How to Organize a Battle of Bands CompetitionIn Feburary 2016 24,

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Talk to fellow musicians, put flyers up on music store community boards, and list an ad in the paper. Attend other battles of the bands to size up your potential audience, get feedback ,and ascertain possible number of attendees.
Determine what kind of battle of the bands you want to have, including genre and any age limitations. Come up with a theme or a purpose.
Decide if profits from ticket sales are given to charity, or if they are used to offset operating expenses. You may need seed money in advance to front contracts or reservations. Track and recoup your costs before identifying profits.
Book the location of the venue and apply for any permits you may need. Enlist the services of a sound man/light man based upon the size of the venue.
If food is offered, hire a caterer or food services group. Include clean-up as part of its contract.
Two Months in Advance
If it is a charity event, ask others to support the cause by making donations. Obtain prizes and include them in your advertising. Provide receipts to any participant that gives you a donation so that he can use it as a tax deduction. Record everything received, and send thank-you notes for the donations.
Collect the names of those bands that intend to participate as quickly as possible as this helps you outline a schedule. Get both mailing addresses and email addresses. Give each band tickets to pre-sell, and keep track of tickets given and money collected.
Have band members help you create a fan contact list to increase advertising through flyers and emails. Create a web page and allow them to link to it from their websites. Add contact info to the fan list of local radio and newspaper entertainment reporters.
Check out the venue for power, lighting and pre-stage room. Advise the sound man and light crew of any potential problems or any special needs.
One Month in Advance
Determine how you the acts are judged and who will judge the contest. Create a judges' sheet that highlights things such as stage performance, crowd interaction, song substance, sound and singing.
Once you have a solid list of names that are participating, include these names in your advertising. Use friends, family and band members to promote the event through the use of T-shirts and premium items.
Put the name of the event, the date, time, prizes and location on the tickets. Use friends, family and participating band members to pre-sell tickets.
Use friends, family and participating members to plaster the area with flyers. One week before the event, go back through hot spots and make sure advertising is still up and visible. If not, refresh and hit new locations such as restaurants, grocery stores, libraries and local businesses that will allow you to put up flyers.
Create press releases announcing the event, genre and prizes, and email them to local newspapers and radio stations. Confirm with vendors that they are ready for the event.
One Week in Advance
Collect money from ticket sales and continue to pre-sell tickets. Contact local media and send out a public relations message reminding everyone of your upcoming event. Sell T-shirts and other premiums to friends, family and band members to help them advertise the battle of the bands.
Fine-tune the schedule. Create a list of bands in order of appearance and post the amount of time they have to play. Create a contract that band members sign the day of the event that states what rights, if any, you have to any recordings of the event.
Touch base with vendors and the sound man to make sure everyone still is scheduled. Enlist the help of friends to register the bands when they arrive and provide them with instructions on where to place their instruments.
You may want to hire security to help you keep control of the crowd. Call the police station to find out who might be freelancing. Although this can cost a bit, bad publicity about someone getting hurt will ruin the event and affect your reputation if you should decide to hold a battle of the bands again.
Day of the Event
Set up a judging area and cordon off the backstage.
Post the line-up and prizes.
Enlist aid to make sure bands sign and turn in their contracts before performing, and collect money from them for advanced ticket sales. Place someone at the door to collect money for day-of-event tickets. Have someone cover the stage and move the acts along.
Ensure the judges are comfortable and have their judge sheets ready for each act. Give them the responsibility to report back to you who the winners are at a specific time.
Ensure caterers and sound/light crew have what they need to operate, and help them troubleshoot any last-minute problems. Touch base with security personnel and explain any problem situations or concerns you might have.
Provide your cell phone number to those working with you.
Announce the winners of the battle of the bands, present prizes and celebrate. Thank the participants, the judges and the fans for coming. Take photographs for press releases and website updates. Make sure each contractor gets paid for her services, and that the facility is left cleaned according to your contract.
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How to Start a Business ForumIn Feburary 2016 08,

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Find an available domain name from the WhoIs database. Aim for a domain name that immediately tells perspective forum members what your forum discusses. Additionally, choose a search engine optimized domain name that makes your business forum easy to find from organic searches. Find a reputable registrar from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) Accredited Registrars list.
Select a script for your business forum which provides for customization. Free forum scripts like phpbb work well for beginners. However, paid forum scripts provide optimal support and flexibility. Paid solutions also offer more options for personal modifications and easy to navigate admin panels.
Find a web host offering hosting compatible with the your forum software. For example, a forum built using PHP requires a hosting a company that uses PHP compatible servers. Choose a hosting package with adequate data storage allowing your forum to grow. Provided your forum grows pretty quickly, make sure your web host has competent back up procedures in the event a power outage, injection attack on your forum or some other event could delete your forum's data.
Consider article marketing via a separate website before launching a forum. Owner of 2createawebsite Lisa Irby advises building traffic first via a website or blog before launching a forum. A successful online community requires a basis for traffic. Create a buzz and people to market to via writing articles about various aspects of business can help build a traffic base prior to launching a forum. Start small with only a few discussion areas like introduction, general discussion and starting a business sections. Keeping categories to a minimum also creates the illusion of an active community for new forums.
Register fake users and pose questions answering them with multiple fake user accounts. Many webmasters populate new forums using this method. If you decide to go this route, deactivate the view IP address option from your admin panel so real users will not see the fake users with the same IP address and become suspicious.Hire paid forum posters to populate your business forum to avoid doing the work yourself. Outsourcing this job saves time allowing webmasters to focus on other aspects of launching a new forum such as marketing. Find paid forum posters from freelance websites or from companies specializing in these services.
Select a team of moderators to manage the community. Decide on the rules of conduct along with the team and determine how these rules will take effect. Choose business minded moderators. Community members often look to moderators for guidance so employing resourceful moderators can help retain community members.
Promote your business forum to increase online visibility. Sign up with other business forums and entrepreneur forums, provided the forum rules allows for doing so post a link to your business forum in your signature. Post comments on business blogs leaving links to your business forum. Linking a website in other forums and blog posts increases the chances someone will visit the linked website and also provides a quality backlink, thus increasing search engine ranking. Avoid leaving posts simply to say visit my forum; these types of posts become spam. Spamming will eventually deteriorate your forum's credibility. Only make thoughtful posts which contribute to the topic. Use social marketing mediums like Twitter and LinkedIn to form strategic alliances. Exchange links with your allies to increase your forum's activity and create more opportunities for future partnerships.
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