Archive for 2013/06


Persistence

That’s the key today. To stay in the public eye. Constantly. An album is released on a single date, all at once, and then it either gains traction or dies. The people who make them still think we’re living in the eighties, or maybe even the seventies, when their artwork would slowly penetrate public consciousness, […]

How I Made Something Go Viral

Facebook Is For Old People INSPIRATION So my girlfriend points out a picture on Facebook of a rich friend on a plane with her dog and I’m reading the comments…and I see that of the wife of a famous movie producer, whose story was told in “Vanity Fair.” That’s when it hit. If these people […]

The Way John Fogerty Should Have Done It

1. E-Mail Addresses If you’re gonna sell anything, you’ve got to know who your audience is. Not generally, but specifically, i.e. their names, their addresses. In the old days it was important to know the gatekeepers. Now, whatever gatekeepers are left are less powerful than ever before. The Internet allows you to go direct. Why […]

Mailbag

Subject: Re: Rhinofy-Higher Love– from Philippe Saisse Mr Lefsetz: It is both humbling and an honor to be mentioned in your blog which I have been following for years now (my partner in crime Simon Phillilps has turned me on to you years ago). It is REALLY nice to be mentioned in the same breath […]