bandflo.com, the world’s first marketplace-community for entertainers debuted on Kickstarter last week. After a slow start, the campaign started to dribble in a few small backers.
PHOTO CAPTION: bandflo wants to take a grass roots approach to finding backers for it’s start-up fundraising.
The business model allows for musicians, singers, bands and other entertainers to offer live performances at set fees and rates. Currently, the site is in pre launch mode but plans are being in beta mode around June 2. “There is a lot planning and work that goes into a site of this magnitude”, said Mark Lugo, CEO for bandflo. “We are building a simple yet massive back-end that will provide analytics for the entertainers as well as the actual talent buyer. A buyer could mean anybody from a teenaged girl booking a local DJ for her sweet sixteen or a corporate event planner looking for entertainment for the annual board of directors meeting” added Lugo.
bandflo will make the talent hiring process easy and secure with many built in features bringing comfort to a otherwise complex task. Talent and band booking is not an easy process. Buyers need to search out bands that match their talent theme, while bands need to spend hours marketing for one job. bandflo will provide a community where both sides can meet virtually and do business with less hassle.
Initially bandflo will be available via a web and web-mobile friendly site, but the company does have plans of developing an app for iOS and Android platforms. Back-end features include event marketing management, event planning, dual “gig protection”, entertainers and buyer ratings reviews system and many other bells and whistles.
bandflo.com was founded in Barcelona, Spain in late 2014 by Mark Lugo, Alejandra Aguzzi and Angel Girón, Jr. Lugo has been involved in the music industry for nearly 20 years and has worked with some the world biggest music stars. He co-produced Miami Hip Hop Fest and is currently planning other concert events in Europe as well as the United States and Latin America.
