You have to count tickets sold because it is the revenue that counts, I realize that there are some no shows but not even close to how many empty seats we have had this season, K.K. should not be blamed for what is happening now.
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The attendance question
- Thread starter srw
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You have to count tickets sold because it is the revenue that counts, I realize that there are some no shows but not even close to how many empty seats we have had this season, K.K. should not be blamed for what is happening now.
Does Bradley or the Civic Center ever announce the actual attendance and not the ticket sold figure?
Cutting marketing when you want to make more money does not make much sense. (Marketing should mean more sales). Now its possible the marketing team was doing a poor job and the cut was merited..but I'm not sure.
There used to be a few 1/2 price admission deals advertised in past seasons, but not last season, and not yet in this season. I went a few more times a year due to those deals. Full price tickets are hard for a family.
I think the whole marketing deal is odd. The season is how many months old, and its only been in the last week that I've seen/heard "I am a brave" TV and radio ads. We know that phrase was the slogan months ago so why take so long to execute?
Im going to say that the timing has something to do with the new marketing person i met at the autograph session. My wife works at a marketing firm so I just asked her a few basic questions about what she is doing to help sales and she seemed to know what she is talking about- at least her responses were similar to things my wife and i talked about. She did say that discounting tickets was not going to be an option moving forward and thats going to go across the board for all sports. I understand not giving away the product so that part doesnt bother me.
Would you rather sell 11400 tickets,the full revenue of $125,000 and the arena totally empty or $50,000 in hand and a packed house....?
I mean the answer is a no brainer IF revenue is what REALLY matters......
You have to have revenue, and the empty seats are mainly because of the corporate no shows, if the money was not important then we would not be having this conversation as someone would have been fired and the students would be sitting at mid-court. Were you at the game Tues. night?
You have to have revenue, and the empty seats are mainly because of the corporate no shows, if the money was not important then we would not be having this conversation as someone would have been fired and the students would be sitting at mid-court. Were you at the game Tues. night?
Yeah, all 100 students who show up would be sitting at half court.
Yeah, all 100 students who show up would be sitting at half court.
Ding ding! The problem is, is how the ticket situation was made when Bradley started playing downtown, and the actual set up of the arena make it very difficult to have a real student presence. With how they did tickets, you cant have a great student section and keep the big donors happy. Its just the nature of the beast if you want to have a top notch basketball program at an off campus arena. How poor the team is performing only throws salt in the wound.