I don’t usually write about my own releases here, but I’m too excited about this not to share. I’ve never been quite as excited for a music video as for this one. The amazing Goddamn Cobras collective teamed up with Family Records to create a mesmerizingly beautiful and charming video for Pearl and the Beard‘s [...]
Entries from October 2009
Will Smith, Are You Listening?
October 26th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Tags: Old Posts On Past Activities
The Power Of Sound (Or What Business Are We In Pt. 2)
October 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Julian Treasure presented at TED this year, and his topic was the influence and power of sound in life and business. For those in the music business, this is a particularly interesting topic as we do not only market and sell our own sound products, but we also find a secondary income stream in licensing [...]
Tags: Music Business
Be Yourself (Or Keeping It Real)
October 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
If you haven’t read 37Signals‘s “Getting Real” I highly recommend you pick it up today. You won’t regret it. It highlights the business, design, programming, and marketing philosophies of 37signals, which is a software developer, but these lessons can be applied to many other fields. A recent chapter I re-read was called “Be Yourself” I [...]
Tags: Music Business
Branding An Artist, The Basics
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Inspired by a definition in Seth’s recent post on creating sustainable competitive advantages, I thought I’d outline what your brand consists of. The word ‘brand’ gets thrown around quite easily these days, as something important artists need to focus on and develop in order to be successful. But what is your brand and how can [...]
Tags: Music Business
Amsterdam To NYC
October 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Inspiration
Go And Invent Something
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Via Sabino.
Tags: Inspiration
Attending The Feast
October 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Last week I attended The Feast, an amazing and inspiring conference that gathers “the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking change.”. My main goal was to get ideas on how to further integrate and increase the social impact investment aspects of Family Records [...]
Tags: Inspiration