{"id":966,"date":"2018-05-29T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.encoremusicians.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2021-12-23T18:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:51:30","slug":"why-does-encore-have-a-service-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/why-does-encore-have-a-service-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Encore have a Service Fee?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we founded Encore in 2014, our mission was to build a platform that gave every musician the opportunity to promote themselves and win bookings online while keeping the cost of the service to a minimum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, in order to grow into a sustainable business (and not a charity – a model which would have limited the number of musicians we could help), we knew we would have to make money somehow. The solution for us was to only ever charge musicians a fee when they get booked through Encore. This is always 20% and is always shown to you when you quote for a gig.<\/p>\n

Unlike most listings sites, we won\u2019t charge you a penny unless you\u2019ve been booked for work you wouldn\u2019t have got elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The 20% we do charge is cheaper than most agencies* while being high enough for us to generate the revenue which sustains the host of other features we offer to our musicians.<\/p>\n

*In a recent survey of the 10 most popular online music agencies (according to Google search results), we found that the average commission taken was 27%, with most charging around 20% and more established agents charging up to 50%. Of these, half did not display their commission publicly to either musicians or clients. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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