nah they real.. its just promoting is so much more than just posting a flyer up on instagram or facebook and expecting people to see it.
I actually follow way more people than people that follow me, because this is my career and I take it very seriously and its what pays my bills. You can actually send DM's to people who dont follow you back, it gives me an opportunity to send them messages with the flyer attached and a message saying I can hook them up. Or lets say I see a picture of someone talkin about "whats going on this weekend?" and they werent following me back , I can still comment on it with what club ima be at and how I can take care of em.
or to give an example, if people are at a SF Giants or Oakland A's game and its a 7:15 game, ill post on their picture "hey come out after the game (games end at perfect time, around 10-10:30 pm) ill let yall in free"
This is the little stuff 99.99% promoters dont do. People always wanna team up with me and be like I got 20k followers
and im like
I know you would think it works that way but it doesnt
the 2 major rookie mistakes of promoting is;
1. expecting just because you know a lot of people that they will all show up. The stats over the years show that only 10-20% of someones guestlist will show up. You would need a guestlist of around 400+ people to even have 50 of them show to put things in perspective.
2. People think its just about posting flyers on ig/fb and getting 50 likes on it
those are the 2 biggest things I see rookies make at least
If you notice all the big time promoters are actually 30+ years old with a family and settled down. Thats because they put the ground work in, shook hands, passed out business cards and introduced themselves to people that way. The young people usually just come with the people they rode up in the car with
but its all apart of learning and if they are willing to put the time in to build their clientele up.
It probably sounds like im hating in this post, but I just get a lot of people hitting me up to promote and this is just from personal experience over the years and just being as real as I can (cause people do PM on here as well asking how to get started in the business)