I was reading a post by blogger Chris Brogan yesterday entitled “Earning Attention” which in short was about earning a place of importance within your industry as opposed to having expectations of someone else take you there. I’m not going to do it justice by attempting to recreate his post in a sentence or two so how about we just make it mandatory to head over there and check it out…just finish reading this one first!

His post reminded me of my days as a professional musician. For those that may not know me that well, before I started a career in Internet Marketing about 12 years ago, I played bass for the Broadway Show “Rent” amongst a bunch of other pretty cool gigs. As a successful musician I was hounded on a fairly regular basis by other bass players interested in subbing for me. With a few exceptions, they mostly left a bad taste in my mouth. Their attempts to get to know me had less to do with me and more to do with me giving them their big break. They would go something like this (actually, I should say exactly like this…this was an actual e-mail I received): [Read more...]