How To Be Your Own Booking Agent (Revised 2nd Edition Updated) - Softcover

Jeri Goldstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0960683046 ISBN 13: 9780960683048

Publisher: The New Music Times, Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Since 1998, the award-winning, How To Be Your Own Booking Agent has been among the top selling music and performing arts business books. It is regularly selected each semester by professors teaching music business and the performing arts and continually recommended by musicians and performing artists worldwide. Jeri Goldstein s unique step-by-step guide and resource book is artfully organized into 492 pages of savvy advice, realistic methods and action plans for the performing artist and is now available in its UPDATED Revised 2nd Edition. This completely updated edition provides current information about immigration regulations for touring artists, new technology advances in digital and electronic press kits and web design basics along with exciting new insights from experienced professionals in the entertainment business. There are 24 chapters enhanced with completely updated resource sections following each chapter packed with recommended books, directories, web sites, businesses and new conferences helping artists achieve their career goals and this revised edition is truly THE Musician s & Performing Artist s Guide To Successful Touring. How To Be Your Own Booking Agent THE Musician s & Performing Artist s Guide To Successful Touring tackles such topics as: The Art of Negotiating; How to Make Cold Calls; Setting Long Term Goals; Effective Telephone Techniques; Creating An Effective Promotional Package; Contracts; The Art of Touring; Managing the Road; Conferences; Trade Shows and Industry Events; Funding Sources; Crossing Borders--U.S./Canada Touring; Marketing Your Act; Accessing the Media: Print, Radio, Television and The Internet; Working with Your Record Company; Working with Managers and Agents; When to Quit Your Day Job; Hiring Help and Ethics and Attitudes. "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 The information is visually accessible with worksheets and a variety of forms included throughout the book that may be copied for the artist's use and convenience. Jeri has answered most of the burning questions, provided immediately usable methods and tackled many of the foreseeable problems. Most importantly, though, she offers the performing artist a step-by-step guide to create a successful touring career.

About this title

About the Author

Jeri Goldstein, former agent and manager now author and music business and performing arts consultant offers strategies and techniques on booking tours, negotiation techniques, marketing, music business and performing arts career development. 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 it s 7th printing, is used as a text book in Music Business courses at Universities across the US and in Canada and by musicians and performing artists world-wide. Jeri Goldstein now provides valuable resources, instruction and consulting to musicians and performing artists as they navigate the entertainment industry on their way to creating a successful performing arts touring career. Jeri presents live workshops and seminars internationally and offers tele-seminars and tele-courses in the performing arts and music business career development for agents, managers, musicians and performing artists. She consults with touring musicians and performing artist around the world through her Manager-In-A-Box program. Her information-packed articles on music business and performing arts career development can be found on her website, performingbiz.com and are included in leading music business and entertainment trade magazines and on websites for music business and the performing arts. Her free action-oriented Biz Booster Hot Tips are short weekly audio messages designed to help musicians and performing artists make consistent progress with their career goals by offering step-by-step strategies and techniques. 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 country, folk, gospel, bluegrass, contemporary, classical, children s music, theater and dance.

Review

My bookshelves are filled with probably every book ever written about the music business, and twenty books on marketing, PR, and business strategy. But, 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. It's 490 pages filled with hot tips from *hundreds* of industry veterans. Every page has quotes and snippets along the edge, so you can leave this on your dinner table and flip through it whenever you have a minute, and *still* learn something every day. --Derek Sivers, Founder CDBABY

Truly Exceptional! I'm amazed at the depth and breadth of material Ms. Goldstein has compiled in one volume. This book belongs in every musician's library. --Micah Solomon, President, Oasis CD Manufacturing

It has become increasingly important for today's artists to do the legwork and create their own opportunities. For this reason, How To Be Your Own Booking Agent has become more valuable than ever before. --David Wimble, The Indie Bible

Edition details

• Publisher: The New Music Times, Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0960683046
• ISBN 13: 9780960683048
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 492
• Editor: Kari Estrin