About Us
What is Gig Salad?
Gig Salad connects event planners and agents with entertainers. Our roster is made up of exceptional performers and speakers from across the entertainment spectrum. For a nominal fee, performers sign up on Gig Salad, get gig leads without hidden costs, finder’s fees or commissions. Those looking for entertainment for private parties, concerts, weddings, corporate events, music festivals, studio sessions, fundraisers, launch parties or any other event search and connect with Gig Salad’s deep and fast-growing roster of talent.
Gig Salad might possibly be the very first salad to be made with people. Actually, the salad was made by Talent Salad, which is our parent company. When you call Gig Salad, you'll be talking to a real person, and we're all friendly and helpful, provided you don't talk with Allie before she has had her first cup of coffee.
We're working hard to innovate and invent, all in the name of getting our members more (and better) gigs, and to help talent buyers find exactly what they are looking for to assemble the perfect event. Gig Salad started in 2005 and we have grand plans in the works that'll knock your socks off. We strive to be the best, and lots of our members say we're already there. We have our work cut out for us to become the best event planning resource anywhere... and we're in it for the long haul!
Who are the founders?
Gig Salad was started by Mark Steiner (founder of Steiner Talent) and Steve Tetrault (president of Tetrault Design Associates, co-founder of Green Street). The two became great friends while attending the same church in New York City in the early 90s and the runaway train took off from there. Click here to learn more about these two winsome gents.
Where in the world is Gig Salad?
Our corporate headquarters is in the heartland of America: Springfield, Missouri. We have a killer cast there ready to serve you. Our Wilmington, NC office is led by Steve (we already told you about him) and focuses on web development, marketing and design. It is there that Locke Bircher, our lead web developer and the man behind the curtain, has been making everything connect and work perfectly since 2007. You can meet the entire gang here.
Is Gig Salad a company I can trust?
We are accredited with the Better Business Bureau, but even we realize that doesn't mean a whole lot as it relates to the deeper stuff. Trusting relationships with our customers is what we're all about.
As a company, here's what we believe:
- We believe in complete honesty and integrity.
- We believe that greed kills and generosity builds.
- We believe in under-promising and over-delivering.
- We believe in providing exceptional and available customer service.
- We believe in listening intently when given input, criticism and praise.
- We believe that the cream always rises to the top without gimmicks and shortcuts.
- We believe that talented people should use their talent to serve others.
- We believe in patience, faith and servitude, in business and in all aspects of life.
- We believe in implementing changes in our business when the result will accomplish a greater good.
- We believe that as a company we should always be innovating and creating new and better products.
