I don't think I've heard the 80/20 thing applied to Taxi, although I've heard enough anecdotes about writers having a few gems/unicorn tracks which often generate a lot of income for years etc...JonathanE wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:38 pmThat's a great point, which is that just a couple library contacts can get you on your way. And so, if people were told at the beginning of their taxi membership that a lot of members have succeeded in the business and the 80/20 rule has been true for them, it might be more encouraging for new members to get through the discouraging part of not hearing back from so many forwards.mattbee wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:12 pmThe 80/20 thing has so far been the most disheartening part of Taxi for me (among the MANY benefits). I've been a Taxi member on and off for years, in the last year have had maybe 5-6 forwards, but nil contact from libraries. I think the suggestion about an automated email would be great, but I can already hear Michael's voice saying the libraries are simply too busy to get back to everybody/send a response to Taxi for each track. Like you, it does sound like even people who have had many forwards often have a similar ratio, although that said, sometimes all you need is a couple of good library deals to set you on your way.
I'm curious... had you heard of the 80/20 thing before? Had it been mentioned on a taxi tv? Or is it just something that you noticed also for yourself?
And knowing the great quality of Cosmic Dolphin's work, and from 38 forwards only 3 deals, if I read that correctly... it's beyond discouraging for the rest of us haha.
I know that the Taxi rule is that for every listing, everything on target gets forwarded, it's never just the top 10% etc, so it's good that we know if it hits the mark, it'll get sent to the library to be listened to. But... knowing that there seems to be a very low rate of deals occurring from people with large amounts of forwards is really concerning to me in terms of whether or not I continue with my membership, knowing that even if I start to get a great hit rate of forwards, the chance of that actually resulting in deals starts to something where I question whether it's where I want to put my time.