The Fine Print about Hire a Consultant Services

Our Hire a Consultant fee-based services are specifically designed to further the careers of Artists without a Track Record. These Hire a Consultant Services and your time as a Hire a Consultant client are collectively referred to as our Trial Period.

• The purpose of the Trial Period is to:

  • Provide you with critical artist development services no longer offered by record and management companies
    
    
  • Give you, the artist, an opportunity to have your music listened to by key decision-makers who actually have a specific need for it.
    
    
  • Determine how your music is received in today’s marketplace. Can it secure a reasonable deal when it’s given to industry professionals who actually have contracts to offer?
    
    
  • Support you in being responsible for your own career. With the predatory state of the industry today, it’s possible you could get locked into a contractual situation that limits your career options rather than expanding them. With our Trial Period, YOU are in charge of your own career.
    
    
• We don’t accept just anyone as Hire a Consultant client. Your music and submission form are closely evaluated by our Music Review Committee, and if they pass these discerning eyes and ears, you will receive an invitation to become a client.
  
  
• We limit the number of clients participating in our Hire A Consultant Trial Period to just four. This ensures that each client is given the time and personal attention he or she requires and deserves. This, of course, also means that there is almost always a “waiting list” for our services.
  
  
• During the Trial Period, we do NOT take a commission. You keep 100% of any deal you secure as a Hire a Consultant client. Instead we offer our services on a fee-basis. And for developing artists, that’s a good thing.
  
  
• During the Trial Period, we are each non-exclusive to the other. You can continue to work with others who may be representing you within the industry in various ways. You’re not “tied” to just us, and that benefits you even more. You receive “Representation”, which is what Contacts need to see for you to be respected and listened to.
  
  
• If you secure a deal for at least $10,000, during the Trial Period then, YOU have the option to move from our fee-based Trial Period with Hire a Consultant into a percentage-based agreement with Countdown Entertainment, to be negotiated in good faith. In other words, you’ll have the option to continue to pay our monthly fee or to stop paying it and instead, give us a percentage of all deals we secure for you. Interestingly enough, so far most of our clients with this option feel it benefits them most to simply continue to pay us the retainer while they keep 100% of all deals. But whatever option you choose, we want to develop long-term relationships with our clients.
  
  
• Even if you do not secure a deal during the Trial Period, you’ll still end up with all the valuable contact information for the high-level decision-makers you’ve connected with during our time together, your business and presentation will be more organized, and you are free to re-approach them with new material whenever you like or as per their personal instructions.
  
  
• The Trial Period is offered in 30-day periods.
  
  
• You may continue with our Trial Period services for as long as you like or for as little as 30 days.
  
  
• You always have the option to stop the Trial Period during the last week of any 30-day term simply by providing us with 30-day advance notice via email. If you give us your 30-day termination notice, you are, of course, obligated to make your final payment at that time. And, of course, we continue to provide our services to you during this final period.
  
  
• Can we guarantee you a deal? Absolutely not. No one can. But we do guarantee that your music will be heard by industry professionals who have the authority to offer you a deal if they like what they hear and deem it right for their needs.
  
  
• We have lots of happy clients. Click here to learn what they have to say about us.