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Musicians compete for attention

August 4th, 2012 | Author: admin
Music Xray provides a way for you to consistently get the attention of professionals and music fans. What happens after you get their attention depends on your pitch, your music. Music Xray doesn’t care if your music is good or bad. The reaction you get from professionals and fans will provide you with an undeniable verdict.

Before you will pay someone any of your money you must first pay some of your attention. With so many things going on in your increasingly busy life, you have to make some choices. Who gets your attention?

I was walking along a busy sidewalk the other day when a young woman purposefully approached me, smile on her face and clipboard in hand. “Do you have a few seconds, sir?”

This happens to me a lot. It probably happens to you too if you frequent busy sidewalks in big cities. “No”, I replied. I didn’t miss a beat.  I didn’t even look back. I have no idea what petition she wanted me to sign. I assume she wanted a donation to one cause or another. The experience was like being spammed by a real live human, except in this analogy I didn’t even read the subject line.

I think most people who know me would say I’m a nice guy. I’m considerate and being from the Midwest, I avoid hurting people’s feelings. But as I’ve gotten busier and the world has gotten faster, there are just way too many things pulling at me for my attention. If I don’t make choices (even eliminating time for some niceties) distractions will overwhelm me.

Maybe this woman had a world-class proposition for me. Maybe whatever she wanted to say would have changed my life. I highly doubt it or I would have stopped. But maybe there’s a one-in-a-million chance.

I’ll never know. She failed to get my attention.

As a musician, your livelihood depends upon you getting the attention of industry professionals and potential fans. How you do that is up to you. But remember, you’re competing.

Music Xray provides a way for you to consistently get the attention of professionals and music fans. What happens after you get their attention depends on your pitch, your music. Music Xray doesn’t care if your music is good or bad. The reaction you get from professionals and fans will provide you with an undeniable verdict.

 

This is how we get you the attention of professionals.

 

This is how we get you the attention of music fans.

 


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  • Yes, yes. I'm supposed to pay.

  • Iale Renan

    So, tell me the veredict you have to one of my songs: By My Self.

    Probably this will open more my eyes about everything that is missing to "caught attention"!!!

  • Firesong

    So, Mike,  I guess the purposeful young woman only had a bit of trivia like asking you to help save the very last of the two percent remaining ancient, pristine redwood forests, without which we humans don't have air or carbon retention...or perhaps she just had the pettiness to ask you to enact your brain and heart and right to let the bought and paid for politicians that we need to protect ourselves from brain tumors, immune dysfunction, sleep disorders of EMF overkill from cell phone towers, protect our water or to save the very last of the trees and animal inhabitants of the Arctic by not drilling for oil and poisoning the last clean water or air.  Just trivia and worth the time of a big music executive like you, right?

    Perhaps you would like to engage your heart and mind a bit more and live more fully.  Try looking into the eyes of the people you meet and finding some warmth and vitality there.  You will feel and perceive more in yourself this way.  All of life interacts with each one of us.  Your carefulness provides life for all our children, as well as yourself.

  • Hi Firesong. I hear what you're saying and I agree that there are many worthy causes out there that deserve my attention.  I did not mean to imply that the woman did not deserve my attention. She just needs a better / new way of getting it.

    Maybe she wanted to sell me something I have absolutely no interest in, which has been my experience in stopping for things like that in the past, which is why I don't stop for people doing that anymore. It's like the spam you get in your inbox. I bet you stop opening ones that say things like "Huge opportunity. Free offer" in the subject line because you've opened them enough times in the past and realized they are misleading and now they just don't get your attention anymore. If the woman has something to tell me that I need to know about it, she's going to have to find another way to get my attention... which is the point of my post.

  • Raine

    We get their attention by paying them money to listen to our music.

  • John C hailstone

    Fair statement! keep up the good work guys!! 

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