If you’re a musician trying to find gigs, this is my pitch to you on why you should join HireMusicians.com.

1. Let the Gigs Come To You

Stop sending cold emails and start letting requests come to your inbox. It seems too good to be true. But that is exactly the idea behind Hire Musicians.

Not only is it much easier for you as a musician, but for buyers as well. Finding a musician on Hire Musicains is much easier than sifting through thousands of emails from individual artists.

Hire Musicians has tools that make buying much easier than it is from an email inbox. Buyers can use useful filters for finding musicains. Musicain listing pages allow buyers to see all the relevant information in once place. Buyers can create collections, make inquirites to artists, and more.

HireMusicians.com is constantly updating and improving tooling to make hiring musicians easy for buyers to keep them coming back to the platform. So give us a shot and be a part of our growing community.

2. No Gatekeeping and No Fees

If you get in touch with a buyer on Hire Musicians, you’re perfectliy welcome to take that conversation off platform.

Unlike other platforms where typing an email address in the chat will get you banned, you have no obligation to stay on the platform.

If someone is willing to give you their contact info within our private messaging system, that’s your lead. Free of charge.

There are no fees for lead generation or contact points or anything like that.

Hire Musicians is an open platform.

3. Fair Search Algorithm

The search algorithm on Hire Musicians is transparent.

At the time of the writing of this article, the more you fill out your listing, the higher you rank. If you want an in depth look at the Hire Musicians search algorithm click here.

That page spills all the secrets. If you follow it strictly, you’ll find yourself ranking at the top.

4. Merit Over Follower Counts

Hire Musicians puts your music and performance media front and center. Too often, the first place a buyer looks to check out an artist is Instagram and Spotify. And those platforms both put a big fat number at the top.

Once you see that number, it alters your perception of the artist regardless of their merit.

Hire Musicians avoids displaying these numbers and avoids allowing users to filter by them as well. We want to put your performance media front and center when someone is considering you.

5. Public Musician Listing Page Made for Buyers

When you create a listing, you automatically get a public web page that is designed for the eyes of a live music talent buyer. It contains all the critical things they need to evaluate you as a musician in one place.

Front and center is your media. You can include images, videos, and even stage plots.

Up front they can also see critical details like genre, location, and ensemble size. Other information on the listing page includes:

6. Build Reputation by Collecting Reviews

Hire Musicians gives you a trusted 3rd party platform to host your reviews.

Building reputation is critical. Who would you hire? Someone with 347 reviews and an average 4.6 rating or someone with 3 5-star reviews.

It’s a no brainer.

On top of that, collecting reviews also increases visibility in search results and AI recommendations. Read more about why reviews are important for musicians in Why Collect Reviews as a Musician.

Read all about how to collect tons of reviews in How To Collect Reviews as a Musician.

7. Search Engine Visibility and AI Recommendations

Your musician listing page on Hire Musicians has something on it called Schema. Schema is specially formatted data about you as a musician.

Having schema means search engines and AI chat bots can find information about you more easily and are more likely to recommend you.

There is also schema for your reviews and the venues you have played and more. Hire Musicians takes care of the technical details behind the scenes. Your musician listing page provides all the schemas that will help increase your visibility online.

8. Find Other Musicians

Ever need someone to fill in for a gig? Need a new bass player? Need to find a band in your niche who can jump on a bill with you?

Hire Musicians is a great place to search around for other musicians. You can filter by genre, ensemble size, instruments and more.

How To Join Hire Musicians

Joining Hire Musicians is easy. First create an account. Then navigate to “My Listings” in the header menu. From there click “Create New Listing”.

To publish a new listing all you need is a name, description, city, state, zip, and cover photo.

By John Filippone