by Steve Grossman | Oct 5, 2007 | Blog, The Industry
From IBM founder Tom Watson: “It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all.” In what may seem like a strange twist on this blog, today I want to encourage you to fail. Fail...
by Steve Grossman | Oct 3, 2007 | Blog, Career, Marketing, The Industry
inrainbows.com tells the whole story, quite elegantly, I might add. In four simple words, Radiohead has transformed the music industry, and as Gerd Leonhard says here, “distribution as a control factor is toast.” On October 10th, Radiohead is releasing...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 28, 2007 | Blog, The Industry
I simply HAD to share this post with you because the title sounds like my book’s: 12 Investing Mistakes I’ve Made (and what you can learn from them). And in addition to giving useful financial advice gained through experience – someone else’s...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 24, 2007 | Blog, The Industry
Joe Wikert has another post about an alternative revenue model in the book industry that I suspect we’ll soon see applied to music – if it hasn’t been done already. “Shanghai-based Bookgg is exploring a new advertisement-powered free book...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 21, 2007 | Blog, Marketing, The Industry
I’ve decided to begin devoting Friday’s to failure. Call it reverse psychology if you’d like, but if my other posts showing successes aren’t working, perhaps failures will. First up? Marketing the Buick Enclave. Buick is busy launching the...
by Steve Grossman | Sep 20, 2007 | Blog, Career, Marketing, The Industry
I read a lot of blogs with topics ranging from automotive to music, self-development to marketing and business headlines to Donald Trump. One that consistently gets my juices flowing is Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog. I read a book related blogs for two...