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Managing Musicians Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
Like any business sector, scaling your company within the music industry requires time, labor, and money. Expanding your business should be exciting– yet with the headaches of growing pains, it can be stressful and exhausting. YourTempo is a company focused on cultivating the best music business solutions. Our team of industry professionals has used their cumulative expertise to create a variety of programs to streamline your music business: tale ...
How Booking Management Software Is Making the World of Music Better
The needs of music industry professionals have adapted with the integration of more technology and applications into the field. Clients and agencies alike are transitioning into a more software-based style of work. Modern booking agency software and booking agency platforms allow professionals ease of access whenever, wherever. Booking management software has helped give the industry the extra push it needs to boom, and there are several ways ...
Simplify the Talent Buying Process with Our Talent Buying Software
Talent buying software is a digital tool to aid in the process of signing and managing talent– all in a convenient computer program. As the digital age continues to develop, more artists are bringing their skills to the internet. Why wouldn’t you use the same tool to find and manage your musical talents? There is a variety of music business management software advertised and available online, but YourTempo’s Talent Buying Pro stands out against ...
YourTempo Can Customize Your Booking Agency Software
YourTempo offers some of the best booking agency software on the market. Whether you need assistance with booking artists or managing current ones, we have a solution that will reduce your workload and streamline your business's current practices. We’ve been successful with our music business management software since its inception, and the same can be said of our booking software. One of the perks of using our tools is the customization we provi ...
Sync Your Booking & Tour Management Software for Effortless Artist Management
Spend more time on important tasks and less time trying to manage tour details. Good tour management software is easy to use and helps take care of everything from offers to scheduling. By working with both Booking Agency Pro and Tour Pro, you can manage bookings and shows from getting a contract to managing artists and vendors and creating a record of the show. You only need two pieces of software for easy music tour management from any web-enab ...
YourTempo's Booking Agency Pro Is Suitable for Users in the UK and Canada
The music business is international, so your agency needs software that makes the details of doing business across borders a little easier. Our booking agency software works with agencies overseas and aids in business management. Booking Agency Pro supports foreign currencies and tax ID formats, so your paperwork automatically reflects the correct currency. These features come in addition to a full suite of management tools at a flexible price po ...
What Is the Best Platform for Artists to Showcase Their Music?
Marketing your music takes a good deal of work, no doubt about it. Some websites offer platforms to give artists exposure, however, these tools don’t help much with the business side of being a songwriter and musician. Publishing Pro from YourTempo offers a business-oriented platform for artists who want to manage and promote their work through a branded Website. The Best Platform for Artists Offers More than Exposure Lots of websites let a ...
Easily Manage Your Calendar with Our All-in-One Music Management Platform for Artists & Managers
Managing the calendars of multiple artists playing dozens of dates each month can be hard - or it can be easy with Booking Agency Pro. The founders of YourTempo designed this unique software to streamline several processes for music artist management companies. Booking Agency Pro is also part of an integrated suite of music industry software tools created for those who already know how to manage an artist, as well as for artists with minimal expe ...
The Benefits of Music Publishing Management Software for Artists
For any hustling music artist, YourTempo's music publishing management software is a necessity. Publishing Pro is a decided upgrade from alternatives like Google Sheets and paper notebooks. Why You Need Music Publishing Management Software Streamlining your workflow can save you valuable time on the business side, so you can devote more of your efforts to doing what you love: making music. From managing songs and promotional work to tracking ...
What Does Our Talent Buying Software Do?
Streamline the process of signing and managing musical acts by using a tool designed by industry professionals for just that. Talent Buying Pro is a talent buying software created by and for music industry insiders. Tempo has organized everything an agency needs to monitor talent, scheduling, and bidding in one user-friendly platform. Submit Offers Easily enter artist and agreement information, including the expiratio ...
Easily Manage Your Upcoming Gigs with Our Booking Management Software
Our booking management software, Booking Agency Pro, is trusted by over 100 agencies who needed a custom solution for tracking talent, events, calendars, and contracts in a user-friendly format customized for the music business. With YourTempo's Booking Agency Pro, users can manage booking details, schedules, and more. Agencies can use the client dashboard to track offers and access past events. Track the status of your ongoing contracts using Bo ...
How Booking Software Gets Musicians More Gigs
Software used for booking gigs by artists of all kinds is the way of the future for the most obvious of reasons; it’s the digital age and everything works through the internet now! Booking shows and venues with an individual artist or booking agent profile on one side and a client profile on the other streamlines communications and connectivity between all parties. Clients can do an array of research about an artist's availability including it ...
See YOU at IEBA!
See you at the International Entertainment Buyers Association Conference! Are you having a hard time keeping track of contracts with all the cancellations due to COVID-19? Let our music industry software help you! Tempo has the solution for you to navigate this virtual world. Starting at just $59/mo., we can fix this constant worry and help you stay organized with our Booking Agency Pro product or our Talent Buying Pro product. We will be ...
Growing number of Major Tours canceled, reason for worry?
The music world has started to hold their breath once again, as the Delta Variant continues to alter more and more plans. According to the LA Times, Florida Georgia Line is the latest of countless major acts to cancel their respective 2021 tour. The article states that Stevie Nicks, Nine Inch Nails, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Garth Brooks and other artists also have recently scrapped or postponed tour dates as the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID ...
Want to see a show? Prove it!
To say we’ve come a long way since March of 2020 is an absolute understatement. Not knowing what lies ahead with the Delta variant is scary, but industry is ready to make sure they don’t repeat the history of last year. Venues of all sizes over America are now requiring proof of vaccination or negative test for entry in order to stay afloat through this next big wave. "Certain states' regulations may override our mandate, or a few artists may n ...
We have solutions for you to save you time and money!
Planning an elaborate tour and unsure of which route to take? Tired of digging through files just to find a simple radius clause? Have you gotten sick of having everything on your google drive or dropbox? Do texts, emails, and alerts keep you up at night? We can go on, but boy do we have the answer! Here at Tempo, we house 4 product suites to help maximize your time and effort. If you answered yes to any or all of these questions you need to c ...
MusicRow 2021 Awards
It’s that time of year again! The 2021 MusicRow awards are happening! If you are a music fan based in Nashville, you’re almost certainly aware of MusicRow’s longtime work. Highlighting major artists and songwriters, these awards really showcase all aspects of talent. We’re all riled up to say that two of our very own clients nominated for awards this year! Luke Bryan, who uses our Tour Pro software was nominated for Breakthrough Artist of t ...
Calling all clients! Did you know we have a reviews page?
When we founded Tempo in 2010 we were relying on two flagship clients to help construct our booking software to what it is today. Since then, those two clients have stayed with us throughout all of our improvements, fixes and upgrades to the software. The journey never stops, and we live off of feedback. The updates, upgrades, and fixes would not have been possible without you! With that being said, we want to hear from you about your experien ...
Tiny Desk Concerts
Over the pandemic, NPR’s esteemed ‘Tiny Desk’ series took a magnificent step forward. Watching an intimate set with your favorite artists from the comfort of your own home? Sounds perfect. Based in Washington D.C., these shows are often performed in a somewhat stripped and acoustic setup, compared to a fully functioning touring rig. This allows for a much more organic and personalized performance. With this type of setup, you really feel like ...
Talent Buying Pro: A secret to successful Fairs and Festivals
Are you tired of keeping up with endless contracts and advance sheets? In this industry, the busy work really adds up in no time for just a single show or event. Tired of drowning in your morning inbox? We have the solution for you - a cloud based online talent buying pro software that allows you to do all of this in one place. No more spending time going back and forth with the same buyer about logistics, our software is the solution! Talent ...
Did you know that we rebranded in 2018 from Kalatech?
In case you missed it! Back in 2018, we moved on from our longtime original title “Kalatech”, and changed to “Tempo”. Three years later, some of our longtime clients will refer to us as “Kala… tempo!” We decided to rebrand to make our message more about you the artist, agent, manager. Tempo has been around since 2010 and backed by a full service development firm called DevDigital. Founded in 2008, DevDigital is responsible for the launch of o ...
RETURN TO NORMAL ALERT. RETURN TO NORMAL ALERT. BONNAROO 2021 IS HAPPENING.
RETURN TO NORMAL ALERT. RETURN TO NORMAL ALERT. BONNAROO 2021 IS HAPPENING. Let us set the tone for second. It’s a crisp, Saturday night in the late summer. You’re dressed in eleven different colors, while wandering a field with your friends. You remember that you don’t have to work on Monday because of Labor Day. Life is good, and for the first time in ever, it feels... normal. That’s not us pining for the past, but simply planning fo ...
63rd ANNUAL GRAMMYS
Sunday March 14, 2021 was a great day for music, as the 63rd annual Grammy Awards took place. After live music came to a screeching halt in 2020, The Grammys marked one of the first music award shows in 2021 where all of the artists and personnel weren’t remote. Getting to see the cutting edge of pop music is always exciting, it was even better to see things mark another step back towards normalcy. This year, there were great performances from ...
Navigating Virtual Networking in the Music Industry
Here at Tempo, we apologize for sounding like a broken record. It’s hard not to appreciate the occasional silver linings that come with the dark days faced over the last year. Specifically speaking - the industry’s quick shift to staying afloat virtually. From songwriters tackling their craft via zoom, to performers and stagehands perfecting the art of a live streamed show, the quick fixes made will stick around, even in a post-COVID world. One u ...
How to Survive the Booking World After Layoffs
During these uncertain times with COVID-19, mass layoffs and furloughs have left a major dent in the entertainment industry, especially to those in booking. With the uncertainty of the pandemic these professionals have had to find work on the side or collect unemployment while retaining fleeting hopes of eventual rehire. As with any struggle, new solutions arise as more and more professionals establish their own entrepreneurial ventures. This lea ...
Summer 2021 Tours and Tour Pro
Summer Concerts 2021 and Tour Pro As Quarantine life continues to feel more like the new normal, the news of growing vaccine distribution provides a light at the end of a very long, dark, and concertless tunnel. Upon President Biden’s inauguration, he announced an initiative for 100 million vaccines in his first 100 days in office. On February 15th, President Biden expressed his optimism over twitter, announcing that the progress shows they s ...
Zoom Writes and Publishing Pro: A match made in heaven?
Despite approaching a whole year without concerts, the music never stops. For songwriters, virtual co-writes over video conferencing have gone from quick fix to consistent staple in the ever-changing industry. With the ability to record calls, restrict access, and even share screens, there’s no reason to believe this practice will dwindle once the world opens up. Regardless, sharing those songs as they grow is wildly important, and communication ...
Will Live Music Return in 2021?
In the wake of COVID-19’s shutdown of the entertainment industry, everyone was left scrambling for an alternative. Drive in shows and bubble concerts have met mixed reviews, and while innovative advances to the virtual performance have been quite notable, nothing can ever replicate the unique exhilaration of an intimate in-person performance. Depending on who you ask, things appear to be on the rise, as more and more vaccines become available to ...
Synchronicity, From City to City
Synchronicity, from city to city. Using Booking Agency Pro and Tour Pro in sync to save time and stress. At Tempo, we have four different products in our suite that we have refined for over a decade, consisting of: Booking Agency Pro, Talent Buying Pro, Publishing Pro, and Tour Pro. What if we told you that a symbiotic relationship exists between our products? By that, I’m referring to how our Booking Agency Pro software syncs to our Tour ...
Navigating Online Events
Navigating Online Events With festivals, performances and concerts canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, musicians of all kinds are resourcing to social and streaming platforms to play live for their fans. This has provided for a more intimate setting for fans to see their favorite artists and up close from the comfort of their own home. Sure, nothing will ever be the same as seeing your favorite artist in the flesh. From seeing them ...
3 Features You Didn't Know About Our Booking Agency Pro Software
3 Features You Didn’t Know About Our Booking Agency Pro Software Did you know that Booking Agency Pro has these 3 features? CRM: You can track all of your touch points with venues and buyers. In our CRM, you have access to all contact or email history with those respective venues and buyers. The CRM has 3 main components: deal records, activities, and follow-ups. Deal Records: A table of deals with venues and/or buyers. Deals represent ...
Flashback Friday
Kalatech Rebranded as Your Tempo Flashback Friday to 2018! For our long time followers and clients, you may still refer to us as Kalatech. In 2018, we rebranded Kalatech to Your Tempo. We are still the same company, featuring the same products and operating with the same people. We found we were having to explain the name behind Kalatech rather than talk about our products when meeting new people. Who thought a simple name change would allow ...
5 Signs Your Agency Needs New Booking Software
5 Signs your Agency Needs New Booking Software Does your agency rely on booking software to book artists for shows, but has proven to be unreliable? Here’s five reasons why it might be time to make a switch. You can't find that one file. No matter how many different searches you type in your Gmail, or how long you sift through your downloads folder, that contract is nowhere to be found in your files. "Shows don't book themselves!" is a ...
