I interviewed Stuart, a 30 year old musician who had toured previously and is still growing his band. He said most club owners want to see your Facebook and myspace profiles, and most of his gigs came from cold calling (though his hit rate was 10% or less to book a gig). Another way he found gigs was talking to other bands and offering to open for them. This is all very time consuming, and he said if he was employed at the time most of the gigs would never have happened.
When asked about touring, he said most owners would not take a chance on outside bands - a need would could fulfill by assuring the quality of the non-local band through the ratings and reviews. He suggested that a good city to look at with a large number of our target musicians would be Athens, GA. He also suggested that, in addition to bar/club owners, fraternities and sororities should be a consideration, since they typically pay highly for bands and, right now, find them by word of mouth.
I then described our service and asked him how much he would pay for it. He said $20 to $25 a month, though if we had some sort of premium service he would be willing to pay more since he's older than many musicians (i.e. $25 a month is accessible to high schoolers).
He also mentioned Smith 7's in Memphis, which gets young musicians to sign contracts to produce a bands t-shirts, posters, CDs, etc. He said many of these companies are huge rip-offs and an alternative to that would be a huge added bonus.
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