I get an awful lot of email, and I dispense with it quickly. Things are either “To do” (so they go into my “to do” system), or they are “For information”, so I file them appropriately – or they are Junk.
If I receive unsolicited email from a band promoting a gig or a record – then, like all spam, it gets filtered and I never hear from them again no matter what they send.
In this shorthand sorting system, sometimes I fire off responses a little too quickly and casually. Tonight I made a hasty mistake that I feel bad about and I apologise unreservedly to the band in question.
It’s not just for rock bands and rappers, you know…
I was presenting at a ‘getting into the music business’ seminar today, and in the break I was approached by Nuala Pinson who had managed to get hold of one of the (now quite rare) print copies of the 20 Things e-book. She was very enthusiastic about it, so I asked her if she’d mind if I asked her about it on camera.
Nuala’s looking for a bit of assistance with her website – and I’m sure she wouldn’t mind doing an exchange: implement the 20 Things on her behalf, and she’ll help you sleep better at night with one of her relaxation audio programmes.
I’ve finished the final draft of the e-book, looked over it with a tired and blurry eye, sent the text off to the designer, and await the results. Shouldn’t be long now.
For the technically inclined, it might be interesting to note that I have installed a WordPress plugin that removes the ‘NoFollow’ tag from the comments, so links to your websites will be crawled by search engine spiders. Why should what I have to say be more important than what you have to say?
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