You're paying to reach strangersWhen your best customers are already in the system.

Most comedy venues have ten years of ticket data, and a mailing list they use like a noticeboard.

Let's put bums in seats

The room is booked.
The acts are booked.
The seats aren't.

Tuesday's lineup was strong. The room wasn't.

You booked well, you promoted it, and you still played to forty empty seats. Nothing about the booking explains it.

You're advertising to people who've already paid you.

The spend goes out to a postcode. A good share of who it reaches is already in your own database, so you paid twice to reach them.

The name sells the tickets. Not the room.

A face off the telly and you're full. No face and you're not. Every month starts over, and the venue never becomes the reason anyone came.

A lineup might sell a night.

But an email list sells the year.

Your rival isn't the club across town.

It's a sofa.

Every seat you don't sell goes to something with no booking fee, no parking, and a pause button.

A strong bill wins that fight for one night. A list wins it on the nights you haven't got one.

Because it changes what the audience is loyal to.

They come because it's your room on a Friday, not because they recognised a name on the poster. Which means a Tuesday with three unknowns still sells.

The problem isn't your list. It's what they get sent.

Most clubs already run an email list. Every Thursday they send a what's-on email, and it goes to everyone, whether they were there last night or last came to the venue three years ago.

It reaches the people who had already decided they were going out. A lovely way to take credit for a ticket that was selling anyway.

Comedy clubs can do far better than this, and everything they need is already in the system.

The tool is not the skill.

A sound engineer and a lighting designer work the same room off the same desk, and you wouldn't ask one to do the other's job.

Knowing what to send, when, and to who is what puts bums in seats.

Getting it right means midweek carries its own weight. Then the room gets a personality, and the personality sells the tickets.

Imagine your club with

Punters loyal to the room
Data that shifts tickets, and a reputation that pulls acts
Less midweek pressure
Bar spend to match

You’ll be laughing. Soon.

First, let’s chat.

We'll look at what your current list is doing, your occupancy right now, and together, figure out what the empty seats are really worth.

You’ll go away knowing:

If and where your ticket data is telling you something
What extra seats are worth to you every night, across a year
Whether a newsletter is actually worth it for your venue, or not

"This is the most value I’ve gotten from any email session. I’ve followed courses and webinars from the ‘gurus’ before, but this is the only time I’ve spoken to someone and come away with something actionable."

Robin Steyvers
Audience Manager
Let’s put bums in seats

No hard pitch here, promise.