What Do I Post Next?

There are a lot of artists (and people in general) walking around all day wondering: What should I post next? Does this bagel look interesting enough? I haven’t posted anything in six hours, where is something cool? I haven’t publicly reacted to the latest thing, am I too late?

Relieve yourself of ‘what do I post next’

Here’s a rough sketch to save you from the often moment by moment turmoil of what do I post next:

Come up with four categories of posts that are truly important to you. I’ll make some up:

1. You writing music

2. You playing music

3. Your love for trinkets you find at flea markets

4. Your love of mystery novels

If a potential post doesn’t connect with one of these four, it doesn’t get posted (Now you can just enjoy breakfast rather than styling your eggs just so). And since these categories are important to you, you’ll notice more and more things that fall into them in some way and over time you’ll have an endless cache of meaningful posts tucked in your Drafts folder.

So you won’t have to wonder about what to post next. You already have it and it’s already in line with who you are and the story you are telling your audience.

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No Running In The Halls

It use to be a good rule because first graders are wild animals.

But now…

It turns out most people don’t want to run in the halls.

Only the people who really need to run in the halls run in the halls (or in the airport or on the sidewalk).

So there’s no need for the rule.

The rule use to be good and now it’s not needed.

It’s worth looking at the rules within your team every once in a while and asking yourself if the rules need to be updated or deleted or changed.

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Your Voice

Your voice can be used for five things…

Whispering

Talking

Yelling

Singing

Silence

Sure the lines can get a little blurry differentiating at what point does whispering become talking, etc…but those are the five.

Each have their own power and usefulness.

You amplify the power and usefulness of any of the five when you know why you are utilizing the one you are utilizing.

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Might vs. Will

Rather than working on the song like it might go on the record…work on it as though it is going on the record.

If you only work on it as thought it might go on the record and then it does go on the record, you’ll wish you would have worked on it as though it was going on the record.

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Things From Bruno 5

Here’s a few of the other notes I had from the Bruno Mars show this past Sunday…

-For all the bands who says Nashville doesn’t dance…There’s at least an arena full who dance. (My wife is queen of the dance floor. She is very good…I gesture loosely to the approximate beat)

-People like best the songs they know…even if those aren’t the best songs. (Although the argument can be made that by definition the ‘songs people know’ are thereby the best songs)

-No one cares how many tracks you use or don’t use as long as you hold our attention and entertain us. (side note: it seemed as though there were very few tracks used)

-You don’t need giant screens in an arena as long as you’re filling it up with something else.

-It starts with the lead singer. A tough truth for many (for both lead singers and everyone else).

-We are perceptive people, and more than that we believe we are very perceptive people. So when I see Bruno and his band on stage and am swept up by the fact that they look like they’re having an honestly great time, 1) I believe my perception and  2) I want to believe that I’m right and smart and correct, which deepens my belief in 1)

-I didn’t see anyone in the crowd not having a good time. Very few trips to the bathroom or to get more concessions.


Ok so this is the last day of Bruno posts.  

I did these five posts about the show because I loved it and there was so much great stuff to experience, learn from and be reminded of.

But the truth is a five part series (or fifty part) could be done on anyones show, yours included.

Maybe you should be the one to write the five part series on your show.

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Things From Bruno 4

There was an opener. I thought she did a good job. It’s tough opening for Bruno Mars, a guy at the top of the heap, putting on a show like that.

But she was good. So good in fact I wanted to look her up on Instagram during her set to learn more about her.

She didn’t get to use the full lighting production that Bruno had but she used a small version and along with it had a big LED sign in the middle of the stage with her name on it that stayed lit up the entire time and changed colors.

Excellent idea.

(If you’re an opener and don’t have your name visible 100% of the time you should have your opening slot revoked.)

So I typed in her name on Insta.

No results.

Typed in her name on Google and got a stock market chart with some municipal bonds.

Here was the trouble…

The LED sign that was custom built so that 20,000 people would constantly see her name every night of the tour said

EMaix

So that’s what I searched.

But that’s not her name.

Her name is Ella Mai.

I was able to find this because I was determined to after initially finding no results.

But it wasn’t easy to find, and I doubt most people would bother.

I’m open to suggestions as to why it said EMaix instead of Ella Mai.


If you’re the opener the bar is lower…which is to your benefit. If you exceed the bar (which can be planeed for instead of hoped for) we want to know who you are.

The two places we’ll look are 1) the person next to us 2) the stage

You can’t do anything about the first one, but the second one rests squarely on your shoulders.

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