Tag Archive for the term: business

This post is about inviting people to art events– openings, performances, readings– any art event. In fact, any event at all. A lot has been written about email marketing, but most of it is super PR person oriented, and a bit frightening. It feels wrong to approach the opening night of a play with a […]

Cheap Thrills was Montreal’s first used record shop and the first Canadian record store to sell via the web. This year is their 37th year in business so it seems like about time to celebrate. Stop by La Sala Rossa on May 3rd for their anniversary party with performances by Clues, Torngat, and Anemones.
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Sometimes my main job with Indyish is to trim the maybes, and sometimes it’s to pursue them. Sometimes it’s hard to know when to do which. Over the past week I’ve met with a potential investor and a television producer, and handed in the last bit of a Phd application that would see me doing […]

The 4 Ps are essentially a simple guideline of what to consider when preparing to market a product or service. They were part of every marketing course I ever took. It always comes back to the 4 Ps. And now you, artist, can also reap the benefits of the 4 Ps! […]

This is the follow-up piece to How to Get an Indie Intern.
Getting someone to want to work with you on your dream scheme is only half the battle. Leading in a way that makes them continue to choose to spend their time with you is, I have found, the harder half, but when you […]

Intern’s are like the holy grail for independent artists. Someone who will work with me on my dream scheme FOR FREE because they actually care to learn about what I DO? Amazing. Companies with good reputations and payrolls don’t have the same feeling about interns, I don’t think. From certain perspectives interns are largely a […]

Perhaps you’ve heard the angry murmuring, well now there’s litigiousness to make it official - In a dense ad section for Camel cigarettes in Rolling Stone, Xiu Xiu, A Silver Mount Zion, Lavender Diamond, Fucked Up and dozens more beloved independent music makers, many local, found themselves mapped, tagged and ‘name checked’ without so much […]

You can listen to all the contradictory advice in the world and you still won’t “make it”. What to do? Non-advice on finding a happy medium in your art and your mind with Mess Montreal.

In.Sight – Setting Your Own Deadlines

Mess. Montreal is running late with its IndieBiz submission this week. Almost everyone […]

A few days back my good friend Risa and I were having a conversation about receiving assistance from the business community for our projects. Yep, we were talking about “corporate sponsorship” - something usually frowned upon in the DIY and indie communities (Or is it? - I’m not sure… maybe I frowned upon it at […]

We met these interesting people at the Salon de Musique Independent a little while ago who had recently started up a business advising people - mostly musicians - on how to get at the grant money. Ahh the grant money - love it or hate it, it hangs like a beacon of promise in the […]