I’ve been thinking a lot lately about information. We live in the information age. We have the internet, computers, smartphones, social media, 24-hour news, ema...
In the April 2015 issue of the Music & Sound Retailer, I talked about user reviews and how bad customer service experiences in stores have led to the breakd...
Seldom does a day go by that I don’t see an article on Facebook or LinkedIn that declares in some grandiose way the death of brick-and-mortar, or “traditional,”...
I’ve been talking about original content a lot during the past year, mostly about how important it is and what the general uses of things are. Along with the us...
Internet retail now accounts for more than eight percent of all retail spending by consumers. Big-box retail and malls are suffering, and the pain is showing in...
Used instruments have something of a mythical status among musicians. When you watch an interview with Eric Clapton or any number of other famous musicians, the...
I promised you a tech column, and here it is. Well, sort of….
I’m really the last guy who should talk about productivity. If you want to learn about being pr...
I’ve attended NAMM trade shows for the past four years. I know…that’s much less than many people. But, they’ve had a definite impact on my store, my career in M...
Editor’s Note: Gabriel O’Brien’s regular column took a break last month so that he could write his cover story about Reverb.com.
Every day, we’re so inundate...
David Kalt
David Kalt likes to find solutions for things that don't work. After spending a few years working in recording studios, Kalt, who has a master's ...
