Comments on: Gig Salad… Anyone Ever Tried?

By: Ralph Gordon

Ralph Gordon — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:26:45 +0000

Gig Salad is the best web site by far I’ve been booked faster than another web site for all kinds of gigs from weddings ,partys,corporate party .
Keep up the good work Gig Salad
Jazz man Ralph Gordon

By: RoJo

RoJo — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:25:18 +0000

I’ve used a gig salad for 3 months and I am happy with them. I play solo piano and sing.

It is nice how I receive emails from potential Gigsalid leads, which potential clients fill out in a form letter type of format.Gigsalad does not take a commission fee, but they possibly retain all that customer lead info for their records also. I consider that a fair deal.

Gigmasters cost a little too much to join and the musicians on their website entertainers look very unprofessional (or at least hobbyists).

For those that complain about a gig salad, please let us know what type of music & entertainment that you perform. if you are a 60-year old-midget hula dancer in rural north dakota (without any promo pack, pictures,…), I really doubt that you’re going to get a lotta gigs from any site.

bottomline, gigsalad works for me, and they rank fairly high in the search engine entertainment listings…

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:51:05 +0000

I have been on Gigsalad for a year.

The customer service is excellent.

However, I have not booked single gig. A few leads, but all duds. It could be said that there are many solo jazz guitarists like myself, so “too many fish in the sea”, but I am still not impressed.

I have had the most success (getting gigs) from doing wedding shows.

Once I have my own site, I am dropping Gigsalad.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:53:25 +0000

I have never liked Gigmasters. For me, it’s basically like a priceline type site. All the referrals i got were cheap people looking at booking us for $300, lol, what a joke. EVERYONE who contacted us from Gigmasters were basically looking for the cheapest deal possible. Partypop? Same thing, we get lots of referrals, but all looking for the cheapest rate.

If you like to be booked for around $300-$400 a gig, than, this is perfect for you. As for us, it was a huge headache. In fact, we stopped responding to referrals coming from gigmasters, they were all the same…price shoppers.

By: Barry

Barry — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:23:29 +0000

Hi Jaymes,
Seems like a lot of people feel the same way you do about GS. I know some people have had success.

More than what GS can do for anyone, it boils down to how we handle the leads we get from all sources. We can blow their socks off, or we can ‘hope they get it’.

Wishing you the best – if you don’t hear from me in 72-hours, oops… See ya.

Barry

By: jaymes

jaymes — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:50:42 +0000

I tried them and they are nothing more than a phone directory. I placed a request with them twice and my response was if you don’t hear anything from the vendors in 72 hours call them directly.

By: Jordan Rivers

Jordan Rivers — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:53:18 +0000

Avoid all Gigmasters and Gigsalad.. all do not back up your band. If there is a problem.. you get slammed not the client. furthermore going out on gigs on gigmasters. the client knows they can write all kinds of bad stuff about you.. so if you have a nasty client then you have to suck it up.. dont let these bastards ruin our live music scene.. if we all stand up and say NO to misrepresentation.. then more people will book directly with the artist themselves.

By: madd mike

madd mike — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:37:52 +0000

I have gigsalad and i love it! for the price you cant beat it! plus you can have multiple services instead of just one on gigmasters, gigmasters is a rip off!!!

GIGSALAD RULES!!!! LOVE IT!

By: Corporate Event Planning

Corporate Event Planning — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:18:39 +0000

PartyPop is okay, they have a very nice search engine base for most of the commonly searched “party” terms. (Mostly because somehow they are linked on EVERY citadel radio station site.)

But the “party” term traffic they go for is for smaller gigs.

GigMasters is your best bet for higher paying gigs, but Gigsalad gives you a link to your site, and you mighy get lucky.

You cannot rely on these services solely, because technically they are loosing “google power” Google is getting smarter by the day, and huge directories like this are starting to loose their weight due to there is a huge push for ultra relevant results right now, and Google resulting another way to search seems counter productive to me…… and it seems they are beginning to feel the same way!!!

Your best option is beginning to put stock into yourself and your own “brand” instead of relying on the internet marketing of a company who is not really looking out for your interest.

By: Mike Weakley

Mike Weakley — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:18:13 +0000

Thanks for starting this thread Barry. I just joined Gig Masters a week ago. Have received 6 leads so far, and I booked one of them. That alone more than paid for my 3 month membership. I will definitely be renewing for 12 months next time.

Have been considering joining Gig Salad, but most of the people I know & asked seemed to like Gig Masters better. But after reading all the above posts, I’m seriously considering giving it a try now. Party Pop was also mentioned. Anyone else have any input on this site? Are there any other similar sites out there?