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Converting Social Media Into Sales Using Video
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Learn how to create powerful, inexpensive videos that will help you convert your social media efforts into sales!
10 Financial Rules Every Retailer Should Follow
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Do you ever feel as if you’re making business decisions that just don’t feel right?
10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Improve Your Business Now
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Leslie Faltin of Instrumental Music Center in Tucson, Ariz., shares 10 simple, inexpensive ideas to boost your bottom line and market share.
How to Host the Ultimate Rock Camp
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Keep the excitement of rock camp going year-round.
5 Ways to Boost Your Lesson Sign-ups
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Are you losing more students than you’re keeping in your lesson program? Are sign-ups slow?
Tips for Increasing Your Business by 25%!
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Sales consultant and Music Trades columnist Bob Popyk delivers simple but often overlooked ideas for cranking up the cash register right away without spending...
What to Do When You Have Too Much to Do
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Are you overwhelmed by the daily responsibilities of running a music store?
Fifty Shades of Facebook
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Join Cris Behrens, sales, marketing and store manager for Summerhays Music Center, as he presents creative ways to get more “Likes,” “Shares” and traffic for...
Celebrate National Music Day
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Music makers across the nation will band together June 21 to celebrate National Music Day—a day to appreciate the many benefits that music making brings to...
Join the Movement, Celebrate National Music Day! (Here's Why Your Business Should Get Involved)
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National Music Day, including various Make Music city celebrations, held on June 21 affirms the importance of music and its role in building and bridging...
3 Steps to Buying With Confidence
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To attract customers, your store should be filled with cool products that customers want and need. But finding out what customers want can be daunting. Leslie...
Harry West
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Harry West was the founder of Fine Musical Instruments located in Statesville, North Carolina. The store was an early pioneer in vintage stringe
Guy Ward
- Oral History
Guy Ward was the president of the Ward Piano Company, located in Canton, North Carolina, from the 1940s until his retirement. After his daughter
Mark Thomas
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Mark Thomas was a noted flute player who toured the world and recorded several albums during his long career. As a product endorser, Mark appear
George Shuffler
- Oral History
George Shuffler was the country and bluegrass guitar player who is credited for a three figure cross-picking playing style (down two strings, up
Lee Moyer
- Oral History
Lee Moyer began working for Marty's Music in the late 1960s. When the founder was ready to retire in 1971, Lee and his partner bought the busine
Malcolm McFadyen
- Oral History
Malcolm McFadyen served as president of the family music store just as his father and grandfather did before him. Malcolm worked with his father
Bill McFadyen
- Oral History
Bill McFadyen grew up in the music business and followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, father and older brother in running the McFadyen Mu
Charles Lawson
- Oral History
Charles Lawson has played church organ from boyhood all the way into his 80s. He was hired by a small piano store when he first moved to Bristol, Tennessee,...
Dennis Howren
- Oral History
Dennis Howren is the president of the Howren Music Store in Charlotte, North Carolina. The store was founded by his father and was run by his tw
Marion Holloway
- Oral History
Marion Holloway is the president of Holloway Music in Monroe, North Carolina. The store was established by his grandfather in 1912 and run for m
John Dee Holeman
- Oral History
John Dee Holeman was an influential blues performer known as the last surviving original musician who popularized the Piedmont Blues style.
Randy "Baja" Fletcher
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Randy "Baja" Fletcher was a well respected production manager of live events who won the 2010 Parnelli Life Time Achievement Award for his dedica
Thomas Broido
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Thomas Broido recalls being carried by his father as he walked in the music publishers’ warehouses to check on business. He remembers the smell
Tut Taylor
- Oral History
Tut Taylor was a world renowned Dobro player, but did you know he partnered with George Gruhn and the two hired Randy Wood to form a music store
Ralph Stanley
- Oral History
Ralph Stanley was best known for his featured songs in the movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou," although his career began in the 1930s. He sang in church with...
Eddie Ray
- Oral History
Eddie Ray was the A&R man for Capitol-Tower Records and Imperial Records for many years. As a result he was instrumental in the careers of s
J. Scott McFadyen
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J. Scott McFadyen served as president of the family operated store after his father, the founder, retired. Scott was heavily involved with the m
Rose Karr
- Oral History
Rose Karr's father worked for the founder of Cunningham Piano Company as a technician. When Mr.
Greg Howren
- Oral History
Greg Howren is the past president of his family's music store in Charlotte, North Carolina. Greg followed in his father's footsteps and continue