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Guides for musicians who want to get booked, tips from the trade, the technical side explained plainly, and what is new in Pages.
Guides
- Guides · 9 min readWhat a musician’s website needs to get you bookedThe pieces promoters, venues and journalists look for when they open your site, in the order they look for them. And what you can leave out.
- Guides · 9 min readHow to make an electronic press kit (EPK) people actually readWhat goes in a musician’s press kit, in what order, in what format, and how to share it only with the people who should see it.
- Guides · 8 min readTech rider and stage plot: what they are and how to make themThe input list, the stage plot and what you ask of the venue: how to write a rider the engineer understands at first read.
- Guides · 7 min readHow to write your musician bio: short, long and for the pressThree versions of the same story, for three different readers. With a method to write them and the mistakes that come up most.
- Guides · 7 min readWhat you need to sell lessons and courses from your own siteIf you teach, your site can be your school too. What to prepare before you record the first lesson, and how to shape a course.
The trade
- The trade · 6 min readWhy your site’s CTA leads to your contactYour site is the one place where someone can book you. Why in Pages the CTA and the menu always lead to your contact, and what the research says.
- The trade · 7 min readHow to write to a venue or a festival so they answerThe booking email that gets read: to whom, with what subject, what to say in three paragraphs and when to write again.
- The trade · 8 min readHow to get booked at jazz festivalsHow festivals programme, when to write to them, what they look at in your project, and how to build the road there from the clubs.
- The trade · 6 min readWhat a booker looks for in the first seconds on your sitePeople who book open many sites a day. What they must find without searching, and what makes them close the tab.
- The trade · 6 min readPress photos for musicians: what you need and how to ask for itLandscape and portrait, live and posed, credited and in high resolution: the set of photos media, venues and festivals ask for.
- The trade · 5 min readThe link in your Instagram bio: what to put there as a musicianA links page or your site: what people coming from social media need, and how to have both without keeping two sites.
- The trade · 6 min readHow to put your music on your site: Spotify, Bandcamp or your own tracksLinking, embedding or uploading your own tracks: what each way gives you, what it means for privacy, and what a booker listens to first.
Technical
- Technical · 7 min readHow to get Google to show your concertsEvent structured data explained for musicians: what Google reads from a date, what it needs to show it, and what stops it.
- Technical · 7 min readYour musician website and AI: how ChatGPT and Perplexity read youMore and more people ask an assistant instead of searching. What they read from your site, what confuses them, and how to leave them clear data.
- Technical · 6 min readYour own domain as a musician: how to choose it and connect itWhich name, which ending, where to buy it and what happens when you connect it to your site. No jargon, and the mistakes worth avoiding.
- Technical · 7 min readYour site in several languages without the mess: hreflang for musiciansIf you play abroad, your site should speak the language of whoever books you. How a multilingual site is organised and what Google understands.
- Technical · 6 min readStatistics without cookies: what you can know about your visitsViews, countries and where people come from, with no cookie banner and without identifying anyone. The figures that actually help a musician.
- Technical · 6 min readPrivacy on a musician’s website: what you show and what you don’tYour town, your phone, your press kit: which details to publish, which to keep for the people who book you, and how to do it safely.
What’s new
- What’s new · 5 min readIntroducing Pages: a site and a Studio made only for musiciansWhy we made Pages, who it is for and what it already does: the site, the Studio, the dates, the bookings and the technical side done.
- What’s new · 6 min read16 themes inspired by jazz greats, and how to choose yoursFrom Buddy Bolden to Piazzolla: where each Pages theme comes from, what it says about your music, and how to pick the one that is you.
- What’s new · 4 min readMeet Dex, the saxophonist who keeps you company in StudioDex welcomes you to Studio, tells you what your site is missing and cheers when you fix it. Who he is and what he does.