Archive for November, 2006
Make $500,000.00 or More a Year in the Music Industry Booking Shows
In the music industry, competition isn’t just for gigs but for agents as well. “Agents basically work for free until they get commissioned on a show,” says Bud Anderson, founder of InHouseBooking.com. “So it’s hard to invest in a brand-new artist.” Anderson, 34, created InHouseBooking.com as a sister company to Prince SF, the agency he [...]
Tech Toys For Travelers
$2,199, Panasonic Toughbook W4 | At 2.8 pounds, this laptop weighs less than many hardcover novels. It has a 12.1-inch screen, 512 megabytes of memory, a 6.6-hour battery, a 60-gigabyte hard drive and an internal DVD player/CD burner. Its 1.2Ghz Pentium M processor is a bit on the slow side, but that’s a small price [...]
The 10 Deadliest Words and Phrases in Business
Do a few stodgy phrases ruin a letter? Is this such a big deal? Well, when you consider how many letters are being sent by American companies today alone, you realize how important it is to make them clear, concise, and appropriate to a new Millennium. By eliminating the following 10 phrases, you can, in [...]
Bin Laden Arrested — Well, Not Really
A lawyer who revealed President George W. Bush’s long-ago drunken-driving arrest during the 2000 election campaign has been arrested in Maine for a Halloween stunt. Thomas Connolly, 49, was taken into custody after South Portland confronted him on an Interstate 295 overpass at about 9 a.m. wearing an Osama bin Laden outfit, complete with a [...]
