Publishing Seth Godin on game theory and free Very important blog post from Seth Godin today, The game theory of discovery and the birth of the free-gap. It’s a must read.
Business Offices of work and Microsoft With business growth comes the need to find new office space. I am not so sure anymore. Why does anyone involved in the creative industries need to be confined to a cubical any more?
Music Business The recorded music biz 2000 vs 2010 Interesting series of charts from Digital Music News (love your work PR!) breaking down recorded music revenues by format. Here’s a couple of charts, and for the full set go to the DMN site.
Publishing Can a free book be a bestseller? Can a book given away for free can actually be a bestseller? Does the consideration for the sale have to be greater than zero?
Marketing The future of artist management The future of performing and recording artist management is global brand management using in-market expertise. We are moving into a disaggregated world and the gatekeepers are slowly losing their powering and influence.
Music Business Driving me crazy, and back in the music biz A good friend called me a week ago to help him out driving at a music festival. It was great fun driving artists and execs around. Happy days.
Technology A free Kindle? Unlikely unless you like ads Amy Gahran over at CNN says Amazon would be smart to give away the Kindle. Here's why she's wrong.
Creativity Ive's potential loss a bigger blow to Apple than Jobs' So not one but two eyebrows were raised at the news that Apple’s head of industrial design, Jon Ive, might be exiting the building.
Marketing Introduce the familiar before the unknown Most people, even investors, are relatively risk adverse. Most of us like safety. Investors want to know that your product is not that unusual.
Marketing Godin’s Purple Cow I belatedly started reading Seth Godin’s Purple Cow. An easy read, he has interesting things to say about marketing in the 21st Century.
Creativity Digital clutter: deliver quantity or quality There’s so much information around today that there's only one option when building your lists: quality over quantity.
Business The customer is not always right It's time to throw out the old adage that "the customer is always right." Finding the right type of customer is much more important.
Business Repost: pushing or redefining boundaries Children push boundaries: it’s how they learn. Adults live within them: it keeps them safe. Geniuses redefine them: and the world changes.
Business You're not that special, no-one is Business, even industries, like to think they’re special. That they're immune from the laws of business. The book publishing industry is no exception.
Publishing Territorial craziness, what the publishing industry doesn't get Now book publishers are whining about the ease with with the Kindle’s territorial restrictions can be circumvented. Here's what they get wrong.
Principles With our thoughts we create the world Whining is a reverse placebo. When you get good at whining, you start noticing evidence that makes your whining more true.
Principles Perfection is not what you think To most people in Western society perfection means flawlessness. Free from mistakes. Zero errors. Do you know anyone who never makes mistakes?
Publishing Will book retailers get what they truly deserve? Our sales department received another call this week from a potential customer who couldn’t buy one of our books from the big retailers here in Australia.
Music Business Books v. Music: retail smackdown Will the the fate of recorded music retail befall booksellers? If history is any measure, the book biz is not likely to rebuf the digital onslaught.
Great imitations, why being second wins David Bowie is famed for saying, it’s not who does something first, it’s who does it second. His point is that it is not the originators of ideas who usually succeed but those who follow in their footsteps.
Ubiquitous distribution is (mostly) necessary for authors If you want to limit your distribution channels to create the kind of value Godin is talking about, you need to start early and stick to a plan.
Marketing Do you see what I see? An important skill for any businessperson to have is the ability to detach themselves from their work and appraise it honestly.
Technology Are you and your customers on the same page? Sometimes in business we create products and services aiming to fill a particular need only to discover that our customers actually value something else entirely.
Music Business Ticketmaster whipping boy no longer Ticketmaster has for a long time been the whipping boy that angry punters blamed for turning reasonably priced concert tickets into a pocket gouging exercise.
Publishing Seth Godin's self-publishing independence Seth Godin recently announced that he will eschew traditional publishing models for an independent path. The statement made quite a splash in mainstream media.