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Graham Williams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
180 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

still for a fairly niche audience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

So it is a lot of social media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

It is a lot of non-traditional marketing, which isn't quite as expensive as the full-page ads in the daily paper and things like that that kind of push you over the top.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

I think the uniqueness of the festival.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

I mean, we're still boutique compared to the big dogs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

I mean, you know, Coachella's of the world are 80,000 people, and some of those are two weekends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

We're talking 150,000, 160,000 over two weekends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

But when it comes to the other 1,000 festivals out there, yeah, we're definitely on the top scale of those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

Us, Pitchfork, some of the festivals in that range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

I think those kind of festivals tend to find their audience and respect that audience by...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

Booking, promoting, marketing the way they want to be booked and promoted and marketed to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

It's the artist they want to see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

It's having a voice they understand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

Ours is sort of genre-based, so every stage is kind of broken into genres.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

The more dance and hip-hop stage, you had Wu-Tang, you had Grimes, you had acts like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

The more indie-centric stage, you had Jane's Addiction, Churches, Lauryn Hill replaced D'Angelo, who canceled Last Minute.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

We have a stage that's a little bit heavier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

It's kind of heavier music, and there were more punk and metal bands on that stage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

It's essentially one big pot that it all goes into, but ticket sales are the bulk of it, obviously.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams

Then I would say sponsorship and bar because if you're self-producing, if you know what you're doing, you're doing it in the right location, you are selling the alcohol as well, so you're handling the vendor and beverage sales.