[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":160},["ShallowReactive",2],{"articles-band-crm-software-guide":3,"author-tim-mushen":60,"\u002Facademy\u002Farticles\u002Fband-crm-software-guide\u002F-surround":149},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":12,"extension":42,"meta":43,"navigation":55,"path":56,"seo":57,"stem":58,"__hash__":59},"articles\u002Facademy\u002Farticles\u002Fband-crm-software-guide.md","Band CRM Software: The Complete Guide for Bands in 2025",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":38},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,22,29,32,35],[10,11,12],"p",{},"If you're running a band like most bands, your contacts live in chaos. The venue booker is in your phone. The promoter who likes you is somewhere in Instagram DMs. The studio engineer is in a contact you saved as \"Mike - Studio\" four years ago. The radio plugger who said \"call me in six months\" doesn't exist anywhere searchable. That breaks down the moment you try to scale — and it kills momentum before you ever book the gig that matters.",[10,14,15],{},"A band CRM fixes this. CRM stands for customer relationship management, but for bands the \"customers\" are venues, promoters, media, agents, sponsors, fan segments, and collaborators. The right CRM centralizes every relationship you have with every one of those people, tracks your history with each, and reminds you to follow up when it matters. It turns a contact list into an actual network you can operate on.",[10,17,18],{},"Most bands don't need a Salesforce-level enterprise tool. You need something music-specific, mobile-first, and built for the way bands actually work — sporadic contact bursts, gig-cycle workflows, and a constantly evolving roster of venues and promoters in different markets. Bandmate is built exactly for this. HubSpot Free works if you want a generic CRM and don't mind configuring it yourself. Notion databases work if you're already deep in Notion. Spreadsheets are a trap — they work until they don't, and they don't scale past maybe 50 active contacts.",[10,20,21],{},"What separates a band CRM from a regular CRM is the workflow layer. A good band CRM knows that a venue contact isn't just a person — they're a venue with a capacity, a genre fit, a booking lead time, a payment preference, and a history of shows you've played there. It knows that when you confirm a gig, the venue contact gets a status change, the promoter contact gets an update, and your band contacts (your bandmates) get a notification. 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Paper is not a lack of trust. Paper is how friends stay friends when incentives diverge. This is a practical checklist for a band membership agreement—not jurisdiction-specific legal advice, not a substitute for a lawyer when real money or a label is involved. Use it to know what to put in writing before the first serious payday.",{"title":156,"path":157,"stem":158,"description":159,"children":-1},"Band CRM vs Spreadsheets: Why Upgrading Beats DIY Every Time","\u002Facademy\u002Farticles\u002Fband-crm-vs-spreadsheets","academy\u002Farticles\u002Fband-crm-vs-spreadsheets","Every band starts with a spreadsheet. Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion — same idea, different wrapper. A column for venue name, a column for booker, a column for email, maybe a column for last contact date. For the first fifty contacts, this works fine. For the next two hundred, it slowly turns into a junk drawer. 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