Independent Artist and Industry Events

Being that I am a vocal artist and a graduate student as well, I have been faced with every aspect of artist management, because I have to manage school and myself as an artist.  I have been faced with planning budgeting, and execution as an independent artist. During the time of rest between the scheduling of show events, I am constantly writing music for the actual song that I am performing. I have a budget in which I have to control that aids in financial assistance for my wardrobe attire, costs of registry itself, and tickets for promotion of my events. I am still currently learning new approaches to the music entertainment business by pursuing a degree in my field of expertise.

There are times when I find out that a show is cancelled or held over because not enough promotion was done for the event itself. Countless situations have occurred considering financial costs, and not being able to meet the budget. For example, I have $200.00 for my budget cost and I have to pay $150.00 for registry of the show. The registry costs include 30 tickets. For, instance if tickets are priced at $5 dollars each and I only sell 20 of 30 tickets, I only made $100.00 in profit, which means I end up only paying $50.00 for the total cost of the event. If I had a budget of $400.00 or more per show or event, I would have a more secure financial budget to work with for extra costs of events and promotions. 

During the promotion of events, I have found that social networking is the easiest and cheapest way of promoting yourself and sending out invites for my own performance events. Free promotional assistance with the planning and implementation of events really cuts down the financial budgeting because promotion is considered to be inclusive in the event of planning to perform at local shows here in Orlando, Florida. Alex Braggs is a really good friend of mines who is an entertainment business entrepreneur /artists developer out of Orlando, Florida. He gives great advice and is very helpful with the promotion of my events as an independent artist. If you are interested in becoming an entrepreneur of business entertainment or you can use help with some promotional services contact Alex Braggs of Dmbentic.Inc.

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Assembling an Entertainment Industry Team

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As future Founder and C.E.O of my own Entertainment Company, I know that a dynamic group/team of people is of key importance in building a company. Considering that everyone has strengths and weaknesses, one person can benefit the other during a day that various tasks need to be completed. It is important to have a skilled team because company would be a more organized, developed, and workers would be able to help one another more efficiently.

It is very important that for every spectrum of the business, there is more than one person skilled to complete several different tasks ranging from manager’s duties to business manager’s duties.
The team of people associated within my Entertainment Company consists of a C.E.O(Chief Executive Officer), C.F.O(Chief Financial Officer), Personal Manager, Talent Agent, and Entertainment Attorney and a Publicist.The C.F.O or Business Manager Accountant as opposed to personal mangers focus solely on artist’s finances. Job duties consist of doing taxes and/or bookkeeping, helping artists collect income, budget assistance, investment analysis, and track/audit royalty accounts.

The Personal Manager is often the focal point towards the furtherance of his or her career. My Personal Manager will assists my artist clients that enter in an agreement with a personal manager. Specific duties/tasks of a Personal Manager may consist of but no limited too selecting wardrobe for the artists’ live performance show’s and working on publicity materials, an advice on new creative issues jus to name a few.A Talent Agent is the next group member in line to build a successful team in the Entertainment Business world. A Talent Agent has one task only and that is getting the artist employment. This is very crucial function since, after all, without employment, the artist has no income and cannot afford to pay rent and compensate the rest of the team.

In order to negotiate and get legal advice, there has to be an Entertainment Attorney within the company. The Entertainment Attorney will be business advisors, professional matchmakers, and bring parties together for new projects. Others will assist in administering copyrights and collecting and receiving funds on behalf of my client. It is important to have Entertainment Attorney because there is a chance that a deal within the company may go sour, and he/she coordinates the litigation process to resolve the claim. A Publicist is responsible for getting press coverage for a client/artists. The publicist is the middleman between the high-profile personality and members of the media. Publicists job duties include variety of tasks from performing damage control, attempting to counteract any undesirable press coverage the client to organizing publicity events for such as the release of a new " Hit single or Album." Publicists must maintain a good relationship with the media, no matter how demanding the desires of the client and the reporters thhey depend on.

Effective communication in the workplace is important and necessary in order to build a friendly and conductive working environment. If communication is not effective within my company, the productivity of my workers will decrease and everyone will become stressed out. If communication is effective, my organization will function smoothly and the work environment will be more pleasant for all. In order to communicate effectively with the team members in my company we will have scheduled meetings where everyone is socially engaged and inclined with each other. Everyone will have a chance to present new innovative ideas or give advice to one another so that we can build the business professionally, and communicate with one another in an orderly fashion. Team building exercises will be  conducted on a mandatory basis to keep a team spirit within my company.

If you need more information about building a team or management advice, here's a link below that will assist you.

http://www.musicbizacademy.com/articles/ab_industryteam.htm