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You don’t get to the long-term without short-term success…

November 1, 2017
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https://quotefancy.com/quote/1609021/Nick-Saban-Focus-on-the-process-of-what-it-takes-to-be-successful One of the toughest challenges a business faces is balancing between the short term and the long term. For too many organizations, everything is always short term. We get pulled from one fire to the next, never allowing our long term priorities to take hold. For too many organizations, the opposite can occur as […]

October 10, 2017
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I’ve been writing and thinking about what I think the new world of tickets would look like. And, while change is always slow to come to the industry. If I could wave a magic wand, here are some of the things that I would want a new business model of ticket sales to look […]

September 14, 2017
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I was reading about “maximized systems” the other day which the simple explanation means “commodity” systems. Why? Because the only objective is to produce, distribute, and move as quickly as possible. No relationship to value. No relationship to anything except for anything except for maximizing yield. Which usually leads to cutting corners: price, experience, […]

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 […]

10 Things I Learned At The World Ticket Conference

I’m just back from Las Vegas and this year’s World Ticket Conference where I led a panel on the future of tickets. While the panel seemed to go over pretty well with the audience and I am sure that I learned a lot by leading it, I wanted to take a moment to write […]

Do You Want To Be McDonalds Or Tiffany?

Recently I was in the United Kingdom giving a keynote at the Ticketing Professionals Conference in Birmingham. During the keynote, I was talking about the future of live entertainment. Specifically, I brought up the idea that the way you position your product or experience, the way you talk about it, and the way you sell […]

Creating Value For Your Fans…

My background has always been in entertainment, hospitality, and events. So I find myself reading the sports business press and the sports press with an eye towards how to improve the fan experience. And, as has become a constant refrain, attendance is down in most sports and fans are finding that it is better to […]

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You don’t get to the long-term without short-term success…

If I could reinvent ticket sales…

Is Our Modern Ticket System Just Another Maximized System?

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

10 Things I Learned At The World Ticket Conference

Do You Want To Be McDonalds Or Tiffany?

Creating Value For Your Fans…

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