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I’m running a survey on live event attendance habits

I’m running a second survey about live event attendance and I need your help… Follow this link The survey will take about 3 minutes and if you fill it out and give me your email address, I will put you in a drawing for a free American Express gift card. Thanks for the help! […]

Did we really learn anything new from the Ticketmaster article in The NY Times?

In the world of tickets, a lot of stuff has been floating around the last few days. Everyone has a take one way or the other, but the question I think we have to ask is “what did we really learn from the piece that ran in The New York Times on Sunday?” Here […]

Creating Value For Your Fans…

My background has always been in entertainment, hospitality, and events. So I find myself reading the sports business press and the sports press with an eye towards how to improve the fan experience. And, as has become a constant refrain, attendance is down in most sports and fans are finding that it is better to […]

The Live Sporting Event and FourSquare

I’ll warn you early on, I haven’t perfected my thoughts on this topic, but I do have a few ideas on ways that FourSquare and sports teams could have fun with the platform, engage their fans a little more, help their sponsorship partners and maybe generate a little more revenue. I’m just going to […]