"What you can sell, what you better be able to sell, is intimacy. It’s interactions in public. Souvenirs. Limited things of value. Experiences. Memories. People will pay for those things, IF: your art is actually great and if you make it possible for them to buy them."
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Seth Godin on spreading music and selling intimacy | Derek Sivers
This week in Berlin, there are several conferences and panels discussing the future of music. Everyone is looking for that *one* (new) business model. There is not the one, there are many. Seth Godin summarizes them in the above quote and also supports Mike Masnick’s thesis: Connect fans + give reason to by = business model.
Thanks to Ellen for the link.