Thursday, 8 October 2009

Junction - Thursday 9th October




Today we visited the junction again. This time we had a session where we learnt about the marketing within the junction and how they operate. 

Here are some general notes from the meeting at the junction : 

What is marketing? 

Marketing is basically telling the right people about the right things at the right time = Profit 

General notes : 

- Really busy job 
- Only have 2 days in the year with nothing on (xmas period holiday etc) (bank holidays) 
- Each event is marketed differently 
- All companies / venues work together (corn exchange, arts theater etc)   
- Xmas time is the hardest time of the year 
- One off events such as (dance workshops with a dance performance and arts events) 
- Main target audience (13 - 30) 
- Convince the people to buy things they don't need! 
- Research is KEY to the success of selling the tickets! 


What the job actually involves: 

- Emails to EVERYONE about what is happening that month (staff etc) 
- Take from emails what information they need for the promotional items for the events etc 
- Type up information for brochure then send to designers ready for print 
- Tell box office to sell the event 
- Must not put tickets on sale too early or too late!
- Tickets on website (same as above) 
- Work out how many posters etc are needed for the event 
- Work out who to contact about event / promotion (Band members / artist etc) 
- Sort out local press / extra promo stuff 
-  Check everything after sale (ticket sale numbers and work out what to do next month) 

Job (order of work) 

- Put everything onto the website 
- Put info on other websites such as twitter, face book, and myspace 
- Print posters (promo material) 
- Start on brochure for next season 
- Email with all information about what events are coming up 
- Monitor ticket sales 
- Improve ticket sales / events for next month = make more profit 


Evaluation of the day 

Todays visit helped me to understand how an industry / music venue works both inside and out, this has also helped me to understand what it is i could do for my music video in means of promotion / music CD cover etc in order t attract the correct audience towards the artists music (Alison's music)   

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