Useful Ads

Online Advertising

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Festivals get into gear with Download

My mad 3 months starts now with the Download Festival at Donington Park. I have to sort out all the posting of the internal music advertising on the fencing prior to the events then repairing all the damages each morning before the arena re-opens to the public.
We've had a nice slow build up with the opener being Radio 1 Big weekend followed by Gatecrasher but from here on its mad with loads of festivals culminating in August with 2 V festivals (Chelmsford /Stafford) at the same time and 2 Carling (Reading/Leeds).
I also in August have to act as a sort of liaison between the hundreds of promoters at Edinburgh festival and the local flyposters, endeavouring to keep all sides happy which is a pretty impossible task, but I at least stop them all coming to blows over the fact that there are probably 1000 events all wanting their posters on about 3 streets!
The festival work is very intensive for the first 2 and a half days starting off thinking you'll never get it all done but usually getting there with a couple of hours to spare, then if you're lucky you get there on show days at 5am and there's hardly any damage and its money for old rope. However if its rained or the posters are really attractive and the kids have nicked them you're at it till they throw you off site posting as fast as you can and you really know what work is then.
Doesn't help matters that all the fencing companies are now using a waxed anti posting finish for their fence panels so we have to mix the paste extra thick and tape everything along the top of the fence with extra wide gaffa so that if the fence heats up and the paste gets blown off by the heat the posters stay in place and we can just repair the next morning rather than having to totally repost.
While all this is going on I still have to do all this online stuff which probably takes me about 3 hours a day even with most of it being just about on auto pilot. I also attempt to keep up with my site development work in Birmingham Sheffield and Edinburgh but thankfully I can do a lot of this by phone and email.
Just realised I haven't mentioned a single online business yet!
I suppose it makes a nice change.

No comments: