by Steve Grossman | Sep 28, 2006 | Blog, Career
As a professional musician, I was often questioned about “job security.” The conversation always centered around insurance, benefits and a “steady paycheck.” I always understood their points (and their concerns), but my dream of succeeding...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 25, 2006 | Blog, Career
Something a little different for today, and more of the same too: Ultimate Ears is a great tool you should investigate if you’re at all concerned about your ears (and you SHOULD be). Go check it out. It is also yet ANOTHER example of how you can make money in...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 23, 2006 | Blog, Career
In my last post, I used the following quote from Yahoo Finance to discuss the head in the sand mentality of the record labels. “Free — and legal — music Universal Music Group has licensed its digital music catalog to a new Web site offering free...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 21, 2006 | Blog, Career
Dreaming of stardom can be a trap. I’m all for following you heart, and I believe that the biggest challenge facing mankind is small thinking, but even so, dreaming of stardom often traps musicians and artists into dead end lives of quiet desperation. Why?...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 19, 2006 | Blog, Career
I linked to a GREAT post today on a blog called beetlegrass. Written by a freelance illustrator who is celebrating 17 years of working on her own. In honor of that milestone, she has passed along 17 things that she’s “learned over the past years, listed in...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 17, 2006 | Blog, Career
As a rule, most musicians can’t make up their minds about money. On the one hand they want to be a star and make lots of it but on the other hand, they’d rather starve than “sell out” their creativity. The fact that our entire society is...
