Thank you for your interest in Salisbury Music Agency.
On this page you can find out more about what we do for you as an artist, our fees and a link to our frequently asked questions.
Venue contact:
We offer Venue’s the opportunity to use SMA as much or as little as they like. They could use us to fill a last minute spot, or a one-off, or they could use us to fill an entire season of weekends.
The emails we send out to our venue’s include a variation of introductions, updates, new artists, featured artists and upcoming availability. We also use Social Media to stay in close contact with Venue’s and where possible offer face to face informal meetings.
Facebook and Instagram Pages
If you already have a Facebook Page for your act, we review this and offer tips on how this can be improved. If you don’t have one, we can get you set up with one. Same goes for Instagram.
Whenever we are promoting your gigs, we provide you with Social Media ready images and text to post on your accounts. If you would like us to be logged in to help manage your social media accounts, this is also a service that we can provide.
We offer a point of contact for tips and questions on better management and promotion of your Social Media accounts.
Branding
Our Artists are all at different stages with their branding. We can help out with this by being consistent in the way in which we advertise you, using similar designs and good quality images, and ensuring that you have a great bio that can be broken down to create a few versions for different kinds of promotion.
We encourage our acts to have a logo, or a colour scheme and font that you use consistently. We have trusted third parties that we can set you up with if you would like a great graphic designed logo for your band.
Branding is all about consistency, you and SMA need to be using the same descriptions and looks in your promo, this helps to make you recognisable online. Getting your branding in to print can be really helpful too… business cards, TShirts and Banners are a great way to do this.
SMA Packages
We colour code our packages so that you know exactly what is included in your fee for each type of event.
We don’t ask for exclusivity from you, we only ask that fees are paid and that communication is honest and open.
If you have any further questions, they may have been answered on our FAQ’s page. You could also email us at hello@salisburymusic.co.uk
Our Red package is available free to all Artists… this is what we do for you at the basic level. We don’t ask for exclusivity, we simply ask for a relationship built on trust and that you adhere to the fee’s stated in our Yellow & Blue Packages when we book you gigs.
- Includes everything in the yellow and blue packages
- Profile on the SMA website
- Assistance with setup or improvement of Social Media for your act
- Collaboration on creating a Bio for your act and breaking this down into usable sections for different advertising
- Regular mentions and profile sharing on Social Media
- Regular profile sharing to venues
Our SMA Yellow package is applied to all public event gigs that we book for you.
For the first gig at any venue, we charge 15% of your fee. For repeat bookings at the same venue within 12 months of the last, this fee will drop to 10%.
- Automatically applied when we book any public gig or event for you
- SMA negotiate your payment
- SMA generate a digital poster and ensure this is sent to the venue and to you
- SMA invoice the client on your behalf
- SMA create an event on Facebook for your gig (unless it is included in a full event one) and make you and the venue co-host where possible
- SMA share the event and / or poster to relevant, local Facebook Groups
- SMA share the poster to Instagram
- SMA add the event to websites such as Salisbury Gig Guide and Experience Salisbury
Our Blue package fee of 15% is automatically applied to any private event that we book for you. A private event would be an event such as a party or wedding that would not be open to the general public.
- Automatically applied when we book any private event or function for you
- SMA liaise with client on your behalf from booking to completion
- SMA take care of any contracts, financial agreements and deposits
Our Purple package is completely optional and is available for you to add to any event which you have booked directly, rather than being booked via SMA.
Simply contact us to add the Purple package to your Public Event, the fee for this service would be 10%.
- A completely optional package available to you when you have booked a gig directly, without the assistance or promotion of SMA
- Includes everything in the yellow package to save you time on admin and promotion
SMA Fees 2024
Gigs we book for you, exc private functions:
(fee includes our SMA Yellow Package)
First gig at a venue: 15%
Return gigs at a venue (within 1 year of previous): 10%
Private Functions and Weddings:
(fee includes our SMA Blue Package)
15% fee
Gigs you book directly:
No involvement from SMA: 0%
Add SMA Purple Package: 10%