Agent Freelancer Platform
We are recruiting booking agents…
- Attracting fantastic artists to our company
- Developing the live-careers of our roster
- Providing great customer service to our clients
- Developing our client networks at home and abroad
- Build new systems to work well from home
- Introduce booking software to increase productivity
- Improve artist, client and staff communications
- Focus on recruitment
The current coronavirus pandemic has severely disrupted the music industry. We have developed The Agent Freelancer Platform to help and support agents whilst the world gets back to normal.
BENEFITS
- Respected and award winning agency brand
- Industry standard booking software
- Company marketing
- Fantastic website
- Deep address book
- Provide support and line management
- Provide a support and advice network
- Protect your roster from external approaches
- Monthly settlements for your artists
- Track your commission
- Flexible working hours
- Work from home or anywhere you want
- Take control of your business affairs
- And much more…!
AIMS
The aim of the platform is to help and protect experienced agents who are vulnerable in an extremely volatile market place. At the same time Midnight Mango increases its presence in the industry whilst managing its own risk.
VISION
To create and grow an agency of highly motivated freelance agents who have control over their own roster and income. The platform will do this by providing the tools and back-room services to help agents deliver their bookings. Whether the agent remains as a freelancer in Midnight Mango, progresses within the company itself or ultimately develops a future career outside the company, both Midnight Mango and the agent will have benefitted from their time working together.
STRATEGY
Midnight Mango provides the umbrella of a respected and award winning agency under which the agent freelancer can operate. The agent seamlessly becomes part of the Midnight Mango booking team. The agent will have access to all the systems the company provides whist at the same time have the freedom to work when and where they want. The company will also provide guidance and support to help the agent develop professionally and expand their roster as future artists approach Midnight Mango.
AGENT’S ROSTER
The artists on the agent freelancer’s roster become part of the Midnight Mango roster. They become part of a bigger family of artists and therefore benefit from the prominence a larger agency affords them. This also reduces the likelihood that they will be seduced by external agent approaches. Their agent continues to represent them as they had before. Midnight Mango considers the agent and their roster as one entity and if the agent moves to another company or sets up on their own then the expectation is that their roster moves with them. In reality it is always up to the artist and their management who represents them, but Midnight Mango will make no efforts to keep the artists the Agent has bought to the company roster. By taking this approach Midnight Mango aspires to motivate Agent Freelancers and give them the freedom and protection to excel.
PROTECTION
The work that an agent does is always booking into the future, as a consequence of this there is no legal framework to protect an agent when a musician decides to leave and start with a new agent. A new agent can seamlessly book new future shows whilst the bookings of the previous agent play out. Of course, artists need to be able to change the people they work with, however this can lead to a culture of agents from larger agencies making unsolicited approaches to artists. When a solo agent loses one of its main acts, it can have a devastating effect on the income of the agent concerned. Midnight Mango has a great reputation with many artists wishing to work with us and benefit from the opportunities we provide, this offers a level or protection to the agent and their roster since artists are less like to look elsewhere for representation.
PAYMENT
The agent receives the lions share of the commission the company makes from their live or live streamed bookings. Our software reports the amount owed to the agent. The agent invoices Midnight Mango on a monthly basis. You are free to make other income from your roster, for example act as a PR or a management consultant. Midnight Mango only operates as a booking agency.
RESTRICTIONS
All your live bookings must go through Midnight Mango whilst you are working as a freelancer All the artists you book must join the Midnight Mango roster whilst you are working as a freelancer That’s It! To apply for a place on the Agent Freelancer Platform please send your letter of application and your CV to [email protected]
