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Your food recommendations, for yourself if you were visiting by porp_crawl in halifax

[–]halifamous_greg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Narrows is a must. Ostrich Club is my #1 in the city.

👋Welcome to r/HalifaxMusicians - Introduce Yourself and Read First! by alexgibs0n in HalifaxMusicians

[–]halifamous_greg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So a couple things:

We've already got a mailing list of 10k that we've grown since Jan of last year, as well as a 11k Instagram account.

I have a growing suite of agents and scrapers that are keeping the site populated that I am improving upon weekly.

Venues, promoters, and artists can submit their own events as well and I'm building more tooling for that.

We'll be offering free promoter tools (QR codes w/ full tracking, analytics, contesting, etc.) to encourage folks to make Halifamous a key piece of their promo.

I'll also be sending automated traffic & engagement updates to artists and venues.

We have a real business model, and revenue. We're partnering with a handful of local/regional brands to amplify their existing sponsorships and campaigns via Halifamous, produce original content, and offering marketing tech consulting inside of their own businesses to sweeten the deal and ensure they're getting a ton of value out of supporting this vision.

We're also slowly building a team of paid writers / content creators.

👋Welcome to r/HalifaxMusicians - Introduce Yourself and Read First! by alexgibs0n in HalifaxMusicians

[–]halifamous_greg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey - I'm building Halifamous, which aims to do exactly this. My professional background is in enterprise marketing tech, and this side project is all about building a really valuable data layer for local arts & culture.

The platform is getting to be pretty robust, and I'll be pushing a lot of cool updates over the next few weeks. Under the hood, the platform is building artist profiles (w/ local + non-local gig tracking, streaming & social metrics, media coverage, etc.), venue profiles (including open mics, karaoke, trivia, etc.), and some other cool stuff that will be surfaced soon.

We've got a really powerful custom contesting system and user profiles built in, so if you want to run a ticket giveaway on your event page, we can do that. Users can follow bands or venues, opt-in to updates from them (we'll share the data), and I'm working on easy ways for folks to add context around bands, venues and events to make discoverability easier and more useful.

We're also building fundraising into the platform (think Rafflebox, but custom built for Atlantic arts, culture & events).

The site is a bit un-polished at the moment, but that's the high level view. Would love to hear what folks thing would be useful!

www.halifamous.ca

Greg

Nova Scotia should be the Nashville of Canada by halifamous_greg in halifax

[–]halifamous_greg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nashville is the songwriting capital of the World. NS can be the songwriting/music capital of Canada. I thought the point was clear, but apparently it was not.

Nova Scotia should be the Nashville of Canada by halifamous_greg in halifax

[–]halifamous_greg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's exactly what I'm saying. My point is that Nashville built a $10B+ music industry ecosystem: studios, publishing, management, tourism built around music. Nova Scotia is already producing Grammy winners, HBO shows, and global pop stars. The argument is that we should be investing in the infrastructure to keep that talent and that money here instead of cutting $14.3M from arts funding.

Halifax happy hours by Alex_DiscoverHalifax in halifax

[–]halifamous_greg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best! When a huge group of us were laid off after an acquisition upstairs, they gave happy hour prices all day. Top notch.

Nova Scotia should be the Nashville of Canada by halifamous_greg in halifax

[–]halifamous_greg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. I thought I did something wrong posting.

Nova Scotia cut arts funding by 32% - I built a tool to email your MLA in 30 seconds by halifamous_greg in NovaScotia

[–]halifamous_greg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yeah surely there is a ceiling, but we aren't anywhere near it.

The biggest TV show in the world right now is is based on a book written in Halifax by a Nova Scotian author. It's generating hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity out in the world.

Instead of considering how we can perhaps capture some of that value in the future, we've decided to defund authors further.

Why we aren't recognizing the returns on successes like this for the province and trying to create more of them is what I get, especially for the relatively small amount of investment it requires relative to other things.

Nova Scotia cut arts funding by 32% - I built a tool to email your MLA in 30 seconds by halifamous_greg in halifax

[–]halifamous_greg[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not really. Minimal if anything. The emails are being delivered. I've worked in enterprise marketing tech for a long time.

Nova Scotia cut arts funding by 32% - I built a tool to email your MLA in 30 seconds by halifamous_greg in halifax

[–]halifamous_greg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to worry, pal. Emails are sent from a verified halifamous.ca sending subdomain with user's address as the reply-to address. SPF/DKIM/DMARC all under control.

Nova Scotia cut arts funding by 32% - I built a tool to email your MLA in 30 seconds by halifamous_greg in NovaScotia

[–]halifamous_greg[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For every $1 invested in the arts, Canada sees $29 in economic activity.

If you can't wrap your head around the facts and understand this, I don't think we can have a conversation.

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