About the company

BookYou develops, together with our users, unique booking software for the entertainment branch. With the easy use of handy features, time saving solutions and sales increasing functionality we want to help our users to make their agency grow.
*Vision and mission statement*
Vision and mission statement
Vision: "Each ambitious artist deserves the right to earn in such a way with his profession that he can turn it into his work."


Mission: "serve artists and booking agencies in Europe with a cost effective and user-friendly booking tool, so that they can professionalize and moreover obtain and process more national as well as international bookings in less time. This way more artists will be placed at a professional agent"
 

*Origin*
Origin


Unfortunately a lot of artists cannot make their livelihood of their work, therefore it often remains a hobby. Artists are generally more creative than businesslike and don't know how to place themselves in the market professionally. With that wisdom, acting upon instructions from an entertainment company, in 1994, the two founders started developing a program that would help the artists with that. The entertainment company used the program intensively for several years, where one of the founders was active as a DJ himself. When 4 years later the need arose there to, as it were, "share" the program so that artists and booking agencies could co-operate, the idea of BookYou was born.



Due to the increase of the number of bookings and therefore the rising work pressure they also examined the efficiency of the conventional way of booking. 
With several handy tools there has been found a way in which a lot of actions in the booking process were automated, so that eventually the time pressure was decreased.
 

The entertainment branch grows rapidly and changes continuously. Artists have to distinguish themselves to obtain a prominent place in the market. Fame within such a network is thereby essential. Social Media has become even more important for artists, but also very time-consuming. Besides that, due to the raise of the VAT rate, the booking of entertainment became substantially more expensive. This makes it even more important for artists to handle an efficient sales stategy. All changes to which BookYou responds immediately and offers a solution.