If I can do it, so can you!
Once again yesterday I found my self in a middle of a conversation about what I do. When you tell people you release a song a week and have been doing so for the last 62 weeks, they think you…
March 12, 2015
Quick tip 47 Advertise
Posted at March 10, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Quick tip
This week is turning out to be very business oriented week in these Quick tip posts. And rightly so, you need to learn the business! Yesterday’s Quick tip talked about the importance of being able to sell. Now I know…
Survival of the fittest
It is not always what you take in, but also what you pay out. You can be successful with very little, as long as you know how to manage your finances. Music business is a tough game at the best…
Quick tip 46 Sales
Today’s quick tip is one of those hard cold facts of music business that every one try to pretend it does not matter, but it is the key to the success of your career. You need to accept the fact…
Keep your feet on the ground
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I think from time to time we all need something to keep our feet on the ground, or as I like to think something to “ground us”. This is especially true for musicians. It takes guts to expose your art,…
8th of March Blog update
Posted at March 8, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Blog posts
My mother has been visiting me for the past week. It has been great to have her here 🙂 It was also a great opportunity for me to take few days off and take her around Dublin as well as…
Where do we draw the line?
How far should we go to stand our ground when it comes to out art? I have been stubborn in the past, to the detriment of me not being as financially successful as I could have been. But this was…
Quick tip 45 Twitter DM
Posted at March 6, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Quick tip
Today’s Quick tip is all about using Twitter’s Direct Message (Also known as DM) to promote your music. I’m sure some of you will have a critical view of this, but then again if us musicians stayed away from everything…
Quick tip 44 Act like nothing happened
Posted at March 5, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Quick tip
Here’s a one thing to do during a live show that will make you look instantly more professional. During a live show things will go wrong, people will make mistakes, that’s just the nature of it. No matter how prepared…
No. 1 Giveaway of an amateur band
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I talked about this before, and I will end up talking about this again in the future, I am sure of that. From time to time bands and musicians ask me directly for advice. The advice they seek can be…
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