Boats In The Water - Ship Comes In = True Story About Persistence
Thursday, August 13th, 2009One of my tasks at my last job was to counsel one of our brokers. At our initial meet I sat across the table from him and had a set of questions prepared to help him focus on what he wanted to accomplish. One of his goals then, nearly 8-9 years ago, is the same as his goal today although I no longer counsel him.
Karl tells me that Sean, our former broker, just placed a government contract - manufacturing job with a large company and his fee for doing that is a percentage of the job which equals $10,000 a month. That’s a pretty good contract for a broker to land and Sean is mighty happy. Thing is, his father and Karl where joking because Sean does not know how to quote work and must have gotten a LOT of outside help to land this job.
Moral of the story: Keep putting your boats in the water. We call each project we work on, spec or contracted, a boat into the water. One day the ship does come in. The more boats, the better chance of landing a ship contract as Sean did. The Songs2Share program is another opportunity to get your music heard and land a placement. Please visit the website, LOGIN and upload 1 song submission. We want to help you move your music - forward.