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As I surf the feed on Instagram every day, watching what past guests from my weekly “Now Hear This Entertainment” podcast are up to, it’s encouraging seeing some of them posting about being back out playing real shows, meaning, in-person, not sitting at home and broadcasting via livestream.

I, myself, am almost getting sick and tired of hearing my own voice preaching to people about the value of connections.  You can never have too many contacts, I always say.  There are just so, so many benefits to networking.

Seven weeks ago, vocalist, actor, songwriter, and producer Terry Barber wrote a guest blog (published here) that talked mainly about how his official music page on Facebook had been hacked.  While you should go read the whole post that he contributed, the bottom line is that now we’re sitting here at the end of September and he still hasn’t gotten it back.

I have often adapted the expression “You can’t be all things to all people” to instead imply that you can’t be on every single platform – industry-specific or social media.  But you do, however, need to be on some, meaning, enough.

Consider the source.  We’ve all heard that expression, but do we execute that when evaluating opportunities?  I’m really starting to wonder.

Musicians, podcasters, creators, it’s time for a little warning.

It’s Labor Day, when lots of people get the day off from work to, well, have a day off as a reprieve from all that they do every day at their job.  While the 2020 edition will probably look different thanks to the still-prevailing Coronavirus, this typically is a day when people will have a cookout and/or do some kind of family picnic. 

From time to time you see guest blogs posted on this site, generally identifiable as such by someone’s byline other than my own, and usually a brief (italicized) intro paragraph letting you know who the writer is.

It’s time for an empty-out-my-notebook blog entry.

In no particular order…

Whatever it is that you create, don’t promote to fellow creators.  They are not your audience.  Go to the people who do consume whatever you put out, whether that’s music or podcasts or books or something else.  Here’s what I mean.

They tell stories about Elvis Presley in his heyday being criticized – labeled as scandalous – because of the way he would gyrate his hips on television.  Viewers were appalled at this sort of demonstration.  In those times this was more than frowned upon.

Vocalist, actor, songwriter, and producer Terry Barber was the guest on Episode 333 of the weekly “Now Hear This Entertainment” podcast.  In the time since that interview was released, following him on social media has been a study in watching a lot of what he built up come falling down, as he details in this guest blog.

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