Ritch and Bally Ames, the husband-and-wife team who run the online pr and digital marketing company, have been contributing the feature to the business pages of the site for the past five weeks. Their articles detail what it is like to be a small company in the music business during the economic decline.

"It's about economic developments and how they affect us as a family and as a business," says Ritch Ames. "If you take away all majors, the music ...