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How to Talk About Yourself Without ALWAYS Talking About Yourself - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 7 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 ɢᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ᴇxᴄɪᴛᴇᴅ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴠɪsɪᴏɴ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜ ɪɴ ɪᴛ. “The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.” -Lois Wyse Artists and Entrepreneurs are out to change things whether artists know it or not artists sell IDEAS. The IDEA may look like...

Build Your Moat - Protect, Fortify and Expand your Career How to Protect, Fortify and Expand your career by learning to spot your vulnerabilities, gaps and blindspots. On this episode of Hacking Music's weekly live podcast, John and Dylan discuss "Building Your Moat" as a smart artist and entrepreneur. Developing protective barriers around your career as a musician will be essential to longevity....

Artists Sell Experiences. Full Stop - How To Sell Live Without Selling Out with Chris Stone  We talk about how artists approach sales, commonly get it exactly wrong by avoiding this important pine of a healthy, profitable careers and how artists can take advantage of Amazon's new influencer dashboard.    Welcome to Hacking Music, the goal of this podcast is to break off a piece of t...

Hey everybody, welcome to a conversation I call Agile Artists. This is all about managing projects that matter. We are joined today by my guest, Tommy Norman. This is EP 5 in How To Build A Platform Under Your Music: The 10 Habits That Are More Powerful Than Talent. Whether we realize it or not, EVERYBODY IS A PROJECT MANAGER and to a large extent EVERYTHING IS A PROJECT. So let's make sure we get...

Join us for a conversation on "Interesting vs Important" A Decision Making Tool To Do More Of The Right Things, More Of The Time.  This is EP 4 in How To Build A Platform Under Your Music: The 10 Habits That Are More Powerful Than Talent. By The End Of This Video Your going to Learn:  1. What I Vs I Is And How I Vs I Works?  2. 2 Paths: How One Tricks You And The Other Actually Stre...

Lexi Jackson and John Pisciotta talk about Managing Music for Media and How the Sync School works. Special thanks to The Sync Lodge for sponsoring 2 tickets to The Sync School [ a $400 value] we will be giving away. Sign up here to be entered. https://www.hacking-music.com/Sync_School About: The Sync School: A Music Supervisors Toolkit assembles best in class training and tools learned after 1000s...

4 Song Archetypes - Keeping Good songs OFF Great Records - How 2 Build a Platform Under Your Content EP: 2 ►► Grab My FREE "Laying The Foundation" - Removing Limiting Beliefs, Book 1 in The Hacking Music Series (E-book Edition). [ Regular price $13.97 ] https://www.hacking-music.com/free%20foundation The 4 Song Archetypes is taken from the super song training module. In this video we talk about fo...

Mindhive Guest Series - Hacking Music with Sherry Parfait ►► Grab My FREE "Laying The Foundation" - Removing Limiting Beliefs, Book 1 in The Hacking Music Series (E-book Edition). [ Regular price $13.97 ] https://www.hacking-music.com/free%20foundation “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree” Start laying a foundation for your career that you can build on for the next 5, 10, 20 years. What are you...

►► Grab My FREE "How to Build a Platform Under Your Music" - https://www.hacking-music.com/platform  ARTISTS SELL EXPERIENCES. Full Stop. In the legacy music business artists primarily “sold” their music. In the new music marketplace the “music”, still INCREDIBLY important, now feeds the many “experiences” the artist CREATES, STAGES and SELLS.  There are dozens of “experiences” artists a...

Hi Everybody, I want to invite you to our new limited series:  "How to Build a Platform Under your Music"!   In this series, together we will, get clarity on the Non-Musical essentials that Strengthen, Support and Sell the experiences great artists create.   We see it all the time, you can either try to GET LUCKY or you can GET BETTER and compete at a higher level.  These train...

Woo The Muse - Finding More (And Better) Song Ideas, Brent Baxter Join Brent Baxter, at Hacking Music X. Brent Baxter is an award-winning lyricist with songs recorded by Alan Jackson (the top 5 Country hit "Monday Morning Church"), Randy Travis, Lady A, Joe Nichols, Ray Stevens, Steve Cropper, Andy Griggs, Buddy Jewell, Lonestar, Gord Bamford (the #1 hit and CCMA Single Of The Year "When Your Lips...

We are talking though a slice from a recent group training from Hacking Music - Habits of Headliners. Join AJ Jansen and John Pisciotta break off a piece of Hacking Music and together understand a bit more of what the artist of the future looks like and how they operate. If this is you, check out more about HMX. A focused 7-Day sprint focused on replacing the great artists we have lost with the ne...

“The Murder Wall Hack” - Design thinking in the Music industry. Finbar O'Hanlon is our guest on the Hacking Music, Habits of Headliners podcast.   Finbar O'Hanlon is a technologist, pro guitarist, film composer, and strategic advisor to companies in music and media. He joins us on this podcast to talk about what he calls “The Murder Wall Hack”. The Murder Wall Hack is his tool for findin...

The Hacking Music Slice: “The Bowling Hack” Mapping Your Next 6 moves Here we talk about the tool Film Director, Francis Ford Coppola invented that helps todays music artists build a better, smarter and faster career?  ABOUT: Hacking Music. The Habits of Headliners is a Collection of Strategic Frameworks, Force Multipliers & Micro Habits essential for thriving in the new music marketplace...

Hacking Music. A Collection of Strategic Frameworks, Force Multipliers & Micro Habits essential for thriving in the new music marketplace. What makes Hacking Music different is a relentless focus on actionable details. Everything in this book has been vetted, explored, and applied to my own life in some fashion. I’ve used dozens of the tactics and strategies in daily creative decisions, high-s...

Episode 06 - The Cupcake Hack, Hacking Music with John  Pisciotta  About Hacking Music: Welcome to the Hacking Music podcast, here you will learn the Strategic Frameworks, Force Multipliers & Micro Habits essential for thriving in the new music marketplace. Our mission is to help you to massively grow your artist career in new ways that support, strengthen and sell your content. Addi...

Becoming Newsworthy - Modern Messaging, PR & Story w/Eric Dahl - Hacking Music Ep: 05 with John Pisciotta. Join us for a conversation on how Eric is Maximizing Output, Organizing Processes, Thinking Strategically and Executing Daily. About Hacking Music with John Pisciotta: Welcome to the Hacking Music podcast, here you will learn the Strategic Frameworks, Force Multipliers & Micro Habits...

The 7 Mental Shifts "Dominating" Artists Make, (“Develop, Deploy And Dominate” Part 2) Hacking Music Episode # 4   1. Doing  beats Learning - "Dominating" Artists know the ability to “outlearn” the competition is essential   2. Clarity beats Creativity "Dominating" Artists know that “ground game” matters  3. Creating Your Own Luck best Trying to Get Lucky - "Dominating" Artists...