Stand – Up Comedy

With stand-up comedy picking up the paces, live acts such as Louis Anderson and George Lopez sell out venues by dolling out the laughs. Easily one of the best live entertainment acts for your casino that is guaranteed to fill up your casino floors. Make sure you have a good ticketing system in place that will handle all the phases of ticket booking.

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Concerts

Concerts can get tricky as they have multiple dimensions such as talent buying, production, ticketing, and patron building. This is why having a good talent buyer can serve your casino well. Through concerts, you can pull in audiences who never would’ve never stepped into your casino. They might end up spending a few bucks at the slots or craps table in the process of strolling through your casino. 

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Live Music Bands

Live music bands are usually placed in diners and lounges that lure patrons in. Food and alcohol are classic chasers that complement any genre of music thus adding to the overall casino business. Running a casino might be your forte, but foodies don’t mind returning to your casino just for the elegant vibe they experienced through your lounge services. 

Dancers and Performers

Another classic form of Vegas showbiz is having individual artists and performers that contribute to a fun, high-energy environment on the casino floors. No casino floor is complete without the glitz and glam of these dancers, magicians, fire performers, and acrobats adding a bit of sizzle to the casino.

Masterchef

An extension of the popular TV series, Masterchef events are well-known to draw participation from your patrons. Food is a universal social glue that is bound to please the masses. Whether your guests are participating or simply watching, it’s a fresh idea to boost your overall entertainment value. Throwing in a celebrity chef in the mix will also add a whole new flavor to the entire event.  

With two decades of industry expertise spanning across concert promotion and production, we bring you these sought-after insights that will give a much-needed boost to your casino party ideas. Contact Us if you need an end-to-end solution to meet your talent buying needs. 

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Understanding Your Audience

A good talent buyer knows exactly which talent works best for your audience, making them an asset in boosting your business. You cannot host a musical at your theater if stand-up comedy is what works best with your audience. A professional talent buyer’s network includes performers, musicians, DJs, record labels, and media outlets which boosts footfalls to your venue.  They are tuned into the trends of the entertainment industry, so it’s guaranteed that they’ll bring value for your money.

Sourcing and Negotiating

You may feel you can negotiate with artists to perform at your venue. But, the entertainment business strives on trust. Having attended plenty of events, talent buyers have established their trustworthiness.  They’re a wizard in summoning talent that fits your budget. Sourcing popular talents comes with a lot of negotiation where even after sealing the deal, they might be a no-show due to unforeseen circumstances. A good talent buyer will have a contingency plan for a situation like this, thereby saving your money and reputation. 

Communicating and Executing

Suppose you’ve booked an iconic musician like Gary Allan to perform at your casino. The name itself will draw in the masses. But in many cases, the talent might be new and upcoming which your audience might not have heard of. In this case, your talent manager will develop an event marketing plan to target audiences that actually books the ticket. He will have his own logistics crew to execute the finer details, taking a huge load off your shoulders. 

Renting the Venue

So, your first event at your new restaurant went exceptionally well and now people want more. In the future,  you wish to host a fundraiser at a bigger, more premium venue to further cement your brand in the market. Arranging production services from a talent buying platform like Yapsody can further streamline the production and ticketing services which are crucial as well. Apart from selling out tickets for your fundraiser cookout to a larger audience, your brand name gets cross-promoted just by being associated with a premium venue. A win-win that was possible with a talent buyer and ticketing system by your side. 

With Yapsody by your side, you can streamline your entire talent buying and ticketing process. Our platform gets you a broad pool of multi-genre artists who have decades of experience in providing top-notch entertainment.

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SPEAKERS CROWDSOURCING PLATFORM

Having attendees vote for their favorite speakers isn’t an entirely new trend, and has been adopted by many event organizers on existing platforms. But, a dedicated platform to crowdsource speakers remains absent (to the best of my knowledge, that is). Event organizers would love a platform where the registered attendees could vote for their favorite speakers.

COLLABORATIVE PLANNING

Many event planners have used Facebook apps for involving attendees while planning events, but they have usually been informal ones. The existence of a system where event planners could use a range of tools for involving attendees in planning their event would solve many hassles. With Facebook polls and the debuting Twitter polls, asking for yes or no opinions is easy, but voting, venue hunting, setting the event ticket price, project management, and sponsor sourcing could all be pooled together on one single platform dedicated to collaborative planning.

VIP CHECK IN NOTIFICATION

Being an event presenter, you might be well aware of what it means when a VIP checks in or registers for your event. Having an influential person attending your event could alter your registration process, and also send out a message to your social media management team to get in touch with them online. Probably depending upon their social/online presence and followers, one could single out VIPs from the list of attendees.

EVENT SPECIFIC SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS

Yes, the internet is flooded with tools to monitor Facebook and Twitter. And that’s the problem. Event presenters are not selling products, they’re offering services. They want to know if they’ve created an impact, and provided a good experience to their attendees – ALL IN ONE PLACE. Social media tools that can be used by event managers to improve the experience they’re offering would be different from the usual marketing tools, and this needs to be addressed.

Lastly, there is a possibility I might have missed out on other real problems that can be solved by young entrepreneurial minds. On the other hand, the issues I’ve mentioned above may have already been addressed by applications, systems, or tools that I’m not aware of. In either case, please drop in a comment to enlighten me (and others like me), because you may just be saving a presenter from a lot of hassles.

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