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Question: I’ll be perfectly honest, I’m not the greatest looking person on earth. I’m actaully extremely overweight and un attractive. Do you think there is hope for me given my looks?

Answer: Love your honesty and bluntness, so I’ll be just as blunt back….

100% there is, even for big fat ugly people!!!

You think Meat Loaf or Ric Ocasek from The Cars were sold on sex appeal?

Ok,...

Question – Should I do everything to differentiate My Music or should I Work on my Talent and Look?

The key to working in any environment is to be able to multi-task and work on multiple levels at the same time.

Obviously there needs to be sound rationale behind the logic of what you’re doing but provided that you’ve got a game plan and a strategy for moving forward, it seems like any band...

Something dawned on me yesterday as I was talking to a friend on how to help get his band more exposure online.

He was clearly smart enough to realize that no record company is going to sign him for a variety of reasons and that no booking agent is going to represent him anytime soon – until he can prove that he’s worth a good couple of thousand dollars a show.

He then looked at me and had a massive realization -

“The...

It has been a few weeks since I’ve posted anything and today was the big breakthrough day.

Today, I had a moment of what I like to call, “A moment of transcendence” A moment when I finally broke down that big wall of doubt, fear and being blocked up and finally pushed through to the other side.

Yes, this is still a music industry blog so please don’t think it’s a self help site and that I’m about...