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Once you get signed with someone..... that person may not call you back or send you the new listings they have, so, theoretically, you would want to keep membership to pick up those listings.


I'm repeating myself a bit, but here it goes for clarification...

If party A loves your work and wants to work with you, at that point, you get to have direct contact with party A. From that point on, taxi is no longer needed to work with party A.

I'm NOT saying party A no longer will need to use taxi to find additional talent. I'm saying to work with YOU they would not need to.

I'm also NOT saying that YOU will not need to work with taxi for projects from parties B, C, D...you would.

I am simply saying that you and party A would no longer need taxi to work together.

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Yes, there are several libraries who use TAXI members exclusively. 100% of their listing requests go to and through TAXI and they do not accept any submissions of songs from any other place. One of these just happens to be the guy "catherder" who has or had (at that time) a lock on several of the biggest daytime TV shows on the air. He was using just over 100 TAXI members with a handful of those getting 90% of the placements in those shows.


As so it is marketed.

This is what I know. Michael Jackson was paid millions to drink Pepsi in their commercials. Wait...not ACTUALLY drink...give the appearance that he did. He didn't drink Pepsi!

I'm not going to explain endorsement deals as I'm sure you all understand them.

I work day in and day out with people who are "exclusive" but do A LOT of work with people "on the side." They are high level, currently in demand, musicians. Not a musician that toured with a band from the 70's. Musicians who are on tour or record for the musicians you hear when you turn the radio right now.

I'm not saying that happens at taxi, I'm just saying it happens everywhere else in this industry. wink

I would also like to state, I am not anti-Taxi. They bring some great resources to people who can truly use them. I just wish they were a bit more transparent with how they fund themselves.

I think I will back out of the conversation now, as I feel I am coming across (again) as having no clue what I am talking about.

Write on! smile (or re-write if necessary)


Last edited by HearToLearn; 09/11/15 10:17 AM.
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