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I forget sometimes how fortunate I am to have the job I have, and to do what I do in the music industry. Most of the time it’s all emails and meetings and conference calls with sales reps. Boring stuff. But then there are days like yesterday. Two years ago a small independent film called Once burst [ READ MORE ]
This week Jeremy and I went up to New York for a digital music conference, as well as meetings with accounts and the guys we work with at Warner, our parent company. I’ve been to New York before, but only once, and only for a brief period of time. I never really had the [ READ MORE ]
OK, so I’m two and a half weeks into the new job at Word Records, and it’s been going well! Everyone I work with is great, it’s fun to work in a slightly larger team of people, and I’m looking forward to really digging into a lot of the new accounts and artists I [ READ MORE ]
Assuming there’s an outside chance that one of my few diligent readers hasn’t heard yet, a couple weeks ago I resigned my position with EMI and accepted a new job with Word Entertainment as their Director of Digital Sales & Marketing. This is a good thing! (People always ask me that… I tell them I [ READ MORE ]
Solution 1: Have a process. Solution 2: If there is no process, claim you are building a process. Solution 3: If the process isn’t working, claim you are solutioning a process. [ READ MORE ]
So my friend Jessi asked me the other day if I could answer a few questions about the music biz and artist management to help her out with a college project she’s doing. There are certainly more qualified people out there to answer these questions, but I appreciate that she asked and so I’m [ READ MORE ]
Well I got back from San Francisco last night having spent three days out there. It was a really good trip, all in all. Wednesday I flew out, and we had an all day EMI showcase at a venue just outside of downtown. Got to see Tristan Prettyman perform which was fun – have always [ READ MORE ]
I’m just going to tell you right now this will be a boring post. If you want to be really bored, keep on reading: I go to San Francisco this week for a sales meeting with a fruit company. That should be interesting. Gotta give props to Flash for the great recommendation on the band [ READ MORE ]
My co-worker Jon and I work in digital music, which on the surface seems somewhat glorious what with the greatness of iTunes and all. But underneath it’s really pretty chaotic, frantic, and in the words of many, the wild wild west of the music industry. The operational level especially involves a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo [ READ MORE ]
OK I concede, sometimes my job has its high points… I’m posting this from my new iPod Touch… so ha, suckers!! On wait, I forgot for a moment that I still sit in a cubicle. [ READ MORE ]