Social Media for Venue Promotion: Do’s and Don’ts

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In today’s digital landscape, social media is one of the most powerful tools for music venue promotion, as well as festivals, and other entertainment events. From building brand awareness to driving ticket sales, platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and LinkedIn offer a direct line of communication with potential attendees. However, maximizing social […]

Outdoor vs. Indoor: Choosing the Right Venue For Your Live Event

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When planning a live event, choosing the right venue is pivotal to its success. As an event organizer, you have various options to choose from when selecting a venue. Hosting your event at an appropriate venue can elevate and enhance your event. However, to optimize your event and produce the best results, knowing what exactly […]

3 Steps to Selling Out Entertainment Events

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TSE provides a ticketing service for clubs, theaters, and festivals which mean we see firsthand how show promotion and ticketing strategy efforts work for their entertainment events.  Successful ticketed entertainment events require the development of both a ticketing strategy and a marketing plan. Unfortunately, smaller venues don’t have access to that knowledge base. Often instead, […]

Creative Concert Venue Options for Events

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Expand your concert venue options when planning a live event. After all, you want your guests to have a memorable experience. Being creative in choosing an event venue can lead to a memorable experience for those attending it.  This can be a key factor to having a successful event. Concert Venue Options Take Many Forms […]

Have You Considered Golf Courses as Festival Venues?

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Golf courses have become a hot trend in festival venues. What makes golf courses great venues for music festivals? Wouldn’t a stadium, arena, or large event center be a better place for a music festival? They have a history of hosting many music events, including superstar concerts. Music festivals differ from local community festivals in […]

How to Get Your Venue Part of a Concert Tour

A concert tour for most bands is built around setting up priority shows at venues where they will draw a large audience and expect to have a good pay day. These priority shows are called anchor dates and they are chosen to make most, if not all, of the budget back for the tour. If […]

Event Music: Music Licensing Facts

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Do you have event music at your nightclub, corporate function, fair or festival? Then you need to license it. It’s that simple. Actually, it isn’t in the United States. More about that later. Even private parties are not exempt unless they fit the definition of a private event when it comes to the need for […]

Festival Profile: Magical Winter Lights

Magical Winter Lights is a spectacular, larger-than-life 45-day winter wonderland of lights and live entertainment. This 52-day holiday season celebration runs between November 19, 2021, to January 2, 2022, east of Houston in Baytown, Texas, and presents a fresh multicultural view on traditional holiday light shows. Magical Winter Lights takes up over 20 acres and […]

Venue Profile: The Golden Spike Event Center

Get ready everyone! It’s time for a history lesson. Probably not what you would expect from a booking agency, but the history of this entertainment venue in Utah has roots that run deep. The Golden Spike Event Center got its start in 1988, but to fully understand its namesake, we have to travel back a […]

Corporate Entertainment Booking at Your Venue Can Be Lucrative

Booking private and corporate parties at your venue

In addition to being a full-service music booking agency, TSE takes pride in being a corporate entertainment booking agency along with the many other live entertainment events it books. We all want the live music scene back as quickly and safely as possible.  But with social distancing now the new normal it’s uncertain what that […]