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Community in Large Scale Music Operations

By Jeremy Larochelle / September 28, 2024 / Comments Off on Community in Large Scale Music Operations

  Businesses with multiple venues and music options can benefit from not only finding the right talent fit for the rooms but the right talent fit for the ecosystem as a whole. Community building can help push the entire location into creative overload. Jeremy Larochelle talks about how this happens from a top-level in this […]

Numbers: The Arch-Enemy of Feelings

By Jeremy Larochelle / October 5, 2023 / Comments Off on Numbers: The Arch-Enemy of Feelings

    I currently manage the entire music program for a global brand. As part of my duties, I am responsible for the direction of background music creation for over 30,000 tracks that are cycled monthly across our properties. These tracks are organized in playlists that fire throughout the day to support the experience of […]

Raise The Roof And Get It Down

By Jeremy Larochelle / September 7, 2021 / Comments Off on Raise The Roof And Get It Down

  While launching our first ship, I was tasked with leading the build of a concert stage and roof for our fly-on act – 80’s New Wave icons ABC Band with Martin Fry.   Orchestrating the build of a stage and roof on land is a challenge in and of itself. Many elements come into play. […]

The Amygdala – Fear, Pleasure, and Rock and Roll

By Jeremy Larochelle / June 15, 2021 / Comments Off on The Amygdala – Fear, Pleasure, and Rock and Roll

  In my post Herd Mentality in Entertainment, I discuss how a small piece of our brain called The amygdala (what some call the old mammalian brain) is responsible for our natural mental reflexes to evade predators. This is a key component to my overall concert consumer behavior thesis as it is my belief that this […]

The Power of a Venue Pull Marketing Strategy

By Jeremy Larochelle / November 18, 2019 / Comments Off on The Power of a Venue Pull Marketing Strategy

  You may be surprised to learn that all of the ads you encounter each day aren’t just to get YOU to purchase products. While this is a majority of the brand’s intent, there is an additional hidden agenda and it comes in the form of a pull marketing strategy.   According to the Corporate […]

The Ancillary Dangers of an 18 Plus Club

By Jeremy Larochelle / October 31, 2019 / Comments Off on The Ancillary Dangers of an 18 Plus Club

  In a previous post, I explained the vital importance of ancillary income for your club or venue.  This income stream covers everything non-ticketed such as VIP, lawn chairs, bottle service, merchandise, food, and beverages. You can only sell your customer one ticket but multiple ancillary units. This makes the latter a key component of […]