[Fmpro] Taxidermy

[JJB]

Mark,

I know that you have improving the lot of composers as one of your  
main goals in life.  I don't think you personally are trying to take  
advantage of musicians. There is a different culture about businesses  
that connect musicians with jobs vs businesses that connect non- 
musicians (accountants, artists, photographers  art directors  
publishers writers, tech writers etc etc etc) with jobs. My opinion  
is that should change. That being said, I know bandwidth costs a  
certain amount, and software development a huge amount.

Obviously you have put lots of thought into your system, and, except  
for my complaint about the fees, I like the way it works, because it  
is simple and easy to use. It took me about 8 minutes to find 5 mp3's  
and upload them to your system, a few hours later two .mp3's had been  
listened to, hopefully by a decision maker.  Really, there is nothing  
else like that on the planet that I have seen yet.

Joel



On Jan 23, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Mark Northam wrote:

> Just to clarify - 100% of the submission fees go to cover the cost of
> building and maintaining the SubmitDIRECT technology platform - not  
> a penny
> goes to the company doing the hiring.
>
> Also, we would never think of charging for responses where just  
> emails such
> as resumes are sent. Only when the job poster chooses to use the
> SubmitDIRECT system do we charge, and only to cover the cost of the
> technology and bandwidth, which is considerable!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Northam
>
>
> On 1/22/07 11:15 PM, "JJB" <onephatcat at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> In the music world, the complete opposite: the musician is charged
>> for the privilege of submitting a resume for a job.  I believe this
>> heartless structure is completely based on a perception that
>> musicians are easy to take advantage of.
>>
>> Companies that use Musicians as labor for their products should pay
>> just as much as companies that use accountants as labor for creating
>> their products.
>
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