by Cari Cole
Now in its 24th year, the SXSW® Music and Media Conference has grown into the must-attend networking event for the 21st century music industry. Showcasing nearly 2,000 musical acts from around the globe at over 80 stages in downtown Austin, TX.
(Zach Rogue, SXSW Showcasee)
Videos are just rolling in now of the South By Southwest Conference in Austin and I wanted to share with you some wisdom from Derek Sivers (music mogul .. ex-founder of CD Baby) and a cool page posted on his site that is a must see (below).
Here’s notes and tips from his keynote there:
“The biggest secret of all promotion is one of the hardest to learn.
IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU – IT’S ABOUT THEM.
Everybody you meet, ask them questions – don’t blather on about you. In the end people do business with people they like. Connect on a personal level – don’t talk shop”.
And he put together a really cool page of vid’s you gotta see.. http://sivers.org/sxsw
It took hours for him to do and he just did it for the love so some of the mouths don’t match the words.. no matter — great stuff for emerging artists.. thanks Derek!