Resources - Ideas

The Highlights of 2007's Make Your Mark With a Tenner competition.

Educational outcomes and curriculum links of the Make Your Mark Ideas MashUp

Need the Ideas MashUp logo? Then here it is!

Use this poster to promote the Ideas MashUp around your college!

The music manager is part deal broker, part baby sitter and 100% opportunity exploiter. You are the centre of business for your artist. You do the selling, they do the arty bit.

A&R is the department of a record company that finds and/or develops bands, songwriters, or musicians. More often than not A&R reps help out with a band's artistic and commercial viability.

Press officers are on the front-line of music public relations. Their day-to-day job is to try and manage their artists’ presence in newspapers and magazines.

Aside from the rather silly name, radio and TV pluggers actually perform a vital job for any artist/ band. It is vitally important that radio and TV stations play music before its release date, so that fans of the music can see and hear it before buying.

Two big questions as a manager and/or promoter: 1. What does the consumer really think about my artist? and 2.How do I safely make my artist more successful?

After all the music has gone and your band isn’t so cool and all the rage, it is the publishing of the music that will keep the money rolling in, long past your chart sell by date.

Away from all the worries of the recorded music industry the live music scene is thriving, often becoming an artist's biggest source of income and employing tens of thousands of people. The live music scene covers the backroom gigs in local pubs to worldwide stadium tours.

Read the Orange Make Your Mark Graduate Panel's recommendations for actions that will encourage ideas and networking at work

The Ideas at Work section of the toolkit will help you develop a framework for encouraging ideas in the workplace.