Proudly exclude some people
- If you don't say what you sound like, you won't make any fans
- Read about new music. Use the tricks that worked on you.
- They know nothing about you. Don't assume anything.
- Reach them like you would want to be reached
- Constantly ask, What do they really want?
- Keep in touch!
