Lead or follow...

I read this today on Seth Godin's blog and thought it was worth sharing! 


Keith Richards tells a great story about Charlie Watts, legendary drummer for the Stones.

After a night of drinking, Mick saw Charlie asleep and yelled, "Is that my drummer? Why don't you get your arse down here?"

Richards continues, "Charlie got dressed in a Savile Row suit, tie, shoes, shaved, came down, grabbed him and went boom! Don't ever call me "your drummer" again. You're my ... singer."

No drums, no Stones.

Who's playing the drums in your business?

Now for the hard work!

            NY opened my eyes! I found out I still had a lot of work to do to get Moon Talk out there!  Marketing, pricing, ordering, storage, record keeping ALL OF IT!  SO back to the drawing board with my business plans!  As mentioned before, I know I do not have the mark up I need to have, so in order to make this work for me,  I’ve got to lower my costs!  This is one of my first steps, purchasing the equipment to create all work in-house!  In order to do that, I need to reorganize the studio, rid of anything out there that is blocking my vision and cluttering my mind.  SO I set about advertising all my studio equipment.  I sold my overhead lighting, back drops, back drop hanging system, everything!  NO CAMERAS were harmed during this stage!!    I kept all my cameras! That is one thing I will NOT part with! It would be like cutting off my own arm! 

The Real deal… New York!

 You’ve read the facts… now for the rest!

Once we decided that the NSS was really going to ‘happen’ we were already deep in preparing for the show, as mentioned before.  SO much happened during this time! We were very emotionally involved with our daughter and an adoption that fell through, our printer that HAD been doing our work was pregnant and decided not to do any more printing for the duration, Bob’s car broke down, I had kidney stones (first ever!), My friend that was going to go with me decided she couldn’t manage it…. and everyone else was busy.  Money was a HUGE stressor!  Sleepless nights continued!