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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94870 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-10
• Released on: 2008-11-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 510 pages

Review
" 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

From the Publisher
This award-winning, unique, step-by-step guide and resource book, How To Be Your Own Booking Agent, is now available in its Revised 2nd Edition. Packed with helpful hot tips, savvy advice from industry professionals, realistic methods and action plans enhanced by completely updated resource sections following every chapter including recommended books, directories, web sites, businesses, new conferences and much more, truly is THE Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide To Successful Touring.

From the Author
This award-winning, unique, step-by-step guide and resource book, How To Be Your Own Booking Agent, is now available in its Revised 2nd Edition. Packed with helpful hot tips, savvy advice from industry professionals, realistic methods and action plans enhanced by completely updated resource sections following every chapter including recommended books, directories, web sites, businesses, new conferences and much more, truly is THE Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide To Successful Touring.

Customer Reviews

Gold standard for Music Business books

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.

Essential!
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.

Simply great
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!