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With the knowledge of How to Book Your Own Music Gigs you can be well on your way to elevating your entire career. In this course you'll learn how to increase your booking results; create your own custom booking strategy; create your own booking and cold call scripts; where to look to find gigs suitable for you; how to keep your gigging calendar full of gigs you love and a strategy for booking gigs even when you can’t find any.

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Take your booking efforts to the next level with a complete set of tools to help you be more efficient as your own booking agent! The Ultimate Booking Toolbox includes:

  • How to Book [Profitable] Gigs Workbook (40 pages)
  • Financial Forecasting Table
  • List of Gigging Resources
  • Booking a [Profitable] Tour book
  • Step-by-Step Coaching Videos
  • Call & E-mail Scripts
  • Booking Logs
  • Fee Calculator

Booking Call Log

Keep track of all your booking efforts with the Booking Call Log for Musicians. Emails, phone calls, walk-ins, and follow-ups are hard to keep all in your head. The Booking Call Log provided a convenient way to track all of this information for easy reference and booking effort routine.

Keep Track of Music Booking Efforts with the Booking Call Log Book for Musicians

By Anitra Jay | August 11, 2022 | 0 Comments
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I’m a gigging musician. It takes a lot of effort to get gigs and keep my gigging calendar full. I spend hours each week calling venues, researching gigging opportunities, sending out emails, following up with people I’ve reached out to and advancing shows. People don’t realize that gigging is not just showing up at your […]

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15 Positive Ways Musicians Can Improve Their Chance of Getting Gigs

By Dipanshu Mphapatra | August 8, 2022 | 1 Comment
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For this post, we welcome Guest Contributor, Dipanshu Mphapatra; self-taught guitarist who has played over 100 live performance gigs and counting. Dipanshu runs music-industry blog – Pick Up The Guitar. For more information about Dipanshu, see his full bio below. It’s no surprise that the music industry is one of the most competitive industries to […]

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7 Ways to Find Music Gigs Near You

By Anitra Jay | March 2, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Finding local gigs near you is not easy. It’d be great if simply putting your music on the internet was enough to get the gigs you need. But to accomplish your gigging goals, it takes more than that. You have to be proactive. The best way to get local gigs for yourself is to put […]

 

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Music Business Guide: 4 Critical Business Elements Every Musician Should Address

By Anitra Jay | October 6, 2021 | 0 Comments
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Doing music is about way more than just playing a few tunes and melodies. There are so many hats a musician has to wear to keep business moving in the right direction, it could make your head spin. Being in business for yourself creates its own set of challenges, but it’s incredibly rewarding if you […]

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How Musicians Can Book House Concerts with HomeDitty

By Anitra Jay | July 7, 2021 | 0 Comments
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In a previous post, I shared 4 Platforms Musicians Can Use to Book House Concerts. HomeDitty was one of them. What really intrigued me about HomeDitty was the platform style and booking access that could potentially help musicians to break long upheld barriers in the house concert realm. Katie Byers, the founder of HomeDitty has […]

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4 Platforms for Musicians to Book House Concerts

By Anitra Jay | June 30, 2021 | 0 Comments
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Some of my most memorable gigs are house concerts. I’ll never forget this one time I did a house concert in Baltimore, MD. When I first walked into the house, the guests were lounging around and as I walked up to them to say hello, they said we’re your biggest fans. I had never met […]

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Read this Before Applying to Concerts in Your Home

By Anitra Jay | June 8, 2021 | 2 Comments
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I’ll start off by saying, you probably will get rejected. At the time of this writing, their own website says that only 30% of first-time applicants get accepted. In fact, if you’re contemplating applying, you should probably read this first.  When I first started doing music, I came across Concerts in Your Home. It’s a […]

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5 Ways to Book Paid Virtual Music Gigs

By Rob Schultz | November 18, 2020 | 2 Comments
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As live in-person shows remain a rarity due to the pandemic for the time being, us musicians continue to search for the best ways to get paid gigs in this virtual world. There are actually lots of opportunities to get paid from your live-streaming performances and several ways to go about setting these shows up. […]

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How I Became a Full-Time Singer/Songwriter

By Anitra Jay | July 15, 2020 | 6 Comments
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Before we get started, if you’re interested in starting a career as a singer/songwriter, check out our Free Guide – 8 Steps to Become a Successful Full-Time Singer/Songwriter. Download it here. My plan in life was never to be a musician. It was a dream I always carried around hidden under the surface. Growing up […]

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30 Career Advancing Things Musicians Can Do During The Coronavirus Shutdown

By Rob Schultz | March 17, 2020 | 2 Comments
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We’re in the middle of ‘the great shutdown of 2020’ as some are calling it. We’ve all been advised to stay at home as much as possible and not to gather in groups larger than 10 people. Unfortunately for us musicians, this means most venues are canceling shows until further notice. While we don’t know […]

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