9 Weeks?????

Somehow 9 weeks have passed. 9 weeks that have made a real difference to my focus and clarity around who I am, what I do and why I am doing it. 9 weeks which have given me the tools to move forward with a sense of both adventure and surety.
The beauty of Music Succcess in 9 Weeks is in posing the right questions as much as giving you some great answers and starting points for discoveries.
As Derek Sivers (music biz guru) pointed out....... one of the hardest things to do as a musician is to actually admit you want to make money! To actually admit that you want to be successful. There can be a real resistance to working out how to combine art, the core of your being and art as commerce. Art and commerce do not have to be opposed. Commerce can be imbued with ethics, social responsibility and creativity. Art can be completely crass commercialism. Music Success in 9 weeks gives you the tools to find your own creative middle path between these things.
What is wonderful about Ariel's approach, and the approach made possible by web 2 technologies, is that 'success' is as diverse as the people seeking it. Music success is no longer something industry driven by a hand full of men in suits and A& R folk. Success does not have to mean selling out, handing over your rights, being served white powders on plates or waltzing around with 10 sexy young things on your arm. Success might just be gaining some well deserved respect from your peers, making global connections with people who keep you inspired, who may well become "real" friends, who make your day by saying something you need to hear, who excite the hell out of you and make you want to promote them as much or more as you want to promote yourself : )
Music Success in 9 weeks and Web 2 technologies are about reaching out to the world- Reaching out to people who you think are doing great things and saying, hi !
Derek Sivers again is the master of this. If he thinks you are cool. He doesn't just say you are cool he says... you are 'totally super awsome'. If you reach out he reaches back.
This is what is so exciting about web 2 technologies. It allows communication across the world with people who seriously excite you. People who, pre web 2 technologies, your chances of communicating with were slim. Web 2 technologies and the approaches in Music Success in 9 Weeks can have you casually chatting to people who can change the color of your day and your career: )
Music Success in 9 weeks has helped me become clearer about who I am and where I want to take my music . It has enouraged me to reach out to the world, make new friends, approach the world as endless opportunities to find people to share with, to help out, to say good things about... to inspire and to be inspired by.

Music Success in 9 Weeks rocks and so do You Ariel : ) Thanks !