Here I recap my little vaca to Vegas! Pretty much discussing how the club promoting game is the same no matter where you go. The sub-promoters there and street team guys hand out passes to various nightclubs that are usually marked with a number that signify the street team member it came from. This is how they get compensated.
Most of the passes/flyers they handed out were discount admission for guys and free admission for females. They also typically had a cut off time for when the passes would expire.
Another good point concerning street team/sub-promoters was brought up in our forum. It was in respect to how your street team should dress and act when they’re out in the streets working. They should dress comfortably yet decent enough to not intimidate people they approach. A good outfit suggestion would be a t-shirt with your company logo on it, jeans, and clean sneakers…but it’s all up to you.
Also, make sure they are well informed about the details of your event and not just handing out flyers. If someone asks them about the party they need to know the general details such as location, time, theme, and where to get more info.
Answering a forum question from member Napoleon. Said his clientele has dropped in light of the recession and wanted to know what he can do to make up for the loss.
I suggested that he caters more to the customer and do special promotions that are sensitive to their pockets.
Some examples are doing free entry and free drink promotions for a finite amount of time to get customers in the doors. I’ve also heard of promoters offer free valet parking. Just brainstorm on it and get creative.
The goal is for people to choose your party over all the others…and every little incentive helps with them making this decision.
Blog Summary:
I visited Miami to check up on the club scene and to catch up with an old promoter friend of mine. He was a security guard at the club I used to own.
Back then he was interested in getting into promoting so he started working with my street team passing out flyers. From there he became a sub-promoter, getting paid based on how many people came out to the club due to his efforts. He did extremely well with that and started promoting parties himself as the head promoter. He later moved from Atlanta back to Miami (where he was from) and got a Friday night at a hot club in downtown Miami!
His night brings in over 1000+ customers consistently now!
This is a story that should encourage anyone that they can start from the bottom and work their way up to being a successful full time promoter!
He went from making $15/hr doing security to Thousands of dollars a week with his night!!
Teaching you how to throw a party the right way!
Blog by Trent Dunn
Summary:
There are various avenues you can take in the promotional game when you’re a promoter. You can be a primary promoter, a sub-promoter, an in-house club promoter or promotional manager, an event planner, etc.
In this video I talk about how I teach you what you need to know to be a primary promoter and take that blanket of knowledge to take any of the other avenues that you choose.
Blog Summery:
Defining the difference between an artist or celeb hosting, doing a walk through, appearances, and performances. Pricing and details vary depending on the celebrity.
Basically put, hosting, appearance, and walkthrough are one in the same. Contractually a walkthrough means that the celeb will come to your party for at least an hour and you have the right to use their name and likeness to promote your party. Hosting doesn’t necessarily mean that they’ll be on the mic all night unless specified in your contract. They might get on the mic to speak to your crowd, but it shouldn’t be expected.
A performances is just that. You pay a considerable amount more to have them do some songs. The details of a performance should be spelled out in your contract.
Blog Summary:
It’s a good idea to get event insurance if you have a lot of money invested in your event. Things you don’t have control over might be able to get covered in your policy so you don’t go belly up in case of an act of God. Trent D.
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Answering a question from my forum about how promoters afford to give limo service to people that book bday parties at their club. Basically promoters just provide this service for the person that submits the biggest guest list or either they’ll get a limo company to sponsor their services in exchange for advertising and promotion.
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Here I discuss a basic way for you to use a liquor sponsor when throwing your next party. Doesn’t involve the liquor sponsor giving you a ton of money but you can get other incentives to help your party promotion. By this I mean complimentary drinks, t-shirts, hats, key chains, etc. You get in contact with liquor reps by talking to the club manager or bar manager and asking them who there liquor and distributor reps are and finding out if they have any brands they’re currently doing promotions for. This is very typical when a club brings in a new product or when they make an order for a product that is well supported by it’s manufacturer.
http://www.partypromoting.com - Some words of advice if you’re looking to throw an unofficial pre party or after party for an event that may be going on in your city. Blog by Trent Dunn - Learn to throw a party the right way!
Blog Summary:
You can throw an unofficial afterparty for any event in your area…just be careful about how you brand it and market it to your public. You can be creative about how you name your party and make it understood that it’s an afterparty for the event and not necessarily say that’s it’s official.
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Blog Summary:
Answering a question from the forum about why nightclub owners need party promoters to throw parties instead of promoting it themselves internally.
In-house club promoting is common. There are a few reasons they don’t always do this.
1. It cost the club a lot of extra money to promote every night internally
2. It takes time and a whole lot of effort to set up a promotion and follow through with it from week to week for multiple nights
3. Using a variety of promoters allows the club to expand their clientele base beyond the people they normally get.
Clubs sometimes do in-house promos for their big nights like Fri & Sat so they can keep all the door revenue to themselves. But you’ll find that they’re more than willing to give the other weekday nights out to promoters.