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Industry Ramblings

Lipstick on the Pig

Here’s the deal folks: websites are instruments for your career. Like a fine Steinway or a vintage B3, simply posessing them doesn’t equate to being a virtuoso player…

Industry Ramblings

Professionalism

It’s really not something that needs to be discussed, or at least that’s what I thought. When you’re working with a client/artist/musician/band/whatever, the asumption is that everyone involved will conduct themselves in a professional manner. Unfortunately, at 3 AM, this isn’t what happened…

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JFK 50

50 years ago today, JFK became our 35th president. Watch the speech that started it all…

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If you want to end the war …

After a while, pie sucks. It doesn’t take much skill to buy a frozen crust, plop fruit and sugar inside it, and bake at 350 ’til golden brown. Anyone who does this, and claims to have “baked”…is a liar.

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Top 10 Ways to Win a Political Campaign in 2010

Here’s your easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide …. Be an outsider. If you’ve never worked in politics, government, or gone to jury duty — all the better! Have a silly skeleton in your closet. You dabbled in witchcraft?…

Musical Ramblings

The best thing you’ll see all day. Maybe all week…

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Social Media Marketing: 5 Reasons Why It’s NOT For You

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Republicans make better marketers.

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What’s your shtick?

Our industry, and our patience for hearing new music, is contracting. We’re increasingly overtaxed/conditioned by technology so that if it doesn’t come to us instantaneously, and stand out at the same time, we just move on. The act of musical discovery and exploration has been relegated to music purists who make up an increasingly small piece of the consumerist pie. So what’s YOUR shtick? Why do we care about your music? And don’t say “because it’s good … ” That’s a bigger cop-out than the last five Rolling Stones albums.

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Crazy Eddie’s Craigslist iPhone Sale: Our prices are insaaaaaane!

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Better marketing through Cheesecake…

Back in college I waited tables. I’m fairly certain it goes hand-in-hand with attending music school. One of those establishments was The Cheesecake Factory. Being there 40+ hours per week got you very familiar with the…

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Under the Meadowlands?

35 years ago on this day, Jimmy Hoffa went to a lunch meeting at the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in suburban Detroit. He was never seen again. Coincidentally, on that same day, at roughly the same…