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diff --git a/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md index 8745d89..97c5537 100644 --- a/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md @@ -1,19 +1,18 @@ --- title: "When hotels start calling you" -slug: when-hotels-start-calling-you pubDate: 2025-09-26T16:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:29:32.000Z draft: false excerpt: "For the first year and a half of SLIST, every venue relationship started the same way: I found them. Cold DM. Follow-up email. Walk-through request. Pitch deck with screenshots of … Read more" categories: - - { name: Updates, slug: updates } + - Updates tags: - - { name: format-short-take, slug: format-short-take } - - { name: growth, slug: growth } - - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } - - { name: partnerships, slug: partnerships } - - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } - - { name: venues, slug: venues } + - format-short-take + - growth + - nyc + - partnerships + - tone-reflective + - venues featured: src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/when-hotels-start-calling-you/cover.pngDiff truncated (32 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
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diff --git a/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md index 7fb1c2a..8745d89 100644 --- a/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } - { name: venues, slug: venues } featured: - src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2041f824b20.10572969.png + src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/when-hotels-start-calling-you/cover.png alt: "Boutique hotel rooftop venue at dusk with DJ setup and Brooklyn skyline" legacy_wp_id: 15861 ---fix(web): point upload URLs at slist.net (cdn.slist.net not wired up yet)
diff --git a/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md index bb36a1e..7fb1c2a 100644 --- a/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } - { name: venues, slug: venues } featured: - src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2041f824b20.10572969.png + src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2041f824b20.10572969.png alt: "Boutique hotel rooftop venue at dusk with DJ setup and Brooklyn skyline" legacy_wp_id: 15861 ---feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)
diff --git a/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md index 0ca7f50..bb36a1e 100644 --- a/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md @@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ slug: when-hotels-start-calling-you pubDate: 2025-09-26T16:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:29:32.000Z draft: false +excerpt: "For the first year and a half of SLIST, every venue relationship started the same way: I found them. Cold DM. Follow-up email. Walk-through request. Pitch deck with screenshots of … Read more" +categories: + - { name: Updates, slug: updates } +tags: + - { name: format-short-take, slug: format-short-take } + - { name: growth, slug: growth } + - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } + - { name: partnerships, slug: partnerships } + - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } + - { name: venues, slug: venues } +featured: + src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2041f824b20.10572969.png + alt: "Boutique hotel rooftop venue at dusk with DJ setup and Brooklyn skyline" legacy_wp_id: 15861 --- For the first year and a half of SLIST, every venue relationship started the same way: I found them. Cold DM. Follow-up email. Walk-through request. Pitch deck with screenshots of ticket sales and Instagram flyers as proof of concept. The standard promoter hustle of convincing someone to let you prove yourself in their room.feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist
diff --git a/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ca7f50 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2025/when-hotels-start-calling-you/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: "When hotels start calling you" +slug: when-hotels-start-calling-you +pubDate: 2025-09-26T16:00:00.000Z +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:29:32.000Z +draft: false +legacy_wp_id: 15861 +--- +For the first year and a half of SLIST, every venue relationship started the same way: I found them. Cold DM. Follow-up email. Walk-through request. Pitch deck with screenshots of ticket sales and Instagram flyers as proof of concept. The standard promoter hustle of convincing someone to let you prove yourself in their room. + +Then in September 2025, Christopher Jaime found us. + +Christopher is the GM of Jolene at Moxy Williamsburg. He manages Jolene, Lillistar, and Bar Bedford under Bar-Lab — the hospitality management company running nightlife operations at the Moxy Williamsburg hotel. His nightlife team had been watching SLIST. They reached out proactively. Not because we applied. Not because someone made an introduction. Because the brand had gotten visible enough that a hotel venue GM decided to make the first move. + +That’s a different universe from cold-pitching warehouse owners in Bushwick. + +* * * + +I toured Jolene on September 26. My response to the initial outreach was minimal and efficient: “Thanks for reaching out and for your interest in my party. I’m interested, what’s the next step?” No overselling. No long pitch. When a hotel venue comes to you, the posture changes. You’re not auditioning. You’re evaluating. + +The concept we pitched: a Sunday day party on the rooftop — trance and dark groove from 2pm to midnight — rolling into hard techno in the club room until 4am. Marketed as an industry night series. The kind of programming that a boutique hotel venue wants because it brings a curated crowd that spends at the bar, stays at the hotel, and doesn’t trash the place. + +Jolene’s terms: $7,000 bar minimum, non-negotiable. Keep all ticket sales, no bar split. My counter: $4,000 bar minimum with a 20% bar split after $6,000. We know our numbers. We know what our crowd spends per head — $25 to $32 across every venue we’ve worked. The math either works or it doesn’t. At $7,000 minimum, it didn’t work for our first event there. +Diff truncated (44 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
