by Steve Grossman | Sep 3, 2007 | Blog, Career, The Industry
I had to share a “bonus track” for today’s Music & Money Monday. I received the most recent royalty statement for the one song I ever wrote that got any traction in the publishing world. The song earned $0.28 cents for the 2nd Quarter pay...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 3, 2007 | Blog, Career, The Industry
Do you know anyone like this? “”Fred” missed out on watching his kids grow up because, “I have a wife with expensive tastes and kids with expensive hobbies.” He traded away years of his life for around $225K per year. Admittedly, people...
by Steve Grossman | Aug 27, 2007 | Blog, Career, The Industry
Here’s what I said over a year ago in a post called More On Pricing: “One of my most dreaded questions during my career as a professional musician was “how much do you charge for…?” I hated it for two main reasons: first, I hated to have to draw attention...
by Steve Grossman | Aug 22, 2007 | Blog, Career, The Industry
I no sooner got done writing about SellaBand’s anniversary and commenting about transformational changes in the music industry when I read a comment on the Springwise article. Kudos to Julian Clayton for directing us to Slicethepie.
by Steve Grossman | Aug 22, 2007 | Blog, Career, The Industry
When I first wrote about A Musical Stock Exchange called SellaBand, the site was just getting started. Springwise – where I first heard of SellaBand – is back with information about the site now that it’s one year old. How’s it going? 4,000+...
by Steve Grossman | Aug 20, 2007 | Blog, Career, Marketing, The Industry
Today’s word of the day is indulgence. As in this quote from Jones Soda CEO Peter van Stolk: “Our strategy is to be a treat. Our marketing campaign is ‘Drink less soda, just better soda.’ We’re the first to admit that we are an indulgence and if you’re going to...