Summit Lessons | April 1, 2008
Each year I have been to the CIA Summit I have taken something away. Normally a single deep thought that changed the eventual outcome of how I do business, reminders of past lessons learned, and other new ways to view situations. This year was no different, and now the things that impacted me the most will be outlined here. [Read more]
plans go boom | March 31, 2008
Part of the plan for today was to write up notes from the CIA Summit and email people we meet there.
Instead we are sitting here working on some upgrades to the great little piece of software that runs this and millions of sites across the world.
If something looks wacky here today, it is due to the upgrade process.
A few pages, like the insider pages, are not working properly now. We should have this fixed in a day or two.
Quick update from the CIA Summit | March 28, 2008
Sitting here at the Summit, Eric Copeland is now speaking.
Some sad news, and has altered our plans. Greg’s Mother is very sick and his brother called him this morning and said basically “You need to come here today.”
Artist Insider Q&A – Conference & Convention Summit | March 28, 2008
Fifth show of Artist Insider Q&A, hosted by Greg and Jonathan.
The focus is conferences, conventions, summits, and expos, whatever you want to call them, times and places where you can meet people with a specific interest and gain both a larger network and greater knowledge if you want to.
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Questions, Topics & Notes:
- “What’s the best way to introduce yourself and build connections? specifically, how not to come across as creepy :)” ~ Matt in Tennessee
- Should I go to a conference?
- As a freelancer how much of my conference-going expenses are tax deductible? ~ Shaun in California
- “What do you do when you start falling asleep?
- “no, even better when the guy is snoring next to you 😛
- “but actually, dealing with monotone voices is hard”
- ~Tricia in California
- What are the differences between a conference and a convention? Summit? Expo?
- Are there art conferences?
- Should you hand business cards out like candy?
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[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-13972/TS-95361.mp3]Summit Time | March 28, 2008
We are at the CIA Summit or other Music Conferences in Music City, USA the next couple days. We expect to see lots of our past insiders, including, but not limited to:
The plan is to record both audio and in still images as much as we can. We might even manage to do some updates while we are here. Since we knew this was coming up we focused on How to be successful at a Conference in the most recent Artist Insider Q&A.