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Most music artists use the usual route to launch a record – try to get radio airplay and try to get the media to write a review. That’s not what Ronnie Dunn did to launch three new songs. Instead he performed a guerrilla gig from the roof of a restaurant, playing as the CMT ...
In the many hundreds of live music venues I’ve visited, getting a drink is the worst experience.
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On Saturday I caught the Life is Good festival. It was a beautiful day in the Boston suburbs made better because all profits generated from the festival (over a million dollars) are going to Children’s charities. For those music geeks reading this, my favorite act was the am...
For a short period of time on Thursday, United Airlines Web reservation system was offering up tickets for a price of zero.
Nokia UK tweeted a fun image during the Apple announcement of the new iPhone offerings yesterday.
Two years ago I wrote a post titled How to get a book deal where I outlined my thoughts on how to convince a major publisher to take on your work. The example I used was Summer Land - who I met at one of my talks in Sydney, Australia - and who took my advice and did the hard...
It’s just an excuse for inaction. “But I do not have enough time to start a blog.” (I’ve heard this one hundreds of times.)
For the past decade, I’ve been evangelizing the new rules of marketing and public relations and so have many of you.