{"id":10025,"date":"2014-08-11T06:41:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:50:23","slug":"good-seats-are-still-available-tells-me-the-show-isnt-selling-is-that-the-message-you-want-the-fans-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/good-seats-are-still-available-tells-me-the-show-isnt-selling-is-that-the-message-you-want-the-fans-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Good Seats Are Still Available&quot; Tells Me the Show Isn&#039;t Selling. Is That the Message You Want the Fans to Hear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SP_335891_FOUN_RAYS_14_11261189_8col.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SP_335891_FOUN_RAYS_14_11261189_8col.jpg\" alt=\"Good seats still available\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How many of you have seen a post by a a band like this\u2026 \u201cGood seats are still available for our show this weekend!\u201d I just saw a band post this a few days ago and it got me thinking\u2026 is that really the best thing to say? I\u2019m not telling you to not promote your shows, but maybe you should think about the message you are giving. Why? Because as a fan what I hear when you say that is, the show isn\u2019t selling and plenty of seats are left. Plenty of great seats. Maybe try rewording to something like this, \u201cWe just got word from the promoter that some great seats that were on hold have just been released for our show this weekend!\u201d See the difference? Fans still see great seats available, but you presented a reason for them being available that doesn\u2019t sound like tickets aren\u2019t selling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you have seen a post by a a band like this\u2026 \u201cGood seats are still available for our show this weekend!\u201d I just saw a band post this a few days ago and it got me thinking\u2026 is that really the best thing to say? I\u2019m not telling you to not promote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2436,1150,2362,2324,1011],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-marketing-2","tag-marketing-consultant","tag-music-makreting","tag-music-marketing-consultant","tag-promoting-your-next-show","tag-show-promotion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11261,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions\/11261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}