GigSalad

After many wonderful experiences working with Gigsalad, I wanted to take this opportunity to share how professional and artist-friendly their service is. Their technology is superb and works incredibly well both in terms of helping clients book artist services to how they support individual artists. As a jazz guitarist who is both an individual performer and jazz trio, I could not be more pleased by my association with Gigsalad and certainly plan to continue this rewarding relationship as their web presence and design provides excellent leads and bookings.

Pipe Creek General Store and Dancehall, LLC highly recommend Randy and his band. He is a singer and songwriter. He and his band are extremely professional, they arrive early to set up and rehearse. They engaged with the audience and dancers. During their breaks they went around to meet-several of the attendees. Definitely recommend to any venue looking for a great band.

It was a pleasure doing business with GigSalad. The performer (Marilyn Monroe) was extraordinary. She
Was on time and looked so much like the late Marilyn Monroe. Our guests were so impressed by her professionalism. I would highly recommend using GigSalad and Marilyn at your next party/business function.

As one of the talents listed on this site, I truly appreciate the site, the staff who go out of their way to assist and adjust to accommodate requests, surveying and being open to adjust to serve the needs of its listed contractors and it's site's transparency.

I am extremely disappointed with this service. I asked for a musician/instrumentalist and was given a magician, fire juggler, cirque de solei and a robot type acts. Why did they ask what I wanted if they were going to ignore it.

It was awesome to see your parents.they are awesome people who have beautiful voices. I could see the love between them. Chris you are so awesome and Blessed with an awesome Family. Love to all from Edmonton Alberta Canada xoxo

I reserved Tom Bourbon (A Jimmy Buffet) solo performer with GigSalad, I was very pleased with his services. He was prompt, kept in communication with me, he followed up and his performance was great. I would highly recommend using this service.

I have used Gig Salad twice. The first time was a pleasure. The second time I had to cancel a few days after I booked the singer due to one of the guests being in the hospital for COVID. I in no way inconvenienced the performer, but they kept the whole $405 deposit. Be careful when booking if they ask for all of the money upfront. If you need to cancel, you WILL lose all of it.

I've been with Gigsalad now for about 10 years with much success. Gigsalad has allowed me to get paid more for private parties than I do at the regular venues. I started out using them to fill in dates. I figured even if I only get a couple gigs from Gigsalad that would cover the cost of membership or sometimes just one really good paying gig. I should mention their customer support is second to none! My secret to success has been my variety of genres that fit anywhere there is a wide range of age groups. I do everything from Weddings to Funerals and anything in between. Thank you for all you do for us. I wish you continued success!

GigSalad has always been a marketing tool to get your business name out there. For a sole proprietor, the marketing aspects help reach well outside the local area and even state. I've welcomed the additional benefit that GigSalad offers my small business and appreciate it's effectiveness. Would recommend administration fees be adjusted. Fees should be reduced to less than. 017 per dollar received, not the. 08% per financial transaction currently administered.

As a professional Santa, this is the first year I have used any kind of booking service besides myself. GigSalad was highly recommended by many of my "Brothers in Red" It made it easier to reach beyond my local area without spending a lot of money on untested advertising.The online calendar made it much easier to stay organized and allows blocking out unavailable times as well as letting one add in self done bookings. GigSalad provides leads but doesn't commit to a booking. That is up to me entirely. I stay in control.

As a solo musician, it can be challenging to obtain gigs on a regular basis. Over the years, I've used several similar sites and GigSalad has always provided the most quality and quantity referrals. For my money, it's the best!

I set our band up on gigsalad based on a friend/fellow musician's recommendation. I admit, I was skeptical at first. But I started receiving quote requests inside of a week! I encourage any and all bands looking for bookings to sign up (unless you're in NW Arkansas - please leave that one alone for me!)

GigSalad is by far my biggest source of new leads every holiday season. They make it easy to message clients without committing to a booking, and if you pay to list with them, they do not even require that you book via their platform. I don't like that they don't provide the client's email address, EVER, at any stage of the booking process. I don't like the amount of the fees they will slap on top of quotes that I send to clients - it is extremely jarring and confusing to clients when they have negotiated a rate with me to then find out they are going to pay about 8% more (the amount/percentage is not consistent and they are not transparent about how much the fees will be, either). And finally, I don't like that there are no ways to send multiple options in GigSalad quotes.

That being said, they definitely deliver leads if you are paying for their highest listing level. Their SEO is very good and it makes a lot more sense for me financially to list with GigSalad than to try and keep up with changing SEO standards on my own website (I'm not a marketing or web design expert, I'm a musician!). Their customer service is pretty good although they don't really respond to suggestions, since I've made the "give us multiple options for quotes" suggestion many times, but they take care of transaction-related concerns right away.

Paid for a singing telegram but they never showed up yet still said they did so Gigsalad refused a refund. Had to do a charge back instead. DO NOT RECOMMEND!

UPDATE: DO NOT TRUST THEIR REVIEW SYSTEM, they remove any unwanted legitimate reviews like mine.