It's also customary to get such deals through the local entertainment publications. Most big cities have a free newspapers about nightlife; the editors of those

It's also customary to get such deals through the local entertainment publications. Most big cities have a free newspapers about nightlife; the editors of those papers are bored 40-somethings, from my experience, and if you have a band, you can offer them a commission; if their band is booked within a month from a referral they make X amounts of dollars, to them personally, not the paper. The editors will plug your band and will mention you and your musicians to hotel chain managers. Nightlife papers are not exactly official newspapers, and their journalists are easy to play ball with. However, they guy as much access to local happenings as regular newspapers, if not more.