Bands/promoters don't have to use Ticketmaster. They will only do so if Ticketmaster offers a proposition that they like, and better than any competitor.
Wrong.
TicketMaster signs long term contracts with venues to be the sole provider of ticketing for all events at that venue. The promoters pick venues based upon the size that they think the performer can draw. Therefore, if the promoter picks a venue that is contracted by TicketMaster the show is forced to use TicketMaster as the ticketing platform. If there is no properly sized venue in a city/region that is not under contract with TicketMaster (there rarely is unless you’re talking about small venues) then the promoter/performer has no choice but to use TicketMaster or not perform in that area. (See: Pearl Jam, early 90s)
And as for the stupidly named “Convenience Fees,” that is pretty much all the money that TicketMaster makes on that sale (minus their credit card fees). Here’s a rough breakdown of who gets what from your TicketMaster purchase:
Ticket Price
This goes to the promoter, sometimes minus a few percent to TicketMaster
Convenience Fee
Ticketmaster's profit
Facility Fee
Mostly goes to the promoter. A small percentage may be retained by TicketMaster
Ticketfast Fee ($2.50)
Pure profit for TicketMaster. Ironically they’ll snail mail your tickets to you for free.
Shipping Charges
They may charge you $15, $19, etc, but their costs are WAY less, on the order of $4-8 per UPS package. The rest is profit for TicketMaster
A few feet up would still qualify as “nearby” wouldn’t it? Thus making my statement still accurate as well as practical.
I suppose if one could flatten the earth or had no limits to how high they could raise their antenna... but I thought the submitter would prefer a practical solution.
As long as you have a decent signal somewhere close enough you can run a cable to such as in your attic, or on your roof I can highly recommend the Wi-Ex YX510 from ZBoost (http://wi-ex.com/YX510.aspx). I have one at home and one at my office and they're great — as long as you have a good signal it can repeat for you.
If you have no good signal nearby then you're either S.O.L. or stuck with a "mini-cell" thingy from your provider.
One misconception is that the artists don't set the ticket prices. The artists themselves even like to claim this when they are confronted about their high ticket prices. The truth is that the artist does set the ticket price because the artist sets their price. The promoter then has to set the ticket prices based upon that fee plus extras such as venue rental, insurance, percentage paid to Ticketmaster, etc.
If artists actually wanted to lower their ticket prices they could lower their fee to appear. Some artists who I won't name (Billy Joel) are on record as saying that ticket brokers are getting extra money that they should be receiving and therefore raise their prices so that they can get that money instead of us ticket brokers. What many artists and people don't realize is that brokers generally only re-sell about 1-5% of all available tickets for any given event. Raising prices to caputure the "extra" money on 1-5% of the tickets causes the other 95% of the people to pay more as well.
They used to actually claim somewhere on their site that the extra charge for TicketFast was to defray the cost of developing the technology to do it. I would guess that somewhere after taking in several thousand times their cost they decded that argument didn't fly anymore and took that line off the site.
I've been to the strip club in Flagstaff and there is no one working there that could be described using the terms "gorgeous ass" or "softest skin you have EVER seen."
A more accurate description would involve the terms "least hairy of the three," "heavily pimpled" or "only slightly heavier than a linebacker."
One reason to use the toolbar is to have everyone you know install it and surf your site, thus sending back info to Google that people visit your site. Also have those same people search on your keywords and then click through to your site.
At my company, a ticket broker, we're pretty much music oriented since a lot of our business is concert tickets. I hooked our phone system up to a Mac and use mpegToaster to play from my MP3 collection. The cool thing about mpegToaster is that it can use iTunes playlists, so I went through the collection picking a good mix of stuff, making sure none of it would have "offensive" language, and made an "On Hold" playlist.
The playlist has a good mix of jazz, blues, rock, country, etc. Many times I've had people tell me that we have the coolest hold music ever. One customer once told me he'd never heard Alice Cooper on anyone's hold music before.
Note, we do pay our BMI/ASCAP tithing and I puposely avoided adding any of those "Your call is very important to us..." interruptions because they just make the wait seem longer.
We use TasksPro to manage our to-do and tasks. There are different versions depending on what you need including a free [beer] version and an inexpensive version for single users. The "full" version is multi-user capable and allows you to assign items to people and groups or keep them private.
If the ThinkSecret renderings are true then yet again Apple, who loves to promote using dual displays, has failed to produce a monitor with an acceptably thin bezel. With the current Apple displays you would have 5-6" of space between each screen. Looking at the renderings it appears you'd still have 2"+ between screens.
For Christ's sake, the Powerbook has ~1/8" bezel, why can't a desktop monitor?
Although it isn't the cheapest solution out there the Xserve Raid can store a lot, is expandable and is hot swappable.
That said, you might want to reconsider saving all of those old TV shows. How often do you actually go back and watch them again? I was amassing a nice DVD collection until I realized that 90% of them I have never watched more than once.
Don't just plan on web advertising revenue. Think of other creative ways to make some dough. We have been pretty successful with the Amazon Affiliate program. We even added some stuff to Slashcode that allows the authors to very easily link to Amazon products in the stories. Some of the readers don't like it, but you could denote those links with an icon or something. Most of our readers are tolerant and understand that we need to make some money. Most months our Amazon income beats or banner ad income.
Another thing that worked well for us was a biweekly or monthly book/product list that we worked into the left column of the site. Also, work directly with related companies to advertise their product for either a monthly fee or product donations.
All that said, unless you plan to be really big, don't plan on actually making any profit. At MacSlash we're happy that the site makes enough for us to go to a convention or two each year.
As a business owner who currently has a new building under construction allow me to point out that sometimes "cube farms" are the only option. In the amount of square feet that I was able to afford I need to fit a certain amount of people. My choices were:
Enough cubes to fit everyone
Everyone get offices but we can have less employees than we need
A cheaper office in a crappy location
I hate to go against the grain here, especially because I used to be a cube-dwelling programmer at my old job, but sometimes cubes are the best option for an employer.
That said, I did reserve an office for my programmer.:)
Timecode was filmed 2 years earlier and was done in one take with four cameras simultaneously. The whole movie goes strainght through with each camera taking up a quadrant of your screen. Not the greatest movie, but interesting nonetheless.
Yeah, but as Pudge says, You can't grep a dead tree.
Honestly, I prefer to have documentation in PDF. Being able to open the 833 page MySQL manual in PDF format and search for INNER JOIN is a lot easier than grabbing the (heavy) printed manual, looking up INNER JOIN in the index and then checking every page to see if it is what you're looking for.
Ah, yes, what a wonderful idea; let each and every program have its own DLLs, at the mere cost of rendering the whole DLL system totally useless.
What about each program having a property list of compatible versions of the required DLLs and automatically using the newest one available. Then, the system could check to see if there are any "unneeded" DLLs, which could be defined as previous versions that don't have any programs listing that version as the most recent version it can use.
What I want to know is "If the TiVo engineers had this in mind why does the Series2 only have USB and not a 10/100/1000 ethernet card?" Does the slower transfer speed (of 10 megbits over a USB->Ethernet setup) help prevent them from pissing off the RIAA/MPAA too much?
I've been wondering about how heat would affect something like this. Here in Arizona the inside of the car can easily reach 140 degrees Farenheit. I don't know of any HD that has an operating temperature that high. Also, what about the somewhat rapid cooling once one gets in and blasts the AC? Could the heat, or the hot/cold swing, warp the platters or something?
I agree. I used to work at Motorola, where a similar policy is in place, and they cannot seem to get enough Microsoft products there.
Some people even pointed out to upper management that this policy conflicted with the ever-quickening Microsoftening of the company but they were told that it basically didn't matter.
Many people have been yelling to put more Linux and Mac OS in place but IT doesn't listen. Last year someone finally convinced their boss to takea chance on a Linux mail server and the guy was highly recognized as if he had come up with some sort of idea that no one ever had before.
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Bands/promoters don't have to use Ticketmaster. They will only do so if Ticketmaster offers a proposition that they like, and better than any competitor.
Wrong. TicketMaster signs long term contracts with venues to be the sole provider of ticketing for all events at that venue. The promoters pick venues based upon the size that they think the performer can draw. Therefore, if the promoter picks a venue that is contracted by TicketMaster the show is forced to use TicketMaster as the ticketing platform. If there is no properly sized venue in a city/region that is not under contract with TicketMaster (there rarely is unless you’re talking about small venues) then the promoter/performer has no choice but to use TicketMaster or not perform in that area. (See: Pearl Jam, early 90s) And as for the stupidly named “Convenience Fees,” that is pretty much all the money that TicketMaster makes on that sale (minus their credit card fees). Here’s a rough breakdown of who gets what from your TicketMaster purchase:
Ticket Price This goes to the promoter, sometimes minus a few percent to TicketMaster Convenience Fee Ticketmaster's profit Facility Fee Mostly goes to the promoter. A small percentage may be retained by TicketMaster Ticketfast Fee ($2.50) Pure profit for TicketMaster. Ironically they’ll snail mail your tickets to you for free. Shipping Charges They may charge you $15, $19, etc, but their costs are WAY less, on the order of $4-8 per UPS package. The rest is profit for TicketMasterJ Cobb
Owner, Team One Tickets & Sports Tours, Inc.
I suppose if one could flatten the earth or had no limits to how high they could raise their antenna... but I thought the submitter would prefer a practical solution.
As long as you have a decent signal somewhere close enough you can run a cable to such as in your attic, or on your roof I can highly recommend the Wi-Ex YX510 from ZBoost (http://wi-ex.com/YX510.aspx). I have one at home and one at my office and they're great — as long as you have a good signal it can repeat for you. If you have no good signal nearby then you're either S.O.L. or stuck with a "mini-cell" thingy from your provider.
One misconception is that the artists don't set the ticket prices. The artists themselves even like to claim this when they are confronted about their high ticket prices. The truth is that the artist does set the ticket price because the artist sets their price. The promoter then has to set the ticket prices based upon that fee plus extras such as venue rental, insurance, percentage paid to Ticketmaster, etc.
If artists actually wanted to lower their ticket prices they could lower their fee to appear. Some artists who I won't name (Billy Joel) are on record as saying that ticket brokers are getting extra money that they should be receiving and therefore raise their prices so that they can get that money instead of us ticket brokers. What many artists and people don't realize is that brokers generally only re-sell about 1-5% of all available tickets for any given event. Raising prices to caputure the "extra" money on 1-5% of the tickets causes the other 95% of the people to pay more as well.
They used to actually claim somewhere on their site that the extra charge for TicketFast was to defray the cost of developing the technology to do it. I would guess that somewhere after taking in several thousand times their cost they decded that argument didn't fly anymore and took that line off the site.
A more accurate description would involve the terms "least hairy of the three," "heavily pimpled" or "only slightly heavier than a linebacker."
One reason to use the toolbar is to have everyone you know install it and surf your site, thus sending back info to Google that people visit your site. Also have those same people search on your keywords and then click through to your site.
The top results for "Tiger" should be furry creatures that eat performers and meet in Las Vegas.
Nor did he know they are off 8 hours and 1 minute either.
I don't want you to sign it. I want the guy who draws Bluntman and Chronic to sign it.
The playlist has a good mix of jazz, blues, rock, country, etc. Many times I've had people tell me that we have the coolest hold music ever. One customer once told me he'd never heard Alice Cooper on anyone's hold music before.
Note, we do pay our BMI/ASCAP tithing and I puposely avoided adding any of those "Your call is very important to us..." interruptions because they just make the wait seem longer.
We use TasksPro to manage our to-do and tasks. There are different versions depending on what you need including a free [beer] version and an inexpensive version for single users. The "full" version is multi-user capable and allows you to assign items to people and groups or keep them private.
If the ThinkSecret renderings are true then yet again Apple, who loves to promote using dual displays, has failed to produce a monitor with an acceptably thin bezel. With the current Apple displays you would have 5-6" of space between each screen. Looking at the renderings it appears you'd still have 2"+ between screens.
For Christ's sake, the Powerbook has ~1/8" bezel, why can't a desktop monitor?
That said, you might want to reconsider saving all of those old TV shows. How often do you actually go back and watch them again? I was amassing a nice DVD collection until I realized that 90% of them I have never watched more than once.
Don't just plan on web advertising revenue. Think of other creative ways to make some dough. We have been pretty successful with the Amazon Affiliate program. We even added some stuff to Slashcode that allows the authors to very easily link to Amazon products in the stories. Some of the readers don't like it, but you could denote those links with an icon or something. Most of our readers are tolerant and understand that we need to make some money. Most months our Amazon income beats or banner ad income.
Another thing that worked well for us was a biweekly or monthly book/product list that we worked into the left column of the site. Also, work directly with related companies to advertise their product for either a monthly fee or product donations.
All that said, unless you plan to be really big, don't plan on actually making any profit. At MacSlash we're happy that the site makes enough for us to go to a convention or two each year.
As a business owner who currently has a new building under construction allow me to point out that sometimes "cube farms" are the only option. In the amount of square feet that I was able to afford I need to fit a certain amount of people. My choices were:
I hate to go against the grain here, especially because I used to be a cube-dwelling programmer at my old job, but sometimes cubes are the best option for an employer.
That said, I did reserve an office for my programmer. :)
Should work just fine. The product currently using "VCR" has been declared obsolete anyways.
Timecode was filmed 2 years earlier and was done in one take with four cameras simultaneously. The whole movie goes strainght through with each camera taking up a quadrant of your screen. Not the greatest movie, but interesting nonetheless.
You might want to check out the Show Divs bookmarklet.
Doesn't work so well on an airplane. :)
Yeah, but as Pudge says, You can't grep a dead tree.
Honestly, I prefer to have documentation in PDF. Being able to open the 833 page MySQL manual in PDF format and search for INNER JOIN is a lot easier than grabbing the (heavy) printed manual, looking up INNER JOIN in the index and then checking every page to see if it is what you're looking for.
Ah, yes, what a wonderful idea; let each and every program have its own DLLs, at the mere cost of rendering the whole DLL system totally useless.
What about each program having a property list of compatible versions of the required DLLs and automatically using the newest one available. Then, the system could check to see if there are any "unneeded" DLLs, which could be defined as previous versions that don't have any programs listing that version as the most recent version it can use.
What I want to know is "If the TiVo engineers had this in mind why does the Series2 only have USB and not a 10/100/1000 ethernet card?" Does the slower transfer speed (of 10 megbits over a USB->Ethernet setup) help prevent them from pissing off the RIAA/MPAA too much?
I've been wondering about how heat would affect something like this. Here in Arizona the inside of the car can easily reach 140 degrees Farenheit. I don't know of any HD that has an operating temperature that high. Also, what about the somewhat rapid cooling once one gets in and blasts the AC? Could the heat, or the hot/cold swing, warp the platters or something?
Some people even pointed out to upper management that this policy conflicted with the ever-quickening Microsoftening of the company but they were told that it basically didn't matter.
Many people have been yelling to put more Linux and Mac OS in place but IT doesn't listen. Last year someone finally convinced their boss to takea chance on a Linux mail server and the guy was highly recognized as if he had come up with some sort of idea that no one ever had before.
Note that I said I used to work there. :)