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The economics of FREE music

August 18, 2010 in Music Business, social media, songwriting

Premise: Music is Cheap! Fans are Priceless!

A couple of days ago I spoke for the LA Chapter of Songsalive! The topic was technology and strategies to treat your music business more like a business. During the workshops, a lot of material was covered but at the Songsalive! meeting and during the tour, a common theme popped up. FREE Samples!

I had just completed a mini-tour involving 5 workshops and 5 performances over 10 days or so. On the way back I stopped back over in Utah and had coffee with my friend Marc. He had hosted a house concert for me to start the tour.

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Touring – Music, Social Media & Business Workshops, Hosts, and Sponsors

June 22, 2010 in Music, Music Business, Press, social media, songwriting

I am excited to announce the first dates for The Songwriter & Social Media Tour.

I’ll be traveling through various cities both performing music and providing workshops on various technologies and strategies for musicians who wish to both organize and promote their music business.

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Songwriter Merchandise – t-shirt designs

December 22, 2009 in Music, songwriting

Put together some merchandise (t-shirt) ideas together and have been getting feedback. I would love yours as well.

The idea was initially full lyric sections. Then just the hook/song title. For Dangerous Girl and A Little Bit of Everything, it made sense to do a 2-sided shirt.

She’s a Dangerous Girl was simple…

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Front: She’s a…
Back: Dangerous Girl!!
Dangerous Girl t-shirt

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Can I Be Your Opening Act plus. . .

November 24, 2009 in Music, songwriting

Plans and connections for 2010 are shaping up.

One of the items on my plan – a logical next step – is for me to open for some more established acts. I am still booking some shows on my own and will be announcing some house concerts in the next several weeks but am also starting discussions with some booking agents about opening for one or more of their acts..

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I’m forming a band – San Fernando Valley

October 12, 2009 in Music, songwriting

Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of playing my songs with 1 or 2 accompanists and with bands. It has been both enjoyable and frustrating.

The frustration is that I am typically giving a house band a hand-written chord chart or simply a key. You learn a lot about house bands at that point – sometimes we sounded great – like we had rehearsed. Other times.. well.. not so much so.

I am now formalizing a band project for some recording and future gigging. Details can be found here. If you know of players who might be interested, point them here.

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