Unmet expectations can sour even the strongest of musical partnerships. Client Service Agreements (CSA) are those sexy little numbers that outline the expectations between you and anyone who wants to pay you to sing. This can be one of those awkward transitions for emerging professional singers. When you go from singing your aunt’s, friend’s, pastor’s, (fill-in-the-blank…) projects for experience on both sides to accepting gigs for actual money, you will want to have these ideas in place.<\/p>\n Tossing around creative ideas at the beginning of a collaboration can make colleagues feel like they don’t need an agreement. However, a signed document can be awkward at first, when it feels new, but it saves a lot of hurt feelings later. Furthermore, this could be the difference between a severed relationship and future ongoing projects.<\/p>\n Does this look familiar?<\/p>\n Hey Diva Friend,<\/em><\/p>\n Would you want a gig on\u00a0October 4th singing in Gainesville? Let me know — it’s 3 arias, for a dinner party, the accompanist is the musical director in residence at the opera house. Might be a good contact for you and who knows, maybe future gigs there. Pay is $150.<\/em><\/p>\n That could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, as they say in the movie. First, after receiving the email, you check with yourself to see if you really want the gig and if you are actually available. If you want to proceed, then you can move forward with the bullet points of your client service agreement. As you can see, we’ve already covered quite a few of the details in the original email. But, let’s talk about everything we want to have covered before we commit.<\/p>\n When fun coffee meetings turn into actual plans, but the process starts to drag on and on. Give yourself an inactivity deadline. Having these questions on hand will be useful each time that little ding in your inbox signals a new gig. The slightly awkward conversation now saves the larger head\/heartache later.<\/p>\n Do you have any awesome agreement stories to share? Or, tales of woe when you wish you had set up an agreement beforehand? I’d love to hear about it. Share in the comments below. Or, you can hit me up on Twitter and we can share there @mezzoihnen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Day 5 it Was Written, the 29 Days to Diva Challenge is to Make Stronger Agreements. Client Service Agreements (CSA) are those sexy little numbers that outline the expectations between you and anyone who wants to pay you to sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,1],"tags":[550,1170,1204],"class_list":{"0":"post-5439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-29-days-to-diva","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-29-days-to-diva-2","9":"tag-client-services-agreement","10":"tag-how-to-be-an-opera-singer","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sybariticsinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sybariticsinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sybariticsinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sybariticsinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sybariticsinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sybariticsinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sybariticsinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sybariticsinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sybariticsinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tweet:](\"http:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/img\/bg-twitter.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nOn Day 5 it Was Written, the 29 Days to Diva Challenge is to Make Stronger Agreements.<\/h2>\n
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