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Music Store Business Plan: Fighting Your Online Competitors 5

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

To succeed in the launch of a new “brick and mortar” music store, you must not merely create competitive advantage relative to other music stores in the vicinity, including big chains like Wal-Mart and BestBuy, but fight online competition from iTunes, Rhapsody, Pandora, and more. Don’t forget to detail your strategy for staking our your market share against these sellers in the competitive analysis of your business plan.

These are three ways brick and mortar music stores can differentiate themselves against these online competitors.

Expertise of Salespeople

By hiring salespeople who will offer customers a deep understanding of the music you sell, your staff can offer recommendations, be sought out as experts, and offer personal taste. Although you may pay a premium for these type of salespeople, they may be able to encourage sales through their own recommendations once customers begin to value their opinions.

Events

Holding seminars or talk-backs with artists, or even live performances if your store can handle it,  can be a great way to create buzz around the store in a way that online stores simply cannot. By making events a regular occurrence and tying them in directly with the music you sell, you can promote the products and earn chances to familiarize more customers with your store.

Atmosphere

A third method of differentiation is by creating “atmosphere”. With background music, decoration, and additional product offerings to look at, your store can become a unique destination. Uniqueness is especially valued in a time where many customers are tired of the cookie cutter look of big box stores and the lack of character and experience for an online store. If you make sure your store tries to be everything these competitors are not, you will find  interest among many customers who take part in the backlash against the de-personalization of the

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Classic Car News: What Does Your Car Say About You? 25

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

Choosing the colour of your car may be  a matter of personal taste or a conscious decision to either minimise or maximise the attention you and your vehicle get on the open road – or you could simply want to restore your vehicle to its former glory by matching the colour as close to the original as possible.

A century ago, selecting colour schemes for your pride and joy would have been pretty straight forward as the variations were fairly limited compared to today’s wonderful array of paint colours to choose from. According to SifyNews.com “choosing a car’s colour these days presents a veritable menagerie of options: Anaconda Green, New Sable and Truffle Mica, to name a few”.

Today’s colour palettes are purposely engineered to “reflect a specific aesthetic and then tailored to a vehicle’s exact size, style and segment” or merely owners interests, reports SifyNews.com – which begs the question what kind of person drives a canary yellow Ferrari? A bird lover perhaps?

Reactions to the Aston Martin V12 Vantage RS concept car were universally the same across the motoring press: “awesome car, strange colour choice”, according to Autoblog.com. For such an aggressive styled and powered supercar you would expect “dark silver or British racing green”, but Aston went with a baby blue hue instead – later revealing the reasoning behind such an unusual colour choice was that Aston were “reviving the classic Gulf racing livery for its Le Mans-challenging DBR9’s” – the same racing machine that donated its engine to the Aston Vantage concept.

The huge response from the bizarre car colour provoked Aston to open up a contest to “name that hue”, with the winning name chosen as “Mako Blue”, which is not only the name of the fastest most agile of sharks, but also the Maori name for “blue lightning”, which obviously is “descriptive of both colour and car – a very befitting name”, according to AstonMartin.com.

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Nylon Strings are Used on Classical Guitars 1

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

Just as there are different types of guitars, there are different types of strings. Here are the principal types:

  • Nylon strings are used on classical guitars. In fact, it is dangerous to use heavier strings on a classical guitar, because the instrument is not designed to withstand the high tension they produce. The three lowest strings are made of silver-plated copper wire wound on a core of nylon strands. The upper three are pure nylon filaments.
  • Steel strings are designed for acoustic folk guitars. The bass strings are wound on a core of silk or nylon.
  • Heavier wound metal strings are designed for electric guitars.

Core and winding materials vary among string makers, and you may wish to experiment with different types to see which produces the sound you like best.Strings are also available with different shapes or contours, from flat to fully rounded. Strings are also sold in light, medium, or heavy gauges. This has to do with the amount of elasticity in the string: light-gauge strings are more elastic and therefore easier to play than heavy ones. Again, depending on the kind of music you play and your own personal taste, you’ll be able to choose the proper string for you. It’s always worthwhile to try different types of strings on your instrument to see if a simple change of strings can lead to improved sound and playability.

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