The Manager-Ready Artist Accelerator
Stop Asking For Management And Build A Music Business Artist Managers Can’t Afford to Ignore.
Designed by an artist manager this elite 8-week accelerator is for independent music artists who are ready to build a manager-ready music business.
This Is For Serious Artists Only.
You already know how to record. You’re putting music out. You might even have thousands of streams and a nice social media following. But behind the scenes, your operations are scattered. Your fans are all online, under the control of an algorithm, your royalties are leaking, and your branding is nonexistent. This is why managers are passing on you.
Go From A Hot Mess To Manager-Ready.
Managers aren’t just looking for talent. We want to partner with talented artists who have their business together. The Management-Ready Artist is an 8-week accelerator designed to give you the tools you need to turn your music business into the type of professional business that will attract a manager because it was created by one.
You don’t need another course on how to go viral. And this is not one of those.
This accelerator is the bridge between where your career is right now and what is required to get the manager you want and need. Over 8 weeks, we get you prepared for exactly that.
Whether your goal is to get a manager by the end of this year, or you want to build a self-managed machine that brings in six figures on your own terms, this accelerator will help you.
Here is exactly how your business will transform over the next 8 weeks:
- From Messy Platforms to In Control: You’re going to get your fans off social media and onto your own text and email lists, turning followers into real community who actually fund your career.
- From Missing Royalties to Legal Protection: You will learn how to establish a business and how to protect your personal assets from your music business.
- From Guesses to Data-Driven Decisions: Learn to read your DSP metrics and social insights like the people scouting talent. You will know exactly which cities to tour, which tracks to fund, and how to prove you’re profitable to booking agents.
- From “Left on Read” to a Real Meeting: You will walk away with a completed Professional Portfolio. This is the exact asset managers like myself want to see before entertaining the thought of a meeting.
The Transformation Guarantee: By the time you complete this accelerator, you will look attractive to managers and you will have built a business so optimized and profitable that you might realize you don’t even need one yet.
What You’ll Learn.
We map out your business step-by-step with the exact systems required to run a professional music business that will make you stand out from your peers. Tap the toggle for a dropdown containing more details about the weeks.
Week 1 – You Are The CEO. Welcome to Your Music Business.
- The Focus: We review your entire online setup the exact same way a manager would, tracking down missing song registrations, messy profiles, and fix the administrative mess that keeps your career from going anywhere.
- The Technical Lab: Building your Master Catalog Vault so all your music assets are accessible in under 60 seconds.
- The Asset You Walk Away With: The Artist CEO Blueprint which is your master checklist to plug every administrative leak.
Week 2: Your Story & Visual Identity
- The Focus: Fixing confusing branding. We define your unique musical narrative, visual codes and more so your brand instantly connects with fans, is recognizable and is consistent.
- The Technical Lab: Building a clean, interactive Electronic Press Kit (EPK) on your own website that looks incredibly professional.
- The Asset You Walk Away With: Your Story & Visual Identity Guide + a fully updated, modern EPK.
Week 3: What You Need to Know About Releases
- The Focus: This week you stop giving away pre-save and post-save data to Distrokid while you also learn what to do after you release music so you don’t have to guess anymore.
- The Technical Lab: I walk you through what you would need to bring to a meeting with artist services if you were signed to a *distribution company.
- The Asset You Walk Away With: Your Post-Release Playbook – know what to do after your release drops. This is one of my most asked release questions.
Week 4: Get Your Fans Off Of Social Media
- The Focus: Social media followers belong to platforms, not you. We focus on getting your audience to channels you control so you can text or email them directly without messy algorithms getting in the way.
- The Technical Lab: Setting up a simple, high-conversion fan landing page and a welcome message that triggers on autopilot.
- The Asset You Walk Away With: The Low-Stress Fan Communication Playbook. (This tells you exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to never look like an annoying salesman).
Week 5: The Fan Map Dashboard
- The Focus: Learn to read your streaming and social data like an executive. We look past vanity play counts to find where your true paying superfans live.
- The Technical Lab: Mapping your streaming density against real-world geolocations to find your next profitable tour or ad targets.
- The Asset You Walk Away With: The Fan Map Dashboard—a simple, single-page view of your real career growth.
Week 6: The Merch & Music Profit Planner
- The Focus: Shifting your business beyond streaming pennies ($0.003 a play) and tapping into real fan economics and community monetization.
- The Technical Lab: Preparing your music catalog for Sync Licensing (TV, film, and games) including instrumentals and one-stop clean metadata tags.
- The Asset You Walk Away With: The Merch & Music Profit Planner to ensure your merch drops are highly profitable.
Week 7: The Manager Pitch Pack
- The Focus: How to source, vet, and approach a dedicated independent manager. We untangle standard commission structures, contracts, and boundaries.
- The Technical Lab: Crafting non-desperate, data-backed outreach emails tailored specifically to the independent managers who have the networks you need.
- The Asset You Walk Away With: The Manager Pitch Pack—your targeted contact list and high-conversion outbound scripts.
Week 8: Your Professional Portfolio Showcase
- The Focus: The ultimate milestone. You tie the entire 8 weeks together into a comprehensive, visual master document of your business.
- The Technical Lab: Reviewing and polishing your presentation layout to ensure it tells your business story perfectly.
- The Asset You Walk Away With: Your Final Professional Portfolio. The ultimate “Manager Magnet” asset that proves to an independent manager that your music business is a train already moving—and they just need to hop on to help you steer it.
The Big Picture: You’re now holding an organized business. When an artist manager sees an artist who has executed all eight of these milestones, they can’t ignore them.
Let’s Be Clear Though: This Accelerator Is Not For Everyone.
I want you to be successful at the end of The Manager-Ready Artist Accelerator. In order to do that requires artists who challenge, inspire, and elevate themselves and one another. To maintain this standard, I will vet every enrollment.
Read the criteria below to see if you are a fit for this session.
This Is For You If…
- You are actively releasing music. You already know how to write, record, mix, and master great music. You have an existing catalog on streaming platforms and a growing, active base of listeners.
- You are trapped in the “operational stuff” You are tired of being in the way of your own business. You are ready to stop managing your career from your notes app and build a real artist business.
- You understand that social media reach is temporary and messy. You are ready to “get your fans off of social media” and systematically migrate your fans off TikTok and Instagram and into an email and SMS ecosystem that you actually own.
- You want leverage. You want to show up to meetings with managers, booking agents, and labels holding all the cards because your data, legal protection, and business model are all in order.
- You can commit to the work. You can carve out 90 minutes on Tuesday nights for strategy, execute a technical module on Thursdays, and show up on Sunday nights to put your business in the hot seat. I understand life happens and you may miss a session or two but your goal is to be there 100% of the time.
This Is NOT For You If…
- You are a beginner. If you are still trying to figure out your sound, how to upload your first song to DistroKid, or how to use a DAW, this course will overwhelm you. I do not teach music creation.
- You are looking for a “magic viral shortcut.” I do not teach generic playlist hacks, engagement loop secrets, or how to go viral overnight. This is a rigorous business course built on data, infrastructure, and asset optimization.
- You expect a manager to rescue you. If you believe a manager’s job is to magically discover you, fund your lifestyle, and do 100% of your administrative work from scratch, you aren’t ready for representation.
- You have zero budget or catalog assets. This accelerator requires an investment of both capital for your business setup (like state LLC fees and software tools) and a catalog of previously mastered tracks to build your systems around.
The Bottom Line: I am not here to sell you a dream. I am here to help you run a real business. If you are ready to stop treating your music like an expensive hobby and start treating it like the music business it actually is, I welcome your enrollment.
Everything Included In Your Accelerator
This program is a highly structured, step-by-step system built by an artist manager to help you execute. If you show up to the sessions and use the tools, your music business will completely transform in 8 weeks.
- 8 Live Executive Masterclasses (Tuesdays at 7:00 PM EST)
- Ninety minutes of raw strategy, case studies, and live operational breakdown. This is where we deconstruct the business frameworks, map the industry landscape, and shifting your mindset from artist to CEO. (All sessions are recorded and uploaded to your portal within 24 hours).
- 8 Async Technical Labs (Thursdays)
- Pre-recorded, over-the-shoulder screen-share walkthroughs. ON how to execute Tuesday’s strategy or to build additional skills. We will build the landing pages, register the entities, map the metadata, and write the code together.
- 8 Hot-Seat Office Hours (Sundays at 7:00 PM EST)
- An open, unscripted hour to look under the hood of your specific business. Bring your spreadsheets, your drafted email sequences, and your marketing plans to get direct feedback, real-time critiques, and peer review before launching them to the public.
You will inherit the exact proprietary templates and operational assets I use for my artist roster so you aren’t building these business systems from scratch:
- The Artist CEO Blueprint (Week 1)
- Your Story & Visual Identity Guide (Week 2)
- The Ultimate Release Roadmap (Week 3)
- The Direct Fan Line: Fill-in-the-Blank Emails (Week 4)
- The Fan Map Dashboard (Week 5)
- The Merch & Music Profit Planner (Week 6)
- The Manager Pitch Pack (Week 7)
- Your Professional Portfolio Showcase (Week 8)
About Your Professional Portfolio Showcase
The crown jewel of the Accelerator. By Week 8, you will possess a polished, data-backed presentation detailing your brand identity, release calendar, owned audience metrics, and financial growth projection. This is the document that will make you stand out to managers.
The Operational Standard: You retain lifetime access to all masterclasses, lab videos, and spreadsheets inside the toolkit. As your catalog grows and your business scales, these assets remain your permanent playbook.
Ready To Get Started?
The doors to the 2026 Accelerator are officially open. Secure your seat today.
The Full Accelerator
Investment: $111 — this is a deep discounted founding rate for this first cohort. Klarna and Affirm available if you’d rather split it.
What Happens the Second You Complete Checkout:
- The Blueprint Download: Get immediate access to your very first asset, The Artist CEO Blueprint, so you can map out your business health before our first live call.
- Immediate Access: You will be instantly routed to your private student dashboard to access the Week 1 onboarding materials.
- Calendar Invites: You’ll receive automated digital calendar links for every Tuesday Live Masterclass and Sunday Office Hours session so you never miss a beat.
Secure & Encrypted Checkout Payments are securely processed via Stripe. Your data is 100% protected. All major credit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, Klarna, Link, Afterpay and Affirm are accepted.
Who’s Teaching This?
I’m Tee Tee The Manager- founder of Red Lipstick Media & MGMT and creator of Think Like A Manager. I manager a roster of independent music artists and I teach the rest of you marketing strategies and how to run your music career like the business it is.
I was recently on What’s Poppin at the Complex and they called me their most favorite guest. Here’s that conversation:
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