by Steve Grossman | Jul 10, 2007 | Blog, Career, Marketing
One of the pleasures of being a musician is the freedom. Freedom to work when you want and freedom to chose not to. Freedom to keep busy, or the freedom to have, well, free time. These are also the dangers of being a musician. It’s all too easy to over use your...
by Steve Grossman | May 25, 2007 | Blog, Marketing
Gretchen Rubin, of The Happiness Project, has a sister who is enjoying success in Hollywood – major success. As a part of her Wednesday’s Tips column, Gretchen has assembled a collection of 6 truisms about succeeding in L.A. From personal experience, I can...
by Steve Grossman | May 17, 2007 | Blog, Marketing
“Jonathan Coulton sat in Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, his Apple PowerBook open before him, and began slogging through the day’s e-mail.”So begins an important article from the New York Times about a new paradigm in the music business: fans want to be...
by Steve Grossman | Apr 28, 2007 | Blog, Marketing
Among the many blogs I visit on a daily basis, John Jantsch’s Duct Tape Marketing (see my links) is one of my favorites. I’ve quoted him multiple times because I find his advice to small business owners to be perfect for musicians because, well,...
by Steve Grossman | Mar 30, 2007 | Blog, Marketing
I was catching up on my RSS feeds and found several excellent posts from Seth Godin. There’s rarely a day that I don’t learn something profound from him and I hope you’ll take my advice and visit his blog regularly. Here are the posts:Money,...
by Steve Grossman | Mar 26, 2007 | Blog, Marketing
I found inspiration for you today from this post from Two Hat Marketing.”Don’t study your competition for new ideas. Study people and organizations outside your daily world and steal their ideas.”These words hit me two ways: First, I am all about...
