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Book, Plan, Prepare

Ready to learn about producing live shows? You’ve come to the right place! We put together step-by-step instructions to help you book, plan, and prepare for an amazing show! Start with Part 1.

Book

Part 1: How To Book Concerts will teach you everything from from artist selection to riders.

Plan

Part 2: How To Plan Concerts covers what you need to do after you’ve booked your artist.

Prepare

Part 3: How To Prepare For Concerts will help you avoid catastrophe and have a successful show.

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How to Train Your Media

How to Train Your Media

Planning how you will market and promote your show is a crucial part of the event planning process. No one will show up if they don’t know it’s happening! We encourage you to invest significant time, energy, and resources into promoting your event in creative ways....

How To Schedule Your Show Day

How To Schedule Your Show Day

When planning out your show day, the most common oversight is underestimating the time it takes for load in / sound checks and changeovers (transitions between artists during a show). Event schedules work best when we're realistic, not hopeful. Building out your...

Recap, Evaluate & Celebrate Your Event

Recap, Evaluate & Celebrate Your Event

As an event planner, it can be easy to jump from one event to the next, checking tasks off your to-do lists without really even thinking about them. However, it is important to remember that your event isn’t over once all of your guests have left, the lights are shut...

5 Pro Tips For Planning Campus Events

5 Pro Tips For Planning Campus Events

As a middle agency that works with many college campus programming teams, we’ve seen the awesome impact a large scale live event can have on a campus. A big event can not only make thousands of students excited, happy, and proud of being a part of their campus...

Am I Ready to Submit An Offer?

Am I Ready to Submit An Offer?

Choosing an artist is one of the most exciting parts of planning an event. Although you may be anxious, you need to have a lot of details pre-planned and ready before you are able to make an official offer to an artist. Here are a few things to make sure you’ve taken...

Making the Transition from Student Programming to a Career

Making the Transition from Student Programming to a Career

The transition from college to a 9-5 job in the entertainment industry can be daunting. It can be easy to compare ourselves to our peers, causing anxiety if they land a job before we do. How does someone even find a job these days? How do I prepare for what’s next?...

How to Conduct a Security Meeting at a Show

How to Conduct a Security Meeting at a Show

Conducting a security meeting before a show is crucial for ensuring the safety of the artist, volunteers, and the audience. You may have created a security plan on paper ahead of the show, but these key points will help you conduct an effective security meeting...

5 Signs Your Campus Event Marketing Isn’t Enough

5 Signs Your Campus Event Marketing Isn’t Enough

Student engagement has been a hot topic lately on campuses. How can you get more students to your events? On the flip side, and correlated - marketing (or lack there of) - has been a hot topic amongst artists and performers going to college campuses only to find small...

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