Found Around: How To Increase Gig Attendance
Written by Brittni Liyanage Posted in: Found Around on July 07, 2010
The title of this article is a little misleading but it does offer some useful info. If your band is just starting out and dealing with questions like "Where should we play our first couple of shows?" or "How should we arrange our set?" this article will be of some assistance. These tips could also help if you've been around the block a couple of times and you're looking to broaden your audience. Definitely read through this article, but if you've already been there, done that, leave some tips of your own that you feel every musician should know!
-Brittni
(Music Think Tank) How to Increase Gig Attendance
If there is one thing that almost every musician dreams of, it is of that first major tour. Its that feeling of playing night after night, in the best venues of all of the major cities around the world, and always to a sold out crowd. But before that will ever happen, you need to answer one major question: Do you have a plan? If not, you can be sure to kiss that dream goodbye. And if you do have a plan, is it good enough? Music is a business just as anything else, and as such it is your job to play entrepreneur and marketer. While it is your product or service you are trying to sell, it is also your job to expose your music to the public. First we will take a look at forming a proper plan, followed by exploring different strategies for putting that plan into action. The following are 3 very important steps to ensuring that you have a proper plan in place before you even attempt to get that first gig...
