my response

[Jeremy David]

But then I still wonder, if you're a band, and you're playing in a
venue small enough that you don't need a professional promoter to deal
with the venue owner (Such as Club Cafe, Garfield Artworks, 31st St
Pub, etc.), and you're going to be selling most of the tickets
yourself anyway, and doing most of the advertising yourself, what do
you need a promoter at all for? Why not just do the whole thing
yourself?

On 3/9/06, Matt Condon <arcane93 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Joseph Presley wrote:
> > How would you deal with the logistics? It doesn't sound like a trivial
> > problem to keep track of how many tickets the band sold and to get the
> > money from the band for the tickets they sold.
>
> Fairly simple . . .  Keep track of how many tickets you give the band,
> and expect that you'll get back a combination of money and leftover
> tickets equivalent to that number by the time of the show.  So if you
> give them 20 tickets at $10 each, and they sell 12, you should get $120
> and 8 tickets back.  It can be up to someone in the band to deal with
> organizing how they deal with the tickets amongst the individual band
> members.  Nothing too complicated about that, really.
>
> You could also, in theory, make the tickets that you give each band
> slightly different, so that you can tell immediately when someone uses
> one who they bought it from.  If the amount of money that you've gotten
> from the band isn't at least equivalent to the number of tickets used,
> then obviously there's a problem (I say "at least" because it's possible
> someone might buy a ticket and not show up, but if you're getting more
> tickets back than you've gotten money for, obviously there's an issue).
>
> It's not like you're dealing with a large, unmanageable number of bands
> or tickets here.  Most shows don't have more than three or four bands
> involved at most (many only one or two local bands), and most shows of
> this nature won't draw excessively large numbers of people no matter how
> well you and the bands promote.
>
> Matt
>
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