To what end?

Now that you have a catalogue of activities, here’s the important question: why? When you do all of these things that you do, what is it you are trying to ultimately achieve? Why do you do what you do? So you’re working on an album? You’re writing...

What is it exactly that you do?

Okay. Let’s start with what should be a very simple question: What do you do? “We’re a record label” or “I’m a distributor” or “I’m a singer/songwriter” or any similar kind of variation on that theme is The...

Best. Software. Ever.

Need to Get Things Done? Go hang out on your Thinking Rock for a bit. Strategies for promoting and selling online are not the only things that technology can help independent music businesses with. Efficiencies, workflow and time management are often just as critical....

Artist Data Systems

What do they say it is? Artist Data Systems is A way for artists to simultaneously update all of their online information across all social networks, websites, and profiles with their mp3s, tour information, release dates, etc. Rather than laboriously go to each one...

Situations Vacant: Virtual Intern

Okay, so there’s no such real job as a “virtual intern”, but I’m just going to pretend and see what happens. New Music Strategies is at the point now where it needs to expand a little. I’m looking for a volunteer worker to do a bit of...

Outsourcing

One of the unfortunate things about the internet is that there are always people that can do what you do cheaper and better. Fortunately, that’s also one of the great things. A while ago, I read Tim Ferriss’s book ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’. You...