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  Following are 8 reasons why a band or artist needs a good manager - Career Guidance - It's often extremely difficult for artists to step back from the day-to-day activities and see the big picture (you know - the old 'forest-for-the-trees' thing). A knowledgeable manager can see how everything in the big picture fits together, and can help the artist navigate through the often-confusing maze of activities that seem unrelated yet are all part of a massive jigsaw puzzle. The manager provides career guidance and helps to set the overall game plan for the artist and the artists' team to follow. Cheerleading - Even though fans are the main cheerleaders for an artist, someone has to communicate the same enthusiasm to the music business community. An artist manager will trumpet the artist's message to record labels, booking agents, promoters, media personnel, club bookers, independent retail accounts, etc. Prestige - According to most record industry professionals, there is something to be said about an artist that has a manager.
  
  The artist will typically email you a photograph of your portrait when they have completed it for your approval. Approval Every artist that I know wants more than anything for you to be happy with your portrait, so be sure to ask the artist about the approval process. Some artists may ask that you forfeit your deposit, but most artists will work with you until you are happy with the finished result. Payment and Shipping most artists expect to be paid in full before they will ship you your portrait. Packing and shipping costs are typically paid by you, so talk about that with your artist before you commission a work. Overseas shipping and customs costs might make it prohibitive, depending on your budget, so look into that before you say 'yes'. Large works will often be rolled in a tube to save shipping costs, but this adds some work on your end. If the work is on canvas, you will have to take it to your local framers to be 're-stretched' and then framed, if you wish. Receiving Your Art most artists will ensure that your portrait is 'ready to hang' when you take it out of the shipping container.
  
  What's the mystery What's left to discover And yet this has become, especially in the Music Business of the last 12 years the "accepted modus operendi" to launching a hit act. Is it any wonder that we don't have many artists who've built successful musical careers for themselves over the last 10-15 years - The new breed of artists and managers (and yes, there are a few who do think long-term) emerging today do not appear to see their clients careers with this same unhealthy compulsion. They have a solid grasp of who and what they are and have been able to map out a career path that is consistent with that vision. This, more than anything is what will contribute toward building an artists career, rather than destroying it. A development in the industry that we would be remiss in not mentioning is the recent trend of "upstreaming". This is where an Independent label develops an act from the ground up and at a certain sales level, the act goes upstream to the Major Label system. The catch is, of course, that the smaller label will have to give up their acts to the major if the acts become successful. The great flaw in this scenario is that the major labels have traditionally thought that any act doing 100-250K on an independent label should be able to do at least three times that within a Major Label System. As we've seen over the last few years, 'it just ain't so' Most acts do not go from 150K to 500K in the course of 1 album.
  
  You are not trying to impress anyone, you are trying to communicate to a very wide audience what your art is about. Here are some other things to consider and incorporate into an artist statement Avoid using I and me throughout the statement. If you have multiple bodies or work, materials or techniques, have multiple artist statements for each. That is what the artist sees and the viewer may see or interpret something else. If the artist is unsure about the end result of the statement, then the artist should have other people read it, comment on it or find someone that will help the artist. After it is completed, the artist should reread it and make sure that the sentence structure and spelling are perfect. In a few days, they should look at it again and follow these steps all over again At that point, the artist will see how a phrase, sentence or a word can be changed in order to make the artist statement clearer and overall better. If however, the artist is still not completely happy with the statement, put it away again and reread in order to fine tune and communicate the artist statement clearly. Remember, the artist statement is speaking to the viewer in the artist's absence.
  
  You can also spend your day mingling with some perky meerkats at the wildlife park in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. You can enter their enclosure with the keeper at feeding time and assist in feeding them. The friendly meerkats will enjoy taking treats from your hand, sitting in your lap, untying your shoelaces, and peeking in your pockets You can also take along a few friends to take pictures of this unique experience - If you'd like to gift your girlfriend a completely new pampering experience, then go for the Emerald Makeover Experience--complete with a fabulous array of beauty treatments including facial, manicure, and moisturising hand massage high fashion photo shoot and a complimentary glass of Bucks Fizz Treat her to a memorable makeover by top make-up artists and hair stylists, and get professional photographs to remember the experience - With gifts like these and many more like them you have no excuses not to woo and impress her on her birthday this year. In the era from which the Movement drew its inspiration the fireplace was only beginning to be sited on the sidewalls of great halls in the houses of the very rich. So the style adopted by Arts and Crafts was a 19th century day pastiche of what was really constructed during the Wars of the Roses. Designs were often in brick although stone could be used where it was a local material. Bricks would vary in size, with courses laid vertically as well as conventionally or possibly in a herringbone pattern. Later designs often included tiles and the type of sinuous designs that are associated with Charles Rennie Macintosh and Art Nouveau. Tiles might have a pastoral scene or a complex flower motif and the Rockwood Pottery that produced early designs was closely associated with Morris Co, the company that William Morris ran from 1875.
  
  
  
  
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  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Following are 8 reasons why a band or artist needs a good manager - Career Guidance - It's often extremely difficult for artists to step back from the day-to-day activities and see the big picture (you know - the old 'forest-for-the-trees' thing). A knowledgeable manager can see how everything in the big picture fits together, and can help the artist navigate through the often-confusing maze of activities that seem unrelated yet are all part of a massive jigsaw puzzle. The manager provides career guidance and helps to set the overall game plan for the artist and the artists' team to follow. Cheerleading - Even though fans are the main cheerleaders for an artist, someone has to communicate the same enthusiasm to the music business community. An artist manager will trumpet the artist's message to record labels, booking agents, promoters, media personnel, club bookers, independent retail accounts, etc. Prestige - According to most record industry professionals, there is something to be said about an artist that has a manager. <br /><br />The artist will typically email you a photograph of your portrait when they have completed it for your approval. Approval Every artist that I know wants more than anything for you to be happy with your portrait, so be sure to ask the artist about the approval process. Some artists may ask that you forfeit your deposit, but most artists will work with you until you are happy with the finished result. Payment and Shipping most artists expect to be paid in full before they will ship you your portrait. Packing and shipping costs are typically paid by you, so talk about that with your artist before you commission a work. Overseas shipping and customs costs might make it prohibitive, depending on your budget, so look into that before you say 'yes'. Large works will often be rolled in a tube to save shipping costs, but this adds some work on your end. If the work is on canvas, you will have to take it to your local framers to be 're-stretched' and then framed, if you wish. Receiving Your Art most artists will ensure that your portrait is 'ready to hang' when you take it out of the shipping container. <br /><br />What's the mystery What's left to discover And yet this has become, especially in the Music Business of the last 12 years the "accepted modus operendi" to launching a hit act. Is it any wonder that we don't have many artists who've built successful musical careers for themselves over the last 10-15 years - The new breed of artists and managers (and yes, there are a few who do think long-term) emerging today do not appear to see their clients careers with this same unhealthy compulsion. They have a solid grasp of who and what they are and have been able to map out a career path that is consistent with that vision. This, more than anything is what will contribute toward building an artists career, rather than destroying it. A development in the industry that we would be remiss in not mentioning is the recent trend of "upstreaming". This is where an Independent label develops an act from the ground up and at a certain sales level, the act goes upstream to the Major Label system. The catch is, of course, that the smaller label will have to give up their acts to the major if the acts become successful. The great flaw in this scenario is that the major labels have traditionally thought that any act doing 100-250K on an independent label should be able to do at least three times that within a Major Label System. As we've seen over the last few years, 'it just ain't so' Most acts do not go from 150K to 500K in the course of 1 album. <br /><br />You are not trying to impress anyone, you are trying to communicate to a very wide audience what your art is about. Here are some other things to consider and incorporate into an artist statement Avoid using I and me throughout the statement. If you have multiple bodies or work, materials or techniques, have multiple artist statements for each. That is what the artist sees and the viewer may see or interpret something else. If the artist is unsure about the end result of the statement, then the artist should have other people read it, comment on it or find someone that will help the artist. After it is completed, the artist should reread it and make sure that the sentence structure and spelling are perfect. In a few days, they should look at it again and follow these steps all over again At that point, the artist will see how a phrase, sentence or a word can be changed in order to make the artist statement clearer and overall better. If however, the artist is still not completely happy with the statement, put it away again and reread in order to fine tune and communicate the artist statement clearly. Remember, the artist statement is speaking to the viewer in the artist's absence. <br /><br />You can also spend your day mingling with some perky meerkats at the wildlife park in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. You can enter their enclosure with the keeper at feeding time and assist in feeding them. The friendly meerkats will enjoy taking treats from your hand, sitting in your lap, untying your shoelaces, and peeking in your pockets You can also take along a few friends to take pictures of this unique experience - If you'd like to gift your girlfriend a completely new pampering experience, then go for the Emerald Makeover Experience--complete with a fabulous array of beauty treatments including facial, manicure, and moisturising hand massage high fashion photo shoot and a complimentary glass of Bucks Fizz Treat her to a memorable makeover by top make-up artists and hair stylists, and get professional photographs to remember the experience - With gifts like these and many more like them you have no excuses not to woo and impress her on her birthday this year. In the era from which the Movement drew its inspiration the fireplace was only beginning to be sited on the sidewalls of great halls in the houses of the very rich. So the style adopted by Arts and Crafts was a 19th century day pastiche of what was really constructed during the Wars of the Roses. Designs were often in brick although stone could be used where it was a local material. Bricks would vary in size, with courses laid vertically as well as conventionally or possibly in a herringbone pattern. Later designs often included tiles and the type of sinuous designs that are associated with Charles Rennie Macintosh and Art Nouveau. Tiles might have a pastoral scene or a complex flower motif and the Rockwood Pottery that produced early designs was closely associated with Morris Co, the company that William Morris ran from 1875. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.fozzieillustrations.co.uk" rel="nofollow">Hertfordshire Illustrator</a></div>

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