How To Be Your Own Booking Agent: THE Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide To Successful Touring (Paperback)

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" One of the most important music industry books on the market today. Expert advice, tips and career strategies!" -- Shawn Fields, CEO, Editor, Getsigned.com

"Goldstein's book takes a career from oblivion to stardom, on one's own terms, while maintaining artistic integrity." -- RAVI, singer/songwriter, former guitarist of triple GRAMMY nominee, HANSON

"It's the most helpful book on that, "making money, making music" topic that I've ever seen." -- Derek Sivers, CEO, CDBABY.Com --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Description

The award-winning, How To Be Your Own Booking Agent THE Musician’s & Performing Artist’s Guide To Successful Touring is one of the top selling music and performing arts business books. It is regularly selected by professors teaching music business and the performing arts and is continually recommended by musicians and performing artists worldwide. Goldstein’s unique step-by-step guide and resource book is artfully organized into 488 pages of savvy advice, realistic methods and action plans for the performing artist and is now available in its Revised 3rd Edition. It provides current immigration regulations for touring artists, a completely rewritten Internet Marketing chapter along with exciting new insights from experienced professionals in the entertainment industry. The 24 chapters have completely updated resource sections following each chapter packed with recommended books, directories, web sites and new conferences to help performers achieve their career goals.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 510 pages
• Publisher: New Music Times, Inc.; 3 Revised edition (November 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0960683054
• ISBN-13: 978-0960683055
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #365,708 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gold standard for Music Business books, November 18, 2004

By	Jeri Goldstein "Publisher" (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: How to Be Your Own Booking Agent: The Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide to Successful Touring (Paperback)

Review written by
Kerry Dexter
Dirty Linen Magazine
Dec.2004/January 2005 Issue

Jeri Goldstein fairly well created the gold standard for music business books that are both practical and wise when the first edition was released in 1998, offering succinct ideas on setting goals, planning for a long-range future as a musician, when to quit your day job, and when to rethink your music career. Along with those came big-picture straight forward advice on negotiating with venues, planning tour routing, how to set up an office, what to include in a letter of intent, and what to look for in a contract, among other things.The latest edition includes all that, organized into bite-sized chapters packed with information and seasoned with sidebar quotes and tips from music industry professionals...There are updates to the resources sections included with each chapter, added information about immigration issues for artists and about creating and using electronic press kits, and materials on web design. New edition or old, it's a book that belongs on the shelf of anyone who wants to know more about the many-faceted business of performing arts, touring and presenting, and integrating that part of a musician's life into a successful career.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential!, November 29, 2005

By	Megan Romer (Ithaca, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Be Your Own Booking Agent: The Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide to Successful Touring (Paperback)

No one in the music industry, be they a musician, club owner, festival manager, booking agent, band manager, merch salesman, etc. has any good excuse NOT to read this book.

It's essential for those who are just starting out, and useful for those who have been in the game for many years. Goldstein's writing is clear and concise, and the book is organized well and peppered with real-life examples and "hot tips", which keep it interesting.

There are dozens of fabulous books on the music industry, from how-to guides to high-level marketing strategy books, but no one should bother reading any of them until they've read this book. It's absolutely essential.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply great, April 28, 2005

By	P. Marko "markopavic.com" (Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: How to Be Your Own Booking Agent: The Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide to Successful Touring (Paperback)

This book is great. It's well written and it covers all you need to know about booking and more. If you're serious about your music, this book is a must. Recomended!