I’m fascinated and trying to make the connection to my trade association and our public website and our members. We have 26,000 members and a billion hits per month on our site.

Has anyone applied this concept to trade associtions, specifically real estate agents. While association membership nationwide is still strong, traditional bricks and mortar events have suffered attendance losses?

Perhaps our community building efforts need to focus online and not on the traditional days of mixers, expos, and installations.

Thoughts?

Interesting… Labels in the US are starting to offer large advance sums to artists willing to give a portion of their publishing and touring monies to labels. Labels have never had their hands on these revenue streams and are trying to compensate for the drop in CD revenue. As one label put it “We’ve went years without asking for touring and publishing monies. I think we have deserve a cut”. Whatever. I’d like to hear their explanation as to why artists make $1-2 per unit sold when they make $8-10.