The Concert Booking Agency

The time has come for you to start finding gigs but you don’t know where to turn. Maybe you need to get back to the basics, or find a simple idea that can help you land a few extra gigs this year. Hopeully this will help.

1. Get some business cards. Put them all over your town and give them to whoever you can. You will be suprised how an anonymous person can lead to a gig but make sure your business cards stand out. It’s a marketing tool and people will look at it as an extension of you.

2. Always invite promoters, club owners, bookers, prospects, and past clients to your gigs. Creating an email list or sending a text message for this purpose is better than posting on your social network page but they both work.  

3. Make sure someone is able to answer your phone during normal business hours and in most cases in the early evening too. There a ton of promoters and bookers who have a daytime job and handle their promotion stuff after work. A simple answering machine is suffice but the time it takes for you to get back to them could cost you a gig. If you have a seperate business line, forward the calls to your mobile phone when you are away.

4. Have a 5-10 minute live set posted on Youtube. Go to tinyurl.com to shorten the web address and include it on your business cards, letterhead, postcards, brochures, email signature, etc. Potential buyers will want this footage to be recorded before a live audience. The more positive reaction from the crowd, the better.

5. Study the art of “closing the deal.” Know the buzzwords that signal interest on the part of the client. Find a few closing techniques that you are comfortable with. Then, go online and see if you can discover something about the buyers interests and values, and customize each client’s call to hit their hot buttons.

The official Launch Date for our site, featuring a free classified ads page is March 1, 2011.