Artists can take booking requests

Before the Marquee, we had been working on a EPK feature for bands and artists. We took inspiration from the many EPK pages on band websites. That meant it was a separate page, more visually customizable and with the ability for visitors to send a booking inquiry. The result wasn't fantastic. There was a lot of duplication and complexity. So the feature just sat unseen and unfinished.

Over the past few days, we striped out most of what we built but kept the actually useful piece, booking inquiries. With it enabled, a booking form would appear at the bottom of your artist listing page and that would give folks the ability to contact you. It's opt-in only and still needs plenty of polish. If you do want to try it out, the setting is in your artists edit, accessible from the Backstage.

Other Notable Updates

• An organization directory that contains an alphabetical list of published organizations.
• Fan clubs are now opt-in for both artists and bands. Prevents people becoming fans of unattended artists or bands. We also plan to expand this feature and this was the first step in doing that.
• Type-ahead location filters for city and states. As our site grows, so does the number of cities and states. The goal here is to make it more manageable.
• A Backstage dashboard, in preparation of improving this neglected part of the site.
• We expanded the footer, with links to useful pages.

Behind the Scenes

The main focus is working towards instructor profiles and expanding the our directory and adding more events.