Re: FN-FORUM: Commission when selling CD's?

date posted 11th January 2007 15:13



Bo Persson wrote:
>
> I have been asked to market and sell CD's of a Canadian operasinger.
> How much can I ask in commission when selling her CD's? Her suggestion
> is 10%.
>
Depends how much you're doing- mostly with music an international
distribution deal more or less entails licencing the recordings to a
foreign label who then cover all the marketing and usually the physical
production costs for the region but take 50% or more of the income. I
guess it depends a lot on how much work you expect to do- if you're
doing a lot of advertising and distribution work, charge more, if you're
expecting people to come to you, charge less.

-ben