GigSalad

I am a top rated professional in my field. I wanted to give the site a try to supplement what I already do. After several dozen leads without one call back or booking I followed my instincts and got off the site. It started to look and feel as though the leads are fake... perhaps generated by team members. This is not a good way to market your business as you simply don't know what or who is behind these leads. No numbers or business names are ever given... Think about it... a 5th grader could sit in a chair all day and send out these leads. I plan to guard the reputation of my business and stay off this creepy site.

As an artist previously listed on GigSalad, I urge you not to use this site. They are all take and no give. If you need a musician/artist, go out into the world and find them yourself! All you are doing when you find somebody on one of these sites is taking money out of the artists' pockets. Customer service is so awful with this company! It's not even possible for an artist to delete their account. What kind of scam is that? They say they keep them for records? What? I had to call in and talk to 2 different people to get my account deleted and I still don't trust that they actually did it. Awful. Just awful.

As advertised by Gig's they do offer as they provide a Worry-Fee Guarantee, but only if all contracts are done though Gig's. In its self there is nothing wrong with that, what they do wrong is that they release your contact information to the vendors right away, before any of the bids have accepted or even reviewed by you. This opens the system up to scammers, just what happened to me. One of the vendors contacted me directly, we set a contract and he never delivered. Since this was my first time using Gig's I thought that since Gigs provided the vendors my info this was how things are done. I only found out that Gig's about the Worry-Fee Guarantee shortfall when asked them for help.

Gig's should not be releasing your personal contact info, so that vendors can contact you directly, if the whole premise of their "Worry-Free Guarantee" is based on working through the Gig service.

GigSalad.com isn't willing to put people above profits. One of their entertainers cancelled on my event at the last minute -- after being booked & paid for 2 months -- simply because they negligently double-booked. The entertainer (a Santa Claus hired for a party for children) made no effort at all to make it right. GigSalad's "worry free guarantee" is nothing more than a refund. When a vendor waits until late in the game to cancel, a refund doesn't create a "worry free" outcome. We don't need a refund, we need a last-minute Santa. A company that provides this type of service is only as good as the talent they contract, and GigSalad isn't willing to stop advertising for a vendor as long as they're making them money. As a business owner, I know that anyone I contract to serve my clients is an extension of my business. Sadly, GigSalad doesn't subscribe to that line of thinking. I recommend considering a more reliable option before booking with them.

I paid for a month of Gig Salad. It said that you could have multiple categories yet there are only a couple of categories available for photographers. During the month, I received absolutely no events to bid on. You can list on Gig Salad for free, but you are only allowed one category. Over the year or two I have been listed, I have only received about a half dozen events to bid on. Ironically, I did engage one event as a free member which I appreciate, but I won't pay $30 a month (plus any booking fees) for no events to bid on.

Gig Salad does not work for photographers.

This company recommends a refund/cancellation policy for their vendors then circumvents it to suit their own profiteering needs. When a vendor complains they remove the vendor from their site no matter how excellent or for how many years the vendor has performed. This company is as unethical and unprofessional as it gets!

This could be a great service, but their policy to force the client to pay BOTH the deposit and balance up front, then refuse to give the vendor the money til days AFTER the gig is done is absurd. I never, ever play until I have received the full payment. Had GigSalad not hidden this policy, I never would have joined. As it is I do not plan to renew, and I have to tell every potential client to please NOT book through GigSalad. My other option is list the whole amount as the "deposit" so I actually receive it. Extremely dissatisfied with their customer service too.

GigSalad has always been a marketing tool to get your business name out there. For a sole proprietor, the marketing aspects help reach well outside the local area and even state. I've welcomed the additional benefit that GigSalad offers my small business and appreciate it's effectiveness. Would recommend administration fees be adjusted. Fees should be reduced to less than. 017 per dollar received, not the. 08% per financial transaction currently administered.

GigSalad is by far my biggest source of new leads every holiday season. They make it easy to message clients without committing to a booking, and if you pay to list with them, they do not even require that you book via their platform. I don't like that they don't provide the client's email address, EVER, at any stage of the booking process. I don't like the amount of the fees they will slap on top of quotes that I send to clients - it is extremely jarring and confusing to clients when they have negotiated a rate with me to then find out they are going to pay about 8% more (the amount/percentage is not consistent and they are not transparent about how much the fees will be, either). And finally, I don't like that there are no ways to send multiple options in GigSalad quotes.

That being said, they definitely deliver leads if you are paying for their highest listing level. Their SEO is very good and it makes a lot more sense for me financially to list with GigSalad than to try and keep up with changing SEO standards on my own website (I'm not a marketing or web design expert, I'm a musician!). Their customer service is pretty good although they don't really respond to suggestions, since I've made the "give us multiple options for quotes" suggestion many times, but they take care of transaction-related concerns right away.

I have been an entertainer in the private events industry for over 12 years. My experience with the platform and its technicians has been nothing short of stellar! They really care about the artists that use their website for booking private events. I only wish I would have signed up with GigSalad sooner than just a few years ago. I greatly appreciate this group of people and will continue to highly recommend GigSalad to my peers and friends!

I didn't give it much thought and hope when I registered for a free account on GigSalad, thinking that it might be another platform like Thumbtack that will only get you leads (and fake leads) if you pay a lot of money. I was wrong, they actually much more user-friendly and vendor centric than Thumbtack! My experience with GigSalad has been good so far and I got booked four times within just two months. (Considering how busy I am with teaching).

Although I have been with GigSalad for a while now, this was the first time I have been able to accept a gig opportunity. They were very prompt answering my questions about how payment works. It was really easy, and their fees were very reasonable. I highly recommend working with GigSalad if you are looking for more gigs.

I give GigSalad 5 starts for being so well organized and easy to use. I love that they send a text message the moment a prospect is making an inquiry. I will stay with GigSalad as long as I am in business.

I've been with Gig salad for 2 yrs. To check them out, I went with the Free Membership option although I'm already considering one of their Paid Memberships. Setting up my Profile was easy & painless. One thing I really like is the ability to request & have posted, reviews from previous Event Coordinators (even those not booked through GigSalad). Gigsalad is getting more and more efficient. From time we get leads. Then we reply with a quote. What's awesome about this platform is that GigSalad sends you an email notification on the spot when the client "view" your quote. This is key in following with the client on time.
When one gets many leads from time to time on several platforms on can miss on the follow-ups. And THE FOLLOW UPS (rightly done so) are KEY in closing/selling deals. Gig salad it is a wonderful page where you can find people interested in what you do and they really appreciate your work when you are responsible and talented

I honestly didn't expect much when I signed on for GigSalad. But I have been blown away by not only the amount of gigs I have landed, but also the service I have received from GigSalad. They are always extremely helpful and friendly any time I run into an issue. I started out with the FREE account and within a week or two had already received multiple leads. In January I decided to go ahead and pay for the highest level of booking. Less than 6 months in and I have 19 bookings with venues I would not have had otherwise. Thanks GigSalad. An incredible service for performers!