With the summer approaching, it’s good to be prepared for the hot weather. When you’re negotiating a gig with a client, you want to make sure that you and your group members are covered (literally). Read more…
Topic Archives: Quick Tips
Tax Advice for Independent Musicians
Once again, today’s post comes from Chris Robley from CDBaby:
Your taxes are due in just a few days! It’s time to claim all that gig money you earned “under the table,” time to add up that pile of receipts stashed in the cupboard, time to cross your fingers and hope that math and Uncle Sam are on your side. Read more…
How to Upload Video
We highly recommend that you add video to your press kit. We’ve found that members with video on their page are four times as likely to get booked than those without. Here’s a short video tutorial on how to upload video to your page. Read more…
Spring Cleaning Your Press Kit
Cleaning the house can wait. With the wedding and summer party season approaching, it’s time to clean up your act first. Since it’s such a popular time for event planning, we recommend some virtual cleaning on your GigMasters Press Kit. Here are some quick tips to make sure that you don’t miss out on gigs. Read more…
How to Blackout Calendar Dates
If you know in advance that there are days that you’re unavailable to perform, you can blackout dates on your GigMasters calendar. Once they’re entered, you will no longer get leads for those dates. Here’s a short video tutorial on how to set this up. Read more…
Exploring Your Control Panel – Part 2: Leads
In the first installment of our thrilling ‘Exploring Your Control Panel’ series, we introduced you to your Dashboard, the Control Panel’s entry point. You can get a lot of things done right from your Dashboard but today we are diving into the true heart of the Control Panel, the Leads page.
If you polled a group of veteran GigMasters members, I bet the majority of them would tell you that the Leads page is their favorite section of the Control Panel. It’s all about those leads after all – that’s how you get booked. Read more…
How to Add a Booking on Behalf of a Client
This tutorial is helpful for gigs that originated outside of GigMasters.com and for clients who are unfamiliar with our booking system. Adding a booking this way allows a client to leave feedback and gives them access to online payments, contracts and more. Read more…
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Star Ratings But Forgot to Ask
If you are like most GigMasters members, you are well aware of your star rating. You are either working your way up to a five star rating or working hard to maintain it. Chances are you probably already know that your star rating is based on feedback from your GigMasters clients. I’ll say that again – your star rating is based solely on client feedback!
Now that we’ve (hopefully) cleared that up…on to the next question: How do we calculate your star rating? Read more…
Quick Tip: Enable Deposits & Balance Payments
GigMasters’ secure booking system is one of the biggest reasons why so many clients feel comfortable booking with us (a total of over 150,000 and counting). Our 14 years in business, A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and TRUSTe accreditation put clients at ease – even if they don’t know what that last one is! This is all great new for you, the GigMasters member, because it means that many of our clients are not just comfortable paying your deposits and balances through GigMasters, they are down right eager to do it! Read more…
New Year’s Resolution: Clean Up Your Press Kit
This time of year just about everyone is making New Year’s resolutions. If you want to lose weight or quit smoking, we’re all for it, but we can’t do much to help. What we can help with is making sure that you make the most of your GigMasters membership. To that end, we have a New Year’s resolution you should all consider: keep your Press Kit organized and up to date. Read more…