Wendy DayCEO/Coach, PowerPlays Coaching, LLC · Helping rappers make money with their music. Building millionaires in the urban music industry since 1992.

How to WIN as a Manager...

29 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A manager wins by hiring people whose strengths cover your weaknesses, then dividing work clearly between you. Start with overlapping tasks, move to one person handling A-J and the other K-Z. Keep growing by bringing in new artists and scaling the ones who are ready.

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You've managed like the best of the best, right? So what is the key to building a successful career as a manager? It takes, um, G. Roberson. No, it takes partners, partners for sure. It takes a team. Yeah, I think that, uh, he's amazing. Yeah, you picked a great one. Yep, it takes a team. It takes knowing your weaknesses and bringing in people that have strengths and your weaknesses, like where they could fill the void and y'all could be compatible and stuff like that. Whether it's just, 'cause at first we would just do, we would never be at the same place. We would just be like covering as much ground as possible. And then it was like, okay, I do the A to J and you go K to Z, whatever, you know what I'm saying? And then it was like that type of thing. Later on it became separate because I want to constantly do the new stuff. I want to constantly work with new artists. And the fact that we built up a few artists to the bigger scale, that's what he kind of became accustomed to.