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MI Spy: No Strings Attached

Having recently been placed on desk duty for The Organization, I was happy to be able to spruce up my spy clothes and hit the road again. After my layoff, I...
Berenice-Chauvet

Five Minutes With…Berenice Chauvet

More so than at any time in MI retail’s history, brick-and-mortar dealers are embracing products and technologies that are a bit “outside the box” relative to...

Like A Bridge Over Troubled Water

If Turbulent Times Had You Down And Out, NAMM Helped Ease Your Mind By a lot of measures, 2016 began rather turbulently. Global equity markets took an unpreced...

HIJACKED!

On Thanksgiving Day, I witnessed a marketing hijack in the midst of all the Black Thursday…err…Friday hoopla. The TV was tuned in to NBC for the 89th annual...

Buyers Are Liars!

In the early part of my career in the music products industry, I had the privilege of working for Greg Billings in Milwaukee, selling pianos. It was an inte...

Missed Connections

On a Sunday recently, my wife and I attempted to go out to dinner. On our way, we tried to determine if several of our favorite restaurants were open. Sever...

2015: The Year In Review

Retailers Report On The Successes & Challenges That Last Year Brought As the music products industry was putting the finishing touches on yet another yea...

‘Boroughing’ Into Brooklyn

New York City might be known as the financial capital of the world, but the city’s financial titans—and just about everybody else—are powered by NYC’s music...