You're invited to join Goldstar CEO, Jim McCarthy, live Monday, September 17 at 3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT as he takes a deep dive into “The Attention Pool” and what that means to you as an event marketer.You’ll get some great insights into building awareness for your upcoming events.Plus, if you have specific questions about marketing, pricing or making the most of your Goldstar partnership, submit them now to info@sellingout.com, and he'll try to answer as many as he can. You can...

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It seems like every day we spot TEDxBroadway alum in the news. It’s like playing Where’s Waldo, except our speakers are featured very prominently in black and white and on television in living color. Here’s just a small sample of what we’ve found in the news recently …TEDxBroadway 2014 alum Diane Paulus, the artistic director of Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater, will co-direct a live TV production of Hair on NBC next spring. Here’s TEDxBroadway 2018 alum Shaina Taub profiled in The New...

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What do Moby, Shep Gordon and our own Goldstar CEO, Jim McCarthy have in common? They’ve all been interviewed on The Lefsetz Podcast.If you’re not familiar with him, Bob is a legend in the music business. His very popular Lefsetz Letter covers the gamut and is considered a staple in the industry. (You can sign up here.)In this very in-depth interview, Jim talks candidly about the start of Goldstar, his own career path and the realizations along the way.You...

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Ever wondered about the "x" in TEDxBroadway?Well, you've heard of TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design). TED is the big conference, which has been held annually since 1990 and set the model to provide these powerful talks online for free. TEDx events were created some years later with the same spirit of the TED mission, "ideas worth spreading," but are independently organized on a community level. The word that follows each and every TEDx indicates ... a location.Therefore, when we talk about TEDxBroadway, we're talking...

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Goldstar is offering a Buy One Get One, aka a 100% match on your first Boost campaign! Take advantage of a busy month on Goldstar -- July sees as much site and app traffic as the holidays.How do you join in?Go to your Audience Marketing Platform before July 31 at 11:59pm EST and create your first Boost campaign. Include “BOGO” in your campaign name (the first field on the form). Once your campaign is set up, Goldstar will...

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Not that Off Broadway. We mean off-off-off-off-off Broadway. Way off. Like another industry entirely.Each year, we pack the TEDxBroadway stage with Broadway industry experts, but we also want to feature speakers who are doing incredible things from other areas as well.Imagine you're in the choir business. And you go to a choir conference. Sure, it's great to see other people from other choirs and hear what they are up to. But, if everything you hear at this conference is...

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If you’ve been curious about how Boost can raise your event’s awareness, but haven’t taken the plunge, now’s the time: Goldstar is offering a Buy One Get One, aka a 100% match on your first Boost campaign if you set it up in July!Why July?July is one of the busiest months on the Goldstar site and app (as busy as the holidays!), so it’s the perfect time to raise awareness for your events. Goldstar members are looking for things...

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We wanted to share a few of the TEDxBroadway talks that came to mind, given the headlines we've all been watching over the last few weeks.In 2013, at TEDxBroadway's second annual event, a 75-year-old George Takei took to the stage to share his personal story about being sent to a Japanese-American internment camp with his family at the age of 5. The Takeis spent four long years in a camp located in the swamps of Arkansas -- and it's...

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No. 1: Know where to avoid discounting: It's simple, don't discount to your house list too much.Why is this? Because your house list is most likely made up of your full-price buyers. These are the people who are most likely to put a high value on what you do, even if they haven't bought yet.There's a principle to think about, and that is the best customers should want to give you more and get more from you. Price should...

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We just have to congratulate TEDxBroadway speakers Christine Jones, David Yazbek, Jordan Roth and Ken Davenport on their Tony wins this past weekend. We're incredibly proud of them and the SIX other TEDxBroadway alums who were nominated for Tonys this year. To us, they are all winners.See, each year we approach each speaker and ask them to pour their heart, soul, creativity, energy, fresh ideas and time into a talk that lasts not more than 18 minutes. They spend...

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