Welcome to Episode 113 of my podcast, the view from the crow's nest. And it is Saturday the 26th of September 2020. And it's three minutes to midnight, as far as Italy is concerned, and how are things? What is the view from the crow's nest today? And I guess I don't know, I can't work out whether I had a frustrating day or I've had a good day. So let's see, what did I do? I'm stuck. So I have this brand idea independent, as in, in the like, I NDA independent artists.com. And I bought the domain name over a year ago, a couple years ago, maybe. And the idea was for it to be some kind of management or agency for musicians. So today, I connected that to a website built a simple holding page, which you can see independent artists calm, and put that together, and set up tracking and stuff like that for it. And basically, the reason for that is because I will be using it as the platform from which to market or to try and do PR to not market or to do PR for my own music. The idea being that it kind of comes from that agency or that company. And then over time, hopefully, we bring on board other artists that we represent. And we help market their music and do pay off their music. Specifically, I've had one of the team on audience Ninja, do some research to start putting together a database of internet radio stations and a database of internet blogs, music focused. And the idea is that we'll be contacting those blogs and content in those radio stations. And we'll be doing it through independent artists and saying, oh, would you consider playing x song from y artists. But of course, at the beginning, it's just going to be my soul. And I'm the artist, although I would like somebody else to be doing the contacting because I nearly started doing it myself today. And then I remembered that that's totally a job for somebody else, because it doesn't need my specialist skills. Or though I have skills in cold email and on sales, it doesn't need my specialist skills in order to do it. So I kind of started the ball rolling there, we've got the database, we've got at least a starting database, we've now got the brand, we've got the website. So I need to bring in the person who's going to be doing the cold email or the selling so to speak. And to that extent, I have an ad out last couple of weeks for a salesperson. And I set a task for one of the applicants today. So we'll see how they come back. And hopefully they come back and they're decent enough with cold email, and then we'll bring them on board. And then this will be one of their first jobs. So I guess that's cool, because that's moving that forward and has got big potential leverage outcome. Second thing I guess I did today, or one of the other things I did today was started my photography portfolio, it's actually going to be housed at Romeo crow.com. And you won't be able to find it yet because it's not live rather than being on a separate site. But I do love photography. And every year I do my wall calendar. And every year my full calendar of photography, I should stay, you know, like landscape photography, and every year want to do that. And I'm looking at photos, I get all infused with photography again. And then over the course once I've sold the calendar, I usually buy a couple of pieces of gear, new gear or whatever, expand my my tools, and then try and use them for the next year's calendar. And so I have these sporadic bursts where I'm all into photography for a little a short while and then other things take precedent. But I really want to bring that as a more major part of what I'm doing. And I don't just want to be every year. Here's my photography for the end of the year for all calendaring, you didn't know I was doing that because I've not done it at all for the rest of the year. You know, I've got a lot of nice photos currently. And I'm sure I'll take a lot of nice photos in the future. And I want to expand upon that. And the cornerstone of that is having a portfolio section wh
