Chapter 7
The Business of Managing Your Career
In This Chapter
◆ Understanding what a personal manager does
◆ Discovering how the role of management has changed in recent years
◆ Learning where to find a manager
◆ Understanding the terms of a management agreement
◆ Finding out how to manage your own career
One of the most important members of your business team is the personal manager. Yet many artists, especially newer ones, don’t have managers. Without a professional manager, just how do you manage your career? And what do you need to manage, anyway?
Understanding Personal Management
As you learned in Chapter 6, a personal manager—sometimes called an artist’s manager, or just plain manager—is like the coach of your team. Your manager not only ...
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