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SCOTT DUPONT: Hi. Scott DuPont, welcome back here to ABCs of ACTING on behalf of Expert
Village. Our little segment here is "Should you get a manager or should you be the manager
of your kid as a parent?" I'm going to say across the board, no questions, when your
child is first starting out, you should really act as the manager. You don't need to pay
15% to some stranger to manage something where you haven't even gotten your first job yet.
That's the first thing. Also, I think, you as a parent, you know your kid better. You're
going to look out for your kid's interest better. It's just kind of a natural connection
where a parent and child should work together when they're first starting out on this business.
Now, eventually, you want to try to get an agent. Okay, an agent will take 10% to 20%
after they book a job or your child books a job. You shouldn't pay any money upfront
and you shouldn't pay any money upfront to a manager or even get a manager, and the exception
of this would be if your kid lives in a huge market like New York or LA, and they might
have booked a few national commercials or maybe book their first television show, that
would be the point where an outside manager can best help guide your child's career at
that point if you didn't want to continue as a parent. So, enough said, I like to keep
things short and sweet here on Expert Village, and we got some fun segments coming up in
just a minute.