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40 (More) Tips for Music Professionals 40 and Under
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Back by popular demand, this faced-paced session delivers 40 tips you can put to use in your store next week.
How to Compete With the Internet Giants
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If Internet competition keeps you up at night, you can’t miss this session.
50 Shades of Facebook
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Want more Facebook “Likes,” “Shares” and traffic?
Successful Summer Programs for ALL Your Students
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So you have a summer rock camp. What about all the non-rock musicians in your lesson program? Don’t ignore them next summer!
How to Turn Facebook 'Likes' Into Sales
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In just three years, Hello Music has built a Facebook musician community of more than 480,000, which drives 25 percent of the company’s sales daily.
Make More Money With Rentals
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Instrument rental programs are one of the most profitable areas of music retail. Are they right for you? If so, are you maximizing their profitability?
Get PR That Money Can't Buy
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Positive PR can put a music store on the map—and open the door to customers you never knew existed.
How to Create YouTube Videos That Drive Sales
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This session delivers the ultimate one-two punch: You’ll learn how to create powerful, inexpensive YouTube videos and also how to use those videos to convert...
The Dirty Dozen: This Year's Best Ideas
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Need a sales promotion that works? A simple use of technology to reduce your operational costs? A new financial strategy to improve your cash flow?
Proven Promotions to Fill Your Store
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Join James Harding, director of marketing for Gist Piano Center, as he reveals three proven promotions that will flood your store with customers for $500 or...
5 Easy, Low-Cost Ways to Make Your Store Tech-Smart
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You’ve got an iPad, smartphone and apps that you use every day.
The Top 5 Challenges of Rookie Store Owners
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First-time store owners Amy Ball Braswell and her husband opened Capo’s Music Store in late 2009.
40 (More) Tips for Music Professionals 40 and Under
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Facebook Rebooted
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Social media platforms change at light speed, and it’s just about impossible to keep up with it all.
How We Multiplied Our Lesson Sign-ups
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Beacock Music’s business hit a turning point 10 years ago when the company drastically redesigned its music lesson program.
5 Strategies for Retail Growth
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In a tough business climate, Springfield Music keeps growing.
NAMM Musikmesse Russia and Prolight + Sound NAMM Russia Integrate the ‘Music Moscow’ Musical-Instrument Fair
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Increased influence in the rapidly growing Russian market
29th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards Nominees Drawn From Among Sound and Production Industry’s Finest
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The NAMM Foundation has finalized nominees for the 29th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards.
Todd Rundgren to Receive the Les Paul Award at 29th Annual TEC Awards
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Legendary musician, groundbreaking record producer and electronic music revolutionary Todd Rundgren will be honored with the prestigious
Steno Giulini
- Oral History
Steno Giulini served as the editor of the International Association magazine "Euro Piano" for well over 60 years. He was by far the oldest emplo
Greg Walker
- Oral History
Greg Walker was inspired by musical masters and song stylists such as Nat "King" Cole, Johnny Hartman, Sarah Vaughn, and Sam Cooke, and started singing at the...
Jack Pinney
- Oral History
Jack Pinney grew up in San Diego, California, where he developed a love of music and began playing drums in the early 1960s. When some friends w
William Kent
- Oral History
William Kent, along with his brother Ed, formed the Kent Drum Company in 1947 with a focus to create student-level kits to encourage music making
Jim Kaplan
- Oral History
Jim Kaplan and his longtime partner, Jim Botti, were both band directors in Pittsburgh area schools when they saw the need to provide private les
Ruth Kadison
- Oral History
Ruth Kadison enjoyed her role as a NAMM Foundation’s Museum of Making Music volunteer, and applied many of her talents and skills to the organiza
Chuck Campbell
- Oral History
Chuck Campbell revolutionized the "Sacred Steel" style of gospel music by adding electric guitar effect pedals to his amplified pedal steel guita
Stan Buswell
- Oral History
Stan Buswell had owned and operated several businesses when his teenage son, John, took an interest in the drums. Stan decided to open a small s
John Buswell
- Oral History
John Buswell was a 16-year-old drummer in the school band when his father, Stan, decided to open a drum shop. The year was 1976.
Jim Botti
- Oral History
Jim Botti always had a passion for music education and in fact has taught most of his life. In 1958, after he met Jim Kaplan, the two opened a t