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Time Management: Take Control of Your To-Do List
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Time is distracting when you don’t have a plan. So how do you get everything done—and, most importantly, get a lead on those projects you’ve been putting off?...
How to Host Unique and Profitable Store Events
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In just three years, Third Rock Music Center has gone from retail startup to indie retail powerhouse. The secret to its growth? Hosting unique, traffic-...
How to Create a Visual Identity on Instagram (Double Session)
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You can’t succeed on Instagram without compelling images. So how do you ensure all of your Instagram images are memorable—and that they portray your brand...
4 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Motivate and Empower Your Team
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Do you ever feel as if there’s a bottleneck at your store? Your staff is constantly coming to you with questions, complaints and concerns, and you start to...
The Secrets to Surviving the Tough Months
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We all have slow weeks (and months) from time to time, but sitting back and hoping things get better is not a viable plan. More often than not, each year’s “...
Creative (and Effective) Store Design on a Dime
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Looking for innovative and effective store design ideas that cost little to nothing? Then join Mark Maxwell, master visionary and head honcho of NAMM Top 100...
New Ideas to Deliver a Mind-Blowing Customer Experience
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Instrumental Music Center has won Music & Sound Retailer magazine’s Best Customer Service and Best Sales Staff awards, among others. Here, company owners...
How You’re Killing Your Lesson Program
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Most music lesson operators make inadvertent mistakes that slowly chip away at their lessons business. Left unattended, these can stunt growth and even kill a...
Why Your Website Isn’t Working—and What to Do About It
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Your website isn’t performing, and you’re not sure why—or what to do about it. Sound familiar? If so, join online marketing expert Catherine Brock of Inbound...
5 YouTube Power Users—and What You Can Learn From Them
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YouTube is an invaluable tool for connecting with current and prospective customers, but it can also be intimidating if you don’t know the ins and outs. Join...
How to Become a Digital Powerhouse: 7 Steps to Online Transformation
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The digital consumer has changed business as we know it. How can your business keep up, and even lead, in this new reality? During this NAMM U Breakfast...
Beyond Rock Camp: Plan Summer Music Camps That Break the Mold
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Strumming the ukulele, belting out the latest Broadway hit and shredding on guitar—sounds like school’s out! Summer music camps can turn the slowest months...
How to Host Offsite Events That Grow Your Business
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Want to expand your customer base? Then start by getting outside the four walls of your store. In this session, Shawna Wingerberg of Antonio Violins and...
Insider eBay Tips to Grow Your Business
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Get essential tips, tools and tactics to improve your eBay business, straight from an eBay insider. Join Anne Hill, eBay’s senior category manager for musical...
4 Steps for an Effective Social Media Program
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Is your music business simply “doing social media,” or are you using social media to achieve your objectives and increase your business? In this presentation,...
5 Keys to Improve Your Online Rental Business
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Online rentals can bolster your customer service, streamline operations and, not least of all, give business a lift. Robert M. Sides Family Music now does a...
The Most Dangerous Things Music Retailers Do
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Music retailers often make unintended but grave mistakes in running their businesses, whether they’re veterans, newcomers, independents or chains. Don’t let...
How to Maximize Your Local Traffic With Google
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Your Google My Business listing is critical for getting local search results and sales. But are you making the most of your listing? In this session, online...
The Secrets of Successful Lesson Programs
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What’s the X factor in successful music lesson programs? How do the savviest lesson studio operators handle the most common issues—makeup lessons, retaining...
Innovative Store Design Ideas From Top 100 Dealers
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Want an inside look at some of the most innovative store design concepts in music retail? Join moderator Tim Spicer of Spicer’s Music and a panel of NAMM Top...
5 Tips for a Successful Website in an Amazon World
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Amazon has changed the face of retail, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a highly competitive website and music retail business. In this eye-opening session...
Instagram Tips to Drive Engagement, Traffic and Sales
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The best way to grow your business on Instagram is to give your customers and audience more of what they want. But how do you know what they want? You look at...
5 Essential Strategies to Grow Your Lessons
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In the past decade, Melissa Loggins of Music Authority has seen signups and retention skyrocket in her music lesson program. Here, she’ll share the five...
Retail Innovators
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The future of retail is right now. Online commerce grows more personalized every day, virtual and augmented reality could become part of business as usual, and...
The Future of the Frets: Guitar for the Next Generation of Musicians
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Technology has changed the creative and social habits of young musicians in ways that even Leo Fender or Paul Bigsby could never have predicted. Mobile and...
Developing Creative Software for the Social Media Era Musician
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The days of young artists producing their music in a professional recording studio and submitting demos to record labels are quickly becoming a thing of the...
The Risk-Takers: Nashville’s New Music Industry
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While its history of country music and world-class songwriting is forever revered, Nashville is transcending its heritage to become the nexus for artists,...
The Other Nashville Society: A3E Explores the Future Sounds of Music City
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With almost 100 people moving to Nashville every day, it’s no surprise that the style and sound of Music City is rapidly diversifying. A3E invites The Other...
The Future Musician: The Real Impact of Artificial Intelligence
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Would you like to learn a new style of music, score a soundtrack and write a hit song—all in one afternoon? Machine learning technology is already capable of...
A3E Opening Presentation: Game-Changing Gadgets and Apps for Musicians
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A3E opens the day with a look at some new products that will change the way you write and perform. From iOS loopers to sampling sustain pedals to Bluetooth...