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How Not To Promote (pg. 2)
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bottom line, people are going to go where and when they want to go.
given this economy, people will pick and choose their nites out accordingly |
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| seriot |
| quote: | | bottom line, people are going to go where and when they want to go. |
You sir under estimate the power of marketing. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by seriot
You sir under estimate the power of marketing. |
...not really since I understand whats invovled and I have alot of friends who are involved in alot of parties and they aren't just some promoters who run a list but have their hand in the cookie jar in terms of bookings and Operations
I've been around for awhile. I know how it works |
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| MeLLyMeL |
| I agree. I was thinking to myself that even though I love some of the ppl who do this - I was going to delete them on FB if I got 1 more invite for the same party. |
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| StarSoprano426 |
| I have a friends list on facebook which I've named "guestlist people." Whenever I'm hired to promote an event, I make a facebook event for my guestlist and send it to those people. If any of you do not wish to receive invitations from me, please contact me and I will remove you from that list. |
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| yumpop |
| quote: | Originally posted by euphoria
I know what your saying... I got at least 6 other invites just yesterday for an event that I also happened to be promoting. I get over 100 invites a day on a slow day, yea its annoying but they are just doing their jobs.
Honestly, it comes with the territory. If you have a lot of people who are promoters in your friends list you are going to get multiple invites. Clicking ignore, or "no" is not really that difficult. If it really bothers you that much take them off your friends list.
People promote because they want the events to succeed. While many promoters may know a decent group of mutual friends they also know others outside of the circle, otherwise they wouldn't have been hired. Anyone know throws events should have enough common sense to make sure the people who promote have a significant # of diverse friends compared to others who are promoting.
I think it's you... its all your fault for being friends with too many promoters ;) But really I am just trying to be devils advocate because there is a number of ways this can be looked at. Who is really to blame? I can't speak for the people who aren't being paid and what their reasoning is behind it but I also agree that sloppy invites just don't cut it. Use spellcheck people!!
It's really not the promoters fault's that too many people have been hired to promote the same event. I mean... how would they know how many other people are promoting in the first place. I don't like it when venues/event organizers do this either because no one really makes any money because there are too many lists to choose from. |
That is the issue right there, none of the people that sent me event invites are getting paid for it- fact. You, Z, are a promoter, not part of the problem. People expect to get invites from you on a regular basis. I am getting five different "bedroom promoters" sending invites to the same event with out any tact or marketing sense. Sorry but having mutual friends and knowing people only carries you so far if you don't have the cred of a full promoter.
I know it comes with the territory but it creates, what we were taught in marketing, negative marketing, total fail.
We are saying the same thing, about going out of your circle. They aren't, it is all the same crowd. If I have at least a hundred mutual friends each with five of you sending it, you're doing it wrong.
It is the promoter's fault because they need to micro manage their event for it to be successful. I can tell you this- two of the people who sent me invites have zero cred for anything and are not even regular out in the scene- they should not be promoting an event, it looks weak.
| quote: | Originally posted by RoBDaWG
Somebody saw my Facebook status and made a thread out of it ;) |
Yeah I did but I was going to anyway and discussed this offline with a few of the promoters involved. I really want them to succeed but they need to have a better strategy. That and not have everyone send .
| quote: | | Originally posted by StarSoprano426 If any of you do not wish to receive invitations from me, please contact me and I will remove you from that list. |
Please remove me from your list, thanks. |
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| DJslantzz |
I hate sounding too nostalgic...but this thread makes me miss the good ol' days when the only way parties got promoted was flyering all over the city. Man, that was hard work, but you know what...it didn't annoy anyone or sound too desperate when you would be outside of Roxy from like 3am-7am on a cold-ass night handing out flyers that people could either keep or throw out right away :)
Anyways...rave on :clown: |
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| coolestrl |
| i just deleted bradly rose he sent me 15 invites today :o |
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| AY STAR |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJslantzz
I hate sounding too nostalgic...but this thread makes me miss the good ol' days when the only way parties got promoted was flyering all over the city.
Anyways...rave on :clown: |
hell yea bro!!!! i still got a whole load of flyers saved in a shoebox
and back then when it was just flyers, like you said you would be walking out of a club at like 7am all hungover and tired as
but once you saw a flyer for a good party your energy came right back and got madd excited ha ha ha |
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| osterzone |
I don't get a lot of event invites on Facebook, but that's mainly because I'm only Facebook friends with three people on here.
But the one thing about any event on Facebook...if you're an admin, never...NEVER make use of the "send message to all" feature of a group.
If someone is joining an event they'll see what time and date the show is. They don't need five messages the day of the show saying "HEY GUYS...JUST A REMINDER...COME OUT TONIGHT", etc. |
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| bradley rose |
| quote: | Originally posted by coolestrl
i just deleted bradly rose he sent me 15 invites today :o |
On Facebook you can create a list of people out of your friends to send event invites to. When someone doesn't want to receive invites, they tell me and I just delete them from that list. This way you don't have to send invites to all of your friends, just certain ones.
This way works best. Yeah, I know I sent a lot of events out today...I have a ton of parties coming up. |
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| The Vza |
| honestly... I just de-friend people once I start getting too many repeat invites and stuff like that. I mean man, I check the TA event threads and that's good enough for me. but if someone needs numbers to make money at an event fine ill say im coming but ... |
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