What are the six most important pieces of advice for novice performers?
• Don’t think everyone in this business knows more about it than you do • Do not reach for your checkbook quickly • Don’t rush into it, and have clear goals • Know how to get work • Know how to earn more • Know how to protect yourself What is the single most important thing to know? Wait three days before reaching for your checkbook and talk to at least three organizations. One should be the union office, the second should be the Better Business Bureau or the Department of Labor Relations, and the third should be to call our organization, Marie Salerno Associates. How much of what you do is common sense, how much gut, intuition or psychology, and can it be learned in a book? The answer is all of the above. One can read many books to retrieve information, but that will take a long time. Our firm provides a faster and cheaper alternative, and will keep someone looking brilliant while they’re still learning. But there is more to it than that. Performing touches a very vulnerable place in
