If you are seeing this post and find your self asking what is a Artist Manager you may want to 1st read our blog post What is an Artist Manager? (wmmg.uk) To gather a better understanding of what exactly a artist manager is, however if your looking at hiring the best artist manager - read ahead.
Now you know what an Artist Manager is and exactly what they get up too lets take a more in depth look at how to know which artist manager is best for you. When looking for your verry own artist manager there are a few important things to consider. Firstly you have to consider why exactly you are interested in a artist manager, do you need help with your social media, are you looking to book more gigs or are you just looking to get your music career kicked off but have no idea where to start. Then once you know exactly what you need you can find someone who can compliment exactly what you are lacking.
If at any point whilst reading this you decide you are interested in a artist manager please take a second to complete our Get Heard form for chance to work directly with us.
Best Artist Manager To Find Gigs.
If you are looking for a artist manager to help you find more gigs you are going to want to search for someone who has a solid understanding of the music industry and ideally has existing contacts of both other bands/artists and venues alike. Ideally you want to find someone who has contacts in your specific genera as this makes them much more likely to to get results for you specifically. However this dose not mean a artist manager who dose not have contacts around your specific genera is instantly a bad option. As long as they are a solid communicator and understand how to use network effectively they should be capable of building a new list of contacts based specifically around your genera! From here it will be their job to manage all communications and negotiations to land you the best possible gigs to ither help you expand your reach or earn you a profit from your performance.
Best Artist Manager For Social Media Marketing
If you are interested in a artist manager as you are hoping to expand your reach on social media there are a few things to consider. Firstly you need to consider what you are capable of yourself, Are you capable of recording your own content ? Monitoring current and upcoming trends in your niece ? Do you have the ability to edit your own photos and videos to ensure there is nothing but quality being posted on your pages? these are just some of the questions you should ask yourself when looking for a new artist manager if social media is something you feel you need help with and from there you can find someone that has these missing skills that way you can rest assured you are posting the right things at the right times and your pages are all extremely presentable for any new or existing visitors.
Your artist manager should be capable and willing to monitor all data on your own social pages and others similar to you so that way they are egal visioned when it comes to what exactly is going to work on what platform and what isn't. That way you don't need to worry about any of the boring stuff and can stick to the creative side of things which if your reading this blog i would assume is why your here in the first place
Best Artist Manager For Business
Maybe you have no problems at all with finding and booking your own gigs, and maybe you are completely ok with managing and monitoring your own social media. However you are just not seeing the financial result you where hoping to achieve. in this case you may want to look for an extremely business savvy manager! If this is this case you will want to find someone who is an excellent communicator and negotiator who also has a love and passion for business and crunching numbers. This person should be highly ambitious and understand the ins and outs of how to run a successful operation whether its their own personal business or managing you. They should be fully capable of finding you the best possible events and collaborations to help you upscale your brand and also maximise profits at the same time.
There are many ways that they may attempt to do this from negotiating your price for performances and appearances to creating you your own merchandise. This person should be able to create multiple income streams for your brand so that you will see income coming in from multiple sources. If this sounds like what you are looking for you should search for someone who loves business and isn't scared of work others may see as boring or too difficult.
Conclusion
There are thousands of excellent musicians out there who fail or do not get the recognition they deserve. The music industry is highly competitive and is not a easy place to make a living. Musicians generally want to perform and make music for for a living as that is what they love to do however do not understand exactly what it takes to be successful from behind the scenes. There are also many musicians who may try to learn all the skills that are required however in most cases its just too much work on top of what they are already doing or sucks the fun right out of it all turning their music from a passion to a tedious task.
This is why the relation ship between artist and artist manager is an extremely important one as it allows the artist to keep doing what they love with out having to worry about the boring stuff. This will help the artist to stay motivated and allow them to keep loving what they are doing with out growing to resent it.
If you are interested in finding a artist manager through us here at the WMMG our selves please take 5 munities to send a submission to us through our Get Heard page here Get Heard | West Midlands Media (wmmg.uk)