Welcome to MakingTheMogul.com. It looks like you're new here. Please make sure to subscribe to my RSS feed and join me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
Truly, an incredible and inspiring speech.
Archive for August, 2008
I came across this website a few weeks ago and wanted to share this with the producers and beatmakers out there.
This website, Hobnox.com is offering $30,000 to contestants who submit their music productions into their Evolution 2 contest. They have 3 different categories for their contest; Music, Film & Culture - each with its own $30,00 prize.
Usually, I wouldn’t post something like this, but like I mentioned yesterday; conferences, showcases and contests can be incredibly helpful to your success, so I wanted to share this with you guys to give the producers and beatmakers a chance to take advantage of one of these opportunities, regardless of what city you’re in.
Check out the video below to take a quick tour and then click here to find out more information about the Evolution 2 contest.
I saw this and had to post it.
If you follow me on Twitter, you know my daily obsession with watching Fresh Prince of Bel-Air re-runs.
Well, Canadian rapper, Shad, decided to drop this hilarious parody music video for his song, “The Old Prince Still Lives At Home”.
You have to watch this video; it’s too great not to.
Shout out to Shad and his crew for a great concept and execution.
If you’re an aspiring artist, producer, DJ or professional, you should already know how important conferences, showcases and contests can be. If you don’t already know; then I’m telling you now; they’re important.
I make it a point to attend several of these events, even if it doesn’t necessarily pertain to my profession, mainly because of the networking opportunities they present. If you know how to carry yourself and you have the necessary self-promo tools (business cards, CD, DVD, etc), events like these should not be missed.
If you’re in Atlanta, or will be on September 11, 2008, make sure you attend The Demo Clinic being held at Django.
For more information on this event, please check out the official page at http://rahiemshabazz.blogspot.com/2008/08/demo-clinic.html.
Finally got my Blackberry Bold today.
For those that follow me on Twitter, I did my first live videocast yesterday, after UPS dropped off the package.
It didn’t end up recording, so I was planning on doing another short video clip, but as the people who logged onto the live videocast know, I don’t have much of a voice right now (lost it a few days ago), so I decided against it.
I’m definitely going to be incorporating more videocasts into the blog though, so there’ll be more to come. If you have any suggestions for what you’d like to see, please feel free to leave a comment and let me know.
Also, if you have any questions about the Bold, just ask and I’ll do my best to fill you in.
I just wanted to drop a quick post to let you guys know that I finally got my MacBook Pro back!
I got it back last week actually; 11 days after it decided to die. I wanted to post sooner, but since it was my hard drive that crashed, I’ve spent the past week just catching up on projects and re-creating files from scratch.
Not fun.
Needless to say, I definitely made it a point to pick up an external hard drive to keep a full system backup of everything in my laptop.
I wasn’t sure what brand or model to go with, so I posed the question on Twitter and everybody led me toward the trio of Western Digital, Maxtor and LaCie.
After some consideration at the store, I decided to go with a 750GB LaCie hard disk. The box says it was designed by industrial designer, Neil Poulton.
His design?
A shiny black box.
To be honest, even though it’s just a shiny black box; it’s still pretty nice.
Sorry for the quality & reflection of the pic. My desk has a glass top an the LaCie hard disk is reflective so it was a little difficult to take a picture without crazy flash. You can actually see me taking the picture through the reflection of the hard disk.
Anyhow, it serves me right to experience this situation. If you take your business seriously, invest in it appropriately and make sure you’re well covered in case of ANY emergency or disaster.
Whenever you implement any new tool or piece of equipment into your business, make sure to have a way of still functioning in case it malfunctions or gets stolen.
Luckily, I have my business email hosted through Google Apps, so all email that goes through my email or the email of anybody else on my team, is backed up online - free.
We can even share documents and edit them collectively, in real time, as opposed to emailing a document to each team member and having 5 different edits.
If you’re running a small business, or consider yourself a business (even if it’s just you), I highly suggest checking out Google Apps. It’s free and it’s a lifesaver.
Today is Day 6 without my MacBook Pro.
And it hurts!
For the past 6 days, I’ve MacGuyver’ed my way around this major inconvenience by juggling between my Blackberry, internet cafés and others’ computers.
I also got my old temperamental PC working a little again. It feels like going back to an ex with shame and admitting that your new situation didn’t work out as well as you hoped.
But at least there’s some good news. The Apple Store just called saying they’ve received the parts needed to repair the centerpiece of my connected life.
Hopefully, I can get it back by the weekend - although I highly doubt it.
I’m off to drop it off at the Apple Store now. I think it’s time I finally go ahead and buy an external hard drive to keep my system backed up at all times and prevent losing ALL my files again.
Yeah.. it’s that bad.
Recent Comments