If you’re a promoter and you’re reading this, this is for you. If you’ve never spent 20 hours on a weekend flyering cars all by yourself in the pouring rain, you have a lot to experience. If you’ve never driven from Olympia to Everett delivering flyers to malls, you have a lot to experience. If you’ve never spent 40hrs during a week working on a party, you have a lot to experience. The bottom line is this, this sh*t isn’t easy, and I’m sick and f*cking tired of everyone making it out to be. Creating a social network presence and exploiting the hell out of it is not how you promote events, as a matter of fact, that strategy is ruining our industry. Turning in a Guestlist of 500ppl only have 20 show is a joke, no one gives a sh*t. Quit treating your customers like numbers or names in a phone book, they aren’t. This industry shouldn’t be about making extra money on the side, it shouldn’t be about doing it to “look cool”, it should be about building business networks and eventually making real money. I see some of you posting MySpace bulletins, Facebook event invites & comments like they are going out of style, only to have 50ppl show up at your event. I see people whoring out the industry just so people will look at them in a more positive light, just so people will accept them. These type of people are destroying Seattle nightlife, they are undercutting legitimate promoters and making their jobs 10x more difficult to do.

Where are the real promoters at, where are the companies that can take an empty venue and put 700ppl in it on their first night. I’ll tell you where they are, they don’t exist anymore and unless someone steps up and starts regulating this sh*t, they never will. I sound angry don’t I, and I am, there are too many people, promoters, owners, bartenders, bar backs, cocktail waitresses, security guards and managers that have poured their lives into this cities Nightlife scene and all these new “promoters” are f*cking it all up. You want to know where this is coming from, I’ll tell you, it’s coming from me being absolutely sick and tired of people TALKING about what they can do. There are no weekly event promoters left, take that as a challenge from me, unless you’re a promoter with a niche market and limited options, you’re a joke, and there’s nothing you can say about it because you haven’t accomlished shit. Call me when you’ve produced 1,000 events, call me when you’ve had 2000+ people in a club, call me when you’ve worked with every major DJ talent in the country, call me when you develop some type of technology that revolutionizes your nightlife scene, call me when you successfully spin off 7 promotion companies, call me when you purchase and rejuvenate the nations largest photography company, call me when you open your own club, call me when you do ANYTHING that brings a positive vibe back to Seattle Nightlife, until then, f*ck off.

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