How this business actually works
Short, practical guides on getting booked and getting paid. Useful whether or not you ever use Tulala.
- Getting booked
How talent bookings actually work
The path from a first message to money in your account, and the four points where most bookings fall apart.
- Working smarter
Why booking only through DMs loses you money
Direct messages are a great place to be found and a bad place to run a booking. Here is where the money leaks.
- Getting paid
Booking deposits: what to charge and why they work
A deposit is not about the money up front. It is the thing that separates a real booking from a polite maybe.
- Running the business
How to price your services as independent talent
A practical way to set rates when nobody hands you a rate card, and how to stop rewriting them in every chat.
- Representation
Do you still need an agency?
Independent, represented, or both. An honest look at what an agency actually provides and what you can now do yourself.
- Money
How agency commissions actually work
Who takes a cut, who pays it, and the questions to ask before you sign anything.
- Getting paid
The paper trail of a booking
What to write down for a job so that scope, price and payment are never a matter of memory. General information, not legal advice.
- Protecting your time
A no-show policy that actually holds
How to write a cancellation and no-show policy people respect, and why the wording matters far less than the enforcement.
- Your online home
Custom domain or free subdomain?
When a free subdomain is genuinely fine, and the point at which your own domain starts paying for itself.
- Two markets
Running a booking page in two languages
How to serve local and visiting clients without maintaining two sites, and the mistakes that make bilingual pages feel machine-made.
- Choosing your setup
Booking page or link-in-bio page?
They solve different problems. One points people somewhere. The other takes the request, prices it, and gets paid.
- Choosing your setup
Booking page or your own website, built from scratch?
A DIY site wins on design freedom. It loses on the booking pipeline, because you end up stitching it from separate tools.
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One practical guide a week on getting booked and getting paid.
Turn work into money.
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Open a free page and start taking requests today. When you're ready, launch your own site, collect inquiries, and run the whole business.
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