Comments on: When Fans Become Promoters

By: When Should You Look for a Manager? : Vyral Music

When Should You Look for a Manager? : Vyral Music — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:53:58 +0000

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By: How To Get Gigs: When Fans Become Promoters « How To Get Gigs – The Viral Gig Method

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:23:40 +0000

[...] The next day they posted a geo-targeted facebook status update for fans in the mid-western states asking if anyone would like to host a house party with them on the available dates. The response was fantastic. Within a week they were able to book 3 more shows. This not only brought them more money for the tour, but it gives them a chance to connect intimately with fans, and to make new fans in an intimate environment (think of how much easier it is for you to say yes to a free party versus saying yes to pay for a show of a band you haven’t heard of before). Article [...]

By: Chris B

Chris B — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:16:41 +0000

Ben
Love this piece of ‘lateral thinking’. The band is co-creating experiences rather than simply delivering ‘the product’. Thats what its all about – experiences. WOW Experiences are what get talked about, twittered, blogged, etc. The impact on the fans that organise these gigs/parties will be amazingly motivating – they will go from fans to evangelists. My bet is that for a marginal cost to the band they will get a lot back. It is difficult to predict what that will be – but as a minimum it will be some ‘casuals’ into fans and some fans into fans for life! I look forward to the blog on what happens…
Chris

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Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:13:17 +0000

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