A ground breaking DIY e-book about building a music tour from the ground up with a profit in mind. This book covers everything you need to know, from budgeting to routing, to promoting, merchandising to negotiating and more.
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Get the Mileage Log Book for Musicians
Easily track all of your miles while you're touring and on the go. This 6x9 log book provides a convenient way to track odometer readings, mileage tally, and other expenses related to touring.
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Use our tour budgeting spreadsheet to get a clear picture of whether or not your next tour will be profitable. Click Here.
Find out at a glance what a potential tour might cost with just a few pieces of information. Click Here.
Need stage experience before embarking on the world of touring? Click Here for our Stage Experience Checklist.
Need help funding your next tour? Click Here to download the Generate Starter Funds Worksheet.
Click here to take the free 4-Day eCourse, How to Book [Profitable] Gigs.
Find house concert series and hosts across the continental US and Canada and schedule profitable house concerts on your next tour! Click Here.
Our Most Popular Posts About Touring
A collection of posts covering many topics related to touring.
A Sample Tour Budgeting Spreadsheet: Free Download
If you’re new to touring, one of the many big questions you might have is how to turn a profit? Some tours are investment tours. On some tours, you’re lucky enough to break even, while other […]
How to Book a Music Tour With No Experience
The first thing you need to do when planning a tour is to determine how much upfront money you can invest in your tour. Knowing what your budget is will determine where you go […]
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Get the Booking Call Log for Musicians
A Call and Email Log Book for Gigging Musicians and Performers to keep track of phone calls, emails, venue responses and follow-ups for booking gigs, performances, and tour dates.
Watch Our Booking Videos
The current venue, friends of the venue, neighbors of the venue, people in the audience, and friends of the people in the audience are all opportunities to get that follow-up gig. Watch this video for 3 Ways You Can Book Follow-up Gigs at every show.
Looking to get more gigs and earn more money? Booking is all about numbers, consistency, materials, and effort. Here are 5 Music Booking Tricks to Help You Earn More Money.
This is an excellent way for independent musicians to Get More Private Gigs without having to do too much extra work or pay a butt load of money in advertising fees. In fact, if you follow this guide, you might get away with not paying anything or at the very least, a nominal cost of printing and postage.
If you’re a performing musician and find yourself on the road touring and traveling long distances between shows, this Mileage Logbook is for you. Keeping track of miles traveled while on the road as a musician helps prove vehicle usage and mileage. Additionally, a record of miles traveled over the course of a year can […]
Touring costs money. Gas, lodging, food, and general costs of being on the road can all add up. If you’re traveling with bandmates, costs can skyrocket. Going from city to city sharing your music is a lot of fun. But it’s even more fun to have funds in place to cover expenses associated with touring […]
A show at a venue out of town can be difficult to promote. You may not have a large following in the area. Plus, if you’re unfamiliar with the area, finding ways to build awareness about your show can be challenging. Sometimes, there are other bands on the bill that can help cover the promotion […]
Some of my most memorable gigs are house concerts. I’ll never forget this one time I did a house concert in Baltimore, MD. When I first walked into the house, the guests were lounging around and as I walked up to them to say hello, they said we’re your biggest fans. I had never met […]
I’ll start off by saying, you probably will get rejected. At the time of this writing, their own website says that only 30% of first-time applicants get accepted. In fact, if you’re contemplating applying, you should probably read this first. When I first started doing music, I came across Concerts in Your Home. It’s a […]
We, independent musicians, are constantly trying to learn more about the music business. We buy books, we read blogs, and we tap into others we know who are doing it too. Another great way to get educated on industry and find inspiration is through podcasts. Luckily for us, there are a lot of great podcasts […]
As we all know, the coronavirus has brought live in-person music performances to a screeching halt in 2020. That has forced a lot of us musicians to do live-streaming on the internet for shows. All of this has led us to wonder how the coronavirus is affecting music venues and do they think live music […]
2019 has come and gone. From various lawsuits, big industry executive switch-ups, and the ever-changing landscape of music streaming, the music industry at large had its fair share of woes. One thing continues to persevere through it all and that’s the power of independent music driven by wildly talented artists like you. In 2019 we […]
Being a musician is not for the faint of heart. Independent musicians face hardships throughout their career. Sometimes these hardships can be quite scary. One of the most interesting things about being a musician is the unplanned encounters you have while performing and being on the road. The experience, the laughs, and the close calls […]
Touring as an independent artist is hard. To add to that, finances can be a huge puzzle with several pieces that may not fit nicely in your budget. In order to make a profit or at least break even, you have to start out with a budget and have some idea of how much your […]
