The Try-Angle: a tool for audience development
The Try-Angle is a tool for audience development that I am building together with Live DMA. European audiences are rapidly changing and a lot of existing …
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My calendar was filled with other people’s meetings. Here’s how time blocking changed that.
In the time between meetings I sometimes managed to get my own work done. I was using my calendar all wrong. First it was wide open …
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Forget new year’s resolutions. Here are five attitudes that will help you make the most of 2022
Instead of setting overly ambitious goals for the new year, let us focus on the way we approach things in our professional lives. Here are …
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What a history of changing business models for the music industry teaches us about the future
For too long the music industry had been built on the premise that albums couldn't be copied. And just like that one sloppy exhaust port on …
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Why the European music industry should focus on collective distribution channels not separate live bands
The best bands in every country should have the chance to tour Europe. That's why many countries have set up export policies to help promote the …
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Here’s why you should USE your notes, not just keep them.
Keeping notes is one thing. Using them, something completely different. I have no idea how many sentences I've written in the twenty years that I have …
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For music venues, booking great bands is only half the work
The smaller the band, the more they rely on live music venues. While successful acts have an easier time mobilising a fanbase it can be very …
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No Email November. Why email gets in the way of new forms of team collaboration.
Here's a joke. John studied German abroad for a year and it had been a succes. Everybody in the German bar had tremendously improved their English. If …
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Why you should get on that Zoom call with a European colleague in the music industry today
It took a virus to teach the music industry how to do video calls. In Europe restrictions are slowly being lifted for live music venues. The …
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Let me change the way you look at the word game-changer
"The pandemic is a game-changer." I wrote the sentence and immediately regretted it. Game-changer. Seriously? I had this nagging feeling that I was overusing that specific word …
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The Preservation Paradox. Why traditionalists should innovate and innovators should preserve the past.
I have a saying. A conservative is someone who understands that things only have value if you are willing to defend them. A progressive on …
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The City Isn’t Meant To Be Empty
The pandemic is a game-changer for cultural venues in Europe. After a year of uncertainty and turmoil, a path to a new future emerges in …
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Four ways of building a better live music industry instead of returning to our pre-pandemic ways.
Now that the end of the pandemic appears to be within reach and live music venues are ready to get on the road to recovery, …
