Setting your band profile
Your band profile is the first thing a venue booker sees in your inquiry. Get it right.
When you'd use this
You're in onboarding or fixing your profile after realizing the guarantee offers you're getting don't match your actual draw.
Fields to fill
- Band name. What you book under. What venues see.
- Genre tags. Pick 1–3. Used by the Router + Weekend Finder to match you with venues that program your sound. "indie rock" is better than "rock"; "Americana" and "folk" can coexist.
- Home city. The anchor point for tour routing. Used as the drive-cost zero-point for the Router. Be specific (Nashville, TN not Nashville).
- Home base radius. How far from home you're comfortable going for single gigs (used by Weekend Finder). 100 miles is typical.
- Draw estimate. Honest number. How many tickets you can reliably sell in a core market? This sets the venue-capacity range Mintoor recommends. Overstating it = you pitch rooms you'll play to half-empty; understating = you leave guarantee money on the table.
- Years active. How long you've been touring. Venues use this as a signal.
- Press quotes / major support slots. Optional. Adds credibility to cold pitches.
Draw estimate — how to calibrate
- Look at the last 3 non-home-city shows you played.
- Take the median attendance.
- That's your draw for cold-market pitches.
- Your home-city draw can be 2–3x this — include that as a separate "home-city draw" field.
Don't use home-city draw as your main number. A first-time booker in Cleveland only cares about what you pull in Cleveland.
Visibility
Your profile drives:
- What appears on your public Mintoor page (
/artists/your-slug) - What appears in your outbound inquiry emails
- How the Router prioritizes venue suggestions
- Your position in Weekend Finder match rankings
Still stuck?
- Can't find a genre that fits? Use the closest match and email us to add a new tag. We curate the genre list to prevent fragmentation.
- Draw fluctuates wildly? Pick a conservative median. You can always negotiate up per-show if you hit a hot market.