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The BIG Ticket: Consumer Sentiment Webinar: TODAY!

Hi! I’m hosting a FREE webinar today at 1 PM Eastern about customer sentiment in 2025. I’m going to spend about 15-20 minutes sharing some ideas. Then, we are going to throw open the doors to your questions, live or before the broadcast. To preview, here we go. Consumer Confidence is Dropping Fast: Consumer confidence is […]

The BIG Ticket: Creative Resilience in Arts!

Hi! My bracket is busted. Roll Tide, anyway. Last week we had some fun with the secondary market. Today, I want to look at David Reece’s piece in Arts Professional. In it, David draws on the example of Toyota to highlight ways for the arts to be resilient. I’ll build off of David’s points with three […]

Your Strategy is a Mess. What’s That Look Like?

A voice goes off in my head when I’m talking with executives about strategy. I says something like this, “YOUR STRATEGY IS A MESS! IT ISN’T THE MARKET! IT IS YOU!” Right now, too many people tell me that due to the chaotic times we live in, “We can’t really come up with a strategy. […]

The BIG Ticket: Let’s Grok My StubHub Analysis…

Hi! Thank you for your notes about yesterday’s post. Thank you for sharing the post. Thank you for reading. I received a bunch of notes. I took a specific angle in my analysis based on my work in branding and strategy. Some of the ideas I had were too “in the weeds”. As one comment […]

The BIG Ticket: StubHub’s S-1 Filing

Hi! Below is the longest thing I’ve written in a while. I went through 3 or 4 drafts of it. I will probably come back to this story from different angles because it lets me teach so many ideas from my consulting and teaching that I want you to know. Before I give you my […]

The BIG Ticket: Brokers are Bad. Unless?!

Hi! I’m in Upstate NY for a few days. Spring Break! Hello to all the new subscribers. Thanks to Scott Friedman for plugging the newsletter and sharing some of my notes about the StubHub S-1. I’ve gone through three edits of my analysis of the S-1. I may get it out today. Maybe tomorrow. While […]

The BIG Ticket: Notes on StubHub’s Prospectus

Hey! Scott Friedman talked about the notes I took digging through StubHub’s prospectus. His Twitter Spaces is here. He said I would be sharing something more in today’s note, but I’m not fully finished yet. To hold you over, I’m going to give you a few high level thoughts on the prospectus. If you haven’t looked […]