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What you did to get your business to where it is today is not what you need to do to get your business to where it needs to be now. Business growth requires different actions as the market changes. Small-business guru Barry Moltz has identified ways that businesses get stuck, causing their growth to slow down. By making changes to these ineffective patterns, your business can start to flourish again. Watch Moltz's Breakfast Session, and learn how to boost revenue and avoid the traps that keep businesses struggling for years.

Joe Lamond, NAMM President/CEO, with Chip Averwater, Amro Music Stores Chairman and Author, Retail Truths: The Unconventional Wisdom of Retailing How are the changes in the music retail industry affecting you and your business? What makes some businesses grow and thrive during difficult times, while others struggle? Industry veteran Chip Averwater, Chairman of Amro Music Stores and author of Retail Truths: The Unconventional Wisdom of Retailing, shares his street-smart retailing insights and business savvy from years of experience in the retail trenches. Joe Lamond, NAMM President

Joe Lamond, NAMM President/CEO, with Chip Averwater, Amro Music Stores Chairman and Author, Retail Truths: The Unconventional Wisdom of Retailing How are the changes in the music retail industry affecting you and your business? What makes some businesses grow and thrive during difficult times, while others struggle? Industry veteran Chip Averwater, Chairman of Amro Music Stores and author of Retail Truths: The Unconventional Wisdom of Retailing, shares his street-smart retailing insights and business savvy from years of experience in the retail trenches. Joe Lamond, NAMM President

Based on Joe Calloway's best-selling book of the same name, Becoming a Category of One is an exciting session about what creates market leaders in today's hyper-competitive marketplace. What can music products retailers learn from great companies in other industries to help them meet today’s challenges? In this interactive session, Joe shares ideas and engages you in a conversation about the attitudes and actions that people in top-performing brands bring to the marketplace every day. A Category of One mindset means you: constantly seek out new ideas from market leaders outside th

Based on Joe Calloway's best-selling book of the same name, Becoming a Category of One is an exciting session about what creates market leaders in today's hyper-competitive marketplace. What can music products retailers learn from great companies in other industries to help them meet today’s challenges? In this interactive session, Joe shares ideas and engages you in a conversation about the attitudes and actions that people in top-performing brands bring to the marketplace every day. A Category of One mindset means you: constantly seek out new ideas from market leaders outside th

Panelists:  Vincent Nemeth, Billy Cuthrell, Alan Friedman, Lisa Kirkwood, Mike Guillot, Donovan Bankhead  Summer NAMM is known for new products, exhibitor debuts and unique finds. And while you’re enjoying the quality face-to-face time with vendors you can only find in Nashville, it’s sometimes difficult to scout out all the important items to amp up your business for the fall and holiday selling season. Watch Music Inc. publisher Frank Alkyer and his panel of well-respected retailers and buyers who combed the show floor in search of the best products, ideas and trends─each select

Attendees at the 2012 NAMM Show started each day with the NAMM U Breakfast Sessions. These sessions are full of tips and ideas that you can start using today. The Friday morning session, Real Time Marketing and PR: How to Instantly Engage Your Market, Connect with Customers, & Create Products that Grow Your Business, featured David Meerman Scott, marketing strategist and bestselling author of "The New Rules of Marketing and PR" and "Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead." If you missed his session full of powerful ideas, you can view it in its entirety online now. In additi

Themed “Make It Count,” the 2012 NAMM show kicked off on day one with its traditional Breakfast of Champions session, welcoming droves of attendees from all over the world to gain valuable insight about the music products industry and the innovation that is being used by successful businesses. The session started with musical performances from orchestral trio Sharon Hurvitz (piano), Avi Nagin (violin) and Natalie Helm (cello), and the cultural rhythms of Indian musician Prakash Sontakke on the slide guitar and Afghanistani musician Salar Nader on the Tabla.  NAMM President and CEO

Joe Lamond, NAMM CEO & President, welcomes to the stage guests Rick Camino, President, and Will Urban, Vice President of Programming/Business Development for Hello Music.  Watch as Joe explores their unique process of innovation and approach to retailing, embracing social commerce and bringing the excitement of daily deals to a growing base of music retail customers. 

Themed “Make It Count,” the 2012 NAMM show kicked off on day one with its traditional Breakfast of Champions session, welcoming droves of attendees from all over the world to gain valuable insight about the music products industry and the innovation that is being used by successful businesses.  NAMM CEO and President Joe Lamond sits down with George Hines, CEO, George's Music, to discuss how George has been successful and weathered the retail and economic ups and downs through 35 years in the industry.   

CEO and President Joe Lamond welcomes Marcus Ryle, Line 6, Co-founder and Senior Vice President, to sit down one-on-one as his first guest of the Breakfast of Champions.  Marcus is instrumental in the creation of some of the music industry's most successful products, and has been called the Steve Jobs of the music products industry. 

During Breakfast of Champions at the 2012 NAMM Show, Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, sat down with NAMM President and CEO Joe Lamond to explore the process of innovation. Ray shared his remarkable perspective and ideas with the audience and, in doing so, sparked NAMM members to consider how these breakthroughs can be applied to improving their businesses and future chance of success.