On this week’s episode of the podcast, Josh Spector, Jordan Cooper and Chelcie Rice welcome Ally Bruener on the show to describe her recent encounter with the Cincinnati police while promoting her stand-up comedy at a local event.
It leads into a lengthy discussion about merchandise strategy for comedians and how to balance aligning it with your act versus creating something people would be willing to buy. In addition, we discuss the importance of having a web presence you control, the visibility conundrum on social networks, why content creation is key for comedians online, and a hearty scolding (as always) that e-mail matters!
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Links from this episode:
Party in the Park: Where it’s not okay to be proudly crippled [Ally Bruener]
The Official Brent Weinbach Website – Merchandise
The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only Happen Within the First Hour [Read Write Web]
WTF Podcast Episode 272 – Kevin Hart
The Danger of Too Many Calls to Action [Dayne Shuda]
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The audio is quite bad this episode. I can’t understand anything Ally says (and that has nothing to do with her disability, there’s too much distortion.)
Hey Roger, as much as I’d like to disagree with you, I really can’t. But I can promise MUCH better audio in the next one with new mics so hopefully you’ll stay tuned…
I thought the sound quality was great. I have one question, though. You mentioned a website that would buy stories for $75. It sounded like crack.com, but when I went there it wasn’t what you were talking about. What was that website? Thanks for everything. These podcasts are so helpful.
Hey Sue, it was Cracked.com. Thanks for listening!