If Necessity is the Mother of Invention, then we have to define Necessity to re-invent our stores. And re-invent them we must, because Necessity IS changing. In...
Sabian, a designer and manufacturer of cymbals based in Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada, is so well known and widely respected for its quality product and innov...
I was roused from a deep sleep around 4am by a video message from The Chief. I should have known! I had been excited for a day off, but duty calls, and there is...
At the site of a former Frank’s Nursery and Crafts, not far off the main road at the center of Waldorf MD, sits Hot Licks Guitar Shop. The 9,000-square-foot, fu...
The Chief hadn’t called me in a while, and I was beginning to get suspicious. I had been running with a pretty rough crowd: attorneys; lobbyists; the IRS…you ...
Most of us don’t know what we are selling.
We think we just sell musical instruments that people ought to buy.
We don’t know the true value of what we are s...
To successfully connect online with customers, music retailers have to figure out how to stay on their radar without being perceived as overbearing.
Social m...
Perhaps more than for any other reason, The Music & Sound Retailer exists to serve—and be the voice of—all those independent, brick-and-mortar music product...
We are not living in relaxed times. The rapid pace of innovation, the ability for instant—and constant—communication and the regular introduction of “disruptive...
One of the bigger news stories to hit the music products industry over the past few months has been the creation of Zoom North America, a new company formed to ...
