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

date posted 11th January 2007 16:02

I doubt the market for Canadian Opera singers is very big. :o/
Could be loads of work for nothing. How many could you realistically
sell? I personally think Opera is crap.

Ju.

Ben Moxon wrote:
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> Bo Persson wrote:
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>> 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%.
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> 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.
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> -ben
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