The journey of a digital marketer and musician

Kim has put together a very nice blog of his production thoughts, opinions, and experiences. There is a lot of great information on there and it is an extremely generous sharing of production and engineering knowledge. Kim Lajoie's Lifesigns from the Studio

I think this is a good way to go for labels. Share your music, if people like it they will tell others and share it with friends. Or at least that's the idea. Check it out for yourself and see if there's anything new that you like, it's mostly folk and old timey music, but well done, just so you know... True North Records

Wow, I can only imagine how much time and effort it took to put this together, but I think worth the trouble. The rocking part comes in around 2:20...

I just got done reading 279 Days to Overnight Success by Chris Guillebeau and was pretty impressed with both his story and his giving away the .pdf for free even if I don't agree with him on small parts of it. Regardless it is a great read and certainly food for thought...

It still amazes me how much even on the web is relationship-based. So how do you gain and keep relationships? Gaining seems to be facilitated in many cases of going through a shared experience, sometimes it's a good one and sometimes it's not, but having that connection is key. Keeping it is even more tricky as you want have a connection that is mutually beneficial and it is hard a lot of the time to figure out if that is the case and really it seems a bit disinginuine to only have relationships because of what the other person can do for you. So, it is best to do as much as you can within reason for your relationships and hopefully if you get a position you need the other person's help it doesn't seem like an imposition at all to ask...

I went out with a friend of mine last night and at the end of the evening I got to thinking how his and my approaches to things are different. One believes in going all out all of the time and then having to lay low to recover and the other keeps a steady pace and goes maybe 80 or 90% and keeps some reserve left if extra is needed. There is a lot to be said of both approaches and if you have no regrets about what you are doing either can work for you, figure out which works for you and do it for all it is worth.

...But consistantly doing it once you've begun is better. Obvious? I'm always amazed at how people start things are excited about them and then it drops off if they don't get the results they dreamed. Human nature? Of course. But, what do you do when you don't get the result that you want? Do you quit or do you tweak it and use what did work and make it better and hopefully get better results.