Kevin "KevRoss" Ross is a music and radio industry expert. He is a 20 -plus year entrepreneur with the leading most successful industry trade publication and site Radio Facts (www.blogwallet.com). He has also published various books, magazines, performed marketing and promotions for major corporations and recording artists and he is on the advisory board of several industry organizations. This year Ross introduced his non profit organization LOMARI (Leaders of the Music and Recording Industry) to help teach young minority students how to market and manage their music and products.
Updated for 2025: Practical AI & Business Moves In the Black community, there’s a long-standing unspoken rule: don’t air our dirty laundry. We hide our struggles, protect secrets, and stay silent about the pain. But in 2025, I’m done with that silence. My childhood was
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Kevin Ross: The Bartender Years, Reimagined for 2025 Updated for 2025: Practical AI & Business Moves Back in the early ’90s, I was a bartender at a hotel near Lenox Mall in Atlanta. It wasn’t about the tips — it was about being a therapist
Underdeveloped ‘Developers’: Making Your Outcome Drive Their Income in 2025 (From someone who learned the hard way—and leveled up with AI) A few years back, I took a deep dive into WordPress development, powered by AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. Why? Because I
Eliminate to Elevate—Value Yourself, Your Time, and Your AI Every day, we get buried in tasks that don’t move the needle. For me, it used to be drowning in endless emails and favors from people who wouldn’t even buy me a coffee in return. That
The Brutal Truth of Business Longevity in 2025 Business will eat you alive if you let it. Industries flip overnight, now faster than ever with AI and automation reshaping markets on a weekly basis. One day you’re the hotshot, the next you’re the old guy
10 AI Services I Recommend for 2025 Ten years ago, you needed a whole team to do what one person with the right AI stack can crank out before lunch. Design, marketing, coding, customer service—it’s all on-demand now. The real question isn’t if you should
Business Management (2025 Reality Check) Congrats, you’re still standing—many aren’t. The core truth remains: if clients don’t come back, your service, process, or follow-through is broken. In 2025, ditch the hustle-for-hustle’s-sake mindset. Focus ruthlessly on managing value, time, and cash flow. Avoid debt unless it’s
The “Fake Client” Shuffle in 2025 Every seasoned entrepreneur has faced them: the so-called “potential clients” who stroll in, flash a smile, and dangle promises they never intend to fulfill. They toss out questions like, “So… who exactly do you reach?” which really means, “We
