There’s only a couple places in Nashville that everyone goes to meet.  Since Daniel was near downtown Nashville and needed to be at the airport, there was really only one place to go.  The trendiest place in this fine city.  Fido.  

One cool thing about what we do for work is that we can do work with people that live across the country and never actually sit down with them to meet.  It’s great to be able to communicate with someone online and on the phone, but there is something really cool about being able to sit down and have some trendy coffee with them.  Yesterday was the first day that Daniel and I were actually able to meet in person and we had a great time.  He’s a genuine guy and has a great record on top of it.  

Now, if you still haven’t gotten Daniel’s record, what’s wrong with you?  It’s time.  Go to iTunes, spend six dollars, and get it.  He’s gonna explode one of these days and then you can tell your friends at your trendy coffee shop meetings that you got his EP way back in the day and you already know four of his songs in guitar, and all that.  See I’m looking out for you and helping you be cool.  Now go.

In Nashville we have Fido, what’s your “trendy coffee place” called?

So check this out.  We just launched Daniel Renstrom’s new site along with a brand spankin new blog.  Daniel has been a really cool guy to work with and is SkörInc’s first “Indie” guy to work with.  I’m excited to see Daniel grow and really move forward with his music.  Also if you haven’t heard any of Daniel’s record, where have you been?  It’s time you went and got that.

So anyway, Randy has been busting out on this one for the last few weeks and here it is.  I’m really happy with the design and some of the ideas that came forward with this one.  Head over to Daniel’s new home and say hello.

So, Randy and I have been working on something pretty intense for the last few days, and it’s almost done.  It’s actually been more Randy working on it than me, but he’s done an amazing job this far, but we need your help to finish it out.

Here’s the deal.  Our friend Daniel Renstrom has agreed to give all of you a free copy of his song “At The Cross” in exchange for helping Randy and I out.  In fact, simply downloading the song, is the part that is helping us out, but I’m going to ask you to take it a step further.  It’s five easy steps, are you ready?  

Step one: Click the button above and download Daniel’s song.  
Step two: Listen to the song.  
Step three: Love the song.  
Step four: Go to Daniel’s blog and tell him how much you love the song.  
Step five: Take five dollars and ninety four cents and buy the rest of Daniel’s record on iTunes. 

Even if you have Daniel’s record already, or have already heard this song, if you could do steps one thru four, it would be amazing.  We are testing something out and need as much feedback as we can get.

Thanks so much and enjoy the song.

Congratulations to Daniel and family for the new addition.  Head over to Daniel’s site and welcome the new little girl.  And buy his record while your at it.  Diapers aren’t cheap.

Remember last week when we saved our pennies? How many of you got it? What did you think? Honestly I still have it in my car and listen to it often.

Well Daniel’s Blog is officially up and running. We are still working out a few kinks, but Daniel has started posting on it and promises to regularly so make sure to subscribe. I think it will be a fun process to see his blog grow from this community into his very own community. Daniel has been a great guy to work with and I am as excited to see how this blog affects his career as I am to read it and get to know his music better.

So head over to Daniel’s Blog and say hey.

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Did you save your pennies? You need five hundred and ninety four of them for today.

A few weeks ago I got an email coming from the contact page of this blog. It was asking a few marketing questions and some internet(y) questions and introducing me to a new artist. I’d never heard of Daniel before, but answered the questions the best I could, with my opinions on blogging and marketing and all that. After three or four more emails Daniel sent me a copy of his EP to check out. It took me a day or two to get to it, but when I had time to sit and listen to it, I loved it.

Now, I’m no professional music critic by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel like I know when I hear something that has the potential to go somewhere, and this, in my opinion is it. Daniel’s got a clean acoustic sound, with vocals that remind me of early Derek Webb, you know, before he was mad at stuff.

Daniel and I emailed back and forth and after I listened to his album a few times, I knew that I wanted to do what I could to help out with his online presence. I read a bit about him and through talking to him, I found out that he is a worship leader from North Carolina, and isn’t able to travel as much as other artists. I am by no means some online guru guy, but I love the idea of great artists succeeding and using every means possible to do that. We are currently in the process of setting Daniel up a blog, and have been talking about some other ideas aside from traveling a ton.

So here’s the project. Take the five dollars and ninety four cents that you saved this week, and buy Daniel’s record on iTunes. Listen to it, then come back here and let’s talk about it. Think of the comments section as a place to review the record. I know there are plenty of “music folks” reading this blog, (Seth, Euphrony, Kat, Mark, Randy, Carlos, Jeremy, Michael, Chad, Spence and the list goes on) and I want to get this record to as many people as possible this weekend. Daniel’s music is going somewhere, and we can be a part of getting it there.

So that’s the project. It’s pretty easy. Spend five dollars and ninety four cents, listen to some good music, then come here and review it.

Ready? Go.