Quick tip 197 It is never too late
Unless you are laying on your dying bed, given only months or weeks to live, it is never too late to start something new. I often hear people ask me what age I was when I started to play guitar. And if...
View ArticleQuick tip 198 Adapt to change
We live in a world that changes faster than ever before. What was new technology ten years ago, we are now ready to put in the museum. What we thought was healthy diet fifteen years ago, has been...
View ArticleQuick tip 199 Write your ideas down
How often have you had a great idea and then forgotten about it completely in few hours time? Do you think it is only a good idea if you remember it? I can tell you from my personal experience, that is...
View ArticleQuick tip 200 Be patiently consistent
This is the 200th quick tip post! How did that happen? I started these Quick tip in the beginning of the year, and the idea was to give musicians small actionable tasks. Obviously with time, the nature...
View Article18th of October Blog update
With out a doubt this has been a productive and eye-opening week. This week every one of my blog posts seemed to come from somewhere deeper than usual, and I really enjoyed writing them. But hey, as...
View ArticleQuick tip 201 Let your fans get to know you
Long are gone the days when artist was that mystical entity, living in his mansion high up on the hill. The only image we had of them was the one portrayed on the magazine cover, and if we were lucky,...
View ArticleQuick tip 202 Advantage of time in your early days
In the early days of your career, even if it does not feel like it, you have one advantage, time. You are not under the pressure of schedules or deadlines, so use this to your advantage. If you do...
View ArticleQuick tip 203 Don’t only ask quote, ask deliverables
There are thousands of services out there ready to take the money most musicians have worked very hard to earn, in exchange for promises of fortune and fame in music business. But too often the promise...
View ArticleQuick tip 204 Have something to promote
You can have the best promotional plan in the world, but if you don’t have something to promote, it will al be for nothing. Even if you reach out to a professional PR company and pay them good money to...
View ArticleQuick tip 205 Don’t use the lack of money as an excuse
We all know professional quality recording done in a high-end studio is expensive business, as is professional quality videos. We look at the major label artists and envy their budgets and dream about...
View Article25th of October Blog update
I was standing outside a massive DIY store on Friday. The wind was blowing dry autumn leaves around the car park in circles, and I was fixated on the scraping sound of the leaves. It was an autumn...
View ArticleQuick tip 206 Wix sites not indexed by Google
I preach regularly about the importance of artists and bands having their own websites. I also exclusively recommend using WordPress(.org) based websites. I know many bands are tempted by the easy...
View ArticleQuick tip 207 Don’t trust everything you read
A completely unrelated issue making big news this week got me thinking about how easily we read something and take it for a fact. Newspapers were always in the business of selling ad space and shifting...
View ArticleQuick tip 208 Go off the topic
No body wants to hear you scream about your new album over and over again. It’s fine, we know you are exited about it and at the same time scared as the sales figures are not going through the roof....
View ArticleQuick tip 209 Make noise
As an artist we tend to think in terms of getting signed to a label or getting a manager as smoking of starting block in the business. It’s like we are not in the business until we have been validated...
View ArticleQuick tip 210 Excitement is infectious
Do you ever feel like no one cares about your music, or art? How can you make sure other people get exited about what you do? How can you light up the fire in other people? The answer is much more...
View Article1st of November Blog update
Holy crap, November is here! Lets just take a minute to digest that… The above picture is from Dublin on the last day of October (yesterday) taken by yours truly Oh yeah, how about a song? This is from...
View ArticleQuick tip 211 Keep moving
All the planning in the world will not get you anywhere without action. I am a strong believer in execution over excessive planning. I did not start this blog by having a massive content plan. I just...
View ArticleQuick tip 212 Commit to something
I get frustrated from time to time with messages from people where they are basically asking for the shortcut. By this I mean something along these lines: “could you please check out my new single and...
View ArticleQuick tip 213 Facebook page update
I assume as a musician you have a Facebook page? Not your personal Facebook profile, but a page. If you do, there are few new updates on the way and this particular one I think is great improvement. I...
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