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Over the many years working with many professional athletes and their businesses and having my own. I am very amazed to the approach they take and I have come to the conclusion that professional athletes are the worst business owners. I most certainly say that all of them are but the vast majority I have worked with or been in contact with show a similiar pattern over and over but the sad thing is that they don't understand why their businesses fold or why they lost a lot of money.

So I will li… Continue

Our business has disintigrated due to several factors. One of them is how business is being handled by the players in the game. You have those that hustle over conducting real business and what I want to talk about is the difference between Cutting Cost versus Cutting Corners.

Cutting Corners

This is a negative practice that involves of lowering your standards just to get something done and without having to pay for the quality. If you were to cut corners at a commercial airline… Continue

I have been in urban entertainment for many many years and I have a long track record that allowed me to dabble in all different areas of the industry. I worked for many people but mostly within the independent sector because it inspired me the most. Now years later it is the… Continue

There is no denying that the U.K. music scene has impacted the U.S. market with artists like Leona Lewis, Amy Winehouse and M.I.A. including a bunch of others.

The question is what is the difference between the U.S. and the Overseas market. Many artists in the U.S. leave the U.S. and become super stars overseas just not here. Gnarls Barkley sold out of the roof overseas but it took nearly a year for "Crazy" to make it in this market.

Now is it that we are closed in when it comes to real artist… Continue

It is no secret that the entertainment industry is in shambles. Money is tight, budgets are small and the quality of product is less than what it use to be.

I have this discussion about 10x a month with producers, executives, artists and so on. Everybody seems to have an answer but if they do how come things ain't changing? I have worked in this business over 12 years and I have seen it prosper and I have seen the ship sink. I am passionate about my profession which makes very observant to all… Continue