 Wow, what's up everybody once again is Brandon and shy and I'm back with now a regular guest y'all have seen her multiple times on this I'm not going to do a long intro, but we got up here, and she wants to speak and drop game on team building. Y'all know we've talked a lot about team building before in the past, but always want to do an update video and bring additional perspective so we got to cut to to use. I meant to drop some of the gems based on what she's learned over the years because she's definitely in the trenches so appreciate you happen on again and let's talk like what what do you have and see when it comes to artists and building a team. Okay, so what I see first. Thank you for having me again. And yeah, I want to talk about this because a lot of people reach out to me since my past appearance and just had questions or want to know about how to build a team. So, I think the most difficulty that I see people dealing with is a lot of times with music they may not have the budgets. That's typically, you know, a manager is supposed to get a percentage about 10 to 20% and then you may have like a lawyer and then your producer may want this and of course we say the first thing is to actually go out try to perform and try to see who gravitate towards you of course see who's a fan and who actually is passionate about your art or what you have going on because of course these people will naturally want to offer. There's a lot of people, especially in Atlanta that are upcoming photographers videographers they may do it for like their college credits, things like that so there's a lot of people that are looking for new talent or looking for people to build and grow with and I feel like that's the best kind of relationship, of course. I like that I like that, especially college credits at that free work, but it's easily, you know, it's a mutual benefit to stuff like that so I love that. And then a lot of times with college credits they have to, like particular benchmarks to hit and things like that so it'll have like that professional look and stuff with certain things. And like I said I know it's a lot of internships or things like that where people are looking for work, but if we're actually talking about the actual positions of a team, I would say to look for. I would say of course, a lot of people have two managers or two different types of managers so some people may have a personal manager that like helps you day to day that helps you you know before you get the rest of your team members they may even just keep you on schedule with posting content, represent you reach out for you go go with you places because a lot of times the artist may make the relationship initially, but then the management may take over from there so that the artist can focus just on the art while the manager handles the business and then so that would be like a personal manager more so. And a lot of times people may have both in one or may have them separate but also a business manager is good somebody to handle like the bigger fish, like that may know more about distribution or talking to different labels if you're looking for that different partnerships and stuff. Again, a lot of times they can be both in one, especially starting out. It's good to have an attorney of course or somebody that is familiar with entertainment law that can help you with certain things. It's good to have an agency. So agency that can be your creative team creative director it can be like your marketing team or a person that helps you would like all your social media platforms. The supporters will tell you what they like and don't like they'll tell you what you want to see. And of course supporters that's your that's your human capital so that's who buys into you and supports everything that you have going on so you do it for. It's good to have a producer and a DJ of course, people may start with the producers somebody that they actually like working besides and again it's a lot of new and upcoming producers up here that are looking to grow with artists that may want to do like splits or do like the later paperwork on the back end instead of saying hey you pay XYZ amount for beats, but either one is good to just have somebody that you can work hand in hand besides. What do you think is better in terms of a producer who is like this is my writer we're on the team and we're creating together or, you know, yeah I'm paying up front for beats, even if it's the same go to God where I found this guy online like how do you see is the best producer long relationship long term. I think the best is the one that works with you because they can learn about your style they can understand like your process of performing you know if you like the studio setup this way if you like these type of beats like this type of cadence certain things that they can more so be personable to you. That makes sense yeah. And a lot of producers they can make the beats around like if you write out the lyrics first they can make the beat around your lyrics so that'll be just you to kind of getting to know each other I think that's better. Yeah, I see that because you can go further which are artistry to like they can pull things out of you, whereas you just got a random person sending you stuff online. I mean it just is what it is you got to be and all you can work with is that. And then it's good to have like a group of people that some can be friends. Some can be people that may be strangers but it's good to always test your music out to a different group of people before it is officially released. Okay, usually call them focus groups. Now you can go to certain places and you can hire a focus group to come and listen you can also hire my team I'm sure you you and your team are for that as well as far as like where you review music and things like that. So, oh you don't know. Go to tea, go to tea. So yeah so you want honest feedback on like production. If you want like how to release it things like that. So focus groups, a lot of people do offer those and I think that is good. It's good, definitely to get it organically amongst friends or amongst people around you. That will be honest with what they like and don't like. So you want to go back into the agency part though. Now the agency part is just really your creative team that helps you bring it to life. Now there are agencies that can be for hire that helps you with the strategy and the direction of everything, but getting a photographer, getting a photographer because we're in a time now where content is king so content is how people directly relate to your story, doing, you know, even if you can't afford all that right now of course, as you talk all the time about doing tiktok and doing things that are relevant to your brand and putting your song behind different music like that so by different you know tiktok. That's pretty much all I have for building a team so always it's best to be organic as far as working with people that naturally gravitate towards you or actually like your musical course because they can help you educate your as a future vision way better. I like that because yeah artistry is like it's different than I don't know I work at Coca Cola or something like that, like if they're not buying into the product. It just doesn't work the same doesn't work the same so yeah not with you on that. Okay, I mean, with those are these quick tips when it comes to building the team and like I could definitely second all of those. And if y'all want more information from team or tips from tea. You can hit up to cup at where you will find me on instagram te double AC double P underscore or you can text me at 7707655 422. Alright blow her up.