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“Funflation” is on the Rise!

October 18, 2023
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Hi! Join me for an end of the year planning session for 2024. The Wall Street Journal told me it is getting too expensive to have fun and I wanted to look at some of the numbers involved. Why? Because a lot of times numbers can be manipulated to tell you what you want to hear. Let’s […]

October 17, 2023
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Hey! I want to talk to you about hip hop today. Legacy hip hop is selling well. I saw the question asked, why this is happening. To me, the answer is pretty simple…but let’s look at it so that you can apply it in your business because the same situation applies in sports, rock or […]

October 12, 2023
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Hi! I was reading an HBR piece this morning about portfolio careers and the idea of creating a drawing with all of the different ways you’ve added value during your career to be pretty interesting. I took a bit of a sabbatical over the summer after 2022 was a year of all hell breaking loose for me […]

October 11, 2023
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Hi! Just a head’s up, The Coalition for Ticket Fairness is hosting a dinner in London on 9 November at Steak and Company. My latest free webinar is on one of the most common ticket questions I receive, “How can I make the secondary market work for me now?” A few links and a few thoughts […]

October 4, 2023
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Hi! I haven’t talked with you about the secondary market in a while. So let’s take a look at a few things in the secondary market right now. Thanks for reading Talking Tickets! ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribed At the bottom, my next webinar is about helping […]

October 3, 2023
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Hi! Tomorrow night, Matt Wolff from Ticket Time Machine is hosting a Happy Hour in DC at the Rocket Bar from 5-7. I’ll be there for a few minutes so swing by if you are in the area. My blog was just named one of the top 50 “business growth” blogs in the world by […]

September 28, 2023
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Hi- I’m back from NYC where I had to juggle some things. It was more of a personal trip than a professional trip. So, everything had to be focused on the personal aspect. I did have one of my favorite things before I left: The sandwich of champions when my office was on West 45th […]

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