9jaBookings.com is an online celebrity booking platform that allows individuals and corporate organisations to book celebrities including musicians and comedians for events. In this exclusive interview, Danjuma spoke to HumanIPO on how the startup is making booking stress-free.
HumanIPO: What is your startup all about?
Danjuma: 9jabookings provides an online celebrity booking platform which makes booking Nigerian artistes easier.
9jabookings.com is an entertainment booking agency that helps you to plan or book the entertainment services of any top band, musician, comedian or celebrity. Our entertainment booking agents can book directly or through relationships with the artist’s management to book artists, bands, musician, comedians or celebrities for entertainment at your next corporate event, concert, private party, special event, festival, trade show, fund raiser or gala.
What vacuum are you filling?
We want to create an online platform to book Nigerian artistes, to help artistes get more performance at shows and events; eliminate the hassles of booking artistes and calling unresponsive booking agents and artistes managers. We also want to reduce the incidence of booking scams.
Who could make use of your services?
Anybody can make use of our service that’s why we ensured the website is easy to use. Private individuals and Corporate bodies are our major target.
In terms of cost, how expensive is it to book a Nigerian artist?
Booking a Nigerian artist is not expensive when compared with what international artistes charges. Most Nigerian artist charge depending on how popular and well branded the artiste is. Most celebrities charge from NGN1 million to NGN5 million.
How does your platform work?
It is a very easy to use platform. Our url is www.9jabookings.com, once you get to our homepage, search for the name or category of the artiste of your choice or click on “celebrities” and you will see the profile of all the available artistes on our platform and also their estimated charge per show. click “book now” and submit offer. Our dedicated call centre 07009jabookings will get back to you within 24hours and we will start processing your bookings as soon as you show commitment.
What is the current state of the platform?
We have already been booking Nigerian artistes through our platform since our pre-launch 6 months ago. We have been registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission to show that we are a credible and legal source and we also have a working relationship with the Performing Musician Association of Nigeria (PMAN). We have secured funding from Akin Alabi (CEO NAIRABET). He is our investor.
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