Improve & promote your listing

Top tips to help you improve and promote your listing...

Add your reviews

Clients base their decision on reviews above everything else. At the bottom of every listing you can add new reviews and ratings out of ten. You can add reviews yourself from events past or present (as long as they are genuine).

Ask your recent clients to click the add a new review button towards the bottom of your listing.

Click the reviews button in my account to see your reviews.

Promote your listing online

Display your Last Minute Musicians rating on your own web site by embedding one of our ratings widgets or choose one of our badges to promote your listing. You can also link to your listing from elsewhere on the internet, or share on social networks to help promote it. To share a review of your listing, please click the Facebook / Twitter buttons under each review - for help please see our sharing help article.

Click the blue promote listing button in my account to see the options.

Add FAQs to your listing

Customers want to know as much as possible about your act before they book, so to help you get more enquiries, fill in the answers to frequently asked questions from customers on your listing. When you edit your listing, you can fill in answers to preset questions in the following sections: Technical Info, About Your Act, Performance Info and Clients & Venues. You can also create your own custom questions and answers.

To add FAQs to your listing, go to my account and click edit listing.

Set your travel distance

To set your travel distance click edit listing inside your account, navigate to the location & travel section and set the distance you are willing to travel for gigs. Try to set your distance as high as possible (the maximum is 500 miles). You can also set the number of miles you are willing to travel for free.

To set your travel distance, go to my account and click edit listing.

Add YouTube Videos

Listings with YouTube videos always attract more interest than those without. If customers can hear and see you performing they are much more likely to enquire.

For step by step instructions of how to add YouTube videos, read our YouTube tutorial.

Add a wide range of audio clips

Potential clients like to hear the versatility of your performing so try to include a whole range of audio clips showcasing your range of styles and line-ups.

If you have more than one line-up it's a good idea to label the audio clips to make it clear which ensemble is performing which clip. Shorter clips of around a minute tend to work well.

To edit your audio clips, go to my account and click edit listing.

Add more photos to your gallery

  • Good appealing photos are essential to the success of your listing.
  • Try to add new photos as regularly as possible.
  • You can expand your gallery with photos from recent events.
  • Try to show how much space you take to set up and any variations in lineup that you offer.
  • Make sure your photos are properly cropped. Click edit listing, navigate to the photos section, then click the crop button to pinpoint the most important part of your picture. Make sure that your photo looks good in all three of the views, this will ensure that it looks good on any device (desktop, tablet, phone).
To edit your photos, go to my account and click edit listing.

Set up text alerts

You can receive a text message to alert you of a new enquiry. If you turn text alerts on, customers will get given the option to mark their enquiry as an 'urgent enquiry' (this will also be indicated on search results). You can choose whether to receive alerts for all enquiries, or only enquiries marked as urgent.

To set up text alerts, go to my account and click text alert settings.

Add prices and options

Clients love to know rough costs straight away as this helps save everyone time. Try to mention all the different booking options you have available - methods of payment you accept and details of any extras you offer.

e.g. Now available as a duo, trio or quartet! or Book Monday to Thursday and get 15% off!

To setup a price guide, go to my account, click edit listing and navigate to the prices section.

Select the right categories

Selecting the correct categories for your listing is imperative. You can go in up to five categories as long as they are all appropriate to your listing.

To select more than one category, go to my account and click edit listing. You can choose a main category and up to 5 sub-categories.

Listing tags

Listing tags allow customers to refine their search results based on more in depth criteria.

To choose your listing tags, go to my account, click edit listing and navigate to the about your act section.

Open enquiries

You can indicate your interest in open enquiries that are yet to be filled. If a customer enquires for an act who aren't free for their event, that enquiry is sent to our open enquiries section so that other members can apply for it.

Simply login to your account and then visit the open enquiries page.

Sponsor a category

Sponsoring a category allows you to feature at the top of every page of a category (above the search results) pointing to your listing or website.

For more details please visit our sponsor a category page.

More ways to advertise your listing

There are various advertising options to further promote your listing. Including:

  • Home page spotlight
  • Featured category image
  • Social boost
  • Blog act review
For more details, see: more ways to advertise your listing.
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