The decision to use a talent booking agency is often a good decision for your entertainment career. Here are some of the benefits:

First, booking tours take a lot of time and involve juggling many dates and various logistics. Having a talent booking agent to handle all of this can free you up to be more creative.

Second, talent booking agencies have many contacts at popular venues with many promoters that you may not know about and cannot access by yourself. Promoters prefer to working booking agents that they know. If the agents has a good relationship with that venue, they may have a better chance of getting you booked there.

Third, the booking agent could be familiar with out of town venues that you do not know about. They have experience and can make smart decisions that could be appropriate to help you grow your audience.

Fourth, your booking agency may have existing relationships with promoters and venues that could help you get a better deal for a show than you could get by yourself. Since they get a percentage of your earnings, they have an interest in getting you a good deal.

Remember that getting good live shows are vital to building a fan base these days and having a quality booking agency can help you get bigger and better venues. And scoring an opening slot for a bigger act can be vital to building your career. It is especially important to use a talent booking agency when you are ready to go on tour.

If you want to attract a quality booking agent, it is good to keep playing well and growing your fan base. When you get good enough to be noticed by book booking agencies, they will find you. You should book your band until you are able to sell out shows regularly of at least 100 people at $10 each in your local market. That’s the sort of income that will get the attention of a booking agency.

If you are not able to sell that many tickets yet, remember that not all booking agents are in the business for the money only. They are fans of music too and you can build a career that will get a booking agency’s interest. A good way to do this is to grow your mailing list to at least 1000 Twitter and Facebook fans. Also, get your live show down pat and get a solid musical set. Fine-tune your website and blog extensively about your shows.