CRM: Music Distribution Agreements and Customer Relationship Management, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$99.00Course Time: 8 hours Time to complete: 30 days from date of purchase Take a look in your wallet. How many points, rewards, and loyalty cards do you have? These are all examples of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs. What does your business offer to reward existing customers and gain new ones? This e-learning course will introduce the different facets of CRM and identify who the customers really are. It will also analyze the key components of CRM and explore how it can be integrated within your entertainment business.Understanding Anger and Keeping Your Cool in the Negotiating Room, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$99.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Anger is a universal experience. Managing anger productively is something that few individuals, organizations, and societies do well, even though it’s an important component of being successful in the entertainment business. You don’t have to be a psychologist to know that managing anger productively is something few individuals, organizations, and societies do well. Yet research tells us that those who do manage their anger at work are much more successful than those who don’t. This e-learning course will give you some ways to manage your anger as well as angry people to be sucessful.How Misreading Body Language can Ruin a Performance Negotiating Meeting, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$99.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview As an entertainment attorney, I have found that body language can make or break our efforts to establish long, trusting relationships. Paying attention to an individual's body language can improve our ability to assess a client’s true emotions and attitudes. Learning how to read unconscious nonverbal signals is an important piece of the sales cycle, failure to consider body language in sales you are leaving money on the table and losing sales. This e-learning course can help you make sure your body language is sending the right message.Creating, Building and Managing the Artist Brand and How to Pitch to Corporate America, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Your brand is the vehicle that propels your product or service into your customers’ lives and their hearts. What does your brand say about you? A good brand is much more than an attractive image combined with some witty type. Your brand must reflect the heart and soul of your product, and offer a promise that you can live up to. This e-learning course will get you started on the road to creating a perfect brand.Effective Communications Strategies in Entertainment Law, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Have you ever wondered why it seems so difficult to talk with some people, yet so easy to talk with others? Can you recall an occasion where you met someone for the first time and immediately liked that person? Something about the individual made you feel comfortable. A major goal of this e-learning course is to help you understand the impact your communication skills have on other people. In this course, you will also explore how improving these skills can make it easier for you to effectively communicate in the workplace, and in life.21st Century ABC’s Style of Artist Management, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Congratulations: you’ve just been promoted to team supervisor! Has the panic set in yet? Don’t worry! You have come to the right place to enhance your management skills. This e-learning course will teach you all the skills that you need to be successful in your new role.Critical Thinking in Entertainment Law, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Critical thinking skills are extremely important in developing a successful career in the entertainment industry. We have to skeptically assess the information we receive. You can't be gullible. You receive a lot of information from artist, lawyers, promoters, agents, and others, and it's absolutely certain that some of that information is wrong and so you have to always filter what you are being told. By constantly questioning both ourselves and all the information we receive from others, you learn how to critically think, solve complex problems, and make changes. In this e-learning course, we don't teach you what to think, we teach how to think. This course offers a set of competencies that serve as a framework entertainment business professionals looking to develop higher order thinking skills.How Artist Representation and Giving Effective Feedback is Critical in Entertainment Law, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$99.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview As human beings, we crave positive feedback. However, many people will tell you that when they do get feedback, it’s often because of something they have done wrong. Whether feedback is positive or negative, feedback is an essential element of our growth and development. This e-learning course is designed to help entertainment business professionals learn how to provide feedback any time, in ways that is effective and lasting.How to Build an Effective Communications Plan as a Solo Practitioner in Entertainment Law, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Communications between a small business and its customers is a multi-lane highway. Navigate this highway successfully and you increase customer numbers and profits. Set out on this highway unaware, ill-prepared, or unconvinced of its importance, and you will lose ground to your competitors. This e-learning course is for beginners and those who have communications experience. You will learn communication skills and strategies that you can fine-tune so you can save effectively delegate, increase productivity, reduce stress, and create and maintain an enjoyable interactions in the entertainment industry.The World of Touring and Music in Cyberspace and Managing the Virtual Workplace, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$99.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Virtual workers and virtual teams are an essential part of today’s workforce. More than ever, people are using technology to work anywhere, anytime. As a manager, it’s important to understand how these new tools change your role and the people that you work with. There are big benefits to today’s virtual workplace, but there can be big challenges, too. This e-learning course will teach entertainment business professionals how to prepare for the virtual workplace, create telework programs, build virtual teams, leverage technology, and overcome cultural barriers.Understanding and Getting in the Game with an E-Commerce Management Agreement, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$99.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview E-commerce has been a part of the world’s financial landscape since the mid-1990s. It’s big and it’s getting bigger every day. E-commerce hasn’t replaced brick and mortar stores like some had predicted it would but it is a major part of today’s business world. Learn the skills in this e-learning course to manage your e-commerce business to success.NexGen Entertainment Lawyers, Getting Stuff Done: Personal Development Boot Camp, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview We all want to get things done, and done well. Like any other personal challenge, getting things done is a time management method, and managing your time to complete tasks requires a customized system that works for you. This e-learning course will give you a number of organizational tools and techniques to consider. At the end of the course, you will have a personal productivity plan that you can apply right away to get things done.Music Publisher Agreements and Developing How to Write Reports and Proposals, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$99.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview In the entertainment industry, reports and proposals come in a variety of formats. All formats, however, rely on good writing skills and a solid framework. When you put words on paper—whether for an e-marketing campaign, a business letter, or a marketing/ advertising campaign, you’re making a powerful statement about yourself and your brand. In this e-learning course, you will learn how to write to get the results you desire, make your message clear and concise for your reader, and develop more polished, more powerful written communications than ever before. We recommend that you complete “Business Writing That Works” before beginning this course.How to Survive a Public Speaking Presentation, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$198.00Course Length: 12 Weeks Course Hours: 16 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Believe it or not but public speaking is one of the most important skills that entertainment business professionals will ever develop in your life. It allows for us to influence decisions, make connections, and motivate change. A great presenter has two notable qualities: appropriate skills and personal confidence. A presenter with these vital skills, a presenter can have overcome Glossoophobis or speech anxiety, which can have enormous impact on an individuals career path and level of success in the industry. the ability to progress in the working world and in life, itself, would be nearly impossible. Public speaking is one of the most important and most dreaded forms of communication. Glossophobia or speech anxiety, is the most common fear people have across the globe. Therefore, public speaking is a skill worth learning. This e-learning course will help you master the skills that will make you a better speaker. From there, you’ll develop the confidence that you need to become a great presenter.Why Basic Accounting Skills for the New Entertainment Lawyer is Important, Attorney Ricky Anderson
$99.00Course Length: 4 Weeks Course Hours: 8 ________________________________________________________________________ Course Overview Many of us flinch when we hear terms like depreciation, cash flow, balance sheet, and (worst of all!) budgets. However, these are all important concepts to understand if you're going to succeed in the entertainment industry, particularly as an entertainer or manager. This e-learning course will help you get started in the accounting world.