A few questions

1. How many days in advance should I book a show?

2. How often should I perform in the same city?

3. How do I give to key to my home to other people?

4. How long does it usualy take to learn a skill from a master?

1. about 2-3 weeks.
2. dunno.
3. go to your place and go to "arrange house", then make more keys, and then after that, just hand them out to the peopl you want.
4. it depends on both you, and your master's, IQ. you will usually learn it in the time frame that they are teaching it, but if you don't, then they will most likely buy you the book.

Gary Seymour wrote:

1. How many days in advance should I book a show?

2. How often should I perform in the same city?

3. How do I give to key to my home to other people?

4. How long does it usualy take to learn a skill from a master?

1. It's best to book 45-50 days before.
2. Leaving 50 days between shows in same city is good.
3. Go to your house and you'll see the option 'arrange home'
4. It's quite random. Usually it takes around 2-7 (maybe ten) days.

For shows, Id just like to say that 56 is the magic number!
A popoyear lasts 56 days, and tickets start selling 56 days in advance.

Also, it adds all the record sales in 56 days in one city, and there is a limit of 10.000 tickets in 56 days per city (especially important for when you start selling around 3k tickets per show.

What do you meant by 10K tickets? only 10K tickets for the artist to receive from a single city every 56 days?

i think he means that you can only sell 10,000 tickets every PM year(56 days)

Yes.
I got some shows that will sell out (10k is max amount of tickets per show), and therefore I can not play another show in the same city within 56 days which has ANY crowd at all.

Therefore, sometimes you have people who play 30 shows in one city in 2 months, they will often reach their limits at their 20th show and have to play 10 shows without audience, since no one wants to see that band anymore.

Get the picture?

oh, now i understand it very clearly now. thx. :)

sp, what is the average price that you put tickets to, clayton?

I read also something that you don't get extra popularity from playing more than once a year in the same city

yeah. people mostly just perform in the same city more than once for the ticket money that they will get. but if you have allllllot of money, there's no point in performing in the same city more than once, unless you are a person who thinks that there is no such thing as enough money like me.

What you said about 10k being the total limit per year per city: that's bollocks. It's all depending on fame. If you get exceptionally high fame, you can easily book another show after the first one sold out, and sell many more tickets.
However, you really need high fame and it requires some planning.

For example, this show:
Artist: Love & Death
City: Paris
Fame: Nice
Tickets sold: 10000
Ticket price: $30
Days left: 16

we sold out this show some days ago, with 16 days to go. If we would book a second show for the day after, we would sell more tickets.

Another example:
We played in New York 12 days ago, selling out for $50 per ticket. We got a new show planned in NY in 47 days, with $40 per ticket. We already sold 1928 tickets so far, in 9 days.
I guess that pretty much proves the point?

Do keep in mind you need a lot of fame for it, otherwise it won't work

will do, Barend.

Yeah, well.. The only sold out shows I have, are the ones that still need to come.
So sorry Barend ^^
I will edit my post to leave that piece out. See, I missed a forum like this in my days.

It's not something that is used often, so you don't see it that much. But f.e. electronica band Psycho Mind Killers use this strategy to sell more tickets.

It won't raise your fame more though.

I've got one more question
how can you improve the quality of your home?

Quality of your home is based on the rooms of it. You see, you can't improve a house, you can only get one better..

bathing a little.. xD!

i thimk you can only get a better home.

if he doesnt bath its going to be the same.. D:!

If you don't bathe, you become smelly. If you are smelly, your house is smelly.

Coincidence? Or CAUSE and EFFECT?

common sense..