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	<description>contemplations &#38; revelations on thriving in the music biz</description>
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		<title>The 9-Step DIY Fan-Funding Checklist</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2012/01/the-9-step-diy-fan-funding-checklist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from the e-course “In The Key Of Success: The Five Week Jump-Start Strategy”. You can get the rest of the course here to jump start your career today!

The next opportunity I want to suggest to you is asking your fans to pay for your new album. From June 2010 to March 2011, I raised over $25,000 in fan donations to fund the production of my record ONE UP. It’s possible, people. But no one will give you a dime if your campaign is “I really really want to make a record- please give me money!”. What is the opportunity for the participating fans?]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways to Make the Most of the Holidays</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2011/11/5-ways-to-make-the-most-of-the-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2011/11/5-ways-to-make-the-most-of-the-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[full time musician]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[live performance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the corporate world and almost everyone else are out of the office for the holidays, I often struggle with this forced &#8220;downtime&#8221;; as a full-time musician, I&#8217;m never not working. I&#8217;m either plugging my next show, looking for the next film placement, writing a song, scheduling a band rehearsal, calling booking companies, or, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Steps to Getting Un-Stuck</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2011/10/getting-un-stuck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On a Personal Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[procrastinate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taking action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unstsuck]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing, for me, is like running. They are both good for me (and for those around me), yet they both take a marching band-sized cheering squad to get me started. The amount of debating, procrastinating, dodging, and fidgeting I do when I know it&#8217;s time to open a blank Pages document or put on my running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baby Committment</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2011/07/baby/</link>
		<comments>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2011/07/baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On a Personal Note]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written. You&#8217;ve heard this before, right? From other artists whose mailing lists you are on. Maybe you&#8217;ve heard it from a friend over email. Or perhaps you&#8217;ve written it yourself. The cause of such a hiatus, I have observed, is usually due to the creation of something that takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Exposure&#8221; Exposed: 6 Ways to Create It Yourself</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/09/exposure-exposed-6-ways-to-create-it-yourself/</link>
		<comments>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/09/exposure-exposed-6-ways-to-create-it-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/?p=243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[exposure &#124;ikˈspō zh ər&#124; noun • an act or instance of being uncovered The unseen artist yearns to be seen. The unheard musician needs to be heard, and the under budget company wants to under pay everyone. While this may be more of my more cynical points of view, I&#8217;d like to start off by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Task of Asking</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/09/the-task-of-asking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[composer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hampster on wheel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[making requests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[procrastination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[singer songwriter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The logistics of staying small are quite voluminous. Even being a perfectionist is a form of procrastination. The comfort of “being a starving artist” is overwhelmingly powerful. As a sense of urgency for change crept in, I got clear that I had to create a context of fearlessness, creativity and freedom for myself and let this new context propel my next actions.]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Flyers</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/08/freedom-flyers/</link>
		<comments>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/08/freedom-flyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[procrastination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seth Godin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m 30,000 feet above sea level with intention of landing at 6500 feet above sea level and remaining there for a week. I didn’t have to take time off work. I didn’t have to email my boss. I didn’t have to move things around. I just booked a flight.]]></description>
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		<title>Extraordinary Fences: Hosting the Circle</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/08/extraordinary-fences/</link>
		<comments>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/08/extraordinary-fences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On a Personal Note]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[artist community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music industry blog]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[as written for Song Circle Music When I got the email from Tina Shafer (New York Songwriter’s Circle founder) asking me to guest host the Circle at New York’s famous Bitter End, I was beyond honored. This is the thing… I’ve played the Bitter End a dozen times, and performed in both the New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homemade Acoustic Treatment</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/07/homemade-acoustic-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/07/homemade-acoustic-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Gear/Processes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acoustic treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[do-it-yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home studio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music recording]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soundproofing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vocal booth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/?p=206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When my roommate moved out of his portion of our 3-bedroom Harlem apartment, I packed up my stuff and moved too&#8230;. into the other two rooms while giving my old room to a new roommate. One of my new rooms is slowly turning into a studio. A real space where I can write, record and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LOST and found</title>
		<link>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/05/lost-and-found/</link>
		<comments>http://cbemusic.com/livingongigging/2010/05/lost-and-found/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 04:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On a Personal Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fan funded]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very hard to get people to like you. Welp, I should speak for myself. Not being the cool kid in high school taught me that early on. Fact: Being president of the drama club and starting a school recycling program does not win you an invitation to the hockey team parties. To get people [...]]]></description>
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