


He takes my contact details and gets in touch to discuss music for promotional purposes is sufficiently impressed with what he’s heard of me and what I put forward as a business proposition that he hires me to put together a trio and play upbeat, instrumental, acoustic music out on the (semi-pedestrianised) street for a total of 12 hours over 3 days during the Clerkenwell Design Week event, to ‘draw people in’ to his company’s exhibition / sales room.Ģ2nd April: We’re doing the Clerkenwell job when one of my business cards is picked up by passer-by Francesco Asaro. And that I have a spreadsheet of musicians’ contact details, but have lately run out of time to keep adding the details of people I meet / correspond with … Anyway, back to the story:Ĩth March: Iain Cooper, director in a family interior design firm, sees me busking in Victoria station. For the flipside – the low rate of return meaning it’s necessary to keep on at that relentless drive – I’ll just state that the last time I bought business cards, I got 500.
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Here’s a fun group of examples as to how being in constant networking / marketing mode, as most professional musicians seem to be, can occasionally work out with unexpected career progress.
