• Vintage: Add a classic touch to your concert posters by setting the color of your images into black and white or sepia to achieve the washed-out look. You can do this by editing your images using computer software like Photoshop. Use vintage-looking font types to complement your poster design. Browse through the internet to get inspiration from vintage posters of classic movies in the past. Try mimicking movie posters of Charlie Chaplin or Audrey Hepburn and make it your own.

• Psychedelic: This concert poster idea is all about bright, contrasting colors and extreme depth of details which almost violate the principle rules in poster design. However, this exaggeration technique is what makes psychedelic a fun and creative poster idea. You can do your poster experiment with the use of computer software that can be downloaded online.

• Typography: Combine different type arrangement and design to create a creative image for your concert posters. You can download software on the internet to make the design process fast and easy for you. If you do not have artistic skills to pull off this poster idea, you can seek help from a professional graphic artist.

Aside from your concert poster design, another important thing that you should consider is supplying all the essential information about the concert. Your print poster should be able to do two things: to entertain and to inform. When you are able to do this, your concert posters will definitely attract the attention of many concert enthusiasts.

Flyers and Posters – It’s important to have a well designed, eye-catching flyer or poster. It will show people that the concert deserves their anticipation, time and money.

The artist’s management may provide you with some flyers or posters to start with.

If you prefer to create your own flyer or poster, you should find a graphics professional or pronting company willing to donate services in exchange for advertising.

If it’s the first time the artist is coming to your town or city be sure to include a testimonial on the flyer or poster. A flyer that simple advertises an artist or a band will mean nothing to someone who has never heard of them!

Assign volunteers to post the flyers in places likely to attract the most attention. Try grocery stores, local chamber of Commerce offices, Art Councils or other communities, malls, shoping plazas, music stores, book stores, galleries and other popular gathering spots where flyers are displayed routinely but be sure to ask for permission before posting.

Do not forget to post the flyers or posters to the concert location itself! Try to hang posters as close to the average eye level as possible.

Media and other sources of publicity – List the concert in community calendars, Newspaper, Magazines or radio and TV stations if possible. Radio and Tv stations may be willing to anounce events for free.

Be sure to notice them many weeks in advance. In the listing include the date of the concert, time, location, ticket price, ticket outlets, sponsors of course and phone numbers for information.

Ask promotional material from the artist’s managementslike interviews, video clips, song samples, photographs etc. Try to deliver the material to the media along with the news release anouncing the concert.

Make sure you follow up by phone. Ask from the management to arrange an interview with the artist(s) if possible. Discuss other possibilities.

Provide artist’s promo material (if available) to radio stations likely to air it. Encourage them to play it often especially a week or two before the concert. Have volunteers and friends telephone the stations and request more..!

If you are using an answering machine make a recording using sound clips from the artist. Advertise the phone numbers available to call in newspapaer or on the radio. Include a short message in the recordings detailing concert info.

When you are online, subscribe to any music-related newsgroups or bulletin boards. Post messages about your anticipation, plans and later, show specific information! Of course if you own a website, consider creating a special area to advertise the concert with a hot-link to the artist’s home page (if any).

Ask from the media to co-sponsor (sharing in work or revenues) or to endorse the concert for publicity purposes. If they say ‘YES’ then make sure you include a ‘..co-sponsored by..’ message in the flyers and other promotional material.

One of the biggest drawbacks when planning to attend a concert lies in the difficulty to get decent seats – or sometimes any seats at all – at the performance venue of your choice. Tickets to popular concerts often sell out in no time at all, dampening your anticipation for a great event; moreover, any tickets which are available through outsourced ticket vendors or scouts end up costing four times the amount you were willing to pay. So should you simply settle for the televised version of the concert on cable? No! Rest assured that there’s another way to enjoy a live concert.

To begin, it’s in your best interest to do some research on the concert of your choice before tickets go on sale. Bands usually perform in a cluster of locations within a given region; so even if you don’t get tickets to the venue closest to your home, you’re more than likely to be able to find them for another venue within reasonable proximity. Find out which venues the band will be playing at in advance, and categorize them by choice. That way, if you make a failed attempt to obtain tickets to your top-choice venue, you can quickly conduct a search on your subsequent picks.

Alternatively, why not make a mini-break out of your concert outing? If you can’t find tickets to any venues near your home, take a road trip – or perhaps a flight – to another city where tickets are available. In addition, you can arrange accommodation near the venue: so you’ll not only have a change of scene, but you won’t have to sit through a late-night drive back after the show.

A lot of people may decide to travel from out of town for the concert – so it’s always a good idea to book accommodation well in advance. A number of hotel chains, such as Hilton Hotels, offer special packages and weekend offers especially if the concert is a well-publicised event. So remember: next time you can’t find concert tickets for a venue near you, consider it a good thing. After all, it’s the perfect excuse to take a weekend break.

File sharing on the Internet had long led to increasingly rising prices of concert tickets, when professional black market sellers increased their activity of buying all available tickets in order to artificially create a low supply and, consequently, higher demands of particular concert tickets. Relying on the assumption that their clients lack the necessary information to know it better, these sellers aim at profiteering prices.

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File sharing on the Internet had long led to increasingly rising prices of concert tickets, when professional black market sellers increased their activity of buying all available tickets in order to artificially create a low supply and, consequently, higher demands of particular concert tickets. Relying on the assumption that their clients lack the necessary information to know it better, these sellers aim at profiteering prices.

Although the Internet provided principally all the necessary information about where to find alternative offers, users often had got lost on their search for them and then referred to a street seller. Finally, since the beginning of 2007 concert-tickets-deals.com provides customizable search options to find both first and second hand tickets. Therefore, users can now compare prices directly and so put the sellers into immediate competition to each other. Within this given framework, users only have to act, seriously comparing prices, to challenge the continuous growth of ticket prices.

Using a type of navigation that adapts to the costumers’ perception, users can find the tickets they need following their intuition. Categories like rhythm and blues, hip hop, pop, and festivals guide them directly to the required tickets. Customized search engines presented on the site guarantee that all available options can be compared in less than a minute of time. Additionally, concert-tickets-deals.com provides background information on artists from the music scene and concerts to increase intellectual music pleasure.

Belonging to the network of vertical sites www.betterdeals.com, the ticket guide www.concert-tickets-deals.com was launched in the beginning of 2007 alongside with 34 other new sites. Active since the end of 2003, betterdeals.com aims at being the number one customized guide to electronically presented information, products, and services.