http://rockstarlifelessons.com A day in the life of a rock starlet Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:05:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://rockstarlifelessons.com/278/win-25-cash-in-my-first-blog-contest/ Today's article is one that I had originally chosen for last month, but since it didn't exactly fit the theme of "The Recession Proof Musician", I added it to this month instead. Another cool thing about Chris Standring is that he's written a couple of great eBooks on website promotion, ... http://rockstarlifelessons.com/277/put-that-guitar-down-guest-blog-by-chris-standring/ In my old days as a trading floor assistant for an investment bank, I used to marvel at the huge Bloomberg terminals that supplied the traders with up-to-the-moment market information. Inspired by those terminals, Christopher Penn has created a Social Media Dashboard with iGoogle that can be used to keep ... http://rockstarlifelessons.com/276/social-media-dashboard-bloomberg-for-social-media-guest-blog-by-christopher-penn/ http://rockstarlifelessons.com/275/sell-your-cd-on-itunes/ "Saturn here usually brings heavy responsibilities with the parents and the family. For instance, you may have to care for your parents in their old age...One of your parents may have been very stern with you when you were young and consequently you have a rather suspicious or even fearful ... http://rockstarlifelessons.com/274/saturn-in-the-4th-house/ http://rockstarlifelessons.com/273/gone-fishin/ To anyone reading this real-time tonight, Happy Thanksgiving! I'm grateful for my health, loved ones, and music. Here's a photo blog of my Thanksgiving in NYC for 2008. My boyfriend and I left home around 8am to go the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. Perhaps we should have left home earlier. http://rockstarlifelessons.com/272/happy-thanksgiving-2008/ I was first introduced to marketer Seth Godin when I downloaded his free Ideavirus eBook years ago, and it changed the way I thought about marketing in general, but especially music marketing. His article below makes a lot of sense, and I'm excited to share it here. When Did the Beatles ... http://rockstarlifelessons.com/271/when-did-the-beatles-guest-blog-by-seth-godin/ While reading a recent TAXI music newsletter, I read an interesting music column by Cliff Goldmacher, a successful Nashville & NYC record producer. While I was familiar with Cliff's production work (thanks to Mary Beth Stone and my other pals in the Nashville Songwriters Association), his column explained how he ... http://rockstarlifelessons.com/270/interview-with-cliff-goldmacher-record-producer/ At the musician website Hypebot, agent Bruce Houghton has been leading many discussions to help define what the musician middle class looks like. As these debates are very encouraging for musicians who seek to make a full-time living, I'm including one of my favorite articles of his on the subject, ... http://rockstarlifelessons.com/269/the-emerging-musical-middle-class-guest-blog-by-bruce-houghton/