John Snyder's Page

If anybody out there wants their music considered for film and tv, you can send it to my friend Alan Ett's company in LA. His top guy, Mitch Rabin, will review it and give it priority if its good. They want to help out the AH community.

You are at no risk by submitting your material to them. They are honest and they are, like us, interested in helping musicians monetize their music. Soon we will have a site for you to post your stuff for them, but in the meantime, this is the way they would lik… Continue

Expert in Business Planning and Entrepreneurship Comes to Class

I invited a guest speaker to class the other night and he showed an old video about entrepreneurship. It was structured around the eight characteristics of an entrepreneur:

• Wants to work for themselves, doesn’t want to work for someone else
• Can communicate and is organized about it
• Isn’t afraid of taking risks
• Sees opportunity and takes it
• Understands the need for innovation and innovates
• Overcomes adversity, do… Continue

John Snyder, Co-Chairman of the Louisiana Music Commission, President of Artists House, and Conrad N. Hilton Eminent Scholar in Music Industry Studies at Loyola University New Orleans, finds something positive in Governor Bobby Jindal’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address.

“Musicians are businesses”, says Snyder. “It’s not a box they check or a form they fill out. They are businesses because what they do creates rights under the United States Constitution and Federal Copyri… Continue