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Promoting a Concert or Music Festival? Promotional Ideas for Mobile

Concerts and music festivals need to be heavily promoted in order to be successful. While social media campaigns are a given, you can also promote your event with a text to win. You can use a text to win to not only attract more people to your event, but also to offer prizes and add to the experience for attendees.

The most important reason to consider it is because text bridges the gap between traditional media and mobile. If you’re not sure where to start, here are a few ideas on how to use text to win to promote a concert or music festival.

1. Run a text to win and offer prizes.

Fans are already excited about seeing their favorite acts perform. You can really take the experience over the top by offering prizes that help them get even closer to their favorite performers. With a text to win, you could offer a chance to win VIP seats (as this comedian did), meet the band, go to a side event at the festival, get t-shirts or a basket of free items from the venue or performers.

2. Create a database of mobile numbers to send messages.

Marketing to festival attendees shouldn’t end once you get them to buy tickets. In fact, once you build a database of mobile numbers, you can send to them messages before, during or after the event. (See this post about the value of your text subscriber list.) By texting them during your event, you can measure engagement and keep things exciting by offering access to special venue features that only your mobile subscribers will know about.

3. Share links to exclusive content, such as video or audio downloads.

Want to drum up more shares and excitement? This is how you do it. By texting links to content before or after the event, you can give your event attendees something exciting to share with their friends, especially if it’s exclusive content. Once subscribers enter your text sweep, they will get any other texts you send leading up to the event. Just make sure you let them know they might receive other offers or exclusives when they sign up.

4. Alert them of future concerts or events later.

Let your subscribers know when their favorite acts are performing again.  They’ve already shown they’re interested by subscribing, right? Alert them of other upcoming events to leverage your marketing even further.

5. Ask them to download a venue or music app, if one is available.

Want to get more exposure for your music app? Just ask subscribers to sign up for it after they opt in to your text to win campaign. Or instead of having them look for your app, just tell them to “Text APP to 65047 to receive a download link” and capture their mobile number for future text (SMS) marketing efforts.

To get started with your own text to win, see features and pricing.