Posts Tagged ‘price gouging’
Live Music Needs A Tuneup To Entice The Audiences Of Tomorrow
This post originally appeared on Fast Company. Everybody, it seems, has a concert story. Whether it’s your mud-drenched weekend at Woodstock, camping out all night for Springsteen tickets, or being hypnotized by Skrillex’s beats, you’ve probably got a story too. The concert industry, though, has changed over the last 10 or 15 years because now [...]
What Do You Mean, Price Gouging?
If your plane crashed in the desert and after days of struggling across the blazing sands, you were thirsty, and if you finally bumped into a person with a supply of cold water, and that person told you that each bottle was $1000, you’d probably evaluate your choices in the matter as pay the $1000 [...]
Hear Me Now, Listen Later: Price Has Nothing to Do With Cost
Michael Kaiser, smart guy and big chief of the Kennedy Center, wrote an article in the Huffington Post a few days ago that reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to say on here for a while. There’s a lot of good stuff in it, but here’s the part I want to focus on: “The [...]
Audience-Oriented, It’s What’s For Dinner
A couple weeks ago, Trevor O’Donnell passed along an interesting tidbit from The Artful Manager blog. The tidbit that caught my eye was this: “Arts and cultural experiences are among the most personal and complex goods on offer. It might be time to embrace an upside-down view of the marketplace that begins with the person [...]
The Nutcracker is Bad for Ballet like Easter is Bad for Churches
I should start by saying that there’s no way you can consider me objective when it comes to the topic of The Nutcracker. I’m the CEO of a company that gives an award each year called The Nutty to the performance around the country that our members like the most. But there’s a reason we [...]
Awaiting the Great Pumpkin, er, Great Performance
Washington Post writer Anne Midgette set off a very interesting discussion with her column about orchestra conductors and their value as business speakers. Here’s a key tidbit: “…to hold up orchestras, and their relationship with conductors, as a business model is to subscribe to an idealized view of classical music as a happy sphere of [...]
How to Ruin a Good Thing
It’s very simple. Stop thinking about how it’s going to be perceived by your customer/patron/audience member. I’m attaching an extremely blurry picture, which you can blame on my less than expert photography, but don’t worry. I’ll explain: Allow me to explain. I was in line at a well-known southern California supermarket this weekend when I [...]
Play Like a (Detroit) Tiger
I know I’ve been talking about sports a lot lately, but rest assured it’s because I think these issues cut across all genres of live entertainment. If you’re a theatre, performing arts or classical music person, it would be a big, big mistake to ignore what happens in sports marketing because everything you do, they [...]
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