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The Merch Booth Comparison Game!
Here’s something different I’m going to start doing. I’m going to take pictures of bands’ merch booths from shows and have you judge them.
The Simple Way to Make More Money from Your Shows
And that simple way is more merchandise.
If you have a diversity of merchandise that ranges in price from $1 to $20 (and higher), you will get more sales and more money from your shows.
How Bands Can Team Up With Local Businesses: The Takeaways
This is the final installment of posts by Wes Davenport. Read Part 1 and Part 2.
Just Love Coffee Roasters, Tyrus Morgan, Dewveall, and everyone involved put in plenty of quality work to create a wonderful CD+Coffee package. Here are some takeaways to make your own business partnerships more seamless and successful.
How Bands Can Team Up With Local Businesses (INTERVIEW, Part 2)
This is a guest post from Wes Davenport. Part 2 of a short series about musicians partnering with local businesses. Here’s part 1.
Partnering with a business can be give a band fresh exposure, further causes both parties believe in, and sharpen your overall business skills.Though you may love Ikea furniture and Coke products, your band probably doesn’t have the connections or clout to forge a partnership with those companies. So what do you do?
You go local.
I chatted with Jonathon Dewveall, half of husband/wife rock pair Dewveall, about their role in the Just Love Coffee Roasters package.
First, tell me about the coffee+CD package. What does it consist of?
Just Love Coffee’s Christmas CD is a new take on classic Christmas songs. The songs were produced and arranged by Rob Webb, the owner of Just Love Coffee, and Tyrus Morgan, a talented artist and good friend of ours. It features several great artists, singing songs like “We Three Kings,” “Silent Night,” and “I Saw Three Ships.” There’s even a great electronic, dance-y version of Deck the Halls and we lent our voices to “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.”
The coffee is a special blend called FaLaLaLaLa Holiday Blend. It’s pretty delicious. All of Just Love’s Coffee is fair trade and grown sustainably. On top of that, Just Love Coffee donates 5% of every bag sold to Charity:Water. Here is a great story about Just Love Coffee’s vision.
You can purchase a 13oz. bag of FaLaLaLaLa and a copy of the Christmas CD, for $22.95, at https://justlovecoffee.com/shop
Just Love Coffee’s Christmas CD is a new take on classic Christmas songs. The songs were produced and arranged by Rob Webb, the owner of Just Love Coffee, and Tyrus Morgan, a talented artist and good friend of ours. It features several great artists, singing songs like “We Three Kings,” “Silent Night,” and “I Saw Three Ships.” There’s even a great electronic, dance-y version of Deck the Halls and we lent our voices to “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.”
The coffee is a special blend called FaLaLaLaLa Holiday Blend. It’s pretty delicious. All of Just Love’s Coffee is fair trade and grown sustainably. On top of that, Just Love Coffee donates 5% of every bag sold to Charity:Water. Here is a great story about Just Love Coffee’s vision.
You can purchase a 13oz. bag of FaLaLaLaLa and a copy of the Christmas CD, for $22.95, at https://justlovecoffee.com/shop
How did this project start?
Our friend Tyrus Morgan partnered with Just Love Coffee when he released his debut record a couple years ago and they’ve maintained a strong relationship. Honestly, I don’t know if it was Tyrus or Robb who first had the idea for the Christmas record, but they began hashing the idea out sometime last summer.
At what point did you get involved?
Tyrus asked us to get involved pretty early on, even before they started recording. He didn’t even know what song he wanted us to sing. After him and Robb hashed out the arrangements, they proposed that we do “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” We went down to Just Love Coffee’s studio sometime in October to lay down the vocals.
Why did you partner with Just Love Coffee?
The first time Tyrus introduced us to Just Love Coffee, we were a big fan of their mission. We’re huge supporters of of Living Water International and other organizations, like Charity:Water, that provide clean water to people in developing countries. So it really was a no-brainer for us to get involved.
What have you learned from this project?
I don’t know that we necessarily learned anything, but it can be a lot of fun to be a part of projects like this. Life can get very busy and it’s easy to get wrapped up in your own world and regular projects, but it’s a great idea to step outside of yourself for a bit and work on something that’s not necessarily for your benefit, but for the benefit of others.
25 Things Your Band can Sell at Shows and Your Website
Welcome to my brainstorm! I decided to just do a brain-dump of different things a band can sell at their shows and on their website. This list is far from exhaustive, and I’m sure there’s a ton of other cool things. But, I wanted to have fun and write down some ideas. Especially since I need to start making merch for my band, soon!
4 Easy Tips for Playing Out of Town Shows…and Not Wasting Your Time
I just played a few days of out of town shows with a band. This was their first time playing outside of their city, so I had an excellent opportunity to observe what bands do on their maiden venture. This band got some things right and some things wrong.
3 Tips for a Kick Ass Merch Table
Last night, I went to see Kai’s band, Hidden Number. While there, I noticed the headlining band’s (Smooth Sailing) merch booth. They had a huge, wood sculpture of their band logo sitting on top of a stand. No matter where I was at in the club, I could see their logo and merch stand.
15 Tips to Get More Out of that Crappy Show
I went to a show the other night and saw what every band hates: a shitty turnout. It was the day after St. Patrick’s Day, so people had already spent their money the night before (and were still nursing their hangovers). Plus, the bands were from out of town. A perfect storm for a bad show.
6 Easily Avoidable Mistakes for a Band to Make at a Show
I went to a show tonight. Every Monday I try to catch “Metal Monday” at the 2 Bit Saloon in Seattle. Tonight, was a great show! However, I’m noticing mistakes that every band should just slap themselves over.
I’m slapping myself, because I’ve done the exact same thing in my bands. Here they are.