The day has come when the world and the people in it are just too busy to read anything. Think about it, with the invention and release of MP3 players, people on the go simply do not take the time to read books, articles, or anything for that matter. What they do instead is listen to them. That is right; they can download audio files right from the internet and listen to them while they are on the go.
Private label rights audio can help you tap into that market of people quickly and easily. The world in general is a busy place; it is time that your business starts catering to the busy professionals as well.
Private Label Rights Audio - The Key to the Future
PLR audio files can be found in many forms and types. The most popular audio files are MP3's. However, they may be found in midi, wav, or other types of audio files. The key is to find out just what your customers want. For the most part, it will likely be MP3's they are wanting, which are very easy to find.
So, what types of PLR audios are available? There are many different forms of audio available that you can begin offering your customers:
Audio Novels - Again, society is entirely too busy now days to take a few hours to read a book. Therefore, people are turning to the ability to listen as they go. With audio novels, they can listen to an entire book while they travel to and from work, exercise, cook, eat, or any other activity really.
Audio Self-Help Books - Self-help books are extremely popular. People are always looking for ways to improve their lives, abilities, and self-help books are the way to go. Again, the benefits are that they can listen to the book while they are doing almost any activity.
Audio Tutorials - Not everyone has the patience or ability to learn a new skill by reading an article, a tutorial, or a book. Why not offer your customers an easier method of learning.
Audio Lectures and Speaking Engagement - Do not worry about transcripts, offer your customers an easier way to listen and learn from speakers.
There is so much more available in the area of private label rights audio, such as music, courses, and the like. It is important that you tap into exactly what your customers need and want.
PLR Audio - How To Profit
The best thing about audio is that they can be downloaded right to any computer and used in a variety of ways. For example, a customer could listen to it right on their computer, burn it onto a disk for use in a CD player, or even transfer it directly to their personal MP3 player, listening to it while they are on the go.
The key to earning a profit with private label rights audio is to make sure it is of the highest quality and is of good content. With PLR audio, you are given the rights to edit, brand, and resell as you see fit. However, it is important to keep in mind that while you do have these rights, so do other people as well. You may have duplicated content. Therefore, you will have to work that much harder to get customers to choose you over another company.
You want to brand the PLR audio with your own business information, logos, and links. You can provide the audio files for direct downloads or include them with another product. For example, many people are offering e-Books for sale, but they also include an audio file of the same e-Book to provide more benefits to their customers, as well as make an additional profit.
Happy Listening For You And Your Customers!
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=473111
Saturday, September 29, 2007
ARTIST MANAGEMENT - 8 Reasons Why a Band or Artist Needs a Manager
To most musicians, the enduring image of an artist manager is a caricature of a heavy-set, unkempt slob of a man, stuffed into a 2-sizes-too-small, off-the-rack department store suit, chomping on a cheap smelly cigar while sliding a greasy hand unceremoniously into the back pocket of a starving artist. Surely, somewhere in the vast landscape of the music universe, such malice exists. The vast majority of artist managers, however, are a motley collection of well-meaning, hardworking, selfless individuals struggling to make the dreams of someone they believe in come true.
For the legion of dedicated unbelievers out there, this is an article that attempts to shed light on the true value of an artist manager. Following are 8 reasons why a band or artist needs a good manager:
1. 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.
2. 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., in order to keep them all engaged and enthusiastic.
3. Prestige - According to most record industry professionals, there is something to be said about an artist that has a manager. The logic is that if an artist is good enough to attract management, there must be something of value present. In fact, most major labels refuse to sign an artist unless they have solid team (manager, attorney and publicist) in place. An artist without management is just too much drama! Labels would rather deal with someone who knows how the music business works and can make decisions on a non-emotional basis.
4. Buffer - A manager can act as an effective screening buffer between the artist and people that want to do business with the artist. This buffer tends to attract legitimate industry players while at the same time scaring away scam artists. There are no scarier words to a scam artist than "please talk to my manager".
5. Time management - There simply is not enough time in the day to do everything that needs to be done in order to further the career of an artist. In between writing songs, conducting interviews, designing artwork for CD's and merchandise, managing a mailing list, filling out copyright paperwork, rehearsing with the band, hiring and firing musicians, updating band websites and MySpace profiles, getting pictures taken, shooting and editing DVD's and YouTube videos, sending out packages and/or updating EPK's, researching, repairing and purchasing equipment, etc., there isn't time to also craft a master game plan, solicit potential sponsorship partners, handle licensing requests, reach out to industry gatekeepers, attend industry networking events, harass labels for tour support, and so on. Some tasks can be delegated to the band while others can be handled by the manager.
6. Accountability - Part of a manager's job is to hold people accountable. What happens when the financial tour support that was promised by the label fails to materialize? Or the check from the booking agent bounces? Or the FOH engineer at the show is MIA? Or the licensee fails to sign and return the contract but is using the artist's songs anyway? Or the beer in the tour van vanishes? Somebody has to keep people honest, and that is most appropriately the manager's job.
7. Good Cop / Bad Cop - Need to fire the bass player but don't want to create an enemy? Let the manager play bad cop and do the firing. Need to re-negotiate your contract and request more of a promotion budget? Let the manager play good cop and keep a positive spin on the proceedings. There are plenty of occasions when the artist and manager can trade off playing good cop / bad cop.
8. Sounding board - A manager, even though basically an "honorary member of the band", is frequently on the outside looking in. Managers usually see things differently than the artist, and can often provide different perspectives, insights and solutions to problems the artist is encountering. Running ideas by a knowledgeable manager prior to making decisions often allows for good ideas to become better and bad ideas to be removed altogether from the to-do list.
So, there you have it! 8 good reasons why an artist needs a manager. Having said all this, however, it is important to note that having a bad manager is worse than having no manager at all. Many wannabe managers think they can just "wing-it" with an artist, and continue to operate with the "lets-record-a-3-song-demo-and-shop-it-for-a-record-deal" mentality, even though the music industry continues to undergo significant changes. New business models are emerging, and only those managers that stay at the leading edge of the learning curve will create successful strategies and provide meaningful counsel to their clients.
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=608298
For the legion of dedicated unbelievers out there, this is an article that attempts to shed light on the true value of an artist manager. Following are 8 reasons why a band or artist needs a good manager:
1. 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.
2. 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., in order to keep them all engaged and enthusiastic.
3. Prestige - According to most record industry professionals, there is something to be said about an artist that has a manager. The logic is that if an artist is good enough to attract management, there must be something of value present. In fact, most major labels refuse to sign an artist unless they have solid team (manager, attorney and publicist) in place. An artist without management is just too much drama! Labels would rather deal with someone who knows how the music business works and can make decisions on a non-emotional basis.
4. Buffer - A manager can act as an effective screening buffer between the artist and people that want to do business with the artist. This buffer tends to attract legitimate industry players while at the same time scaring away scam artists. There are no scarier words to a scam artist than "please talk to my manager".
5. Time management - There simply is not enough time in the day to do everything that needs to be done in order to further the career of an artist. In between writing songs, conducting interviews, designing artwork for CD's and merchandise, managing a mailing list, filling out copyright paperwork, rehearsing with the band, hiring and firing musicians, updating band websites and MySpace profiles, getting pictures taken, shooting and editing DVD's and YouTube videos, sending out packages and/or updating EPK's, researching, repairing and purchasing equipment, etc., there isn't time to also craft a master game plan, solicit potential sponsorship partners, handle licensing requests, reach out to industry gatekeepers, attend industry networking events, harass labels for tour support, and so on. Some tasks can be delegated to the band while others can be handled by the manager.
6. Accountability - Part of a manager's job is to hold people accountable. What happens when the financial tour support that was promised by the label fails to materialize? Or the check from the booking agent bounces? Or the FOH engineer at the show is MIA? Or the licensee fails to sign and return the contract but is using the artist's songs anyway? Or the beer in the tour van vanishes? Somebody has to keep people honest, and that is most appropriately the manager's job.
7. Good Cop / Bad Cop - Need to fire the bass player but don't want to create an enemy? Let the manager play bad cop and do the firing. Need to re-negotiate your contract and request more of a promotion budget? Let the manager play good cop and keep a positive spin on the proceedings. There are plenty of occasions when the artist and manager can trade off playing good cop / bad cop.
8. Sounding board - A manager, even though basically an "honorary member of the band", is frequently on the outside looking in. Managers usually see things differently than the artist, and can often provide different perspectives, insights and solutions to problems the artist is encountering. Running ideas by a knowledgeable manager prior to making decisions often allows for good ideas to become better and bad ideas to be removed altogether from the to-do list.
So, there you have it! 8 good reasons why an artist needs a manager. Having said all this, however, it is important to note that having a bad manager is worse than having no manager at all. Many wannabe managers think they can just "wing-it" with an artist, and continue to operate with the "lets-record-a-3-song-demo-and-shop-it-for-a-record-deal" mentality, even though the music industry continues to undergo significant changes. New business models are emerging, and only those managers that stay at the leading edge of the learning curve will create successful strategies and provide meaningful counsel to their clients.
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=608298
Share Your Ways
Are you a parent that has discovered secret tactics that work on your children? Are you a horse rider that has educated a green horse? Are you great at wood work and have developed skills? Are you a health wise person that likes to stay fit? These are just some examples of what people know that they could write down on a piece of paper/computer screen.
But what's the point of writing it down? You could take a skill or knowledge that you possess , whether it be a life skill such as parenting or a practical skill such as wood work and make money from it. One of the biggest ways to earn money is to write an ebook but for some people that's too daunting or they just don't want to. But what about articles? Articles can be ½ a page to a full page and can be very profitable. All you have to do is find an affiliate product to promote and write an article on a similar subject to that product. Place your article/s on article directories, ezines, forums etc having a link to that product (some directories like you to have a link only to your website - therefore you could set up a free website and have one page with the product link on it).
To give you an example let's take being a parent. On a personal note I have two little men, two and five. Now my five year old used to be hard to get into bed at night without a fuss and for a present we'd bought him a car shaped cd player. So my husband and I developed a method that if our little man went to bed like a good boy he could have his music on but if he made a big fuss the cd player would get turned off. It didn't take long at all before he'd go to bed quite happily and listen to his music before falling asleep. So I could write an article about that and have an affiliate link (or your own product if you wanted) to a car shaped cd player or cd player shop with various players etc. If you wanted to write about your philosophies on getting children into bed you could have a link to children's bed linen or an online book store selling children's books as I don't think there would be a child out there that doesn't love being read to. If you wanted to write about how your child was a poor eater (which is also very common!) you could explain how you got your child to eat by making funny faces with their food etc and have a link to either your own recipe book or an affiliate link.
The beauty of article writing is it is such a quick and easy process. Articles are meant to be short and sweet so you don't have to get too bogged down. If you put your mind to it I'm sure you'd discover that there are so many things you could write about not only to share your experiences with others and give great advice but it could also make you some good money along the way.
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=613542
But what's the point of writing it down? You could take a skill or knowledge that you possess , whether it be a life skill such as parenting or a practical skill such as wood work and make money from it. One of the biggest ways to earn money is to write an ebook but for some people that's too daunting or they just don't want to. But what about articles? Articles can be ½ a page to a full page and can be very profitable. All you have to do is find an affiliate product to promote and write an article on a similar subject to that product. Place your article/s on article directories, ezines, forums etc having a link to that product (some directories like you to have a link only to your website - therefore you could set up a free website and have one page with the product link on it).
To give you an example let's take being a parent. On a personal note I have two little men, two and five. Now my five year old used to be hard to get into bed at night without a fuss and for a present we'd bought him a car shaped cd player. So my husband and I developed a method that if our little man went to bed like a good boy he could have his music on but if he made a big fuss the cd player would get turned off. It didn't take long at all before he'd go to bed quite happily and listen to his music before falling asleep. So I could write an article about that and have an affiliate link (or your own product if you wanted) to a car shaped cd player or cd player shop with various players etc. If you wanted to write about your philosophies on getting children into bed you could have a link to children's bed linen or an online book store selling children's books as I don't think there would be a child out there that doesn't love being read to. If you wanted to write about how your child was a poor eater (which is also very common!) you could explain how you got your child to eat by making funny faces with their food etc and have a link to either your own recipe book or an affiliate link.
The beauty of article writing is it is such a quick and easy process. Articles are meant to be short and sweet so you don't have to get too bogged down. If you put your mind to it I'm sure you'd discover that there are so many things you could write about not only to share your experiences with others and give great advice but it could also make you some good money along the way.
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=613542
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