European Travel Insurance - Booking Tips

It contains a few helpful tips that you can start using immediately when you are booking your band. This article is about the subject of booking your band.

Get Organized

At the very least get a calender and a note book and keep good records. Inside you can keep detailed notes and reminder notices to follow up on phone calls or anything else that has to be done. They are compact and can help you stay organized by keeping all important information in one place, i recommend getting a Day runner. Who you sent packages to and who you need to follow up with, what was said, you need to come up with some sort of system to keep track of who you called.

Press Kit

Make sure your best song is the first song on your demo. If it is sloppy or unorganized that is the way you band will be perceived. Make sure you kit is the very best it can be before you send it out.

Don't Lie

This may help you booked on a better night or time slot, let the club owner know about it. If you have a mailing list and it is a decent size (qty 500 people). If you band is good you can get some great exposure to many people which will increase your draw. If you don�t have a large draw or you are just starting out tell the club owner that and then ask to open for a band that has a large draw. Which will hurt you in future bookings there, if you tell them you can draw 200 and only 50 people show up you have betrayed the trust that the club owner has given you. How many people you can get through the door, clubs care about one thing. Do not lie about your draw.

Meet The Booker

You can personally hand over your press kit and you will get more attention that if you just called and dropped your package in the mail. I find it is best to do this in the beginning of the week (Mon or Tues) when they are not so busy. Go down to the club and meet the person who is doing the booking, if you are booking your band into a new venue or if your band is new.

Put Together A Package

Anything you can do to make your show not just another band playing in a club will be much more appealing to the booker and will attract more people to come to the show to check it out. How about getting together with 10 other bands and have a rock marathon where every band plays one set? If you are a standard rock band consider an unplugged night with a few other bands. Put the package together and then go to the club owner and sell the idea to the booker. Use you imagination and creativity. Also a restaurant that brought in barbecues and cooked reggae food and a travel agency set up a booth about Jamaican vacations, they found someone who makes Reggae jewelry. An example might be: a few Reggae band got together and threw a Reggae fest. This can really work well if you make it different and interesting. Get together with a few other bands and offer a package to the club owner.

Good luck and happy bookings. Drop me a line and let me know how your band is doing, i hope this help you and as always! I have just started to scratch the surface on the subject of booking you band, well there you have it.