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Coincidence of Wants

To get to know Andy and Bill, two of the main character’s in this post’s story, you should check out the previous post.
Or I can sum up up what you need to know from the previous post in a single sentence:
Andy said, “Hey Bill, you give me this, and I will give you that as payment [...]

Costs of Doing Business

In this earlier post, I retold the story of an exchange that took place in my childhood literature: exchanging smells for sounds. This is part of a series of posts that build up to some very common questions I continue to receive from people looking for success in the music industry.
Above you’ll see a very [...]

Butter

(This post is the first part of a series of posts regarding the business exchange of goods and services inside and outside of the music industry.)
One of the books I read as a child was a number of Aesop’s Fables, only instead of Aesop and a bunch of personified animals, it was a wise old [...]

Are you in the Red?

From The One Minute Manager to Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, it is written that there is only one rule in business. This one:
Wherever you look, in any industry, you’ll find that the first rule of business is to earn more than you spend.
I’ve seen many companies try to ignore this rule. In the [...]