Text Live in your events?

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maybe not immediately for you, but you can pitch to the bar owner that you have a way to drive continual biz to your venue, selling the phone numbers as a sorta data-mine type idea, you can send messages back to the users who text in say "hey come to the bar for super duper karaoke"
 
I use it several nights of the week, and I find that it gets old real quick if it's always there... I find bringing it out every couple shows keeps it fresh... also, as for the data mining.... It's actually illegal to send unsolicited text to phones which is why the text live has the subscribe function. you will find that teaching people to subscribe is a pain, and very few would do it anyway, because it's costing most people to receive that text. I initially thought it would be great for that, but the more I read, the more I found out how much you could get in trouble should someone decide to report you to the cellphone provider.

it's almost akin to placing flyers in people's mailboxes...

I use text live for fun, and actually find it's most useful for my karaoke contests...

I'll be running it tomorrow for all the fellas out here at the name convention to let people see what it's all about...

but like I said, I think that the novelty wears off in a smaller bar... now on the weekends, it's non-stop texting due to the sheer volume of people, but on the slower week nights, I find it often ends up being the insult board, or a game to see who can slide the most foul message past the offensive words filter...

all in all It's a great supplemental tool, but as for an event in itself, I don't know...

if you spruce it up and run music videos, or crowd camera, and other things like specials, or slideshows with upcoming events and stuff, it definitely becomes multi purpose...
 
I've been thinking about doing something like this at my bar gigs where I do audio, video and karaoke. I'm hooked to as many TV's as I want around the bar and can easily display a phone number on screen at the touch of a button.

One of the games I play so far it just TV theme song name that tune. I've just been playing the songs until I hear the correct answer and then go to the next song. I usually play about 5 songs in under 2 minutes that. No prizes have been awarded, yet.

Next time I'm there I plan to post my number on screen and then play the 5 songs. The first person to text me with the right answers gets a free drink.

I can also do things like play the Crazy video by Britney Spears and have everyone tell me what male actor is in the video.


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lol, I've never played a Britney song at the bar but this was just an example of what I mean.
 
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