Ross Griggs – Director of music (College of West Anglia)

I was curious to get a second opinion on the pricing as that was one area we were a little uneasy on.

I approached Ross with our original pricing scheme and his answer was more or less identical to Dave’s. He said that a studio rental fee wouldn’t be feasible due to their resources. Ross was interested in the CD option as he enjoyed the idea of a fully finished product, but question the price.

I then approached him with the new pricing strategy that involved the scaling. He definitely preferred this approach as it allowed him to tailor the cost to what he actually wanted. Out of the bundle option, he said he liked the idea of a band/EP because of its affordability. If he was to purchase an option he said he would go for that one as it’s enough material to promote with.

Ross also mentioned that when targeting schools to be careful of the fact that professional recordings may not be interesting to them. He said that the idea as a whole was good but that some places may not see the value in the product.

Ross was actually very helpful as he gave a second opinion on our idea as well some new input.

Business and Careers Lecture

This lecture was really helpful.

They started by having us do a quiz about how much we knew about being a business.

The main portion of the lecture was looking at the classes offered for graduating students.

As Joe and I are potentially looking at furthering our company idea we are looking at attending these classes.

They spoke about the start-up fund they can give to small businesses and that is something that is very appealing to us.

This was a really useful lecture and i plan to look into the classes they offer next semester.

Selling to Schools

There is a surprising amount of information online that talks about selling the schools.

The Four Golden Rules of Selling to Schools

This website, for example, sells information about schools and helps you get in contact with them.

They have a free downloadable guide that shows you have to market your product and the kind of things you should say.

I have found the main thing that interest schools is a product with an educational value.

For our product, we would look to potentially teach the students who were taking part in what we were doing. We also think the fact that were giving them a different look at the music industry is good.

Showing them that there is more to music than just what is taught is something we are both passionate about.

 

Working with the College

Communication with the college we have found at times can be rather difficult.

Our main method of communication was email, but we found a lot of the time this doesn’t seem to work. We found it was always easier to create a list of what we needed to accomplish and go directly to the college. By chatting with Dave in person we were able to move the project along very quickly.

This was helpful from a businesses point of view and a project point of view.