Criative Music powers their growth with SystemOne
How the largest gospel artist booking agency in Brazil manages 1,000 shows per year with a team of 20+ employees using SystemOne daily.
Criative Music is the largest producer of gospel events in the state of Espírito Santo and the biggest gospel music agency in Brazil. We chatted with Criative Music’s marketing manager, Diogo Chiapani, about how their team of 20+ employees manage 1,000 shows per year using SystemOne daily.
The company was founded in 1997 by Ivanildo Nunes, its current Director. The name “Criative Music” was inspired by the phrase “Criação de Atividades Evangélicas” (Creation of Evangelical Activities). The company forms part of Grupo Criative, which comprehensively covers music logistics, recording, and production.
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Why Criative Music wanted to switch to SystemOne
Diogo has been working in the company's marketing department for more than seven years, and the Criative team has been using SystemOne for two years.
Before SystemOne, they were using another system that had its benefits but ultimately wasn’t practical or functional. Diogo’s team experienced many problems with their previous solution and found that it wasn’t able to scale with Criative Music’s growth.
They were looking for a comprehensive booking platform that could be adapted with the company’s rapid growth.
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For Diogo, the most essential feature is automatic reminders. His team uses this feature to set up their task lists every day. Another important feature they use often is the generation of the technical sheet: exporting the show agenda to a PDF they send to all the stakeholders. His team relies on SystemOne extensively—the only feature they haven't implemented is eSign.
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Diogo says implementing data and linking their artists’ Google Calendars to SystemOne is “super useful and easy.” Their customer service team is responsible for tracking all information for every show in the system. With all calendar and schedule information on one platform, it’s easy for them to oversee the full agenda of their artists.
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How SystemOne caters for growing agencies
With SystemOne, Creative Music’s team organizes each show’s entire agenda in a single place. In addition to storing information about promoters, venues and artists, they can upload flight tickets, hotel reservations, and other media related to show logistics. It’s easy to export all this data in an editable file or choose not to send it to the people in the agenda.
"And all this is linked to the financial section within the system. It's wonderful."
Diogo also values that SystemOne’s mobile app empowers stakeholders who are on the road traveling with the artists. For him, our comprehensive platform makes booking simple and easy—even when your agency is expanding.
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"Criative Music has brought together more than 3 million people throughout its history. We manage the careers of about 30 renowned gospel singers in Brazil and around the world."
"We were looking for a complete system that could meet all the company's needs and keep up with our growth. After a long search we found SystemOne and decided to implement it."
"As SystemOne is a robust system, we’ve created custom fields to meet the needs of our daily workflow."
“We currently fill more than 10 show schedules a day. Of course some may be canceled in the future, but being able to control all agendas—even the artists' personal schedules—in one place makes our work much more efficient.”