OnlineGigs.com will change the way bands tour, book, promote & manage their careers.
Jay Flanzbaum booked, promoted, and managed bands for seven years, always looking for computerized tools that would make the job easier. None existed, so he built them - a report by The G-Man.
(PRWEB) April 30, 2004 -- For less than the cost of sushi for one, OnlineGigs.com will give you the tools to manage a band, book gigs, arrange tours, and oversee ongoing promotion to a continually-maintained database.
Sound too good to be true? Yeah, I thought so, too. Until I tried it. OnlineGigs is breathtaking. If you have a browser made during the past two years, you can access an astonishing amount of information in each of four categories:
- Booking
- Promotion
- Management
- Touring
Want to know the venues in the Southeastern part of Iowa? OnlineGigs not only has the names/addresses/phones/emails, they have the most recent booker's name, preferred method of contact, club capacity, notes about gear and load-in, and more. For the majority of regions in almost every state. Plus, the database is continually expanding and being updated as a growing list of artists and managers utilize the service and report back with their experiences.
Want to contact the venue? OnlineGigs (OLG) lets you compose, send and save an email while also adding a "tickler" memo to remind yourself when to follow-up.
Want to book a gig? OLG has standard email forms AND contract forms that you can quickly modify to suit the situation, then save for future reference. And it automatically schedules reminders to you and all members of your band so that everybody stays on track for the booking.
Want directions to the venue? OLG has it. Plus, it enables you to add in your motel choices so you can generate directions from the club to accomodations, towns, other venues, etc. to make tour planning easier than ever.
Want to promote your appearance? OLG has a huge list of media contacts organized by region (and any other way you might think of), as well as sample press releases that you can easily customize to fit your band. They can be sent using just a couple of mouse clicks, with reminders sent to you (or whoever) so that it's easy to make follow-up emails, phone calls, etc. on time without having to check your calendar over and over again.
Like to keep track of people you've contacted? OLG does it. Print a tour itinerary? No problem. Monitor how the publicity is working? Yup. There are even plans for the OnlineGigs software to schedule automatic emails or faxes.
OnlineGigs is like taking everything in your head, all the scraps of paper from your desktop, all the business cards from your top drawer, and all the files in your laptop computer and combining it with Google as well as the world's best (and easiest-to-use) spreadsheet program.
About now, you're saying to yourself, "It can't be that good." Exactly what I said to myself. But then I used it. Sheesh, this thing will forever alter the way bands, managers, and publicists go about their business.
All for twenty bucks a month.
Try it at www.onlinegigs.com. You will believe.
Scott G writes and records as The G-Man and may be reached at: www.gmanmusic.com.
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