While a lot of the old heads stand in the raging rains waiting for it to pass, we have these new media sites which are becoming an ark. So when the water eventually passes over everybody's head, only those that focus on what's "now" and keep building on their ark will survive. Everybody knows about declining record sales and feel as though their drowning in their past strategies. From several counts it can be to lack of good music- But with countless different genres and many variations with the lowest near 200,000 and top over 2 million on [...]
Ok, take a business plan that has worked for years and break it apart slightly to give users a sense of independence. There, that is the full business plan for iTunes. Their thoughts were good you know, just about 5 years late. After all the Napsters, Kazza, pirate bays, and bit torrents already had that idea. So iTunes idea was to take their idea and put a price on it. I've never been too much of a fan, but they have been somewhat successful. I mean even I purchased 1 album from them (Anthony Hamilton's Point of It All [...]
A team is a compilation of "I"s. I do not believe the phrase "there is no I in team", which means we all work together and are only as strong as our weakest link. If that is true, than every team sport would completely fail. If there is no "I" than why do we hold stats? What are we bee's, or ants? No. We are a whole lotta "I"s and until we realize that most DIY's involving solely one person will fail. Partnerships 2 guys (or girls or a mix) of "I"s working towards [...]
I've been getting bombarded recently by MySpace bands telling me they are the "best" I've ever heard (and a few saying they are the worse). As well as at my job where I cashier I had a customer tell me that he knows a great rap group. So I listened to him talk about them, but he said nothing that was out the ordinary, just shit I hear on a regular basis. So I ask you, the viewers of my blog , why should we care about your music or anybody's when everybody and they mama is now doing [...]
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