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OPERA America’s Survey Shows an Industry in Freefall…

Hi! 15th June 2023 at 1 PM Eastern time: we are doing another FREE webinar on brand management for professional services. If you sell into the world of tickets as a service or tool provider, this is likely up your alley. My ambition is to do one of these a month as a way to replace […]

A Riff on the Padres/MLB/RSN and the Business of Sports…

Is it possible for the Padres and MLB to maintain the same business model and revenue now that Diamond Sports Group has walked away from its media rights deal? No. I’ve got two reasons why I think this doesn’t work: The idea of sliding from the RSN model to an OTT model is hard to […]

Pricey! That’s What Watching Sports on TV is Going to Become! Also, UX v. Ticketmaster!

Hey! What did y’all think of yesterday’s webinar? Let me know by replying to this email. Check out the growing Dave shop. New offers and opportunities will be coming now that I have a technical issue fixed. Also, I’m doing my first in the new series of monthly webinars on brand management for professional service firms. This […]

Brand Management for Ticket Sellers…

On Thursday, June 1 at 1 PM Eastern, I’m going to partner with AudienceView to deliver a FREE webinar called “The Basics of Brand Management for Ticket Sellers”. I’ve been working up an outline of ideas to include in the webinar. Here’s a taste of what you will learn: I. Definition of a Brand II. […]

How Will Theatre (Everyone) Deal with New Realities?!

Hey There! Next week, 1 June 2023, I’m doing a FREE webinar with AudienceView about brand management for ticket-selling organizations. You’ll learn things like: Don’t miss it! To the Tickets! Share Talking Tickets! P.S. I’m going to start doing a monthly FREE webinar series. I’m asking for help figuring out where to begin. Can you help […]

5 Key Takeaways: Brand Management Webinar

Next week, I’m doing a free webinar on Brand Management for ticket selling organizations in partnership with the folks at AudienceView. SIGN UP HERE! I’ve been mapping out the presentation this afternoon and I’ll let you see behind the curtain to what the big areas of focus will be next week. Defining what a brand […]

Some of my favorite episodes from 5 years of ‘The Business of Fun’

My podcast: ‘The Business of Fun’ turns 5 in a few days…and I want to celebrate by sharing some of my favorite ideas, episodes, and guests. Drew McManus: We talked about “one size fits none” and the pervasiveness of those kinds of solutions in the arts and culture. I keep coming back to it because […]