Archive for category: Business/Leadership

Running a business is no walk in the park. Rawrb talks about his lessons learned from leading people in your business and following your ethics closely.

Stupid rock and hard place.

1 May, 2008 (10:23) | Business/Leadership, Web Design/CSS | By: Rawrb

I’ve been involved in web development for roughly 10 years now. I recall my very first venture into that crazy newfangled technology known as the internet and “web pages.” Angelfire! That was where I had my first website. Then I moved to Geocities, then… uhm, I think I got my own domain? Can’t remember much. [...]

Taking out the trash.

3 April, 2008 (06:54) | Business/Leadership, Music and Band, Personal | By: Rawrb

I’ve been home for a few weeks now from touring. I’m usually the busiest when we’re not touring due to all the stuff that piles up. Preparing for the next tour takes precedence, then comes new merch designs. We got our store back up, which is really good, but more options are needed. We’re also [...]

Accountability and you!

14 March, 2008 (01:56) | Business/Leadership, Music and Band, Personal | By: Rawrb

Wow, what a tour. I didn’t blog once at all on this crazy “Holy Crap We’re Touring” tour. Our wireless card just broke down, so… I dunno. Lots of things need fixing when I get back home. You can view various incidents with our trailer if you want to see how much crap we dealt [...]

Video is good. So good.

9 November, 2007 (17:36) | Business/Leadership, Gaming, PHP and MySQL, Web Design/CSS | By: Rawrb

My buddy Murph and I talked for over an hour last night about videos. Not specifically for Psychostick, but we brewed a lot of ideas on how to promote the band using some hilarious video shorts. Obviously ideas have never been a problem (well, maybe not that obvious to you), but planning, organization, management, etc. [...]

Pluh.net – An opportunity I didn’t see.

6 November, 2007 (01:09) | Business/Leadership, Web Design/CSS | By: Rawrb

With all this web dev going on one of my clients has to switch hosts because her current host won’t set her up with permissions she needs to upload images though a php script. Yeah, I don’t get it. So I offered to host her. Then I realized I’m not even using Pluh.net for anything [...]

Lots of band stuff to do.

4 November, 2007 (20:15) | Business/Leadership, Music and Band, Personal | By: Rawrb

Here’s a small list of things I gotta do. I don’t include it all because much of it is hush-hush. Clean out that… exploded Rock Star residue from bottom of van. Gross. Update Psychostick promo page create more resources for the Dumb. Consider, and maybe proceed with, a forums migration from Pluh to Psychostick. Long [...]

As the World Dumbs.

14 May, 2007 (07:37) | Business/Leadership, Music and Band | By: Rawrb

Many interesting things. So we finished recording the EP. I’m done with the art FINALLY. I now have to finish a couple of web projects… before Wednesday. Yeah, I did a little too much procrastinating. Lesson learned. Hard to believe I’m already about to leave on another tour. Nuts. Didn’t I just get home? I [...]

A Mighty Recap

15 February, 2007 (05:10) | Advice, Business/Leadership, Dating, Music and Band | By: Rawrb

Wow, what a long ass time for a real update. Har har! First, I got Rawrb question. Subject: Gamers inquery I noticed in the booklet that came with your CD a pic of you standing in a Quake 3 Arena background. My question is do you play Quake 3 Arena if so do you play [...]

Reflections on the first tour!

21 October, 2006 (01:10) | Business/Leadership, Dating, Music and Band, Personal | By: Rawrb

Reflections on the first tour! We’ve been home for about, oh… a week or so. It’s kinda nice to be back, but at the same time I want more touring. Touring is such a rush; sometimes it’s rough, sometimes you can face some serious hardships, but it’s all worth it when you walk off stage [...]

Shady Business = Bad

7 June, 2006 (20:46) | Business/Leadership | By: Rawrb

Just a few no-brainer tips for avoiding shady business or shady companies. If they don’t give you a price for their services/product when you ask for it, do not work with them. If you can’t find a price on their website for their services/product, chances are the price is unreasonable and not worth your time. [...]