Musopreneur is a term I coined last year to describe independent musicians who are working on their careers. They need to work like entrepreneurs and lead their music business to success by achieving the goals they set themselves. Here are ten things to do to become a great musopreneur.
1. Ask yourself daily: is what I’m doing […]

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Bob Baker did an interview with musician Terry Prince in Santa Clara a few months ago. Terry plays a few hours of gigs a week on the pier for 18 months. As a result he sold 15,000 CDs. Watch the video interview here.
My client Dave Bonney sold 8,000 CDs in 3 weeks. His story is here. If anything, take this as an […]

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I want to discuss Squidoo as a tool for generating traffic to your site. Squidoo, created by Seth Godin, is a Web 2.0 website, which means the majority of its content is created by its users - people like you and me. It’s an online social encyclopedia, with tens of thousands of user-generated pages called “lenses” […]

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Have you heard of LaunchALabel.com?
Karol Gajda, one of the geniuses behind it is utilising the idea of “ask your fans what music you should create” - an idea I very much subscribe to. If you make music your fans don’t want, you’re not going to get sales.
Let’s analyse.
LaunchALabel.com is looking for 50,000 music fans to donate $25 […]

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As musicians, we like to connect with people. We like to get to know as many people as possible and in the process if we can strike a conversation about music, sell a CD or two, we’re even happier.
The question today is how to use our knack and love for connection and communication to help […]

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Musicians always say they wish they knew some stuff before they set out. Only because they make mistakes and wish they didn’t. If they knew something, they’d be better off. True. But I think mistakes are sometimes worth more. The lessons are invaluable if taken in the right way. Here are ten of mine.
1. Finding […]

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My friend Bob Baker is running his own weekend workshop/seminar event called the Indie Buzz Bootcamp. It’s going to be awesome. If you know of Bob, have any of his products, you’ll see that the time he invests and dedicates to his work shows. His work is very similar to what I do here in the UK so if […]

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We talk a lot in the music industry about having persistence and going forth with your goals regardless of how many times you’ve fallen down if you really believe in yourself.
Seth Godin posted a couple of days ago about persistence and it struck a chord with me. He says it so simply in just two lines. […]

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Social networking websites are currently one of the hottest trends around. Everyone is on them. They grow virally and extremely fast. If someone joins up, they’ll have to invite their Yahoo, AIM or Hotmail address book and soon they’ll have all their friends on it too.
That’s what happened with Myspace, YouTube, Facebook, Bebo and all […]

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This was and is my first business and first love. I have worked long days and nights over the last year and have only in the last year started to share responsibilities and only allow myself to interact with you musicians. I love that part the most. In any case, it wasn’t always like this […]

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