Believe me when I tell you that pure quantity never built long-lasting fame in XXX. Of course agents and managers last a lot longer in the movie business than any star does, so maybe that doesn’t matter.
If the people allegedly trying to help their “clients” here would just put the realities for the women first in their approach, this complication would disappear. Just hand over the “agency fee” for a job to the client as well. Earn your “management” dollars ONLY from the talent percentage negotiated. The more money your client makes, the more money you make. Period. … A client will have much more faith in your recommendations if she understands that the more money she makes, the more money you make. … Sounds simple, right? Of course if the Raiders had realized that JaMarcus Russell has absolutely no work ethic, they might have avoided a boat-load of embarrassment too. That chasm between understanding the theory and undertaking the solution can be a large one.
Underlying all of this, aside from the fact that you might do well to just ignore all of it as unimportant and inconsequential, of course, would be a final fact regarding human nature. No matter how liberal and altruistic we may be in our youth, the vast majority of us morph to a much less optimistic and decidedly more conservative mode as we age. Prospective talent needs to understand that agencies are for profit enterprises too, and the longer they’re around, by definition the more aged those owners become as well. We’re all susceptible to the traditional pitfalls as we become parents ourselves, but recognizing that trait in a group you’re considering asking to help you reach personal goals can help. It never hurts for your manager to have a belief in a variation of typical parental concern: My new kid’s certainly not going to make the same mistakes the earlier ones did!
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Now how do you find someone that comprehends a natural business progression in your chosen field? That would be the question, wouldn’t it? (Hey, I’ve always been much better at posing questions rather than providing answers. Those have always seemed a most personal decision to me. … On the upside, enjoying Tenaya today can almost certainly provide enough distraction so that we don’t even think about difficult issues like this anymore. Bleh.)
 More of Tenaya, and we’re quite clear on this premise. (At least with members.) |
