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Running a door list that keeps up with the queue

A thousand people arriving in forty minutes is a data problem before it is a hospitality one. What we learned watching doors at four venues.

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Ticket tiers that make sense in a small room

Early bird, general, on the door. Three prices is usually two too many for a hundred-capacity venue, and here is the arithmetic behind that.

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Double-booked drum kits, a mixer that left with the previous act, and other equipment failures that are really record-keeping failures.

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Splits between venue, artist and platform are simple arithmetic and complicated trust. Settle both before the doors open.

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