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(82,078 posts)that applies here, methinks.
It's all in the numbers.
They pay attention to the numbers.
It's bucks, of course. But it's also numbers of people. People who will make their voices known and heard. In the case of the band, it's fans. Especially the active, involved fans. I remember sitting in a meeting with another band manager - of a bigger, better-known band we were hoping to tour with. He'd already researched us. He noticed that we had a goodly amount of fans on Facebook (which was good) BUT at the time, Facebook had an additional metric - of ACTIVE fans - those who were posting and replying and sharing our posts and being engaged. We had a lot of those. He noticed, and said so. "Your fans are engaged," he said. And we ended up getting on that tour.
It matters not as much that we have the demographic edge. It's much more important WHAT WE DO with that demographic edge. If we have all the majorities in the world and those majorities stay silent, apathetic, asleep, or otherwise uninvolved, not ENGAGED, then it doesn't matter if the entire freakin' world is on our side!
Hell, we see that all over the place at this very moment! Clear majorities across the country and the world are with US on all the issues - like single payer health care. Like parental leave policies, like respecting and honoring the earth, just to mention a few. But a fiercely manipulative, powerful, and well-funded few get the attention and the deferential treatment and THEIR agenda gets priority. Since we don't have that money, we have to use what we DO have - which is in the numbers. OUR numbers. Our numbers of people. But those numbers of people have to be IN. And COUNTED FOR. Those numbers gave to be active and IN THE GAME and FULLY involved.
When pur reps see that they're facing a wall of very serious and focused and wide-awake and insistent people bigger than a big screen Hollywood tidal wave, they will respond. They know they kinda HAVE TO.
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