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Frontera Fest 2011: Best of the Best "Short Fringe"
Austin’s Frontera Fest 2011 celebrates 18 years of regaling, moving, and thrilling audiences with original and amazing performances by both local and nationally known artists. The five week production ends this week with the best of the best of their Long Fringes, complete performances of approximately 90 minutes, and Short Fringes, a selection of five 25-minute original pieces. It’s fantastic and should be on everyone’s list of things to do each year, but due to limited seat...
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Oh, what to tweet about on Twitter!
In February, Twitter eclipsed the 50 million tweets-per-day-mark or a mind-numbing 600 tweets per second. Facebook’s even higher at 700 posts per second. For those on the receiving end, that’s a lot of network noise to filter through to find value. On the flip side, the job of reaching folks is even harder when you are on the disseminating end. “Turn invitations into gifts. Each invitation sent by your members should have an immediate value attached in the payload of the mes...
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Creative Ideas to Drive Ticket Sales
A few years ago I attended a BoDeans concert at Threadgills in 105 degree heat at 9:00 at night. It was stiflingly hot, and I imagined that if I’d known the weather in advance, I might not have bought the tickets. Weather is one prominent factor affecting event attendance for both indoor and outdoor venues. Understanding the factors that impact ticket sales is vitally important to a successful event. An organization that effectively analyzed its own ticket sales data, the Cleveland Indi...
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