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Facebook
Twitter
MySpace
Blogs
LinkedIn
Youtube
Social bookmarking
Other
Question 8: Other objectives (please specify an objective in the comment box below)
Facebook
Twitter
MySpace
Blogs
LinkedIn
Youtube
Social bookmarking
Other
Question 9: Please assess the importance of each social media tool with respect to your social
marketing efforts on the scale from 1 (not important) to 5 (very important)
Facebook
Twitter
MySpace
Blogs
LinkedIn
Youtube
Social bookmarking
Other
Question 10: What benefits did you attain using social media marketing? Please assess the
effectiveness on the scale from 1 (not effective at all) to 5 (very effective)
Increased number of sold tickets
Increased brand awareness
Reduced overall cost of marketing
Attracting visitors from
other geographic locations
New partnerships with other art organizations
New partnerships with donation organizations
Expanded market of potential performers
Bigger and stronger fans communities
Other (please specify)
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Question 11: Please assess the effectiveness of the options in the attempt to engage fans in
conversations and stimulate word-of-mouth referrals
Posting questions to initiate discussions on the wall
Announcing online contest among fans
Providing ticket
sales
Announcing upcoming events
Posting polls
Commercial banner adds
Providing music downloads
Post video clips
Podcasts
Widgets
Post pictures galleries
Other (please specify)
Question 12: Do you maintain a profile at any of the following radio stations or other music-related
websites that provide social networking services?
Yes
No
Question 13: If yes, what are your main activities on these websites?
Upload music for fans
Involves fans in discussions
Provide information about concerts
Promote
ticket selling
Posting blog
Other (please specify)
Question14: If no, do you plan to expand your presence on these kinds of websites with the purpose of
social interaction with your customers?
Yes
No
Question 15: Do you identify the potential brand advocates or opinion leaders who present on your
social media tools?
Yes
No
Question 16: If yes, what measurement do you use to identify brand advocates or opinion leaders?
Not applicable
Active participation on the social networking websites (comments/reviews)
Most loyal visitors of the venue based on a number of purchases/tickets
Number of friends
Geographic location
High level of connectivity/ties with their friends
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Other (please specify)
Question 17: Do you design tactics to encourage brand advocates / opinion leaders to pass information
to other users?
Yes
No
Question 20: Please share about the most successful activity you did to promote upcoming events using
social media?
Open ended
Question 18: What percentage of the overall budget do you spend on social media activities?
Less than 5 %
About 5-10%
About 10-25%
About 25-50%
More than half
Question 19: What percentage of the revenue do you generate from social media marketing?
Less than 10%
About 10- 20%
About 20-30%
About 30-50%
About 59-75%
More than 75%
Question 20: If you don’t use social media tools, do you plan to start using them?
Yes
No
Question 21: If yes, what social media tools are you going to uses
Facebook
Twitter
MySpace
Blogs
LinkedIn
Youtube
Flickr
Social bookmarking
Other
Question 22: If you plan to use social media tools, indicate how important each of the following goals
are on the scale from 1 (not important) at all to 5 (very important)
Promoting events/services/programming/ticketing
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Increasing web traffic
Increasing brand awareness
Building relationship
Raise funding
Learning interests/values/preferences/brand perception of patrons
Other objectives (please specify an objective in the comment box below)
Question 23: If you do not plan to use social media tools, what are the main reasons for reject the use
of social networking websites? Please choose all that apply
Do not see advantage for the company using these sites to achieve major goals
Lack of appropriate knowledge/expertise to monetize social media
Lack of control
Potential threat of leaking corporate secrets
Lack of resources (time/financial/human) to develop/update the content
Other (please specify)
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APPENDIX 3: Identified participants of the survey
1.
Amphitheater At Clark County
2.
Booth Amphitheatre
3.
Capitol Federal Park @ Sandstone
4.
Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Rock Creek Park / National Park Service
5.
City of Burbank
6.
Greek Theatre
7.
A concert venue 1 belonged to Live Nation
8.
A concert venue 2 belonged to Live Nation
9.
Los Angeles County Arts Commission/Ford Theatres
10.
Riverfest, Inc.
11.
Starr Hill Presents
12.
South Shore Music Circus
13.
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
14.
Vail Valley Foundation/ Vilar Performing Arts Center
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APPENDIX 4: Coding to the question 20 regarding the most successful tactics used by
the respondent to promote events
1
. Announcing show information on our Facebook site before any other creates a value for our FB
community and generates more activity all
2.
Did a 3 week social media campaign for our Holiday Celebration - a live 6 hour show that is broadcast
throughout southern California and is free to about 10K ppl who come out to see it live. This year, for the
first time, we also did a simulcast Web stream that made it possible for people across the country and
around the world to view. We had over 80 countries tuning in. Because it's a free event, ticket sales were not
important, but rather viewership & interactivity.
3.
Our use of social media is very limited and is handled by volunteer members of our media committee. We
don't have any accurate means of measuring effectiveness at this point.
4.
In general just being able to use it as a free tool. We are a nonprofit venue so spending money is hard for
us. We have had great success on facebook. We grew from 50 fans in January to almost 3,000 today. It took
a lot work but it is really a useful tool for us.
5.
Often track pre-sales using specific social media passwords so ROI is clear - had some very successful
campaigns (80+ tickets sold from social sites)
6.
Retweets to Win Tickets - helps us expand our network and gets the word out about whatever show we
are doing promo for.
7.
Ticket sales promotion.
8.
twitter contests
9.
Have our own website for our concert venue.
10
. Chose not to disclose
11.
Chose not to disclose
12.
Nothing particularly noteworthy here.
13.
Announcing a Ticket On Sale event and watching it correlate in to big sales in the opening hours of the
on sale
14.
We use Facebook and Twitter to announce when new shows will be announced to drive people to our
website and get them excited.
15.
Breaking the Pearl Jam show, a great deal of interest was generated by using social media.
16.
posted it on facebook