Quiet Company at AIDS Walk Austin 2009 Photo by George DeGroot

Austin indie band Quiet Company delivered an exceptional performance for an audience of over 1500 attendees outside Austin City Hall for AIDS Walk Austin on October 18, 2009. Event producer AIDS Services of Austin used their ArtistForce.com account to find and review available talent, securing the band just a week before the event, after a smaller local band booked offline backed out.

Quiet Company donated their performance at the event and AIDS Walk Austin raised over $125,000 to provide services for people living with HIV/AIDS in Central Texas.

“ArtistForce.com and their gig-guru Jonathan Romley were key in securing a musically respectable group to perform for AIDS Walk Austin. ArtistForce.com is the easiest website I have ever used to locate and book talent…I recommend it to everyone from booking agents to artists, labels and event producers.”

Micah King, Communications Coordinator, AIDS Services of Austin

Special thanks to ArtistForce artist Dawn Maracle, who donated her 35 years of live sound experience at the event, making it possible for AIDS Walk to have a full scale live performance.

Thanks to Brynn Scott, Talent Buyer at The Parish Room here in Austin for approving the band’s performance at AIDS Walk, since the performance was just days before their upcoming show at her venue tomorrow night.

If you live in Central Texas, you should check out Quiet Company tomorrow night - Friday, October 23, 2009 at The Parish Room in Austin

You can still make a difference after the event - Click Here to Donate to AIDS Walk Austin

Visit Quiet Company’s Website at http://www.quietcompanymusic.com
Click here to buy their album “Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon”
Book Quiet Company on ArtistForce.com http://www.artistforce.com/quietcompany

Check out Quiet Company’s brand new video: “On Modern Men”

Quiet Company - “On Modern Men” - Music Video from Digital Shakedown on Vimeo.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ArtistForce Announces Free Edition of ArtistForce.com Platform

$10,000 Reward for Artist who Books the Most Shows

AUSTIN/ October 9th, 2009 – ArtistForce proudly introduces a free edition of the ArtistForce.com live entertainment business platform, which will allow artists, venues, promoters, and talent buyers the unique opportunity to explore and utilize the valuable resources available through the ArtistForce.com platform, at no cost to the individual user. The free edition of ArtistForce.com offers artists the invaluable opportunity to connect with up to five different industry resources per month and will make it possible for users to receive messages, negotiate booking inquiries, and use the ArtistForce widget, without paying any fees whatsoever. Entertainment buyers will receive unrestricted ArtistForce.com access at no cost, so that they can review talent, negotiate performance offers in real time, manage event expenses, generate documents, manage contacts and connect in the only private business network exclusive to live entertainment at no cost.

ArtistForce is offering an extremely generous reward to the artist who best utilizes these free tools, thus providing incentive for potential users, while at the same time proving ArtistForce’s inherent belief in the services it offers. The artist who books the most paid shows using any free or paid edition of ArtistForce, between October 9, 2009 and February 14, 2010, will be presented with a check for $10,000 in Austin during the company’s participation in South By Southwest 2010, where the winning artist will also be given the tremendous opportunity to perform live at an ArtistForce-sponsored event.

“We are energized about the opportunity that every edition of ArtistForce.com provides for artists and entertainment buyers to reduce friction in their business relationships, develop a solid live entertainment strategy, learn the dynamics of the live business and book shows.” said Jonathan Romley, Founder and CEO of ArtistForce. With the release of these new editions, ArtistForce continues to lead the way in the new business of live entertainment.

“ArtistForce.com is such an evolutionary program. Not only does it produce opportunities for the band to  play both better paying and producing gigs but it also shows you how to think more as an independent artist should rather than wasting time shooting in the dark or guessing.” explained Mike Wood of the Austin band Book of Sounds, a participant in the ArtistForce free edition pilot program.

ArtistForce.com provides a total web-based business solution for indie artists and live entertainment professionals, offering patent-pending real time performance offer negotiation, expense management, settlement, status tracking, document generation, contact management, and industry news, to its users. The only private business network exclusive to live entertainment, ArtistForce delivers streamlined efficiency and an unparalleled number of choices, connection, and control, by centralizing the live entertainment industry’s day-to-day business. Paving the way for new relationships and creating opportunities for emerging artists and industry professionals all over the globe, ArtistForce continues to revolutionize the way live entertainment does business.

Founded in 2006 by Jonathan Romley, ArtistForce.com is the first web-based relationship management platform and marketplace for live entertainment. Designed as the next generation technology platform for live industry business professionals and entertainers, ArtistForce solutions has allowed indie artists to act as their own booking representatives; made it possible for managers to easily interface and collaborate with agents and talent; allowed music festivals to manage hundreds of artist relationships and has given promoters the ability to find real time artist and venue availability to book shows.

Website: http://www.artistforce.com/

Use ArtistForce.com to book Mike Wood and Book of Sounds: http://www.artistforce.com/bookofsounds

Contact: Joel Lindenberg for ArtistForce
+1-323-375-4831 – pr(at)artistforce.com

ArtistForce launched a new marketing initiative today targeting professional Talent Buyers across the country. We’ll be reaching out by email, phone and in person to thousands of venues, promoters, talent buyers, fairs and festivals across the country to educate them about the incredible features and exceptional talent that the ArtistForce.com platform offers.

ArtistForce.com accounts are free for professional talent buyers, venues, promoters, fairs and festivals. We’re not a booking agency and we are not talent buyers for-hire. ArtistForce.com is the web based platform that professional entertainment buyers use to search and review talent, negotiate performance offers in real time, manage event expenses, generate documents, manage contacts and connect in the only private business network exclusive to live entertainment. You can get a complimentary account and start booking talent online right now at http://www.artistforce.com

We’re also going to start sharing testimonials from ArtistForce.com users on our blog, and given our current buyer blitz, it seems appropriate to present this testimonial.

This testimonial is from Brynn Scott, the in-house talent buyer for The Parish Room, a 500 person venue on 6th Street in Austin, Texas. I met Brynn at an event that we hosted called “Hello Austin!” at Momo’s last October - she is eager to contribute to the growth of our platform, and excited about using ArtistForce.com to program her venue.

The next time that you’re routing a tour through Austin, The Parish Room is an exceptional venue to play, with outstanding venue staff, clear sound and an unobstructed stage view - even at the back of this standing room only house - a luxury not afforded to most venues of this size in Austin.

You can connect with Brynn Scott, Talent Buyer for The Parish Room in Austin, TX online at ArtistForce.com

Brynn’s testimonial:

“ArtistForce is an amazing business/connectivity platform for venues, talent buyers, and artists. This is exactly what Austin has needed for so long. I cannot tell you how much time I have wasted in the past going back in forth via email - answering the same darn questions over and over and over and re-typing the same information in multiple conversations because people forgot what was previously discussed, or I/they didn’t have a central database to store all the information.

This is not just another way for some techie to make a buck. This is genuinely a helpful platform that bottom line will save us all time, money, annoyances, and stress!!! It will also clarify deals and eliminate confusion at settlement, which often happens in this town. It will protect both the venue, artist, and all parties involved because every single detail of a deal is addressed within the offer system. It leaves no questions. My hope is that as many artists, venues, buyers, and agents as humanly possible start exclusively using this system so that we can all get our sh*t together and be on the same page! If everyone uses it, we will eventually achieve a higher level of professionalism here in this town which we need- and all be less stressed, worried, and will have more balance in our lives.”

Brynn E.  Scott
Talent Buyer
The Parish Room
Austin, Texas

Thanks Brynn! *j

ArtistForce is leading innovation in creative business solutions for the live entertainment industry. The company’s flagship offering – ArtistForce.com, is the first web-based relationship management platform and marketplace for live entertainment. Designed as the next generation technology platform for live industry business professionals and entertainers, ArtistForce solutions have grown to empower indie artists to act as their own booking representatives, managers to easily interface and collaborate with agents and talent, music festivals to manage hundreds of artist relationships, and promoters to easily search real time artist and venue availability to book talent.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

AUSTIN/ August 5^th, 2009- ArtistForce proudly introduces BookMe! the brand new social widget for the ArtistForce.com platform, providing artists an entirely new way to receive offers to perform live from professional entertainment buyers. By installing the ArtistForce widget on their social networking profiles, blogs and websites, artists can leverage their existing web traffic and market their availability to perform live concerts to receive electronic offers to perform for their consideration within the widget. Granting artists an astounding degree of visibility, at no additional cost, the ArtistForce widget capitalizes on the ever-growing web traffic on their social media profiles, allowing artists to develop new revenue opportunities from the incredible popularity—and volume of viewers connecting through these sites.

Displayed within their ArtistForce.com interface, the negotiation process takes shape in the standardized offer format, making the negotiation process a breeze for buyer and artist alike. The artist and buyer can easily review key deal points, including the artist guarantee, deal terms, ticket scaling, gross potential, and proposed expenses. Upon clicking on an ArtistForce widget, interested buyers receive an ArtistForce.com account at no cost, enabling them the ability to continue the negotiation and settlement process.

ArtistForce.com provides a total web-based business solution for indie artists and live entertainment professionals — patent-pending real time performance offer negotiation, expense management, settlement, status tracking, document generation, contact management, and industry news, as well as the only private business network exclusive to live entertainment. ArtistForce delivers streamlined efficiency, an unparalleled number of choices, connection, and control, by centralizing the live entertainment industry’s day-to-day business. Paving the way for new relationships and creating opportunities for emerging artists and industry professionals all over the globe, ArtistForce continues to revolutionize the way live entertainment does business.

ArtistForce is leading innovation in creative business solutions for the live entertainment industry. The company’s flagship offering – ArtistForce.com, is the first web-based relationship management platform and marketplace for live entertainment. Designed as the next generation technology platform for live industry business professionals and entertainers, ArtistForce solutions have grown to empower indie artists to act as their own booking representatives, managers to easily interface and collaborate with agents and talent, music festivals to manage hundreds of artist relationships, and promoters to easily search real time artist and venue availability to book talent. The company was founded in 2006 by industry technologist Jonathan Romley, and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

Website: http://www.artistforce.com/

Contact: Joel Lindenberg
ArtistForce
+1-512-686-4970
joel.lindenberg(at)artistforce.com

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