We have discussed how clients can use negotiation tricks to put you at a disadvantage, and how you need to prepare yourself with rates and prices, but we also need to discuss how your fellow musician can undermine the market.

There is a class of individuals in our industry who are neither clients nor colleagues. Rather than competing fairly in the marketplace through quality or value, they seek to get work through unfair and unethical methods. They will stop at nothing to achieve dominance and power. You may even know them. They might live in your neighborhood. You may be standing next to one right now.

Scary, right?
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