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HINTS TO VENUE OWNERS ABOUT RUNNING A COMEDY SHOW
| Posted on May 3, 2014 at 1:51 PM |
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COMEDY
DOJO'S HELPFUL HINTS TO YOU THE VENUE OWNER ABOUT RUNNING A COMEDY
SHOW. PROMOTE *Promotions
by YOU are very important. You have foot traffic in your venue, you
need to promote well ahead of time and consistently to those
customers. Part of that promotions should be informing your staff
exactly what is going on and make sure they retain or know where to
get details on said show. You'd be surprised how a well informed
staff can help sell a show or if ill informed they can stop it in
it's tracks. Staff
members that answer a question about the show from a customer with a
“I don't know anything about it”. KILLS momentum and makes the
customer feel as if you do not care about it. If you don't, why
should they? Make
sure info about the show is near your phones so that they can easily
be recited to a caller. Details
such as time of show, admission charge and how long the show will be.
If your comics have a major credit or two it would be a good thing to
have that info handy as well. Trust me all of this SELLS the show and
it's in YOUR hands to see that it gets done. **MAKE CERTAIN
SHOW IS LISTED ON ALL OF YOUR ONLINE WEBSITES, FACEBOOK, ...remember
this is show BUSINESS etc. TEMPORARY
CHANGES TO YOUR VENUE *If you have a
venue that has TV's. For god sakes turn them off during the show. If
a TV is running it is a CLEAR message to your audience, your staff
and professional comics that YOU do not care about the show. THIS IS
A HUGE NEGATIVE. AUDIENCE
CONTROL I
know many times you have regular customers and you don't want to
be rude but don't allow them to be rude to your special event. Asking
them to use inside voices or to not heckle is NOT rude. Allowing them
to talk in a loud way IS rude to comedy customers and comics. Your
regular customers that disregard this can keep you from gaining far
more regular customers by building a strong comedy base. Stand up
comedy does have an audience but they expect a decent environment in
order to enjoy it. If they don't get it they don't come back and then
you blame the comics for not drawing a crowd. Get the problem? It's
an easy fix...see the paragraph above. :) ____________________________________________________________ STAGE
EQUIPMENT Proper
lighting, staging and GREAT sound is paramount to having stand up
comedy. If you cannot supply these simple tools perhaps you should
look at getting something temporary in to run the show with. A stand
up comedy special event is an investment, it pays dividends long
after the event. Again don't
blame the talent if they cannot be seen or heard by your audience. If
they can't hear it IT AIN'T FUNNY! That's on you not the comics. ~ These are just a few hints. I have more if you'd like to contact me. This is
not to insult or jab at club owners but to assist you in running a
successful comedy night. Comics feel free to print this out and give
to prospective venues. Info
from www.chilichallis.com ------------ *If
you find the comedy tips helpful and would like to contribute some
funds to aid in giving scholarships to the Comedy Dojo workshop and
to continue this FREE information you can use the donate to the dojo
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