Revised 4th EditionHow to book more gigs, get paid higher performance fees and develop a loyal fan base who attend your shows, buy your merchandise and support your projects are three top priorities you face every day. This book simplifies your path to Get Great Gigs and build a successful touring career.
“…I found How To Be Your Own Booking Agent to be the most helpful book on that, ‘making money, making music’ topic that I’ve ever seen…”
—Derek Siversfounder, CDBABY
You probably would much rather have someone else do this part of your business for you. It’s important for you to concentrate on being the best musician and performing artist you can—to take your career to the next level.
And yet, you need to book your own gigs and build your career to the point when you might attract an agent or a manager or even an assistant to help get the gigs you desire.
As a booking agent and artist’s manager for 20 years, I had to keep my acts working and find solutions to the challenges you might be experiencing right now. Some days I hated making the calls. Yet, the gigs needed to be booked—my artist’s livelihood depended on me.
That led to the booking strategies I created and used for years with my artists and coaching clients and now share with you in this easy-to-read, step-by-step guide.
I wish I had a resource like this to help guide me through my phone phobia and my lack of negotiation know-how. It would have been so much easier to have known about all the resources that are now packed into each chapter to simplify the process. This book is your easy-to-use guide to navigate your way around the business of booking and marketing your act.
“As someone who has had the experience of climbing from the bottom to the top of the music industry, I find Goldstein’s book to be THE road map for taking a career from oblivion to stardom, on one’s own terms while maintaining artistic integrity! By combining universal business practices with music industry savvy, HOW TO BE YOUR OWN BOOKING AGENT is your guide to success.”
— RAVI, Singer/Songwriter, Former Guitarist for Triple GRAMMY Nominee, HANSON
Exciting new insights from experienced professionals in the entertainment business pepper each page. The 24 chapters are enhanced with completely updated resource sections following each chapter, packed with recommended books, directories, websites, social media marketing resources and new conferences to help you reach your touring goals. This Revised 4th Edition remains THE Musician’s & Performing Artist’s Guide To Successful Touring.
The information in How To Be Your Own Booking Agent is visually accessible and easy to read. I’ve answered most of the burning questions, provided immediately usable methods and tackled many of the foreseeable problems.
Get your step-by-step guide and begin to get the great gigs you desire and deserve to create your successful touring career…
Jeri Goldstein, former agent and manager, now author and music business and performing arts consultant, provides valuable resources, instruction and consulting to those navigating their way to creating a successful performing arts touring career. Having worked with some of the top touring acoustic artists on the circuit for 20 years she booked national and international tours for artists performing in music, theater and dance. How To Be Your Own Booking Agent, THE Musician’s & Performing Artist’s Guide To Successful Touring was self-published in 1998. The award-winning book, now in its 4th Edition, is used as a text book in Music Business courses at Universities across the U.S. and Canada, Berklee College of Music, NYU, Belmont University, The Musician’s Institute and the Harris Institute in Montreal are among them. The book is used by musicians and performing artists world-wide and was Amazon's # 1 Music Business book. Jeri presents live seminars internationally at industry conferences, for arts councils in the US & Canada and at universities and offers online courses for agents, managers, musicians and performing artists along with career development coaching world-wide through her Strategic Touring Career Development Programs. she has transformed her live presentation to her popular online course Booking & Touring Success Strategies & Secrets which she offers twice per year. Her information-packed articles can be found on her website, http://www.performingbiz.com/ and have been included in leading music business and entertainment trade magazines and on industry websites such as Garageband, Gig, Getsigned.com, Taxi and Discmakers newsletters. Her free action-oriented weekly audio messages, Biz Booster Hot Tips, are designed to help musicians and performing artists make consistent progress toward reaching their career goals by offering step-by-step strategies and techniques. Jeri is currently president and founder of Performingbiz, LLC. Goldstein’s background runs the gamut working inside the entertainment industry as concert promoter, tour coordinator, and commercial television production engineer for an NBC affiliate station, commercial country radio DJ, photographer and graphic artist. Jeri now makes her home in southern Florida. Contact Jeri Goldstein: 800-760-2113 jg@performingbiz.com http://www.performingbiz.com
