Incubator Creative Group

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Incubator’s systems have been developed from over 100 years of combined management experience in both artist development and local church leadership. This base of experience and the resulting guiding philosophy are postured to produce music ministries that are stable and sustainable. Because of the unique psychology of the local church marketplace, building a stable and consistent traveling music ministry requires strategic planning. Building on solid relationship techniques creates an activity schedule that is predictable. And Incubator is adamant about building a ministry that is sustainable over many years, with a diminishing requirement of time to maintain. It’s easy to create a blitz of activity once or twice. But creating a long lasting ministry that continues to produce concert activity, financial stability, and a growing fan base takes an informed, intelligent and intentional approach to the building process. Many of Incubator’s systems (from ministry funding to booking) build on the concept of annuity that provides for a continuing and consistent level of results from a diminishing level of labor to maintain.

Chances are, by the time you arrive at this web page, you've already learned quite a bit about Incubator from the rest of this web site. You will have noticed that Incubator is a relationship-based company. Consequently, we make decisions about the artists we choose to work with in the context of an ongoing relationship experience. The compatibility of an artist for our unique incubator system environment is evaluated on specific criteria. Some of the criteria (i.e. voice, talent) are straight forward.

A proprietary “Seven Stages of Stage Performance” system builds the artist's stage program from the ground up. Founded in the unique life-story and musical stylins of the artist, the system includes full stage performance coaching, building infrastructure, selection of repertoire, public image, communication and humor styles, call to actions, stage movement, zoning, and blocking. The seventh stage of development includes an intense Performance Camp experience that applies the final touches and lays the groundwork for expanding the program into other ministry expressions beyond the concert stage.

Incubator's ministry development services are not available to the general public. For clients selected through the Application Process (or members of Incubator's invitation-only Music Ministry Accelerator ™, Incubator provides a full range of services and resources to assist the early stage music ministry to grow to the thriving level. The selection and application of services and resources is coordinated through Incubator's management advice in order to maximize the benefit of each service and to seamlessly integrate them for each artist. Although the Incubator model is firmly rooted in proven systems and methods to reduce the 'wheel reinvention process', services and resources are custom tailored to the personality and unique circumstances of an individual artist. Many of Incubator's services and resources are encapsulated in proprietary ministry and business 'systems' that have been refined and proven effective from years of research and/or company experience. Incubator emphasizes an 'integrated' approach to services rather than 'a la carte'. The Incubator catalog of services is an ever-growing and constantly improving collection of thousands of items.

For the last25+ years, the field of artist development in Christian music has been littered with countless enterprises that have come and gone. Incubator stands out as a leader with staying power. Incubator is the Christian music industry's only incubator organization. The only company to operate exclusively with multi-year contracts with emerging artists, Incubator has faced and embraced the challenges of working with start up music ministries. In a field where it’s easiest to sell a package of ‘services’ to aspiring artists, Incubator has chosen to provide a relationship-based agreement that is based upon a commission percentage of gross revenues ( Incubator 4.0 artists are typically showing a positive cash flow within 6 months of signing with the company). Incubator’s Application Process is grueling and admittedly highly selective, helping to screen the candidates most likely to benefit from its specialized approach. Thousands of artists have benefited from Incubator’s brutal but caring honesty, and have been aided in finding their place in serving Christ with their musical talents.

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