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Lowering No-Show Rates is About Marketing Strategy

3. How-To: Get folks to come to shows again with no-shows hitting up to 40% at some gigs: Big Ideas: No shows is something we’ve been talking about. Flexibility and being in the business of “no” is something Maureen Andersen has been talking about even before the pandemic. The no-shows make this even more important to think […]

Dynamic Pricing In the Primary Ticket Market: Yeah or Nay?!

The Road to Recovery: John Wall Street looks at dynamic pricing on the primary market: Big Ideas: Just because “everyone” is doing it doesn’t make it right. There are positives and negatives to dynamic pricing. The way that tickets are priced likely needs changing. Since I just looked at the Coyotes’ ticket prices above, I won’t […]

25 Things I Noticed About the Business of Tickets Now…

The Big Story: The Stage asks, “Where is the ticket business now?”: Big Ideas: The pandemic has brought changes to the ticket business, a business that has been slow to change. The pandemic created an environment where how tickets are distributed, marketed, and sold has evolved and changed. Getting customers back to shows and events is […]

Talking Tickets 6 May 2022: Broadway Struggles! Changes To the NCAA! Manchester United Ticket Plans! And, More!

Hey! Damn calendar…didn’t give me room to make May the 4th jokes in real-time! You’ll have to just forgive me with some memes! Okay, two is enough… I am, after all, a serious man! Anyway, thank you for continuing to share the newsletter with friends and colleagues. It keeps making sure that I keep doing […]

Australian Cinemas Teach Live Entertainment About Reinvention…

Big Ideas: Entertainment is a big part of folks’ lives everywhere in the world. The total experience matters. Looking at Australia cinema, we see that a lot of entertainment is appointment based. Y’all thought I forgot about Australia? I have not and I expect to see y’all at the Ticketing Professionals Conference this year on […]

Talking Tickets 6 May 2022: Manchester United Tickets! Market Research! Changes at the NCAA! And, More!

The Process of Opportunity

As we’ve been working our way through whatever wave and stage of the COVID-19 pandemic we are in right now, I’ve been thinking about how to present my value and what I wanted to focus on next. What I recognized is that my long-term focus on the ability to create and capture opportunities in any […]