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This weekend I was bunny-trailing on Youtube for soccer videos and after watching new transfer Arjan Robben dominate in Munich, I stumbled upon “Best of Ribery” video, a compilation of little moments of genius by the French soccer player set to music from the Warner Brothers catalog. Which song you ask? I have no idea, [...]

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So few lines, yet so effective.

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Rhymesayer’s recording artist Brother Ali just launched an interesting new interactive website for his album “US”. He also posted this video in which he tries to explain to fans what it takes to put together a quality album and answers a fan’s question on illegal downloading. You’d think that would be a tired point [...]

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Bonus points for those who know what song contains the lyric in this post’s title. No googling! One of my favorite lines ever.

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Dan Pink delivered a really great presentation on “The Science of Motivation” last July in Oxford (UK) for TED. Highly recommended as we deal with motivation in the music biz at all times. Motivating artists, team members, fans, etc. I wrote down some take-away points underneath.

Take-away points:

There’s a mismatch between what science knows about motivation, [...]

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Back in 2001 Jim Collins wrote an excellent article called “Good To Great” that covers a plethora of topics of interest to you entrepreneurs and business people. One small section focused on how change does and doesn’t happen, and I feel it relates strongly to the process of ‘breaking’ an artist and achieving success. Here’s [...]

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As a little follow-up to the earlier “The Audience Never Knows What You Know” post. Paul tweeted the following thought-provoking piece of marketing knowledge.
[Steve Jobs] customer-relations motto is from Henry Ford: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.”
Major labels tend to operate via the model of duplication, because [...]

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