 Baw what's up everybody once again is brand man Sean on a Friday which means I'm going over some music resource or tool maybe even the strategy and today I guess you can call the strategy but I'm answering a question from swerve innocent. He asked me yo brand man how do you get to open for other artists. Now I wanted to say that DJ MPTV answered it pretty well in the comments himself but I figured that everybody could benefit from this answer so I put it in a video. Now number one you could obviously just create direct relationships with the artist or their team in some form of fashion if somebody on your team has a relationship with the manager, the graphic designer, whoever is in that artist camp or the artist himself then there's a lot of situations where people have gone on tours off of direct relationships but now that's probably not your situation so let's get it to some other solutions that you can create for yourself. One if you can get a relationship with a promoter or a venue often times they can go hand in hand because venues often times have their own promoters that you can have a lot of opportunities open up for you to become an opening act for artists that come in town because these promoters and venues are always booking artists and they need opening acts however promoters need people as well so you're not just going to be able to slide in in a lot of situations unless there's some kind of personal relationship that they say hey I'm just going to put you in because there's a lot of strength in this relationship most times when you're reaching out you're not going to know these people the best thing you can do is start small say hey man how many venues do you have some of these people have multiple venues and show them proof of concept if you can book out a 50 person venue then put book out a 100 person venue 200 300 and just prove to them and let them see that progress then oftentimes now they've seen that proof they know that you can get people to come so then they'll book you when they have these opening acts because they know that you can bring extra bodies because once again yes they need opening acts but more than that they need people promoters get paid to bring in people so yes you can reach out directly to these venues you can reach out directly to these promoters but at the end of the day you need to figure out a way to prove to them that you can bring out people and the better you do that whether that's just your own shows at the venues or even invited them out to other places and spaces that's going to help you establish some kind of rapport where they know that they can rely on you when they need to book out a venue and they have this artist and they're trying to make sure they hit their numbers and they can profit off of you you don't just want to be somebody that they like and they believe in you want to be a good business decision for the promoter as well now there's a third option first remember direct relationship with the artist or camp in some form of fashion the second one is developing a relationship with a venue or promoter and then showing them you know however you do that that you can bring out that so they can have confidence to bring you out and open for other acts and then the third route is putting on your own show paying for an artist to come in you promoted yourself and then putting yourself in a position as an opening act people do it all the time a lot of these artists that you see that are opening for a lot of big artists a lot of times have some sort of team behind them oftentimes likely promoters of some fashion they pay for the show they say y'all bring two chains in town they promote it as to change show and then they just put themselves in the opening slot and then they might even charge other people other artists to perform in an opening slot which is a fourth bonus way that you can become an opener just pay for it so if any of you guys happen to have some extra cash on you then hey go out pursue an artist pay them whatever their fee is book a venue do all the marketing and bring people in and then slide yourself on in there as an opening act that's a great way where if you know what you're doing you can become an opener for a big artist get that look quote-unquote but also get a profit if you know what you're doing to make that money back from the show itself those are three ways but actually a bonus fourth way of course as I mentioned so that's three ways with the bonus fourth way that you can become an opening act for some of these bigger artists and names out there if you like this video go ahead hit that like button if you like it you might as well share it especially if you know somebody who can use this information but if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe button