EP #5: Mindset Matters. How to Change Your Thinking to Succeed
Afton Shows Podcast
You matter, your music matters, and we see too many local artists selling themselves short! Local musicians are the ground floor of our entire Music Industry, but many major players in our Industry minimize how important local musicians really are. Your mindset is everything. As musicians, sometimes we let self doubt, negative thinking, and excuses get in the way of our success! Today, Ryan Kintz and Carl Sundberg talk about how powerful changing our mindset can be when promoting our music.
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EP #4: Why Isn't Anyone Talking About THIS?
Afton Shows Podcast
Nobody is talking about selling tickets or how to sell tickets. Why? Ryan and Carl will get into this question in this week's episode. We'll also cover why ticket sales are crucial to your music career and how to get your fans to stop procrastinating and buy advance tickets! Why does it help you so much when fans buy tickets? Why do you benefit when you learn how to sell a lot of tickets? Why does our industry shy away from talking about ticket sales? The "Ticket Selling Guys" have some ideas.
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EP #3: Sell More Tickets with Instagram, Local Press, Video and FOMO
Afton Shows Podcast
In Part 3 of the Afton Shows Podcast, Ryan and Carl cover more tips including how to use Instagram, Local Press and Video to Grow Your Fanbase and Sell More Tickets for your next show! We'll also discuss a new buzz word you may have heard: FOMO...or Fear of Missing Out. What does this mean and how can that help you sell tickets? Listen in to find out. Best part of all of these tips...none of them cost you a single dollar!
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EP #2: Using Social Media to Maximize Ticket Sales
Afton Shows Podcast
Part 2 of Ticket Selling Tips. Ryan and Carl focuses on how to maximize social media to actually sell tickets. How do you compete on social media for your fans' attention when 1,000's of companies are spending millions in advertising? How to use Facebook events the right way. Turning the "maybe's" and "no's" into ticket sales. How to game the social media algorithms so your posts are seen by more people. Making flyers and posters turn into ticket sales. What you're doing wrong on Twitter and more!
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EP #1: How to Skyrocket Your Fanbase
Afton Shows Podcast
Our first podcast episode! Afton Founder Ryan Kintz is joined by Media Manager Carl Sundberg and explains how and why Afton was created and what we've learned after booking 200,000 local acts, national tours, 14,000 shows in the U.S. and Canada, and working with over 800 music venues. In this episode we talk about how to skyrocket your fanbase and how to easily sell more tickets. These tips are helping thousands of Afton artists sell more tickets and draw more fans than they ever thought possible.
info_outlineOur first podcast episode! Afton Founder Ryan Kintz is joined by Media Manager Carl Sundberg and explains how and why Afton was created and what we've learned after booking 200,000 local acts, national tours, 14,000 shows in the U.S. and Canada, and working with over 800 music venues.
In the first episode, we talk about how to skyrocket your fanbase and how to easily sell more tickets. We discus how to focus on the people you already know, your personal network, and how to grow your fan base from there.
Tactics include:
Tell a friend - how to sell tickets in pairs or sets.
Divide and conquer - setting promotion goals for each group member and splitting up ticket sales.
These tips are helping thousands of Afton artists sell more tickets and draw more fans than they ever thought possible.