Music Industry
Who Do We Serve?
Individuals ("Creatives")
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Natasha with former client and friend, Melvin Lee Davis
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Managers & AgentsTalent, A&R, and Business Managers
Booking Agents & Promoters
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Corporations
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Services Offered
Corporate/Client StrategyInnovation and Business DevelopmentOperationsClient RelationsBrandingRecovery and Transformation |
Artist RelationsBuilding and Managing Your Own TeamCounsel and Oversight of Business RelationshipsContract ReviewAccess to Business & Industry Resources |
How We Can Help?
Creatives
Our focus is to help Creatives think and act as corporations, which means focusing on the business side of music and entertainment, not just the creative side. There is a need for Creatives to embrace a right brain-left brain approach so that you can do what you love and ensure that what you have built can be sustained. It's important that you focus on having both an artistic and financial legacy that is generational. It's important to understand what you control, can control, and what is out of your control.
Corporations
Our focus is to help Corporations with business management, operations, client relations, and other services that will assist the company with running efficiently and effectively in order to build and maintain strong alliances with Creatives and other corporations. Corporations will need to learn how to reimagine, reinvent, and refocus in order to gain and maintain a competitive advantage--or to just be relevant.
When the corporation's leader happens to also be the lead Creative, it's vital to the success of the company and the Creative to operate as a well-oiled machine and embrace the reality of a constantly-changing industry, and the demands of a consumer-driven marketplace.
When the corporation's leader happens to also be the lead Creative, it's vital to the success of the company and the Creative to operate as a well-oiled machine and embrace the reality of a constantly-changing industry, and the demands of a consumer-driven marketplace.
Managers
Managers have a huge responsibility and their primary focus is on tending to the professional--and sometimes personal-- needs of their client, the Creative. Foreman & Associates is not an entertainment management firm. We do however rely on our Managing Director's previous experience and wealth of knowledge to help guide and consult our clients. We actually see ourselves as the Manager's friend because while our primary focus is the Creative, we are also here to assist the Manager.
Our focus is to help Managers navigate the various elements of business and the music industry that they either are not equipped to handle or simply prefer to delegate to our team. Through this collaboration Managers are free to focus on the most important details such as:
Our focus is to help Managers navigate the various elements of business and the music industry that they either are not equipped to handle or simply prefer to delegate to our team. Through this collaboration Managers are free to focus on the most important details such as:
- Client bookings
- Pending deals
- Overseeing tours, performances, and appearances
- Overseeing efforts of other members of the Creative's team
- Tending to personal requests of client, and more
Why Do We Do This Work?
It is important for Creatives to understand:
It is important that Corporations understand:
- The practices and processes of:
- music industry
- record labels
- production companies
- radio and media
- publishing and publishing rights organizations
- management companies
- The practices and processes of business in general
- How to build, manage and delegate to a team of professionals who bring added value
- How to build and manage their own company
- The importance of developing, implementing, and monitoring strategic, tactical, and operational plans
- Image, branding, etiquette, and interviewing skills
- Financial literacy and empowerment, and alignment with financial professionals
It is important that Corporations understand:
- The industry has changed over the last 10-15 years, and some of the old processes and practices won't work today--it's long overdue to reimagine, reinvent, and refocus.
- There is a great need to embrace technology and how to use it for access, branding, and improving processes
- How to reimagine artist relations to combine old school finesse with new school realities
- Corporations formed and led by a Creative needs to understand the dynamics of business to not fall into the traditional trappings
- How to become more efficient and cost effective without sacrificing innovation
- How to relinquish certain responsibilities to focus on the most important aspects of their role as a manager
- How to reimagine their relationship with the client and their role as a manager
- How best to support their client