Curious about ways that rights & royalty software can help you manage and grow your licensing business?

Join us for one or more of these FREE one hour live webinars to learn how licensors, agents, and licensees use RoyaltyZone!

Sessions include:

Session 1: How do I close more licensing deals? 
Learn how you can use workflows, tasks, email tracking, marketing lists, and more to manage your deal pipeline and close more deals!

Session 2: How do I increase royalty revenue?
Learn how you can better manage invoices, advances & guarantees, marketing fees, and royalty reporting to eliminate errors and increase royalty revenue!

Session 3: How do I analyze results and measure licensing success?
Learn how to create charts and reports that will help you make better decisions and grow your licensing business.

Session 4: RZ for Licensees
Are you a licensee invited to use RoyaltyZone by your licensor or agent? We’ll show you how to view agreements, pay invoices, manage products, report royalties, and administer users.

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Had the opportunity to meet with some fun new people and talk about my favorite topic – better ways to manage royalties and licensing compliance.

I also saw all sorts of cool new licensed products.  Here are some of the more obscure items.  No judgement, these may be huge hits!

Check em out on the RZ Facebook page:

Big thanks to Rackspace, our hosting partner, for helping us complete the move over the holidays with minimal downtime.  And, as always, huge thanks to our awesome clients, for helping us grow and suggesting fantastic ideas that make RoyaltyZone a valuable and easy to use software tool for managing licensing, rights, and royalties.  Keep em coming!

At one point, they polled the audience, asking “What kinds of royalty reporting errors are your licensees making?“  Here are the results:

Schedule 30 minutes to chat with Lou at the show about tips to improve your royalty management processes and measure the success of your licensing program.

RoyaltyZone provides an easy way to enter, monitor, and enforce advances and guarantees.  Click on any image below to enlarge it:

Capture and track the guarantee payment schedule. You'll be reminded by email when payments are due.

You'll be prompted to create invoices as payment milestones are reached.

Create and send electronic invoices for Advance or Guarantee payments.

Keep track of all invoice and royalty payments that count towards satisfying the guarantee.

Monitor every credit and debit to the recoupable balance.

Both licensor and licensee are warned if there is an unpaid invoice that affects the recoupable balance on a royalty report.

Click on any of the tutorial links below to learn how you can use RoyaltyZone to enter, monitor, and enforce royalty advances and minimum royalty guarantees:

How do I enter a one time Advance?

How do I enter a minimum Guarantee, effective over the agreement lifetime, with multiple payment milestones?

How do I enter multiple Advances or Guarantees with unique effective periods (non cross-collateralized)?

How do I enter multiple Advances or Guarantees for specific properties, categories, territories, or distribution channels?

How do I enter a non-recoupable minimum Guarantee?

How do I create an invoice for an Advance or Guarantee?

How do I make changes to an Advance or Guarantee via Amend?

How do I view Advance or Guarantee balances?

How do I enter historical Royalties or make a Royalty adjustment?

It's hot in Austin these days.  Really hot, with no relief in sight:

New Recurring Fee: Lump Sum
You can now add a Lump Sum recurring fee (Marketing or Ad Fund) to your license agreements.  Lump Sum recurring fees are automatically added to every royalty report and invoice.

Stay cool,

Lou Ellman
Chief Royalty Crusader
RoyaltyZone, Inc.
royaltyzone.com

P.S.  Please tell your licensing friends about RoyaltyZone.  We love referrals!

When planning to exhibit at tradeshows, it’s impossible to forget the big items, such as your display, accessories, banner stands, banners, signs, and your booth staff. Unfortunately there are many other small items that need to be brought along with you that often fall between the proverbial cracks when packing for a tradeshow. Often, these small items can cost a ridiculous amount of money when you have to resort to buying them on-site or extremely inconvenient when you have to go off-site in search of them.

So to make it easier, we’ve compiled a list of items that you shouldn’t leave the office without when en route to a tradeshow. Most are small enough to either be brought in luggage by a staff member or shipped in one box to the event or to your hotel.

Tradeshow survival kit items include:

An extension cord. Will come in handy when you realize how far equipment or lighting is from the nearest outlet.

Scotch, Gaffers and masking tape. Can be used from everything from holding down a tablecloth to sealing boxes for shipment.

Stapler. What good is a stapler without staples? Pack extra!

Paper clips. What can a paperclip not do?

Velcro dots or strips. Use to adhere signage to you’re the walls of your display, hold up banners or keep tablecloths in place.

Sewing kit. Prevent wardrobe disasters with this handy kit.

Safety pins. MacGyver once saved the world with a safety pin and a rubber band. Enough said.

Push pins. Use to hold signage in place, posts messages or notes, or awaken sleepy staff.

Black permanent markers. Use for labeling boxes or marking items that you don’t want walking away.

Blue, red, and black pens. Yes, attendees steal pens so pack plenty.

Notebooks or pads of paper. Keep notes, reminders for staff, etc.

Rubber bands. See safety pins.

Small hammer and screwdriver. You don’t want to have to rely on on-site employees to loan you these handy essentials.

Spare pair of eyeglasses. Would be a really inconvenient time to not be able to see.

Wrist watch. Very important to keep scheduled meetings with the press or customers running on time.

Aspirin, Ibuprofen or other medications. Headaches are common at tradeshows due to late nights, over-imbibing, and lack of sleep.

Tissues. You never know when you’ll need these.

Paper towels. Prevent food or drink spills from ruining equipment.

Garbage bags. Especially handy when cleaning up after show is over.

Hand sanitizer or wipes. Shaking hands is a great way to make a good first impression, but it can also be a great way to catch a cold or other illness.

Alka-Seltzer. Plop, plop, fizz fizz…relief.

Throat lozenges. Everyone’s voices will be tired and sore from all the talking and dry air at tradeshows.

Lip balm. Indoor dry air and lots of talking equals chapped lips.

Eye drops. Won’t make up for lost sleep, but will help.

Comfortable flat shoes. Sure heels make you look great, but after hours of standing up, you’ll be happy you packed a more comfortable alternative.

Stain removal wipes. That meatball sub seemed like a good idea.

Granola bars. Perfect for a quick nourishment break.

Mouthwash or breath mints. Everyone has been trapped into talking to someone who has “death breath.” Don’t be that someone.

Extra batteries for equipment. This is one of the many items you’ll pay an arm and a leg for at the conference center’s gift shop.

Small digital camera. Take pictures of your booth, empty before the show to best show signage, displays, etc., and again while it’s filled with eager attendees for future promotional uses.