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This past Friday I went to a major business symposium.  One portion of it featured a massive speed networking that guaranteed that each participant would meet at least 20 people.

This is where you not only hear everyone’s elevator pitch, but, obviously, get their business card.

It’s a boring topic and, as a result, not one that musicians – or people from most other professions for that matter – want to spend lots of time thinking or talking about.  But, ignored, it could become a real problem.

I was at a big event recently where I finally had the opportunity to meet in person with someone who I previously had only talked to via email and phone.  I’m tempted to put her in the category of an up-and-comer, but, with all she has going on, one might argue that she has (already) arrived.

It was an outdoor event, with not the best of weather conditions – windy and cool, instead of sunny and warm.

It’s ironic that in a society that is trying to be more green by using less paper, more and more companies want to give you their long, drawn out privacy policy.  Even crazier is that they’ll then waste more paper by giving you a form to sign that says that they gave you their privacy policy!

My fiancée has the day off from work today and I’ve got a doctor’s appointment this morning.  That sounds like a scene ripe for blowing off work.  It sets up as an ideal setting for skipping writing a blog, right?  But then the streak (consecutive Mondays writing a new blog) would end at 56.  So instead, number 57 is going to talk about cancellations.

There are a lot of one-liners out there about “just put the (insert noun here) down and back away.”  A spinoff of that could easily be applied to things you might be trying – repeatedly – in your music pursuits.

And my hope is that this is the push that you need to finally take that step.

I really enjoy going to Christian concerts, but I always refer to a ‘spiritual hangover’ that you wake up with the next day.  You’re so charged up and filled with the messages from the night before that you pine away for something to be able to go out and do in order to spread the Good News.  It takes some coming down from the mountain top to focus with a clear head on what truly can be done, realistically speaking.

Eight days ago I was out at the beach and looking for some lunch.  There is a spot out there that I had been to once before and was going to be a suitable source of “filling the hollow spot,” as my great aunts used to say.  If you do the math, you’ll realize that it was a Sunday afternoon.

Tomorrow night I’m speaking to a college class.  I know I will make a point that I always seem to bring out when I’m in such an environment.  I tell students that they should try to do something along the lines of having a certain skill (or two) that will make them stand out to a potential employer upon graduation.  The example I usually use is learning a second language, although in the entertainment business it could be som

I received an email from a regular reader of these weekly blogs.  She is a singer/songwriter who plays live shows, of course, and was both giving her viewpoint as well as asking mine, on something that has become all too common, unfortunately.