The GetBooked custom tab image, “Book a House Concert” educates consumers that it’s possible to book their favorite band for a house show. Fans go through a quick and easy booking request process where they submit their location, the date and time of the event, the amount they are offering to pay the artist for the show, and other pertinent information. Fans can decide to crowd fund the event through the app as well. The artist has 48 hours to accept, counter-offer, or decline the booking offer. Once the artist accepts the booking request, GetBooked allows the fan to easily promote the show to friends on Facebook.

GetBooked leverages the artist’s existing fan base to create a new, sustainable revenue stream requiring no additional marketing effort. GetBooked brings fans extraordinary live music experiences, right in their own homes and allows artists to make a living doing what they love.
 

House concerts are live music events held in your home, backyard, or anywhere you please that can range in size from anywhere to 5 people on up. House concerts can take a form similar to a typical concert, where the guests are there to listen to the performance, or they can take a form similar to a private event, where the live music is a part of the party experience, but doesn’t take center stage. House concerts are an amazing way to bring friends together and to listen to the music of the artists that you love in a more intimate setting. We believe that house concerts are the key to powering a sustainable independent music economy.

A house concert is one of the best gigs an independent artist can get! Artists get:

• A captive audience there to listen to the music
• A way to fill out unbooked dates on a tour or at home
• The opportunity to break down the barrier between musicians and fans and build real connections
• Easy opportunities to sell merch
• Access to new fans (often the host will invite his friends, many of whom are new to the artist)

And GetBooked offers:

• Fan education and inspiration. If you let them know that house concerts are possible and affordable, they’ll want to book!
• Direct to fan booking with no additional marketing effort
• Booking offers that come to the artist, rather than the other way around
• Artists don’t have to worry about negotiating fees or whether or not they will receive payment at the end of the night – all of that is taken care of with the GetBooked app.
• Artists set the terms of the engagement up front (minimum booking fee, minimum number of guests) so the fan knows the parameters before submitting a booking request. No haggling.

House concerts rock! Fans get:

• An intimate, personal, participatory live music experience surrounded by friends from the comfort of their own home
• Connection to the musician – you get to know them as a person, not just as an act on stage
• The opportunity to bring live music to people who don’t often get to experience it. House concerts open up live music to people of all ages (from grandparents to young children) and creates memorable music experiences you can share with all the people you love.
• To provide a venue to support local, independent artists to do what they love and to make a living doing it
• To impress your friends! Not only do you know about the best music, you get the musicians to play live at your house. How cool are you?!
• To see live music from the comfort of your own home – music venues are often loud, cramped, expensive, and some of the best local shows start too late.

And GetBooked offers:

• You don’t have to go hunting around to find live music for your event. You know which of your favorite artists are available and interested in booking house concerts and you can do it right from their Facebook fan page
• You don’t have to reach out directly to the artist – GetBooked does everything for you - just input your event information
• You don’t have to worry about offering too much or too little $$. GetBooked offers suggested pricing (based on the artist’s input) so you know what is an appropriate range to offer.
• Crowd funding! Let your friends help cover the cost of the event. GetBooked will take donations from friends, help you market the event to your community, and even let you back out of the booking if you can’t get it funded in time.
• No awkward money exchange at the end of the night – all of the funding is handled up front by GetBooked so you get to have a personal relationship, rather than a business transaction, with the musicians you love.

GetBooked is a Facebook app for independent musicians who want to inspire and enable their fans to book them for house concerts and private events. Most fans have no idea that they can get their favorite independent musician to play a live show at their house for a reasonable fee. Once they find out, they’re excited to make it happen and they just need the tools to facilitate the process. GetBooked works on both fronts. The custom app tab icon serves to educate fans about what’s possible (Book a House Concert) and then guides them though a fast and simple booking request process. This means that independent musicians get bookings (while they’re on tour, or playing locally) and make money on Facebook without having to do any additional marketing. And it means that fans get extraordinary live music experiences, delivered to their door. Just install the app and let the button bring fan-generated bookings to you.