Period-Friendly Festivals: How to Support Attendees with Menstrual Needs
Make your festival period-friendly with free menstrual products, disposal bins, and relief areas – practical steps to ensure every attendee is comfortable.
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The latest strategies and tactics for ambitious promoters
Festival Accounting & Tax Compliance 101: Keeping Your Books Clean and Legal
Festival accounting & tax compliance 101 – keep accurate books, handle ticket taxes and artist fees, and avoid legal pitfalls so your festival finances stay clean and legal.
Two-Weekend Festivals: Operational Strategies for Back-to-Back Events
Ready to double your festival’s impact? Discover expert strategies for running a festival across two consecutive weekends – from rapid site resets and crew rotations to savvy multi-weekend marketing and keeping the community on your side. Learn how mega-festivals like Coachella pull off back-to-back weekends and get practical tips to maximize revenue without burning out your team or compromising the fan experience.
Resolving Conflicts in Festival Crews: Keeping Your Team United Under Pressure
Keep your festival crew united under pressure! Learn practical conflict resolution strategies – quick mediation, clear chain-of-command, and preventive team agreements – to swiftly resolve staff disputes on-site. Discover how veteran festival producers handle crew clashes, maintain team cohesion, and ensure backstage tensions don’t derail your festival’s success.
Beyond the Grounds: Launching an Online Festival Merch Store to Drive Year-Round Revenue
Don’t let the festival magic end when the gates close. Learn how to launch an online festival merch store to drive year-round revenue and keep fans engaged between events – from picking the perfect e-commerce platform to mastering inventory, shipping, and creative marketing that connects with your community worldwide.
Building a Diverse Festival Crew: Inclusive Hiring and Team Culture Strategies
Learn how to build a festival team as diverse as your audience. Discover proven strategies for inclusive hiring, outreach to underrepresented communities, and creating a team culture where everyone thrives – boosting collaboration, innovation, and success at your festival.
In-House vs. Outsourced Festival Operations: Making the Right Call
Should you handle festival tasks with your own team or hire the pros? Discover how top festivals decide which operations to keep in-house and when to outsource vital services like staging, sound, security, and ticketing. Get real-world examples and expert criteria to balance budget, expertise, risk, and quality – ensuring your event runs smoothly with smart use of resources. A must-read guide for festival producers making the right call on building vs buying their festival operations.
Know Before You Go: Crafting an Essential Pre-Festival Attendee Guide
Learn how to craft a ‘Know Before You Go’ guide to ensure attendees arrive prepared. This comprehensive article covers what to pack, prohibited items, entry procedures, and safety tips – showing how proactive communication reduces confusion, boosts safety, and leads to a smoother festival experience.
Beyond Basic Security: Counterterror and Extreme Threat Preparedness at Festivals
Learn how top festival producers plan for the unthinkable – from terrorism to active shooters. This comprehensive guide covers working with police, advanced security measures like surveillance and bag checks, staff counterterror training, and realistic drills so your team can swiftly respond to extreme threats. Don’t leave safety to chance: beyond basic security, get practical tips and real case studies on protecting your festival from worst-case scenarios.
Combating Bootleg Merchandise at Festivals: Protecting Your Brand and Revenue
Don’t let fake festival T-shirts and bootleg swag steal your thunder (or profits). Learn how top festivals fight back with legal trademarks, on-site security sweeps, vendor credentialing, and fan education to shut down unlicensed merch sellers. Discover actionable strategies to protect your festival’s brand integrity and revenue – ensuring only quality, official merchandise reaches your attendees.
Crowdfunding Your Festival: Engaging the Community to Fund Your Event
Engage your community to crowdfund your festival. Discover the best platform, rewards to offer, goals to set, and marketing tactics to turn fans into backers.
Preventing Festival Crew Burnout: Mental Health Strategies for Production Teams
Don’t let burnout break your festival crew. Learn how shift rotations, rest areas, and mental health support keep production teams healthy, motivated, and at their best.