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Well, is a band a business? The answer is, “If you allow it to be.” Our most recent DMV Music Alliance focus group meeting conversations kind of fed into one another. In this week’s community partners meeting, Shardé Hoff of Share Your Soul pointed out the need for business development education for new and ongoing businesses serving […]
Elevating Our Music Scene Through Our Intentions In the 1994 self-help book First Things First written by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, the authors describe their hope for the way individuals find balance in their personal lives by clarifying their roles: “Instead of a task orientation that gets in the way […]
Don’t Get Scammed Over the course of a few meetings with artists, managers, and a few different kinds of organizations, it becomes clear that the majority of scams target the independent musician. In 2021, Tunecore published Music Industry Scams: Everything You Need To Know penned by author, manager, and consultant Mark Tavern which covers the topic from […]
The DMV Has Become a Region of Caregivers Earlier this month, Yahoo Finance writer Tanya Kuashai shared an article called The U.S. ‘has become a nation of caregivers,’ expert says. The article rightly points out, “The cost of caring for children, growing old, being ill, or otherwise needing care has never been higher.” For many in […]