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How to Compete on Black Friday Weekend
- NAMM U Post
Summer NAMM 2013 kicked off with the NAMM Retail Summit. The session looked at ways music retailers can supercharge their fourth quarter and holiday season. In...
Focus on Quality During the Holidays
- NAMM U Post
Summer NAMM 2013 kicked off with the NAMM Retail Summit. In this segment, NAMM President and CEO Joe Lamond interviews Lauren Haas Amanfoh of Royalton Music...
Drive Traffic During the Holiday Season
- NAMM U Post
Summer NAMM 2013 kicked off with the NAMM Retail Summit. In this segment, NAMM President and CEO Joe Lamond speaks with three prominent music retailers about...
Get Customers Back Into Your Store After the Holidays
- NAMM U Post
Summer NAMM 2013 kicked off with the NAMM Retail Summit. In this segment, NAMM President and CEO Joe Lamond interviews Whitney Brown Grisaffi of Ted Brown...
Host 'The 12 Days of Christmas'
- NAMM U Post
Summer NAMM 2013 kicked off with the NAMM Retail Summit. In this segment, retail sales and promotions guru Bob Negen shares one of his all-time favorite...
Best in Show (Summer NAMM 2013)
- NAMM U Post
The last morning of Summer NAMM 2013 began with Best in Show, hosted by Frank Alkyer, publisher of Music Inc. magazine. Six retail gear experts shopped t
Carl Mann
- Oral History
Carl Mann sang in church as a child and grew up just a few years behind Elvis Presley, who, like Carl, brought the style of church musical expres
Woody Bomar
- Oral History
Woody Bomar began his career as a songwriter and went on to work in music publishing. In fact, Woody created Little Big Town and had a very succ
Joe Teixeira
- Oral History
Joe Teixeira opened a small music store in San Jose, California in 1964. As the fiftieth anniversary approached in 2013, Joe sat down for his NA
Brad Wittmer
- Oral History
Brad Wittmer and his friend and co-worker Richard Schiemer were given an opportunity to purchase the store they were working in, and they took it
Smoochy Smith
- Oral History
Smoochy Smith was hired by Sam Philips at Sun Studios in Memphis to play piano on a few sessions in the late 1950s. Smoochy was being requested
Richard Schiemer
- Oral History
Richard Schiemer grew up in Brighton, Pennsylvania and often went down to Brighton Music Center for supplies and lessons. Little did he know at
Norbert Putnam
- Oral History
Norbert Putnam is a studio musician’s studio musician. With a career that includes playing on most of the early Muscle Shoals recordings as well
Jay Pilzer
- Oral History
Jay Pilzer is the founder of New Hope Guitars and has been very active in the vintage guitar market for several decades. While earning his docto
Jyotindra Parekh
- Oral History
Jyotindra (JP) Parekh is the owner of Rice Music House in Columbia, South Carolina. He is very active in educational programs within his communi
Arnie Lazarus
- Oral History
Arnie Lazarus invented what is largely regarded as the first three dimensional transducer for musical instruments in 1969. That same year he est
Hideo Kamimoto
- Oral History
Hideo Kamimoto wrote the book on guitar repair! He built his first guitar in the late 1950s and soon discovered he had a true passion as a luthi
Kevin Jarvis
- Oral History
Kevin Jarvis began working for Gelb Music in Redwood City, California in 1966 as a guitar teacher. The store was established in 1939 by Sydney G
Roland Janes
- Oral History
Roland Janes! There were musicians/engineers/producers and then there was Roland Janes! The man nearly single-handedly invented many of the eng
Wayland Holyfield
- Oral History
Wayland Holyfield wrote several popular songs for both popular and country artists during a career that began singing in church as a child out in
WS Holland
- Oral History
WS Holland played drums behind Johnny Cash for over 40 years!
Billy Ray Hearn
- Oral History
Billy Ray Hearn is credited by many for pioneering the concept of Contemporary Christian Music during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Tony Falcetti
- Oral History
Tony Falcetti grew up in the music business and developed his passion for music before he can remember. The store his parents started in Springf
Jack Ashford
- Oral History
Jack Ashford played percussion as a member of the famed Funk Brothers, the house band for Motown Records beginning in the 1960s. Jack’s unique a
Marketplace Fairness Update: New report "Pro-Growth Tax Reform and E-Fairness" by Arthur B. Laffer and Donna Arduin
- Article
Excerpted from Forward by Colin Hanna, President Let Freedom Ring:
NAMM Foundation Accepting Applications for 2014 President’s Innovation Award for College Students Pursuing Careers in Music Products Industry
- Press Release
The NAMM Foundation is accepting applications at www.nammfoundation.or
10 Simple Merchandising Tips That Maximize In-Store Sales
- NAMM U Post
Many customers consider shopping a stressful chore and place a huge premium on convenience. Is your store merchandised in a way that contributes to their...
New EPA Regulations RE: Formaldehyde Emissions from Composite Wood and Wood Laminate – comments requested
- Article
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued two proposed regulations to implement a federal law placing limits on formaldehyde emissions from...
Christian F. Martin IV
- Board Member/NAMM Director
Chris Martin is chairman and CEO of C.F. Martin & Co., Inc., a manufacturer of acoustic guitars and strings, based in Nazareth, Pa. C.F.
Intellectual Property (IP) Forum @ Summer NAMM "Creators, Innovators, Fabricators"
- Article
Music product creators, innovators, fabricators, business owners and managers concerned about securing and protecting intellectual property as vital to their...