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May 10, 2022 Digital Marketing / marketing / music / original music / social media

Instagram reach tip applies to small creators, too!

A friend and former colleague sent me a DM on Instagram to tell me that sharing TikToks to Instagram were

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January 4, 2021 2021 / books / fitness / health / jazz / life / mental health / music / original music / piano jazz / smooth jazz

My New Year’s Resolutions For 2021

Resolutions. Do you make them? I’m 50 now, and so I think of resolutions more like goals I can set

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November 6, 2018 Digital Marketing / music / original music / songwriting / video / videos / YouTube

The secret to small-channel YouTube growth? More about ‘subscriber’ than ‘creator’

Combing through my October reports on YouTube, and one thing is clear: I did something right last month. I’m a

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October 28, 2018 country music / music / original music / songwriting / YouTube

YouTube songwriter discovery (Oct. 28): Emily Schultz, Andy Tunstall, Bill Fonner + more!

Life as a YouTube creator has at least two parts: the creation and the participation. To grow a channel in

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July 27, 2018 Korg / music / original music / songwriting

Ready to get a new keyboard, considering a Korg Kronos

It’s been nearly two decades since I’ve bought a new keyboard. Seriously. I think I got my Yamaha S90 in

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January 20, 2018 jazz / music / original music / smooth jazz / songwriting

Best new contemporary jazz sound comes from sax player Justin Young

This is a totally self-serving post. But if you enjoy contemporary jazz or smooth jazz and haven’t given saxophonist Justin

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December 20, 2017 music / original music / songwriting / YouTube

This YouTuber kills it with a Casio on ‘Cheat Codes’

My dad used to tell me you’re only as good as the piano you’re playing on. Tell that to Stefan

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October 21, 2017 1970s / 1980s / music / original music / Yacht Rock

Yacht Rock Original: “Everybody’s Girl”

I’ve loved all-things yacht rock before the genre even had a name. Christopher Cross, Toto, Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald, Kenny

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October 6, 2017 original music / smooth jazz / songwriting / YouTube

Ticket To Fly: #TBT ‘Smooth Jazz’ tune I had completely forgotten (video)

But it was a comment from a YouTuber named Hector that caught my attention tonight. He wrote on one song of mine that he was responsible for at least 50 of the 362 views of an original tune I posted called “Ticket To Fly.”

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