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I've been working on the website and logo for a couple hours since I got off work.  I've been going through a lot of advice I've received from some helpful people over this last year.  I really should have gotten started on these things as soon as I decided doing music was going to be a serious pursuit. I've been saying I was going to make a logo, and a website and get business cards for over a year.  I got to be friendly with a hotel GM in waikiki.  He told me that I am my business and that myself along with my skills and talents are my products.  He told me that I needed to package and market them all.  I guess I never really let that sit in.  I was doing really good playing music on the street. During busy seasons I'd take in hundreds of dollars a night just playing my favorite songs over and over. I guess I figured that if people were taking to me that well that eventually something would just happen.  That's a pretty absurd thought. So when I started getting referred to people and venues for gigs at establishments for appealing money I got asked for things that my friend,  the Gm,  told me I should be working on.  People wanted demos, website info,  references, and press sheets..... My inability to provide those things cost me some nice opportunities. I honestly believe more will come in time but in the meantime I need to grow in my ability to conduct myself as a business and grow in that as much as I focus on growing as a musician and vocalist.  I'm still super stoked on my first steps though.  I just realize that there's more steps to walk through than I thought previously. Jam on. 

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