If you are a professional in your field, and I assume you are or you would not be here, the hardest part of your job might be locating and hooking up with other music business professionals in your particular field. If you are looking for work or if you are looking to hire someone, you need a good place to go and make that happen with a minimum of effort and time exerted.

Yellow pages have been the favorite of people for many years. I can recall stories of people that I knew who told me that whenever they went to Nashville or Los Angeles or New York or some other music business capitol, they would abscond with a recent copy of the local yellow pages so that they could then review it at their leisure when they got home.

Thank goodness for the advent of the Internet and social networking and business networking sites. Now instead of deciding if you could leave half of your clothes at the motel so that you could get that big multi-volume New York City phone book into your luggage and onto the plane you can just hit a Google search and leave the phone book in the hotel.

Places like myMusicCircle have also come about to help fill the need that many of us music business professionals have. This is the need to quickly and easily locate people that we need to hire or that need to hire us. This is one are of the technology revolution that has really been helpful to those of us that try to make our living in this crazy world and still manage to compete with the big dogs in the industry.

In order to compete in today’s market place you need to be ready, willing and able to move when the opportunity knocks. Those of you that are not ready to jump will find yourselves at the back of the line with no work.

So the best thing for anyone out there to do is to make sure that you are prepared to do your business electronically. The world is going electronic and things move a lot faster now than they did even just a few years ago. Today you will find people who find a need, post a job on a website and hire a professional to fill that job and complete that need. The amazing thing is that in today’s market, all of this can take only minutes to do.

How is that for instant gratification?