Not quite as many people showed up as we would have liked/predicted. From what I hear it was still a pretty good time, though. I had to leave at 2 for a wedding, so I can’t comment on anything beyond that.
^^Oh yeah, I was also going to mention something. You know how when you go to your personal comments and you click on one it will take you to that comment? Well I like that it’s nice, however if that comment happens to be on the second page of comments of a TFM submission, then it will not take you there. It will only take you to the TFM submission. I was wondering if you could fix that, because it’s a huge inconvenience for me to have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, then click page two and find my comment just to see if some asshole replied.
The problem is everyone expected it to be only the hardest of tryers. It sounded like a good time and I would have enjoyed hijacking the camel and getting in a low speed police chase through Austin, but I thought it would be primarily bottom tier kids trying to be fratty.
^^ You’re pretty damn funny, guy. I have to say I would have enjoyed watching your very low-speed chase through Austin on the back of a hijacked camel.
Regarding Day Rage – yes, the promotion via social media was well saturated to say the least, but these days that’s not necessarily enough to guarantee success. What they really should have done was offer a few of the larger fraternity and sorority chapters at UT-Austin some kind of sponsorship deal, whereby their members got free or dramatically reduced admission in return for slapping their name and endorsement on it. I can guarantee that would have generated turnout.
^^^ Not to draw away from his suggestion, but that’s just basic marketing that doesn’t take a genius to come up with. It seems to me as though TFM needs a new marketing intern because anybody who thinks an event will be popular solely through Facebook and Twitter advertisements should be fired immediately. Endorsements/Sponsors/Advertisements. Not even that expensive if you do it right.
I suppose you missed where they were endorsed by Rooftop, a top greek bar on 6th street, and sponsored by Deep Eddy Vodka and Costa Del Mar, then?
The disappointment of the event has little to do with marketing and more to do with it simply being a testing period. Patrons who likely would’ve enjoyed the event most- frat guys and sorority girls- didn’t pile in droves to comes, likely eyeing how it went to consider going next time- while other more-traditional patrons probably saw it as being an event that was going to be filled with try-hards. The truth of the matter was that neither was the case- and with great weather, great atmosphere, and good timing- the crowd never fully showed because each group was afraid too many of another group was going to be there. It’s just something you learn in running an event. Nothing to do with marketing. Anyone who went there could tell you that it was tons of fun, well-planned, and well-presented by several different sponsors. Just bad luck.
^ ^^ For the love of God. All I said was something about offering the local Greek community some enhanced benefits in exchange for showing up, something that probably wouldn’t have been a bad idea in your “testing period” scenario. Calm your shit. It was planned just fine.
The fact is, there’s always a way to get people to show up. Sure, it may have been a “testing period,” but for their first event they should have went above and beyond to get a better turnout to ensure success. Jon has the right idea about making deals with local fraternities and sororities to draw people in. Sure they did market it and they had sponsors, but just because you advertise for something excessively doesn’t mean that the event will be successful. There’s a difference between marketing and good marketing. Lack of attendance is a sign of failure since their marketing plan did not draw in their anticipated numbers. Blaming failure on bad luck is just an excuse.
^ I was thinking the same thing. There’s no incintive for a top tier to go to the same party as tkes and pay the same price for beer. That’s not America
TFM isn’t even trying to disguise the failure of this event.
13 years ago at 4:34 pmTo paraphrase George W. Bush, let’s let history decide what did or didn’t happen.
13 years ago at 5:31 pm^ nice
13 years ago at 5:40 pm^^, ^ why don’t y’all two get a room.
13 years ago at 10:46 pmCool story, bro.
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13 years ago at 8:06 pmFuck off, Spuds.
13 years ago at 7:52 amWe’ve got three live ones here!
13 years ago at 9:03 amWay to fuck up the pattern Idiotfinder! fuck you idiotfinder!
13 years ago at 11:24 amFuck you, UAthetachi
13 years ago at 4:42 pmHey, thats my pledge brother. Fuck You T3xasmad3.
13 years ago at 8:30 pm^Get back in the fucking closet, pledge! That god damn bottle better be dry i shit you not.
13 years ago at 8:16 amGo fuck yourself, howboutit. How ’bout it?
13 years ago at 10:08 pm^Nice attempt, but i think “how ’bout that” would have been a more impressive retort.
13 years ago at 7:54 amNo shit it was staged. This is a comedy site, you twerp.
13 years ago at 4:42 pmNeed to reply? There’s a button for that
13 years ago at 6:41 pm^Yep, there sure is you fucking dope fiend.
13 years ago at 6:43 pm^ The name says it all.
13 years ago at 8:07 pm^The name says it all and more.
13 years ago at 7:53 am^how about their names.
13 years ago at 9:08 pm^But mostly this name.
13 years ago at 8:17 amlets be honest, dorn and bacon… how many people showed up?
13 years ago at 4:47 pmwe would really like to know… lets hear the real numbers on that. Don’t be ashamed, lets hear some truth
13 years ago at 4:55 pmThis^^ and that ^
13 years ago at 5:00 pmThey sold around 350 tickets, and when I got there I only saw about 150 people and left about an hour later.
13 years ago at 5:03 pmWhat was the ratio like?
13 years ago at 5:21 pmNot quite as many people showed up as we would have liked/predicted. From what I hear it was still a pretty good time, though. I had to leave at 2 for a wedding, so I can’t comment on anything beyond that.
13 years ago at 5:33 pm^How was the wedding Bro?
13 years ago at 6:29 pmIt was a really great time, sir.
13 years ago at 6:30 pm*Sir and good for you, Buddy. Have a nice day.
13 years ago at 6:39 pm^^Oh yeah, I was also going to mention something. You know how when you go to your personal comments and you click on one it will take you to that comment? Well I like that it’s nice, however if that comment happens to be on the second page of comments of a TFM submission, then it will not take you there. It will only take you to the TFM submission. I was wondering if you could fix that, because it’s a huge inconvenience for me to have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, then click page two and find my comment just to see if some asshole replied.
13 years ago at 6:50 pm^ Yeah that really would be great. And be able to look up columns in the search bar would be nice too
13 years ago at 6:57 pmThe problem is everyone expected it to be only the hardest of tryers. It sounded like a good time and I would have enjoyed hijacking the camel and getting in a low speed police chase through Austin, but I thought it would be primarily bottom tier kids trying to be fratty.
13 years ago at 8:02 pmAs far as ‘bottom tier kids trying to be fratty’ there were not very many that I noticed.
13 years ago at 8:09 pm^^ You’re pretty damn funny, guy. I have to say I would have enjoyed watching your very low-speed chase through Austin on the back of a hijacked camel.
Regarding Day Rage – yes, the promotion via social media was well saturated to say the least, but these days that’s not necessarily enough to guarantee success. What they really should have done was offer a few of the larger fraternity and sorority chapters at UT-Austin some kind of sponsorship deal, whereby their members got free or dramatically reduced admission in return for slapping their name and endorsement on it. I can guarantee that would have generated turnout.
13 years ago at 9:17 pm^That’s a damn good idea, what profession are you going into? I bet you’d be a very successful entrepreneur.
13 years ago at 9:50 pm^^ or they could have got strippers.
13 years ago at 10:48 pm^ Can’t go wrong with a stripper. Well unless the stripper turns out to be a tranny, that has only happened to my twice though.
13 years ago at 11:22 pm^^^ Not to draw away from his suggestion, but that’s just basic marketing that doesn’t take a genius to come up with. It seems to me as though TFM needs a new marketing intern because anybody who thinks an event will be popular solely through Facebook and Twitter advertisements should be fired immediately. Endorsements/Sponsors/Advertisements. Not even that expensive if you do it right.
13 years ago at 5:13 amI suppose you missed where they were endorsed by Rooftop, a top greek bar on 6th street, and sponsored by Deep Eddy Vodka and Costa Del Mar, then?
The disappointment of the event has little to do with marketing and more to do with it simply being a testing period. Patrons who likely would’ve enjoyed the event most- frat guys and sorority girls- didn’t pile in droves to comes, likely eyeing how it went to consider going next time- while other more-traditional patrons probably saw it as being an event that was going to be filled with try-hards. The truth of the matter was that neither was the case- and with great weather, great atmosphere, and good timing- the crowd never fully showed because each group was afraid too many of another group was going to be there. It’s just something you learn in running an event. Nothing to do with marketing. Anyone who went there could tell you that it was tons of fun, well-planned, and well-presented by several different sponsors. Just bad luck.
13 years ago at 2:43 pm^Nail on the head.
13 years ago at 5:26 pm^ ^^ For the love of God. All I said was something about offering the local Greek community some enhanced benefits in exchange for showing up, something that probably wouldn’t have been a bad idea in your “testing period” scenario. Calm your shit. It was planned just fine.
13 years ago at 7:30 pmGreat Fucking Time! Didn’t make it back till 6 am the next morning.
13 years ago at 12:49 pm^^ Exactly what he said.
The fact is, there’s always a way to get people to show up. Sure, it may have been a “testing period,” but for their first event they should have went above and beyond to get a better turnout to ensure success. Jon has the right idea about making deals with local fraternities and sororities to draw people in. Sure they did market it and they had sponsors, but just because you advertise for something excessively doesn’t mean that the event will be successful. There’s a difference between marketing and good marketing. Lack of attendance is a sign of failure since their marketing plan did not draw in their anticipated numbers. Blaming failure on bad luck is just an excuse.
13 years ago at 7:45 am^ I was thinking the same thing. There’s no incintive for a top tier to go to the same party as tkes and pay the same price for beer. That’s not America
13 years ago at 5:55 pmJust look at that crowd. Glad to see all those weeks of heavy promotion paid off, boys.
13 years ago at 5:08 pmLooks like a pretty colorful event.
13 years ago at 5:40 pmBacon writes the better articles and he’s thrown out?
13 years ago at 5:56 pmDay Rage erection. TFM.
13 years ago at 6:44 pmBacon fucked the Camel……
13 years ago at 8:03 pm^
13 years ago at 4:46 pm^^
13 years ago at 8:19 amI imagine it went something like this…
…“Do you know who I am? I write for TFM, I’m fucking Ba…”
“Eat a dick,”
13 years ago at 8:19 pmAnd who let the guy wearing cargo shorts in?
13 years ago at 8:21 pm^Damn. Good eye
13 years ago at 6:53 amMiss the reply button champ?
13 years ago at 4:46 pm