About Talent on Line
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What you can find on this page:

How does the site work?
Our Goals
Our Management

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What's on the Site?
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Tips and help for Event Planners
Tips and help for Performing Artists

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With offices in both Australia and New Zealand, Talent On Line can offer a unique collection of performing artists from both countries to give you a wider variety of options and broader perspective on what's possible to make your event something truly unique.

Our team has supported a host of event management, advertising and public relations companies in providing entertainers for their events and promotional campaigns. We pride ourselves on our discretion and, on the day, becoming a translucent part of your company with no private promotion of ourselves which might jeopardise your relationship with your client.

How does the site work?

Talent On Line is a specialised show business website which is split into two main sections.
The Bookings section is where you can find all you need to know about booking a band or entertainer, finding resources and additional activities and advice to make your event memorable. The Bands, Entertainers, Casino tables and Novelty acts in this section are booked via our Australian or New Zealand offices. Just drop us an email off the performer's page and we'll be back to you by the end of the next working day. For more urgent enquiries, feel free to give us a call.

The Talent section is specifically designed for all musicians, models and performers working in Film, Television, Fashion modelling, Theatre, Advertising, Live Events and other Recorded work. This is where you can find jobs, resources, training and inspiration plus some tips on working with an agent, what you can expect and what is expected of you. We are amazed how rarely this is explained to newcomers so feel it will be useful for performers and models alike, no matter what country you're from.

Our Goals

Here at Talent On Line we have two main goals. For our venues, event co-ordinators, festival directors and corporate clients we aim to bring you the most suitably qualified performers to fit any particular event theme or purpose at the most affordable rates and with efficiency and care.

For the performing artists on our books, we want to offer you the best agency service in the country with clear, detailed information you need for each job, booking updates as soon as they come in and a quick, efficient payment service.

The facts:
Originally set up by Albert and Annabelle McGough-Drumm, we began promoting Australian and New Zealand performing artists on the internet in 1995 and are now well entrenched in the most popular search engines in the world.

Our site has a huge amount of visitors, mostly from Australia and New Zealand but many from Greater Asia, Arab nations and America as well, either wanting to book performers for their events and hotels or to book local entertainers for their conferences hosted here.

Over the years, some awesome work has been offered to our members... gigs from 1-night, 1000 guest shows to 6 month international contracts for musicians, dancers, actors and entertainers throughout Asia, USA and Europe. There's been some awesome advertising contracts including a $10,000 ad campaign for a lovely actress cast directly off our site - no audition. There's also been plenty of corporate work from local businesses as well as overseas companies visiting Australia or New Zealand... the list goes on.

Our news is read by more than 10,000 subscribers. None of these are from purchased mailing lists. We handle around 6-700 bookings a year.

We get a great kick out of finding work for our performers, let us help you too.

Want to be listed?

If you work in the Live events area and feel you can offer an act at least the calibre of those already listed on the site, send over your promotional material to the Sydney office for review. Click here for more details.

Our Management

Samantha Shanahan,
Managing Director.
Sam has been managing our Auckland branch since 2001 and has built a long list of happy clients. These years of experience as a booker and co-ordinator means she loves getting involved to understand what you are trying to achieve and can offer many creative ideas to help make your function or event a memorable one.

Sam's background is in professional performance work focusing on Musical theatre, International dance tours, corporate promotional work and day acting work for television and film.

For large events where there are more than 2 or 3 acts booked, Sam can offer invaluable assistance during the event by being there to help co-ordinate her acts taking stress off you so you can focus on other areas of the event i.e. catering, important guests, having fun etc.....

Previous clients Sam has booked for through the Talent On Line Auckland office include ANZ Bank, Roche Diagnostic, Waitakere City Council, Department of Labour, Royal NZ Navy, Southern Cross Building Society, NZ Trade Enterprise, Ernst and Young, Westfield Shopping Centres and many local as well as visiting international event management companies and festivals.
 
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