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Music Business Outside Looking In
 by JAWAR 
For someone from the outside looking in or someone new to the musicbusiness, the music industry may seem like all fun and games, richesand fame this of course is far from the truth. The reality is no matterhow hard your try you will not be able to please everyone all the time.By attempting to do so you run a serious risk of becoming confusedand losing your way, rendering you ineffective and inefficient toyourself, family or community let alone the industry.Below you'll read two messages on the music business. The firstmessage was sent to me via my myspace page. To ensure you are notable to identify the person or their company I changed some of theinformation in their correspondence to me. You'll also find the text thatI changed in bold for clarity. Last I corrected the spelling of my nameas originally posted in their message from jawar to JaWar. Other thanthat their message is in tact as they sent it to me.DeAngelo Muhammad, CEO, Da Real Hometeam has made over$10,000 using theAtlanta Music Industry Connection Book. It should benoted that the message below didn't come from him, but fromsomeone else who has made at least that amount of money from theAtlanta Music Industry Connection Book. There is much that may be learned from this post. Read theinformation carefully, share it with your business partners and learnfrom my experience, so you may build a solid music business.-------------
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Hello JaWar,
(John-Not Real Name)
here,just wanted to let youknow,it amazes me that you have never place
(my company name-intentionally left out)
ent events on any of your things,we are a verysuccessful companythat is constantly growing,i never ask anything of you ,only given,i gave you a deposit of 50 dollars in good faith,forfuture business,but we never did anything,with that,(not your fault )ipurchase quite a bit of books from you and wrote the check for you,notthat i thought i needed the books but because i wanted to help andsupport you around world(by the way our first event this year in
(acity in the south-city name left out on purpose)
, we sold everylast one)now leaving
(another city- original name left out onpurpose)
audition and
(another city- original name left out onpurpose)
, wanted to get more books,but decided not to,why?glad youask,i see and talk to people you promote and support and they havetold me they give you nothing,but you guys have a goodrelationship,so you promote them,i know i dont get to your events,butwe try and support you finanially,but we get no love,i am not asking forfavors but you get our emails,you would think you have some love forus some times,dont get it twisted,we made money off the book,but atthe same time we are promoting JaWar,we are a self madecompany,that have now moved to
(an upscale part of Atlanta- thesection was changed on purpose)
, with some major players,so weare doing great,we have our conference at the
(hotel name changedon purpose)
(sure you know about that,(this summer-month and datechanged on purpose) almost sold out at ($$$-exact amount changedon purpose) per person(only invited
(a limited number- exactnumber left out on purpose)
people)are we not getto enough orstreet enough or what,why are we not part of your click,you are a partours,because we sold your book,people relate us to JaWar,whats wrongwith this picture,i very rarely check this myspace,my staff do so,so if you would like to respond this please do so at my email
(JaWar
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intentially removed the email address)-------------MY MUSIC BUSINESS RESPONSE
Greetings (John-not real name), Thank you for the correspondence. It is great to know you and yourcompany continue to move forward. May you continue to enjoy thefruits of your labor. Your company was included in theAtlanta Music Industry ConnectionBookat no charge. Even after telling me you made $10,000 from justone client because of my book it took you over a year before youdecided to do business with me. While we had no formal arrangementit would have been great if you were to give a financial token of appreciation by sending my company a referral fee, a standardbusiness practice. This helps keep theAtlanta Music IndustryConnectedin a way that we can all benefit financially and ensures ourlong-term growth. At bare minimum I'd ask you to give my companythe opportunity to further promote your business, yet you declined toentertain the discussion.On several occasions I've asked you to participate in the Music Therapy101Music Business Workshopsat the public library. It was yet anotherway to promote your business as well to give back to others who findthemselves not able to pay some of the fees normally associated witha largermusic conference. However, to date you have never attendednor participated in any of the Music Therapy 101 Workshops, Seminarsnor promoted them through your network of music businessprofessionals or aspiring artists, producers and managers, etc.
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