Selling Your Band! – Gig Gab Podcast 148

Is your band for sale? Of course it is! Otherwise you’re not getting paid. And if your band is for sale, then who is the salesperson? Listen to hear your long-time Weekend Warriors put on the relevant parts of their weekDAY hats and talk through their process for selling … anything. There’s lots to learn here this week, folks, and Dave and Paul are on fire with this one! Then it’s time to answer a question about setlists, this time focused around managing the energy of the room… both while you’re playing and while you’re not. Chapters/Timestamps: 00:00:00 Gig Gab 148 – Monday, January 8, 2018 00:00:57 Paul’s Booking Formula 00:04:10 Looking at the summer 00:07:08 Portraying comfortable confidence 00:10:20 Booking bands at the Pro level 00:12:45 If your band is great, it’s great. Other bookings are gravy. 00:15:45 Be on alert when things are on autopilot 00:16:38 Building trust with new booking contacts 00:21:00 Leveraging the relationships of all your bandmembers 00:25:01 The value of building community 00:26:49 48 years?!?!? 00:27:58 The value of brotherly-love 00:28:25 Integrating someone new into your band Getting ready for immediate gigs 00:29:56 Learning the back catalog 00:32:42 Adding new tunes, too! Chart Check! 00:36:34 Record your shows 00:38:19 Dan-Driving the energy with your setlist and flow? The Clanky Lincolns 00:40:53 The flow of the set 00:41:39 Feel out the band 00:45:58 Own your own destiny 00:47:21 Make sure to warmup! 00:49:32 Harness the energy 00:50:44 But learn the energy first! 00:52:11 Managing the breaks! 00:54:24 Learn the way the room flow The post Selling Your Band! – Gig Gab Podcast 148 appeared first on Gig Gab.