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I’d avoid some lifts and move towards machines or less weight more reps.

I stopped doing squats, clings, etc cause I started having issues in my back with herniated discs and all of those lifts make that pain worse.

I’m also a little more conscious about warming up a bit and stretching?

For me, trying not to throw up or pass out between sets.

I was also a collegiate athlete, but going through that many lifts that quickly practically guarantees you’re not doing the lifts correctly. You should be fatigued between lifts, and working to failure on set two or three.

Ooo I can answer this one. (I used to work for a large 3 day festival that booked a lot of the artists on the Sonic Temple lineup) I’ve also been to quite a few festivals.

To answer your questions:

- Once they release the map and schedule, you’ll be able to see how many bands he can see. I used to go with at least one, but a max of 3 friends so you can agree on who to see. Realistically, unless we absolutely loved one of the bands, we would stay for maybe 5-7 songs of each set. Headliners would do longer sets to close out. Mid day and earlier in tj day sets will be shorter.
- if he can, try to pick a few stages close together so you can just bounce between a few. There are times at some festivals where I never even visited a stage cause it didn’t have anyone I wanted to see.
- big crowds can make it hard to move around, which is why I had a tendency to stay in the middle to the back of the crowd so I could safely come and go to other stages, but to answer your earlier question about premium passes, if they have viewing areas for specific passes like vip or higher, that alone can make it worth the cost cause you’ll be able to see more and be more comfortable
- I’ve done general admission to festivals and the ultra highest tier of ticket and honestly I do love the premium experience. After 3 days of slogging through a festival, having a special viewing area or a place you can relax for a minute and get some snacks and a drink without waiting in a mile long line is real nice. (But I’m older. When I was younger, I barely noticed the fatigue) I’d also argue you can move around faster and see more music if you’re in less crowded areas like a vip viewing area. Some festivals even have golf cart transport, so you can seen even more stuff.
- I’d stay close to the festival grounds in a hotel, Airbnb, or a friends place. After a few days of standing, it’s nice to have a good shower. I’m not too big on being in a smelly tent for 3 days. My favorite festival experience had us staying at a house a mile or two from the festival grounds and we just rode bikes or scooters to and from, which ended up being a lot of fun actually!
- if you simply want to get him in the doors and he REALLY only cares about two artists or so, he can get a GA ticket and go to the stage early and just stay there till the headliner starts. I’ve done this before too. Then you don’t need all the extra amenities and you’ll be up close for your favorite artists. Just means it would be hard to leave and see other bands once it fills up. If he wants to see a few headliners, then a tip is to get there an artist or two before the headliner cause those stages will fill up when it nears the big headliner.

Sounds like a fun trip!

Said this in a similar thread previously but… hum the Indiana Jones theme song in your head.

Using advantage+ placements when your audience isn’t using messenger or Facebook.

Meta will bleed your budget on boomer wasteland while your audience only uses Instagram.

Your placements will never have a chance.

Hum the Indiana Jones theme song in your head

Both Fatpours will have the Sox game on. So will Woodie’s in old town and Hopsmith off division in Gold Coast.

Working in live music or with talent in any way.

Let’s gooooo Billy!

#4 is hard to agree with. They’re both pretty bad, but on Meta I have to click like 8 times to tell the system to not use Facebook ad placements when I want Instagram. It’s comical how hard they try to use your budget for shit placements. You have to opt out like three times and close a dialog box insisting you try all these other stupid Facebook placements.

You know, the placements that only seem to show up for people aimlessly scrolling in boomer wasteland.

Next year, they’re gonna move it to Hammond cause the park district lady was mean to them!

Anytime Fitness ftw. In my experience, the chicago park district gyms have minimal equipment, so it’s worth the $45-50/month for Anytime.

I actually used to track a bunch of these outlets’ growth in terms of what was public (social followers mostly), and my biggest takeaway after doing it every month for 2 years was that a lot of the formerly powerful sites (pitchfork, altpress, brooklyn vegan) almost had zero growth. (Meme accounts and my own company brand accounts grew, but none of these “traditional” outlets did.

A lot of them lost followers over time.

None of these smaller publications moved quickly enough to adapt to users choosing to spend their free time or “I’m bored” time scrolling algorithmic feeds.

The ones that seemed to still grow and have success were the ones that understood the platforms and adjusted their content accordingly to live elsewhere to continue to demand eyeballs and attention.

The Onion, 23punk, and a few others seemed to get it and grow over time as did many solo creator sites.

Ooo I can answer this one!

I think the chef should make the final decisions, but marketing is helpful in identifying the core customers and what they’re ordering based on the data from the POS and any sort of app/OLO. (Or what campaigns led to increases in foot traffic from the past)

An example in my career would be marketing coming up with a list of possible specials based on the previous year of sales, and any trends we saw in the market.

Our Malört BBQ sauce idea never would have. One from a chef cause it tastes like shit, but people in Chicago were and are still going crazy for anything Malort so we went for it… and had plenty of increase in sales because of it for the month we ran it.

Ranking first for your brand term or company name is as easy as registering and linking your site to search console with an xml sitemap and some basic copy.

Ranking organically for competitive keywords is hard, but it’s not coming one genius behind a keyboard link spamming, or writing blog posts that gets you there.

Organic press hits and link backs comes from getting talked about, organically, on relevant sites, over and over again for years.

Good SEO is about a 50 point checklist. Google used to put out a pdf that told you what to do! (The Google best practices guide or something like that)

They can’t tell you how to become relevant and get other people to talk about you, your product, or your service. It still takes creative people behind a campaign on all channels to rank in search. Creativity is the secret ingredient for all of that. Not someone telling you to try to rank for “cool things to do in my city”

It’s not about one seo guy, and I’m telling you that as someone who has done seo or overseen the seo team at multiple brands in my field that rank at the top in search in competitive industries.

Most people heard about these brands or companies in other ways. They weren’t discovering them in search results. The mouse trap was set elsewhere.

This is so funny to me. SEO as your first skill? That’s insane, and I say this as someone who started with SEO prior to social media being a thing.

Being CREATIVE is the first skill to hone and learn. Then applying that to all those individual channels (SEO, content, email, etc)

Learn how to creatively sell whatever it is you’re putting out there in a way that stops people from scrolling, pulls them into a video, an email blast, or whatever.

I’ve hired and worked with plenty of marketers and the best ones were always creative. Not some fucking seo dork writing content and bullshit blog posts all day.

Be creative and understand the product and then all the other things can come next.

I worked on the marketing side of things, and have mostly worked for hospitality brands, festivals, and ticketed events.

Specifically, I’m sure lots of other people in other industries have experienced similar issues to what I’ll list, but mostly:

- there are only a few companies you can work for “in the business” of live music or sports, so pay isn’t great.
- Hours are long to go with the mediocre pay
- There’s very little opportunity to move around, at least in the US, cause everything is owned by a few companies. Most of the talent buyers in the market NEVER leave those jobs.
- The people running a lot of these “large” (for the music industry at least) companies are terrible people who think they’re geniuses, and really don’t have a clue of what they’re doing. (Venue owners, agents, managers)
- Even if you succeed, the likelihood of seeing your pay go up without leaving a company is low because someone else will be there to take that job for any pay at all. And to my earlier point, it’s hard to move around at all
- in my experience, advancing is rarely merit based and more about things not related to driving business or revenue or exposure to a larger audience (my main function in marketing)

Generally speaking, music is in the late stage capitalism phase where a few people at the top get most of the money, and most of the rest of the people (talent included sometimes), fight over the scraps.

Working in the music business or live events.

Hopsmith Tavern and Fatpour Tap Works locations are showing all the games with sound.

When I first got back into lifting it helped me with the nausea and dizziness. That said, I don’t anymore now that I’ve been working out regularly for a few years now.

This is so fucking dumb. The Buffalo Bills? Seriously?

I hit Delilah’s for at least 2 Bills games every year. So much fun at that spot.

Uhh and what do you think that’s supposed to mean? They aren’t owned by massive corporations.

Concord has a bunch of partners who are not LN or AEG. I happen to know at least one of them cause I used to work for a promoter that books a ton of shows there.

Cobra Lounge is independent. So is Concord and Bottom Lounge.

I guess that’s part of them selling all the brewing stuff. I believe they’re working on some new menu, which leads me to believe they’re adding some seating where the brewery stuff used to be.