Having trouble figuring out where the best venues to play at in your state are?
Tired of spending all your time trying to find contact information for booking agents, studios, managers, production companies, promoters, and owners?
Want to make a badass website for you or your band but don’t know what the hell html or flash is?
Don’t waste your valuable practice time with these annoying and time-consuming medial tasks when you could be playing your damn guitar, expanding your musical abilities, and unlocking your guitar potential!
It’s time to Outsource to some guy/girl in India who would be more than happy to do these things for you!
I know this sounds bizarre and is something that most musicians wouldn’t even think about, but you should definitely take advantage of this new idea right away.
You may be wondering what a service provider from Elance.com can do for you. Well the possibilities are really endless but here are a few things that I have had done for me for cheap:
-Web Site Design
-Contact Generation (For $50 and no personal time wasted this is what I got: 358 Texas Music contacts including: 11 Digital Music Distribution, 25 Music Retailers, 72 Radio Stations. 12 Music Press, 2 Conferences/Showcases, 24 Tap/CD/Disc Manufacturers, 38 Music Studios, 13 Booking Agents, 8 Managers, 29 Music Attorneys, 2 PR Firms, 8 Producers, 3 Promoters, 3 Publicists, and 108 Record Labels. In addition I was provided an additional 2159 Record Label contacts across the United states.)
-Hire a Virtual Assistant to add targeted friends on MySpace (Increasing fan base and exposure for $2 an hour without spamming)
-Band Logo and T-Shirt Design
These are just a sample of what I have used Elance.com for. If you can think of something that you want done but don’t have the expertise, don’t want to waste your time doing, or just want to experiment with, Elance.com has a provider for it. Just think of it as the Ebay for services. You post a project you want to have done, and providers will bid on it. You then can select whichever provider you want. You could base your selection on price, feedback reviews, experience, and/or quality. Elance is a goldmine.
Read this hilarious article about Outsourcing written by Esquire editor, A.J Jacobs to get a better understanding of how it all works. : http://www.smartmoney.com/esquire/index.cfm?Story=20050909-outsource
So quit wasting your time on tasks that you can get someone else to do better anyways, and get back to practicing!
Thank you, Come Again.
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Tammy Harris // Dec 26, 2007 at 7:42 am
I would like to start out with possibly first building my friends on myspace. That site is http://www.myspace.com/tammyharrisrootsoul. I would like to know about the contact generation. Does that mean you provide basically a phone book of these people? That’s my impression. Are they specific to a certain genre or area of expertise?
Thanks,
Tammy
2 Jeff // Dec 27, 2007 at 11:18 am
Hey Tammy. You can start wherever you want. What you do is just post your project and work out as many details and specifics as possible. Say you want to first work on adding women over 25 to your friend network. Just say in your proposal what target market you are looking to add, if any, and these virtual assistants will do so. It is easy to find your target on sites like Myspace with the search feature, and the assistants are very fast. After you post your project, you want to invite bidders, and for adding friends, you would want to invite providers that are experiences in administrative work, such as list-building or lead generation. Invite as many as you want and then choose the bidder that you desire. You basically can do this for friends on myspace, gettin a list of the music venues and contact numbers in Illinois, or even finding contact info for independent label executives. The sky is the limit. Ask and you shall receive! Hope that that helps.
3 Jerry Johnson // May 7, 2008 at 7:00 am
“Jerry Johnson” is a high energy Texas style rockin’ blues act,based in Burlington ON Canada, we have a “nominated for blues recording of the year” cd of original songs, and need help expanding. We want to play,Canada ,us, Europe. Can you help???
4 ROY STONE // May 20, 2009 at 6:06 am
Looking for live & recording work…please put me on file
Play tracks……http://www.myspace.com/roystonelink
web-site………http://www.roystone.com
email……………admin@roystone.com
5 POWs // Sep 24, 2009 at 4:42 am
Hello. We are the POWs. It stands for Product Of Warroom Studios. We are based out on Long Island in New York. We have just finished our second album tilted GrownNSexy. Its a mixture or originan music, club songs and some original hip hop music. we are looking for a purshing binding distrubution deal from a good company that will pic up the album. all of the artwork is done as fars as for the album and album cover. We are currently working on two music videos to help promote with the album. We are willing to relocate depending on the type of deal that is available. We are currently on Skype just in case you feel the need to get in touch with us. We do have a myspace music page that is under construction right now and will be ready when the album drops. Our office hours are, US time, central from 9am to 9pm Monday thru Friday. Sat hours are 12noon to 6pm and Sundays are private appointments only. Thank you for your consideration in helping us promote The POWs second album. We also have had music on Warlock Sony Records and ZYX Records overseas in Germany. Thank you the Warroom staff.
6 Mike Walker // Nov 6, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I am looking for a booking agent that can book cruises and overseas gigs. Check out the website. I am an impressionist as well as a country music singer. If you are interested in booking me please contact me. Thanks and God Bless,
Mike
7 Kristi Carter // Feb 23, 2010 at 4:57 pm
I’ve actually used Elance.com as a provider and buyer too and find that the smartest thing one can do as a business owner is to leverage the talent of others. On Elance, there are many qualified professionals available to help you – just make sure that you choose providers with the skills and expertise to complete your project, are clear about your budgetary constraints, deliverables/expectations, and more. By doing this, you can find some great talent on Elance.
8 james // Dec 7, 2010 at 11:16 am
do you book independent musicians? i am a pro drummer 25 years exp. looking to go overseas, i play usually top 40 cover bands , but like most styles of music, and am very openminded, please contact me if you do anything with people like me ! thank you james …
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