I just signed up with this service to see what it’s all about and I’m VERY impressed.
Maybe you won’t book the career-changing-killer corporate date through them but what the heck – for the price ($69 for six months!) it would pay for itself many, many times over with one local gig – and I’m thinking that’s what you could book with Gig Salad – local stuff. I can’t see getting on a flight for a gig booked through Gig Salad, but who knows?!?
A couple of benefits I like right off the bat:
- It gives you some great templates for setting up an online press kit – this is extremely valuable in and of itself. And let me tell you, that would cost way more than $69 bucks. It’s upload and go… no programming.
- They are doing some good advertising on the web and I imagine you’d be getting some queries soon after joining.
Is anyone a member and had good/bad experiences with them? I’m really curious. If you can’t tell from my voice, I’m impressed.
After looking around the site and reading a few things about it online, I can’t imagine it would be a bad investment.
Barry
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7 responses so far ↓
1 Marcus
I have been a member for about a year. I have booked 1 gig out of it. Which makes it worth it because it is cheap. I have had better luck with http://www.gigmasters.com but it cost’s more.
Marcus
2 Richard Hatch
A colleague locally told me he got several gigs from gigsalad in December, and found it more cost effective than gigmasters. I signed up about a week ago, so too soon to have seen any bankable results, but I have noticed my gigsalad page is quickly raising in the rankings when you google my name and magician. Since I share my name with the first winner of Survivor and a television actor, I’d almost say that alone is worth the cost of membership in my case!
3 Barry
You mean that’s not you? Dang…
That’s a whole other benefit for belonging to these sites that have lots of links – you get yourself in good company according to Google spiders and algorithms.
Of course, if someone is Googling your name and magician it’s pretty clear they are looking for you. The trick is to get your name up by the top when someone googles ‘corporate magician’ and we can talk about that.
I recently made one small change on my promo reel on YouTube and within a day I was on the first page of you tube for ‘Corporate Entertainment’. There’s power in them keywords!
4 C.J. Johnson
I joined in January to promote our game show business (not my magic or hypnosis) and haven’t gotten any calls yet because of GigSalad, but all it takes is one gig that wouldn’t have happened otherwise and it’s worth the paltry $149.00 for two years. I’m sure it’ll pay off.
5 Cindy
GIGSALAD: waste of time, hardly any referrals, and those that came in were of the cheap birthday party type.
GIGMASTERS: fakey “star rating” system where you can pay them extra money to get your “star rating” improved. That’s not honest, and tricks clients who think the star rating is about quality, not cash. (Part of the rating is based on how many dollars of bookings you do through GM, and you can pay them money to count bookings you DIDN’T do through them.) Just make it on quality, guys!
PARTYPOP: Most gigs come through to you without any way of knowing they came from PartyPop, so you have to ask. But $180/year makes it worth it, for the help it gives in bringing your website ranking up, and the number of people who find you there.
Still waiting for that perfect site!
6 Brandon Smith
I’m on both Gig Masters and Gig Salad. I like the look and options on Gig Salad. It seems like a more modern layout and more user friendly than Gig Masters. Also I like that you or the client doesn’t have to pay a booking fee to the website as they do on Gig Masters.
I’ve been on both for about three months and have booked three shows (including a corporate trade show) from Gig Salad. I’ve yet to get a booking from Gig Masters and only one phone call from it. Gig Masters also sends me listings for clowns even though I’m not one. But I checked balloon twister so I get every request for balloon twisting clowns because of it.
7 Corporate Entertainment Ideas
I use both, but you cannot rely on putting it up and hoping you get business. You must pro-actively link to the site to help with search rankings….
Also you must look at it like a website, change the content around see what works, don’t just let it sit there do testing to see what works best for you.
Most Importantly spend time and make sure and classify yourself in “abstract” categories so you never know when someone may be looking for something related and WOW there you are
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