Using Twitter to Grow Your Venue’s Following
Social media is a dicey proposition for any business – trying to extend a hand from your company to customers that they can identify as a friend rather than an extension of the advertising barrage…
Music Venue Management: How to Save Time and Build Your Business
Hours You’ll Never Get Back According to an Eventbrite survey of nearly 50 live music venues, the average venue employee spends between one and four hours every day on booking and ticketing alone. That’s a…
How to Make The Most Out of Your Music Performance Contracts
A music performance contract is an agreement between a booking agent and a venue to eliminate payment disagreements and clarify performance expectations and provisions. It protects the rights of both the venue and the music…
Secrets to Talent Booking
Talent Booking Isn’t Always Easy If you’re a talent buyer, you know it can be challenging to find the right bands, negotiate the right price, find the right date and get the audience in the…
4 Booking Strategies for Talent Buyers
The Increasing Challenges for Talent Buyers Talent buyers are an integral part of the live music industry. They are responsible for booking the talent for a venue or event, such as a live music festival,…
8 Bad Habits that Keep You from Booking More Shows
Whether you’re an artist or a promoter the key to success is keeping the calendar as full of dates as possible. If you feel like you have a great act to unleash on the world,…
A Win-Win-Win Approach to Music Venue Booking
Music venue owners, promoters, and artists all need each other, but often it can feel like not everyone is playing for the same team. Everyone is interested in maximizing their own profit and building the…
The Benefits of Integrating with a Venue Ticketing Management System
Are Venue Ticketing Systems Enough? You have an event you need to sell tickets for. What are you going to do? There are dozens of venue ticketing systems you can download, but do they give…
Not Using Music Business Software? You’re Losing Money.
When we tell people that our company builds live music business software that helps venue owners and promoters manage their businesses, they often question whether something like that is really needed. Most people don’t understand…
Live Music Industry Software – An Anti-Stress Solution?
Everyone knows that life as a working, but not super-famous live music performer can be stressful. You’ve got to worry when you’ll get the next gig, deal with the business side of things, get better…