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More Global Perspectives On Tickets In 2018 (Primary and Secondary)

December 18, 2017
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I’ve been doing quite a bit of focusing on challenges and opportunities in the ticket industry in 2018. Today, I want to pull together a few more with a mixture of primary and secondary voices and some international voices. Patrick Ryan, Co-Founder at Eventellect: There is a flipping of the roles between the primary […]

September 12, 2017
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Last week news broke that morning radio host Craig Carton was arrested for a Ponzi Scheme involving tickets and resale of tickets on the secondary market. While surprising coming on the heels of so many other negative ticket related stories of late like: Bruce Springsteen and how “Verified Fan” shut out real fans from […]

Mayweather vs. McGregor! Golden Knights Hockey! A Few Lessons On Selling Sports To The Masses!

Lots of things are going on in the desert: There’s the Mayweather and McGregor fight at the end of the month. There’s NHL hockey coming to the Strip. There’s NFL football coming to somewhere near the Strip. And, the usual amount of things that happen in Vegas. Having just spent a week out in […]

Are You In Too Much Of A Rush To Water Down Your Product?

The NHL’s annual Winter Classic was a purple cow, but now it is just something on the schedule. If you aren’t familiar with the idea of a purple cow, it refers to Seth Godin’s hypothesis that the way you stand out is to be different, unusual, incredible. Like a purple cow. But what happened […]

February 24, 2017
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I’m heartened to hear that Major League Baseball is taking its demographic challenges seriously, finally. My concern is will the efforts be too little too late. Because at the core of MLB’s challenge is the fact that they have allowed a generation or more of fans whittle away the prime ages that they would hook […]

February 14, 2017
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One of the great things about time is that it moves on and creates change. While not all change is good, much of what we really enjoy comes about because of the evolution of technology, life, whatever. And, as I was reading Scott Cutler’s LinkedIn post this morning, I got to thinking about the way […]

November 3, 2016
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In working with a lot of sports, entertainment, and hospitality companies over the years, people talk about word of mouth pretty regularly. Along with referrals and testimonials. What you find if you spend enough time around these verticals is that in most cases, the talk is great, but the execution is piss pour. That’s why […]

NHL

Craig Carton Is Just Another Symbol Of A Deeper Rot In Tickets…

Mayweather vs. McGregor! Golden Knights Hockey! A Few Lessons On Selling Sports To The Masses!

Are You In Too Much Of A Rush To Water Down Your Product?

MLB’s Demographic Dead End

Too Much Tech, Not Enough Life…Or Putting Life Into Live Entertainment!

Here’s a wise use of a testimonial…

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