We’re excited to tell you about the changes we made to improve your experience searching for gigs on Sonicbids.  We’ve heard a lot of feedback over the past few months, and, yes, we really listen! Below are some of the highlights based on that feedback: (more…)

We recently gave the My Submissions area where artists keep track of their past submissions a bit of a facelift and a few new features.

• Incomplete Submissions are displayed in their own tab on the My Account page.
• The My Submissions tab now displays the 5 most recently updated submissions along with their status. If the status is “Submitted” or “Interested” you’ll also be able to see the date the promoter has agreed to send the next update

Clicking “View all complete submissions” from the My Submissions tab on the My Account page will take you to the new My Submissions page.

• There are also quick links to Rate or Review each submission (only selected artists can rate gigs, all others can review).
• You can now Archive Submissions that you don’t want to have in the list anymore by clicking the “Archive” link in the “Actions” column
• A new link to Get Receipts for all of your purchases on Sonicbids should help make your taxes a bit easier. (Quick Tax Tip: If you’re declaring income from your music on your tax return you can write off your Sonicbids submission and membership fees as a business expense.)

Hi everyone,

I wanted to take a minute and introduce myself and tell you about some things that we’re working on. I’m Tricia Nardullo and I started at Sonicbids a few weeks ago, heading up the Product team. We will be focused on keeping you in the loop about any key features we’re working on, bug fixes that you guys have been waiting on and anything else that we have brewing. Make sure to check in just about every week when we’ll have fresh news to share. Right now, the soup du jour that we’ve been talking about is the new and improved Status Manager. Lou will be posting more on that shortly so stay tuned!

-Tricia

Hey all,

John wanted me to take a sec to post here in the Builder’s Blog about a project I’m currently working on.  We’re planning a major overhaul to the Status Manager tool that promoters use to notify artists of their submission status.  I’m not going to go into all the details here, but I did want to drop a hint about one feature in particular.

The way the status manager exists today it’s not possible for a promoter to asign a status to a submission without reviewing it first.  However, it is possible for a promoter to legitimately review a submission in a way that’s not tracked in the EPK Visits Tracker.  First and foremost we’ll be closing out those loopholes so all submission review activity will be accurately captured. In addition, the new status manager will include the date that your submission was reviewed with your status update.

We don’t have a launch date for the new status manager yet (still working out some final details), but as soon as we do it will be announced here.

Rock on,

Lou

The team continues with our regular weekly updates. This week’s updates were primarily focused on home page cleanup, but planning is moving ahead quickly on the transparency changes I have been discussing.

I have asked Lou to post some more information tomorrow.

-John

The Sonicbids’ engineering team sits down monthly and reviews what we’re doing well as well as where we need to improve. This month we will be focused on some of our internal processes and I won’t bore you with those details.

We were pleased that we have released 16 updates to the Sonicbids’ web site in the last 5 weeks. These updates represent feature improvements and bug fixes; all were done in the name of constant product improvement. Thanks to everyone involved, our members, our members relations team, the engineers, the UI designers, and our loungineers.

John

I want to occasionally take time to point out Sonicbids members who have made use of our application in interesting new ways.

Pop Montreal is using Sonicbids as their online submission platform this year. In addition to using our promoter tools to review and select bands to perform, they’re also using submission information to power an online voting application, which you can check out at http://popmontreal.com/en/popthumbs/ . By making use of our open submission platform, they’re able to give their selected artists more visibility and provide their community with a richer experience.

If you know of someone who has integrated their EPK, gig listing or any other aspect of our site uniquely, I’d love to share it.