Original article from - http://www.musicbizacademy.com The music industry aside, in your daily interaction with unrelated music companies, such as utility companies, supermarkets, restaurants, etc., as a customer or client, it is easy to recognize those companies that value you as their most important asset, and those companies that do not. Those that do recognize it, reflect this in how their personnel, who represent them, treat you and react and respond to your immediate needs. Alternatively, those that do not recognize it and, otherwise, appear to feel that you are there to serve them, allow their employees to present rude and disrespectful behavior to customers, with little (if any) internal repercussions to their employees for doing so. Now, let's bring this same point closer to home where we live...in the Music industry, and see it through the history of both major record labels and artists, and where it has now come. Major Record Labels: Since before the exi...