MNGR Editorial
Practical, source-backed guidance for planning releases, running artist operations, managing live work, keeping relationships useful, and understanding the money around the music.
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A neutral decision matrix comparing spreadsheets, general CRMs like HubSpot and Pipedrive, and a music-specific CRM across contact volume, team size, and workflow fit.
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A contact taxonomy, follow-up states, and a next-action rule for tracking promoters, press, and label contacts — plus a free tracker template.
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A copyable show settlement checklist covering deposits, guarantee-versus-percentage math, expense deductions, and final payout, with a worked fictional example.
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How to keep a music release campaign and live shows on one connected calendar, with a worked twelve-week example and the collisions to design out.
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A copyable pre-show advancing checklist from contract signing through settlement, separated by deal terms, logistics, production, hospitality, payment, and final checks.
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A copyable 30-minute weekly meeting agenda for artist managers, built around decisions, owners, due dates, and exceptions across releases, shows, and finance.
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A portfolio view, standard stages, one owner and approver per deliverable, and a weekly exception review keep a growing artist roster on schedule.
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A neutral decision matrix for artist managers comparing spreadsheets with MNGR across setup, linked records, permissions, cost, and migration effort.
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A practical taxonomy and monthly example for logging music income and expenses by artist, release, show, and source — plus a free tracking template.
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A copyable release checklist grouped by time window, with an owner, dependency, status, and evidence field for every task from final master to day 30.
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A one-page operating system for independent artists: eight layers, one 30-minute weekly review, and a daily touch that keeps releases, shows, and money moving.
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A week-by-week release timeline for independent artists, with owners, dependencies, and status fields you can copy and use for the next release.
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