Unlike an agent or the union, Trice works for you, the producer. Our goal is to take the burden of paying talent and crew off your shoulders. To that end, we will be pleased to help you budget upcoming projects and offer accurate cost projections on any bids and proposals you have to make. In addition, in pre-production we can offer hints on how to most efficiently utilize the talent within the parameters of the union contract, and we will be here if questions arise during the shoot. If you have specific needs, we can tailor our forms and reporting to fit within your companies parameters.

Greater News

Our pre-production services, being there when you need answers, and our commitment to timely payments have saved our clients thousands and thousands of dollars in union late payments, penalties, and unnecessary cost over runs. We know most of the answers, and those we don't, we know who to call to find out. Our staff is peopled by professionals who have worked for the union and as talent. Trice will fit into your company like a whole new department that is there when you need it, tailored specifically to work with your organization.

The Greatest News

Trice becomes a billable line item to pass directly on to your client. In other words, Trice costs you nothing. For those who use us to pay for their own productions, we become a line item expense, not part of your overhead. We save you the time and money of assuming the talent you use as an employee of your company. Trice is the employer of record and responds to all those time consuming questions from the union, IRS, state and federal unemployment agencies, and social security. The bookkeeping savings alone more then justify the use of Trice.

TO PROPERLY PAY TALENT, YOUR ORGANIZATION MUST DO THE FOLLOWING

OR YOU CAN USE TRICE

Trice does all this for you, at a fraction of what it costs you in the time and headaches when you try to do your talent payroll in house. But Trice gives you more, lots more. For free.

Take our "talent encyclopedia" service. We will be pleased to help you budget upcoming projects, offer money saving ways to best utilize the talents' time, and remind you of potential charges you may have otherwise overlooked. This service also includes help on bidding for projects and having a solid awareness of talent costs for presentation purposes. Let us spend the time necessary to find out specialized rates, and answer any contractual questions that may arise. We will keep you updated on rate changes, and, while we don't pretend to know everything about the arcane union contracts, if we don't have the answers, we know who to call to find out. These pre-production services along with our commitment to timely payments have saved our clients tens of thousands of dollars in union late payment penalties and unnecessary cost over runs. This doesn't include the hours and hours of frustration in clients trying to track down answers. Trice will fit into your company like a whole new department that is there when you need it, tailored specifically to work with your organization.

For your productions, Trice will be glad to customize a simple form we have developed to report work that has served our clients admirably in the past. Additionally, we will notify you in writing, in advance of upcoming commercial renewals. Additionally, we have over 2500 local talent on our payroll system, so the odds are we will not need much information from you on the talent you use. While Trice is not a casting service, on narrations or small jobs we will be glad to make recommendations on talent. If you need, we can put you in touch with a reputable casting service, and you can have us include their fee on our invoice and Trice will take care of their payment.

The best news is, that for our clients, Trice becomes a billable line item to pass directly on to your client, meaning Trice costs you nothing. For those who use us to pay for their own productions, we become a line item expense, not part of your overhead. You save the time and money involved by having to assume the talent you use as an employee of your organization. Your bookkeeper savings alone more than justify the use of Trice.

Trice has over 800 satisfied clients, including some of the most respected advertising agencies and corporations in the country. We have made talent payments for 7 of the 10 largest businesses in the Washington/ Baltimore area, many Fortune 500 companies, and, we are just as proud to say that we have paid for scores of one person shops as well.

We base our service on several principals. We think business can be something friendly while it is still done precisely and taken seriously. We believe in the courtesy of returning phone calls quickly. And we also believe that the less you hear from us and the union, the better we are doing our job; you don't need to know how hard we are working. Finally, we think that making a living, staying in business, and having the same clients for years and years is a better choice than being greedy. Trice rates have actually decreased over the past 10 years.

If you have never had to pay talent before, we make it look easy; if you have been paying your talent, you'll wonder why you didn't start using Trice years ago.