http://seamusanthony.com Seamus Anthony is an Australian singer songwriter, a musician from Melbourne Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:23:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's the 12th episode of Seamus.TV. This post is about my low-complexity approach to music business planning. http://seamusanthony.com/the-2-page-music-business-plan/ Just a little something I bunged together while I was watching TV last night; an amazingly high-budget filmclip/slideshow for my song "An Interesting Life" which I wrote in 2009 and recorded in July 2010. (See below video for notes.) The scene at the start on the train and all of the ... http://seamusanthony.com/video-an-interesting-life/ Episode 11 of Seamus.TV is about making music work for you by drilling deep down into that one area of expertise to succeed. Check it out! http://seamusanthony.com/just-be-a-musician/ Yes that's right - the new band is called Zuiiza - an odd name for a bunch of odd fellows. Zuiiza is a totally obscure Japanese Zen word I found which means to be off duty (literally: to sit as one pleases) except we decided to pronounce it differently ... http://seamusanthony.com/new-band-zuiiza/ Hey just posted a rant on music marketing over at Seamus.TV - click the link below to check it out: Seamus Music Marketing http://seamusanthony.com/music-marketing-rant/ I've just posted over at Seamus.TV - it's a post called Seamus - Musician and it's some thoughts on diluting your personal brand by using hyphenated jack-of-all-trades descriptions for what you do. It has been bugging me lately, and so I am going to change all of my branding to ... http://seamusanthony.com/seamus-musician/ Creatures from the Bog by Seamus Anthony http://seamusanthony.com/glass-and-blood-and-leaves/ I have been on holiday and I am now back and faced with a mountain of work so might not have time for posting much for a week or so but here's two links worth reading: http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2010/06/promote-the-old-fashioned-way/ http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2010/05/5-tips-to-make-your-youtube-videos-work-for-you/ I especially like the punchcard idea in the first link. http://seamusanthony.com/loyalty-punchcards-for-bands/ This sounds like the kind of thing that only a crazy obsessive would write about - so I guess that should be part of the following picture, but anyway: I was reading some list about the supposedly 100 most creative business people in the world, and about Gary Vaynerchuck and his ... http://seamusanthony.com/there-is-hope/ OK you might need to go watch Seamus.TV episode 5 to understand what that means. http://seamusanthony.com/hang-the-gatekeepers-and-then-what/