Create your own AFM contract agreement in minutes with the OneMinuteContracts® Business Intelligence software system!
The OneMinuteContracts® system enables you to create your own official AFM contracts instantly online— without tedium and with significant expense reduction due to reduced labor costs. The service is called One Minute Contracts for a good reason. Literally, a simple contract can be completed, correctly every time, in a few minutes, by someone with very limited computer skills. The interactive online procedure is straightforward and intuitive to learn. Your end result looks exactly like a conventional paper-based contract when printed, but takes only minutes to generate.
OneMinuteContracts® represent a technological quantum leap over conventional paper-based contracts. In the case of a manually prepared contract, producers and AFM locals incur cost in secretarial labor (to obtain the information needed to put into the contract, prepare calculations, type and print the contract, proof-read, make corrections, and so on), for the even simplest contract. In the case of an electronically generated contract, the producer need only supply or identify the names of his musicians plus the dates and locations of the performances, and the program retrieves the rest of the details from a database, and performs all calculations, thus shortening the whole process to a matter of minutes, and vastly reducing secretarial labor costs.
We custom-build each new interactive contract model to meet the particular requirements of your AFM local.. Our expertise and experience guide the making of your individualized contract solution; we fine-tune each model to suit your particular needs. Soon the drudgery of “fill-in-the-blanks” contracts becomes a thing of the past!
Our online software solution puts you in control of your own OneMinuteContracts®
How does it work?
You contact OneMinuteContracts® (by email or phone) to design your online contracts for your AFM local. Once you have approved our solution, we make it available on our website and we issue usernames and passwords. After you log in, you simply select your contract model from a list.
A step-by-step OneMinuteContracts® interview guides you through the drafting process for each new contract you require. Your responses to a few simple questions engage the OneMinuteContracts® wizard to fetch the specific information needed to complete your contract from a secure back-end database. Your contract is created as you progress through the OneMinuteContracts® interview. You can view and modify this contract and its associated calculations at any point during the process. Online help is available every step of the way.
When you have completed the process, OneMinuteContracts® will immediately send confirmation of your electronic contract to your local. You can then print paper copies if need be. OneMinuteContracts® automatically keeps track of your deposited contracts for you, thus sparing you the time and effort of sorting and filing paper contracts. Your own previously deposited contracts will be available from an ordered drop-down list whenever you are logged in.
Once you have become familiar with the OneMinuteContracts® program, it will take only about a minute or so to complete a typical contract of about 50 information fields; contrast this with a minimum of half-an-hour, or even several days, spent on paper-based contracts. Remember that the OneMinuteContracts® system does all the calculations for you, and personal coordinates (such as Social Security numbers and postal codes) are inserted automatically from our secure database.
Give it a test drive
There are many American Federation of Musicians contracts types – film, radio, TV, live (stage) performance, etc. Using an AFM live (stage) performance contract for a trial-run, imagine that you are a producer hiring several musicians to perform in several cities, each musician receiving a specified fee per performance. Click here to practice filling out this type of contract using a virtual demo - without actually depositing a real contract. Click here to find short instructional walk-through videos demonstrating how this sort of contract works. You will quickly see how our new interactive method reduces the completion of complex contracts to a simple three-step process, easily accomplished in a matter of minutes.
How much does it cost?
In the case of a manually prepared contract, the cost to producers in secretarial labor, is conservatively at least $50. for even the simplest contract. The price tag for more complex contracts is in the hundreds. Simple or complex, the cost for our online contract is always only $10 per contract; one fifth the cost of preparing even the simplest contract and perhaps one fiftieth the cost of a complex contract. And these benefits come with no investment outlay on the part of the producer.
Software development costs, for the Internet infrastructure to make your online contracts work, are absorbed by MLM Inc. We charge hourly programmers’ fees to attend to special requests. Upon completion by us, an installation fee will be required to set up your contracts on our servers and configure our software to work with your database. Contact us by email or phone to discuss your specific needs.
Additional Savings!
OneMinuteContracts® has already designed many types of AFM collective agreement contracts, which means that the types of contract you need may be similar to one(s) we have already developed. This translates into lower development costs for certain contract-types on our side, and greater savings for you. Avoid costly delay and superfluous office work by contacting OneMinuteContracts® immediately to provide your own individualized online contract solution—and start saving time...lots of it!
