ChipMusic.org - Getting people to your shows

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T15:52:49Z

Yeah, PLainFlavored, that quite works, we did it a lot in our parties, but nowadays we deem it a bit sexist and try not to.

In any case, getting people in for free until a certain time will assure at least a bunch of people making teh base of the party. People who go to a place at a certain time and see it empty, don't want to get in.

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T05:50:07Z

little-scale: YES

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T05:20:12Z

One of the more interesting methods of promotion I've seen recently is making compilation CDRs (which feature music by the artists performing at the given show) to hand out, or to leave at local record stores as freebies. It might take a little bit of time to burn a hundred or so discs, but in the end doesn't really end up costing that much. Even if the person who picks up the disc doesn't end up at the show, both the artists appearing on the comp and the scene as a whole get exposure.

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T05:04:14Z

HAHA I love what this thread has become!

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T05:01:32Z

/me buys a plane tkt to Rawstralia

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T04:51:23Z

Actually... One of the venues we want to use, and have always wanted to use has a *ahem* "Male review show" one night a week.

That will get us the chicks and then the chicks will get us the guys! Everyone wins!

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T04:47:32Z

I think the obvious answer is: hold all chip shows in strip clubs from now on.

TBH I don't think I have ever been swayed by that sort of age-old marketing tool to purchase a product or go to an event - it's always been the quality of the product / event, and what other people have said about it.

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T04:40:37Z

I hoped you didn't mean it in that way, but still, it sends a weird message.

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T04:34:29Z

Didn't mean to send the wrong message or offend anyone. Of course this is not the sort of event you were trying to promote, and of course I am not trying to objectify women here.

DUDE'S NIGHT @ SOUNDBYTES WOO

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T04:33:55Z

George wrote:

OK, I'll stfu and gb2 being an age-old marketing tool.

Touche.

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T04:26:37Z

PlainFlavored wrote:

Good-looking girls are an age-old marketing tool. Letting ladies in free/at a discount really helps, having girls market your gig helps, anything without a Y chromosome helps.

I'm feeling slightly insulted here : as a woman who has been working or has been involved in fields where women are outnumbered 10:1 by men ( literature, computers, and now putting up chip music shows it seems...) I know that being a "good-looking girl" has helped. It helps standing out, getting noticed. But then, you have to work your ass off, be more intelligent and efficient than anybody else to not be just that : a good-looking girl.

OK, I'll stfu and gb2 being an age-old marketing tool.

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T04:11:37Z

Personally (maybe bc I don't have that Y chromosome) don't agree on the hot chicks as a marketing tool thing, at least not in this circumstance. It takes a long time to build up the reputation that "oh yeah man, that party always has hot chicks there" and you can't exactly advertise your show as where the beautiful people hang out. If you were doing a weekly show, then maybe it would work as you could build up that kind of rep in a shorter time, you need consistency for that rep tho.

I guess I'm (we're) not putting on parties for people to pick up, or drool over the opposite sex, I just want people to come and enjoy the music.... otherwise we'd put on R&B nights

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-17T00:42:46Z

Good-looking girls are an age-old marketing tool. Letting ladies in free/at a discount really helps, having girls market your gig helps, anything without a Y chromosome helps.

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-15T22:26:36Z

akira^8GB wrote:

J&HT wrote:
Next gig is with Superpowerless though, which I'm not looking forward to... how the fuck am I meant to promote that?
I have a very good idea.
You say that you are gonna kill those stupid fucks, organize a public lynching.
That surely will attract attention xD

Aha.
Kill the headliners as an opening act, thanks for the advice. Could probably make a better video out of it too

Sabrepulse wrote:

J&HT wrote:
Next gig is with Superpowerless though, which I'm not looking forward to... how the fuck am I meant to promote that? In two minds whether to just play a load of Atari headfuck shit and NL 2.3 FM jams or just make a load of unce tracks in a month, ha.
Kill it with gabba

180bpm gabba it is, w/ or w/out BRK?

Re: Getting people to your shows

2010-01-15T20:59:05Z

J&HT wrote:

Next gig is with Superpowerless though, which I'm not looking forward to... how the fuck am I meant to promote that?

I have a very good idea.
You say that you are gonna kill those stupid fucks, organize a public lynching.
That surely will attract attention xD