How to make a Website like Gigsalad for Bands, Entertainers and Party Pros for Hire

The key to a successful event is to keep your audience involved and entertained. For that, you need an entertainer who has the capability to bind your audience using his talent.

We all know that hiring an entertainer is not an easy thing. There are two ways: offline and online. Following is the difference between both:

Offline: The first step towards booking an entertainer for your event is to identify what type of entertainer you want at the event. It completely depends on the kind of event you are planning to organize. The next step is to reach out to him personally or contacting his agent.

If the entertainer accepts your request, the next thing is to negotiate the booking fee unless both entertainer and planner agree on the preset amount.

But remember, being willing to negotiate on the fee can save you a lot of up-front costs.

Online: Search the entertainers on various social media platforms. If he is active there, establish a connection otherwise look for other options.

Both of these situations are time-consuming and tiresome making it difficult for event planners to communicate with entertainers. This leads to a demand for a social network where event planners can connect with bands or other entertainers.

In 2007, Mark Steiner and Steve Tetrault founded GigSalad a common place for party hosts to find the perfect entertainment for their events. The company is now a leading source of gigs for performers and entertainer for event planners across many countries.

Here’s how GigSalad works:

Search for the service you are interested in and you will get a list of entertainers or appropriate vendors. When you find someone, click Free Quote to request a quote for your event.

After you request a quote, the system will ask you to provide a password in order to create a GigSalad event planner account. Remember with this account, you can access your request, communicate with entertainers, and manage your event.

Once a vendor receives your request, they'll review all your event information and if they're interested, they'll send you a quote. After you both agree on mutual condition, just enter your payment details and book.

Planning to be a part of the gigs industry and to build a website like GigSalad? Following are the ways in which you can do so:

1.   Outsourcing to web development

You outsource the web development and design work to a team of professional. You will have to do your homework to find a team that you can work with. You can customize your website as little or as much as you desire, it just depends on how much you want to pay.

2.   Free website builder

It allows you to design, build, launch and manage your website in the simplest way. It generally works on “drag and drop” process which means you have to drag the elements or functionality you need and drop it on your website. After that, you write the content according to your business requirement and your website is ready.

The disadvantage of this option is that only basic elements and functionalities are present in the free version. If you want to launch the website with latest and innovative features, you need the paid version. The paid version will cost you a lot depending on the number of elements and functionalities.

3.   Readymade solution

The best way to start a website is to choose an existing e-commerce platform rather than getting it developed from the scratch.

The readymade solution has many advantages such as cost saving, time-saving and provides technical support.

One such readymade solution is VivoGigs which is created by FATbit Technologies.

It focusses on bringing event planners/organizers and artists/performers at one place.

VivoGigs is simply a comprehensive system that lets you launch online gigs marketplace for event planners and entertainers in the most efficient manner.