Robert Payne

Technology: Event Marketing & Management

“Say NO to Will Call”
by Robert Payne
Have you ever found yourself standing in a Will Call line that stretched around the block, while enviously observing carefree patrons stroll up to the Box Office, and thought to yourself, “this is what I get for buying my ticket ahead of time?” When [...]

Any avid surfer would agree there is no such thing as having too many surfboards. Different lengths, widths, rails, tails, fin configurations, and composites are all factors that affect the way we ride and can be adjusted depending on the particular wave conditions. It doesn’t matter how big of a shredder you are, there are [...]

Carmichael Lynch put together a very bold and clever advertising campaign for Subaru, and it features a photograph that I took of my very own Subaru Outback after I ran it headlong into a boulder going 60 mph. I walked away relatively unscathed, but the car wasn’t so lucky.
This Subaru was 1 of 5 [...]

Ah, it’s Monday. While enjoying my first cup of coffee, I thought I’d choose a Wordpress plugin to play with and see what I could do with it. I stumbled across this Wordpress Survey Tool and figured I’d use it to judge Facebook usage.
A note about Wordpress survey tools: some are better than others, [...]

TUESDAY, JUNE 23RD, DOORS AT 7PM, SCREENING AT 8PM
Downtown Reno: Nevadan Hotel, 3rd Floor Club Cal Neva (West side of Virginia Street)
Proceeds benefit Reno Bike Project and The Holland Project
Register Now

On the heels of National Bike Month, the Tour De Nez and the Reno Film Festival, Reno’s cycling culture gets a special pre-release screening [...]

Or so says the Reynolds School of Journalism. And we wholeheartedly agree. Coming on the heels of the Salt Lake City Wordcamp, we were pleased to be a part of another informative and inspiring gathering of the best and brightest Wordpress designers and developers. If you missed it, well, there will most likely be another [...]

At a recent TED conference, best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert stated, “we have completely internalized and accepted collectively this notion that creativity and suffering are somehow inherently linked.” She goes on to further frame “the utter, maddening, capriciousness of the creative process” by suggesting that we pull from something greater than [...]

Tomorrow Jennifer Buch and I will be meeting up with our CEO, David LaPlante in Washington DC for DMAI’s Destination Showcase. David will be giving a presentation on the effective use of web technology and social media for destination marketing and event planning and management. Really looking forward to seeing all of our nation’s [...]

As email marketers, we are faced with a myriad of tasks when it comes to constructing successful email campaigns. Proper design, messaging, and the integration of actionable items are just a few of the required steps. Once you finally get to the point of hitting send, you want to be confident your message will [...]

And Twelve Horses is one of them!

In the past year, we have worked very hard to bring to the market place an innovative new ticketing system that provides airline quality ticketing for medium-sized businesses. While there are quite a few masters of ticketing out there, we feel that we have a unique perspective and position [...]