What Bookers Need
Bookers need enough information to decide whether you fit a specific job without conducting an investigation.
Fit comes before fame
A host, feature, headliner, corporate act, and college performer solve different problems. Make clear which role you are submitting for.
Do not make the buyer guess your usable runtime or content level.
Give the booker the information needed to say yes or no quickly.
Your Five-Minute Video
A five-minute clip is often the quickest way to show that you can write, perform, hold attention, and finish on time.
Use real performance footage
Bookers need to hear the audience and see you working a room. A montage of punchlines with music hides the exact information they are trying to evaluate.
A clean single-camera recording can be enough if the sound is good.
A booking clip is evidence, not a trailer.
Electronic Press Kit
An EPK should answer the common buyer questions in one place without becoming a museum of everything you have ever done.
Include the essentials
Current bio, photos, credits, video, contact, links, technical needs where relevant, and clear booking category are the core.
Additional assets should have a reason to exist.
An EPK is successful when a buyer can find the answer without emailing you for basics.
Submission Emails
A good submission email is short enough to read and complete enough to evaluate.
Make the subject useful
Include your name, role, and relevant date or market when needed. Avoid vague subjects such as 'Opportunity' or 'Funny Guy.'
The email should be searchable later.
Make the email easy to skim, verify, and answer.
Following Up
Following up is useful when it adds a reminder at a reasonable time. Repeated messages do not convert silence into interest.
Respect stated timelines
If a club says submissions are reviewed quarterly, writing every week does not make the process quarterly faster.
Use their schedule when one is provided.
Follow up enough to remain visible, not enough to become the problem.
How Often to Contact a Booker
There is no universal interval, but there is a universal principle: your contact rate should reflect the relationship and the amount of new information you have.
Cold contacts need more space
Someone who has never booked you does not need weekly updates. A few well-timed touches across the year can be more effective.
Let your act improve between asks.
Contact frequency should grow from the relationship, not from your anxiety.
