Greetings Everyone!
Hi guys, thanks so much for having me be part of your Music Business
Panel last night at Cal State Fullerton, for the warm reception and for
all your many kind comments and emails afterward. That was great fun, I
enjoyed meeting many of you, including fellow panelists – it energizes me!
As promised, I include here links to my Recommended Reading List and
Strategies for Success. This goes into a bit more detail about things I
believe are essential to succeed in life and business, and I hope you
may find these useful. For those of you who may be interested in music
placement, I also include my article on How To Approach Music
Supervisors (those are the guys who typically “buy” or license music for
film and TV – good people to know!).
Here are links:
1. Article: How To Approach Music Supervisors:
http://tinyurl.com/bkgwjz 2. Article: Strategies for Success:
http://tinyurl.com/dh7frv 3. Tess Taylor’s Recommended Reading List:
http://tinyurl.com/qprzxoI also include details for our music biz brunch TOMORROW - Saturday,
September 26 – you are welcome to attend as my guest (complimentary
admission, a $25 value) if you RSVP immediately so we have time to buy
enough food! Just scroll down for details.
Taylor Somera and the ETC ClubLucky you to have Taylor and a club like ETC to organize events like
these, she’s got class and brains. When you’re a student, it’s never too
soon to start acting like a professional and making contact with folks
in the working world. And when you have access to people like Taylor who
is willing to organize these events to improve the quality of your lives
and academic experience, and give you greater access, you have received
a great gift. Be grateful, she should be appreciated.
Free Internship ListingAs I mentioned last night, we have a healthy selection of music biz
internships at
www.narip.com <
http://www.narip.com/> (click on JOBS,
then INTERNSHIPS to have a look). If you have an interest in an
internship listed there, we’d be delighted to give you one free listing
– just email Amy Dunn (
amy@narip.com <
mailto:amy@narip.com>) and let her
know you attended my lecture last night. And if you are interested in
student membership, which allows you continuous access to all listings,
Amy can help you with that, too.
Sep 26: NARIP Music Biz BruncI would love to have you attend our next brunch, this Saturday, Sep 26
at the home of Lola and Mikael Sandgren AKA Milo. You’ll find address
and other details here:
www.narip.com <
http://www.narip.com/> (see
Upcoming Events). I am happy to extend complimentary admission to those
who RSVP right away – feel free to bring friends, just let us know how
many. Walk-ups (i.e., those who don’t RSVP) pay full price. If you wish
to attend, just email Amy Dunn at
amy@narip.com <
mailto:amy@narip.com>
with “Music Biz Brunch” in the subject line now, let her know you’re a
Cal State Fullerton student and that I invited you. If you wish to bring
friends, let her know their names and email addresses too please.
Besides that, I would be delighted to see you at future events of ours
in Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Houston, Philadelphia or
London… soon in Chicago and Philadelphia, too! And please let your
friends and colleagues in those cities know about what we’re up to. Full
details for all events are at
www.narip.com.
A Few ThoughtsAfter having crammed so much into the short time available last week, I
wanted to seize this opportunity to share a bit more.
I hope I gave you some useful information on ways to polish your game a
bit, approach people, make a good impression and really just get the
most out of your excellent lives and careers. We are so fortunate to
have the option to pursue professionally whatever our hearts desire. Not
only that, we have a great chance to succeed at whatever we choose to do
if we plan carefully, work hard, focus and persist. In so many parts of
the world, merely having running water and flush-toilets is a luxury,
and there you are, pursuing your dreams and writing songs with NOTHING
stopping you. It’s a great gift, and something to be thankful for. Just
imagine if you lived in Afghanistan today, do you think you’d have the
remotest chance of pursuing a career in the music business? I doubt it.
Having work you enjoy shouldn’t be such a luxury (especially if one is
to believe the alarming statistic that over 80% of Americans hate their
jobs) but it is.
Not only that, but in many parts of the world, people would fight you to
the death for the scraps of food you toss or the opportunities you
squander. In my view, your responsibility is to make the most of the
gifts you've been given, live your life to the max, to be happy and be
grateful for what you have. As you grow in confidence and success, look
around for other people to help. In fact, doing this along the way will
actually CAUSE you to BECOME more confident and successful. And you'll
never have to look far for folks who need a hand or a kind word. It
becomes a virtuous circle, powerful and ongoing, and more opportunity
will be delivered to you than you can imagine, much less handle. Think
inclusively, not exclusively, because there is more than enough for all
of us here. Someone said that you can have anything you want in life if
you help enough other people get what they want. It’s true.
The Key To FulfillmentThe key to fulfillment in life and to career advancement is an ongoing
commitment to education and self-improvement so you can become the best
possible version of yourself. Absorb as much as you can by studying the
masters in art and business, surrounding yourself with supportive and
positive people, attending events, making new friends and gaining access
to increase the reservoir of knowledge and creativity upon which you can
draw. My goal is to facilitate that for you.
Best of luck with your excellent careers and lives, and please keep in
touch. Hope to see some of you tomorrow. And Evile – thanks for helping
me carry stuff to my car after the panel - be sure to call Ron Leeper
TODAY - don't be shy! When you are shy - any of you - you're just
voluntarily sitting in the backseat of life and letting other folks
drive. Not me!
Good luck.
Cheers,
Tess Taylor
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Tess Taylor, President
National Association of Record Industry Professionals
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Small List Of Things You Can To Today
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- Introduce yourself to someone new
- Support another artist – go to his gig, pay for a ticket, buy a CD!
- Call three people to say hello
- Conduct a Gratitude Visit (see Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman)
– very powerful
- Dedicate your work
- Read a good book
- Power of now. Enjoy this moment, use it!
- Write down your goals. Every day, do 3 things toward those goals.
- List your fears. Are they that bad? Isn't a lot of it just in your
head? It’s likely that the thing you fear most is the thing you most
need to tackle.
- Take a risk, be daring. Those who don’t take risks work for those who do.
- Travel. To travel is to live!
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The National Association of Record Industry Professionals promotes
career advancement, education and good will among record executives.
NARIP is your record industry knowledge network.
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