Get The Biggest Bang for Your Conference Buck
I’ve learned a lot on how to get the biggest bang for my conference buck over the years. From prepping to notetaking to networking, here’s my handbook!
Grammy or Bust
I’m on the Grammy’s ballot… And now for the first time in my life, I’m reaching out and pitching my new record… not to my fans, not to music supervisors and film producers, but to my colleagues requesting they consider my music for a Grammy. Other Recording Academy members. Music producers, songwriters, labels. I always wanted […]
Don’t Be Afraid of Your Own Crazy Ideas
Published in Discmaker’s Echoes Blog. “Outside the box” is a term that can be both very helpful and frustrating for so many musicians, myself included. I am constantly looking for “what else” when working at my career trying to sell more albums, gain new fans and be authentic, while at the same time being original […]
5 Steps to Getting Un-Stuck
Writing, for me, is like running. They are both good for me, yet they both take a marching band-sized cheering squad to get me started when I’m feeling stuck. The amount of debating, procrastinating, dodging, and fidgeting I do when I know it’s time to write or put on my running shoes, is ridiculous. I’ve been […]
Solving the PR Puzzle
As far as I know, every musician is looking for more exposure. To be heard by other people is to have our art honored, accepted and justified. It is a connection, a performance, an intimate relationship to have our words, melodies and creations shared with the world. And it is our livelihood. The question is […]
Being hooked up: Mastering Jack
And though I’d like to call it vacation, because I am having the time of my life, I’d feel lazy calling it such. A whole month on vacation? with no pay? Impossible. Idiotic. Especially in these times…. right?
Possibly. Or not.
A few months ago, I was telling a good old friend (the kind that tells the bitter truth no matter what) that one of my articles was being published in Keyboard Magazine. His response: “Now you’re a writer too? Well aren’t you the jack of all trades, master of none.” I hung up.