Here's an outline of my best advice for musicians who want more students . . . 1. Make it easy for your ideal students to find you If someone is looking for a teacher and they've heard about you, they're going to look you up online. Make sure they find more than your...
What if instead of letting fear and uncertainty overpower us, what if we leaned into accepting where we are now: Musicians — Welcome to the Ordeal. I know, it sounds like a video game. I wish it were. But it's our reality: we're in the Ordeal, the "all is lost"...
It's Martin Luther King Monday. And for most of us, life goes on, and work keeps going, with a vague acknowledgment that it's one of those holidays where some things are closed and others aren't. But do yourself a favor and take just a moment right now, a beat to...
To celebrate the end of the old year and welcome in the new, I'm "re-purposing" a favorite tool I blogged about a few years back. It's adapted from Dallas Travers' terrific "Year in Review" exercise. Here is How to Engineer Your Better 2019 arranged in twelve simple...
Let's start the new year by putting our best foot forward. I've got 8 questions to help you take stock and gear up to make this a fantastic new year. Take a moment to reflect: 1. What's the feeling you want to bring to your daily work in 2018? Yes, YOU get to...
There may be many contributing factors, but what's the most important, the essential one? In terms of your career, what's the real issue holding you back? Let's consider mindset for musicians. How's your general state of mind in relation to your career? Rate your...
MONDAY BYTES — December 26, 2016 To celebrate the end of the old year and welcome in the new, here's a kit for Engineering Your Better 2017 arranged in twelve steps to get you there. Last week I promised the first 7 Steps to Your Better New Year but only gave you 6—my...
MONDAY BYTES — December 19, 2016 What could help guarantee that you make 2017 better for yourself? What would boost your artistic productivity, your confidence, and your income? How about taking 7 steps to your better new year? You may feel overwhelmed already with...
(I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth) Thanks to a great suggestion from loyal Bytes subscriber, soprano Sarah Bellott (thanks, Sarah!), this post is on Bio structure: the key components of a great bio. If you have a bio that you'd like to spruce up, or...
MONDAY BYTES — April 13, 2015 Musicians face rejection all the time: from auditions that don't go as we'd hoped, to a not-so-hot review or job interview, or we may just not be getting the freelance referrals that our colleagues are. Our egos end up bruised and we...
