MBU 1110 Test 4 questions with
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Personal Manager Roles - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-Helps with major career decisions: record
company choice, publishing deals, how much to ask for
-Helps with creative process: producer choice, which songs to record, hiring band members,
selecting photographers
-Advances artists' career
-Assembling lawyers, agents, business managers
-Coordinates tours
-Gets your projects to be the priority at the record company
-Buffer between artist and outside world
Licenses needed - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-In CA, NY, NJ, FL for agents
-Not needed for agents in other states
-Not needed for managers
Finding a manager - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Live Nation companies manage over 500 artists with
140+ artist managers
-Roc Nation
-Vector
-Phillymack
-24 artist
-Blueprint artist
-Spalding
-Mick asrtists
, -Three Six Zero
Other ways to find a manager - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-Published lists: Pollstar, Music Row
Magazine, Music Connection, RecordXpress
-Trade magazines
-Album notes
-Recomendations
Narrowing down a manager - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-Ask for references
-Consult lawyer and others involved
-Be sure you hire the person that will do the job
-What are their fees?
Manager Skills Needed - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-Business and Legal Skills: accounting and
finance
-People person
-Reasonable ego
-Perceptive and Creative
-Organized
Power of Attorney - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A legal document that authorizes one person (the
manager) to act on behalf of another person (the artist). Usually authorizes the manager to sign
the artist's name to agreements.
Durable POA - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔POA effective upon the principal's becoming incompetent
or unable to manage his affairs
-elderly
-not recommended in business
complete solutions
Personal Manager Roles - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-Helps with major career decisions: record
company choice, publishing deals, how much to ask for
-Helps with creative process: producer choice, which songs to record, hiring band members,
selecting photographers
-Advances artists' career
-Assembling lawyers, agents, business managers
-Coordinates tours
-Gets your projects to be the priority at the record company
-Buffer between artist and outside world
Licenses needed - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-In CA, NY, NJ, FL for agents
-Not needed for agents in other states
-Not needed for managers
Finding a manager - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Live Nation companies manage over 500 artists with
140+ artist managers
-Roc Nation
-Vector
-Phillymack
-24 artist
-Blueprint artist
-Spalding
-Mick asrtists
, -Three Six Zero
Other ways to find a manager - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-Published lists: Pollstar, Music Row
Magazine, Music Connection, RecordXpress
-Trade magazines
-Album notes
-Recomendations
Narrowing down a manager - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-Ask for references
-Consult lawyer and others involved
-Be sure you hire the person that will do the job
-What are their fees?
Manager Skills Needed - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-Business and Legal Skills: accounting and
finance
-People person
-Reasonable ego
-Perceptive and Creative
-Organized
Power of Attorney - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A legal document that authorizes one person (the
manager) to act on behalf of another person (the artist). Usually authorizes the manager to sign
the artist's name to agreements.
Durable POA - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔POA effective upon the principal's becoming incompetent
or unable to manage his affairs
-elderly
-not recommended in business
