PERSONAL MANAGEMENT

PERSONAL MANAGEMENT

Finding and securing good management is very important in this sometimes-challenging music business, and is to be valued once you connect with the right candidate. Also - having a great personal manager in your corner can make the difference between you having a successful career in the music industry, or just being one of the many frustrated people who search for ways to make something of their talent.

Note that much of what you are about to discover about personal management can be useful in your music career at any artist or producer level; unsigned or signed. So read it, absorb it, and embrace this information, until you get a genuine understanding of these essential ABC's of seeking and dealing with the whole personal management relationship. Once you have read and thought about this chapter, you must then do what I feel is the most important step of all…apply what you have learned.

IT ALL STARTS WITH 'THE PLAN'
"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!"

Like building anything else in life -- a business, a home, a marriage, or even a bridge, you start the process (if you're smart) with a plan. And if you want your music endeavors to be successful, then you definitely need a plan. Now, with all of this being said, one of the key people needed to help you get your plan together is a personal manager.

Personal managers play a vital role in helping you come up with a plan, and also a strategy to implement that plan.

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