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TAXI - Music Biz FAQs and Articles
http://www.taxi.com/faq/

I stumbled upon this page one day while surfing the net. It's full of great music business articles.

Rock on,
Madalyn Sklar
IndieMusicCoach.com
~providing one-on-one indie music consulting & coaching~
http://www.indiemusiccoach.com/

by Peter Spellman

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Derek Sivers of CD Baby says, "Indie Marketing Power is the most helpful book for musicians promoting their music that I have ever seen. I'm considering this not just essential reading, but REQUIRED reading for every musician I know!"

Check it out here!

I've been reading this book and really enjoying it!

Rock on,
Madalyn Sklar
IndieMusicCoach.com
~providing one-on-one indie music consulting & coaching~
http://www.indiemusiccoach.com/

The indispensable first step
to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.

You must first establish your objectives if you're to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Determine what you want.
Decide on your major objectives,
targets, aims, and destination.
If you don't know where you're going,
how can you expect to get there?

Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.
The most important thing about a goal is having one.

THE DAILY GURU
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©2006 by Max Steingart

Madalyn's Note:

I love how it says “if you don’t know where you’re going, how can you expect to get there?” We must have a plan to succeed. We need a path to where we are going.

There was an interesting article in Sunday's business section of the Houston Chronicle. It was about a young husband and wife team. They started their own business and were not succeeding as they hoped. Turns out they did not have a business plan. Basically they did not write down their goals and their plan to grow their business. It made me think about us and our music careers. We HAVE to have a plan. We must write out our goals. We have to figure out what we want then plan out how to get there.

Makes you think, huh?

Please feel free to post your comments and share your thoughts on this.

Rock on,
Madalyn Sklar
IndieMusicCoach.com
~providing one-on-one indie music consulting & coaching~
http://www.indiemusiccoach.com

Check out my latest short video on music business success. Are you a superstar? Not a diva but an achiever. Be someone who gets things done and you will climb the ladder to success.



Give me your comments!!

Rock on,
Madalyn Sklar
IndieMusicCoach.com
~providing one-on-one indie music consulting & coaching~
http://www.indiemusiccoach.com

If you want to be successful, you can start at any time.
But you must start.

Don't make the mistake of not doing anything because you can only do a little.
Do what you can do.

It will always be your attitude
at the beginning of any difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

To be aware of what you want and not go after it, to spend years wondering if something could have materialized, and never knowing if it could have been, is a tragic waste of your life.
The worst thing you can do is not to try.

To reach a port, you must sail.
You must sail, not lie at anchor.
You must sail off in the direction of your dreams, not drift.

A journey of a thousand miles, begins with one step.

THE DAILY GURU

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©2006 by Max Steingart

[Madalyn’s Note: what better time to start than right now. Run. Start. Be. Do. Have.]

Rock on,
Madalyn Sklar
IndieMusicCoach.com
~providing one-on-one indie music consulting & coaching~
http://www.indiemusiccoach.com/

e-Booklet: Using HTML For More Effective Myspace Marketing

by Madalyn Sklar with Georgia Moncrief

Madalyn Sklar provides step-by-step instructions on how to effectively use simple HTML code when promoting you and your music at Myspace.

Check it out at www.gogirlsmusicstore.com

Rock on,
Madalyn

Your own positive energy will compel things to turn out the way you desire when you're surrounded by positive people.

Your environment is your mental feeding ground from which the food that goes into your mind is extracted.
Choose your environment with care, one that is positive, one that lifts you up and gives you wings to soar.

Create favorable conditions through your association with others.
Avoid people who belittle your ambition.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.
It's your friends that make your world.

THE DAILY GURU

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©2006 by Max Steingart

[Madalyn’s Note: wow, this is a good one! I’m huge on surrounding myself around POSITIVE people. I put that in all CAPS because I feel that strongly about it. Why spend your valuable, precious time with people who bring you down? Bad energy breeds. Will you succumb to it? Your path to success depends on the support of those closest to you, in your circle of family and friends. Think positive and you will be. Rock on!]

Madalyn Sklar
IndieMusicCoach.com
~providing one-on-one indie music consulting & coaching~
http://www.indiemusiccoach.com

Take a look at my short video on music business success. One thing to think about is what is important to you as an indie musician. Think about it!



Give me your comments!!

Rock on,
Madalyn Sklar
IndieMusicCoach.com
~providing one-on-one indie music consulting & coaching~
http://www.indiemusiccoach.com