Ready Set Sales & Management
1) How long have your been an independent rep? Please list the companies that you currently represent:
I spent the first 12 years of my career as an in-house sales rep. Four months ago, I left Anonymous Content after 10 years to start my own independent sales management company. Currently, I represent Stink US and Ring the Alarm music.
2) Please define your responsibilities as a rep and how they have evolved over the years.
My biggest responsibility as a rep is to my directors and talent clients. Because I was trained in-house, I tend to invest a great deal in the talent that I am representing. I think that’s become even more important in the last five years or so with increased competition and various ways in which brands advertise. Connecting talent with content has become a much more focused and strategic process.
3) How has your marketplace expanded with the advent of longer form branded content and varied platforms? While agency creatives and producers remain prime contacts, have you extended your reach to clients, smaller boutique specialty ad/marketing/digital shops, entertainment cos., etc.?
A big goal for me this year and beyond is to increase my network into those various avenues of content. I think advertising agencies are still the powerhouses, but it is interesting what brands and content studios are doing. I don’t see why talent can’t have access to it all.
5) What are the advantages of being an independent rep? The drawbacks?
Four months in, I’m already enjoying the opportunity to work with different companies and people. I think it gives you a broader and more educated understanding of what is going on in the market. I miss being a part of a company’s culture, but my goal is to keep that alive by maintaining a smaller roster of clients.
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
Defense counsel says that prosecutors tried to establish a link... Read More