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MEMPHIS BBQFest > 2023 > 1 Month Away - $100,000 budget due to inflation! (4 Viewers)
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Johnny Rock
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Looking into a business trip to one of our stores where I travel through Memphis for this. 20% chance.
I also sent the logo to my BIL and we talked. He agreed with your assessment that it's not too conducive for a relief laser cut, although it could be modified somewhat to possibly make it work. He doesn't do the computer layout part but he's going to show it to the guy who does to see how much work it would take. Not getting my hopes up but it doesn't hurt to try.
sbonomo
Footballguy
It would be great if you could make it. This year is going to be the by far the best one yet. The kitchen is as organized as it has ever been and the party is always second to none!
James Daulton
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There better be some ####### night time party streaming. I really DGAF about the meat preparation.
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We will definitely do some live streaming on Facebook of both the food side of things and the party side of things.
FACEBOOK - I do the majority of the posting to our Facebook page and will be broadcasting live a good bit. I'll be capturing a mix of party and food.
TWITTER - I will be posting a good bit here as well.
INSTAGRAM - Tommy will have control of Instagram during the festival... he's a maniac and will likely be streaming/photographing lots of ladies.
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Now way this weather holds..we've never had a fully dry BBQfest week in the 13ish years I've been doing this...
#reversegunz
Part of the annual battle of this festival is trying to fend off at LEAST one day/night of terrible weather.... every year.
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Part of the annual battle of this festival is trying to fend off at LEAST one day/night of terrible weather.... every year.
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Rich Conway
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*furiously knocks on wood*
MarvinTScamper
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James Daulton
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less food, more hot wimmenz.We will definitely do some live streaming on Facebook of both the food side of things and the party side of things.
FACEBOOK - I do the majority of the posting to our Facebook page and will be broadcasting live a good bit. I'll be capturing a mix of party and food.
TWITTER - I will be posting a good bit here as well.
INSTAGRAM - Tommy will have control of Instagram during the festival... he's a maniac and will likely be streaming/photographing lots of ladies.
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Slight shift of weather...
The Southern Pride SP-700 smoker has been delivered to our space. PODS unit getting dropped today.
Looking like a storm blowing through tonight/tomorrow which may impact teams like ours who are getting scaffold put up. Then, looks like a gorgeous weekend for load-in (sunny but not too warm).
Rest of the festival looks like picture perfect weather absent a chance of a storm rolling through Thursday afternoon.
IF one hits, we'd LOVE for it to be blown through by 4 or so, as that's when our CDW/Cisco/NetApp/Meraki 100 person sales meeting / dinner on the top deck takes place. The deck is tented, but we'd hate for them to get rained on during the walk down, not to mention we always want a great experience to ensure they keep coming back.
It also goes without saying that Hot/Dry weather bodes much better for the eye-candy factor...
The Southern Pride SP-700 smoker has been delivered to our space. PODS unit getting dropped today.
Looking like a storm blowing through tonight/tomorrow which may impact teams like ours who are getting scaffold put up. Then, looks like a gorgeous weekend for load-in (sunny but not too warm).
Rest of the festival looks like picture perfect weather absent a chance of a storm rolling through Thursday afternoon.
IF one hits, we'd LOVE for it to be blown through by 4 or so, as that's when our CDW/Cisco/NetApp/Meraki 100 person sales meeting / dinner on the top deck takes place. The deck is tented, but we'd hate for them to get rained on during the walk down, not to mention we always want a great experience to ensure they keep coming back.
It also goes without saying that Hot/Dry weather bodes much better for the eye-candy factor...
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TheFanatic
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I was just coming in here to ask this. Doesn't it rain pretty much every single year? I guess my memory was correct on that one. And isn't it usually like horrendous thunderstorms?
TheFanatic
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Bruh, we got up your Insta game.We will definitely do some live streaming on Facebook of both the food side of things and the party side of things.
FACEBOOK - I do the majority of the posting to our Facebook page and will be broadcasting live a good bit. I'll be capturing a mix of party and food.
TWITTER - I will be posting a good bit here as well.
INSTAGRAM - Tommy will have control of Instagram during the festival... he's a maniac and will likely be streaming/photographing lots of ladies.
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Yes... we've had some downright monsoons with significant straight line winds. We've gotten pretty good at rigging tarp systems custom measured to our scaffold to enclose the booth so the party can go on... but a festival without at least ONE day being severely cut back by a major storm is rare, indeed.
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Got an email from Maggie yesterday raving about how much fun she's had the last couple years and wants to come back this year with 3 GFs. Of course. She then says she's upset we've never met up in the booth and told me to look for her friday so we can grab a drink and finally meet face to face. 
She sent these pics.
Beach
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She sent these pics.
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TheFanatic
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I wasn't a believer in IG at all. Thought it was stupid. It's the hottest social media platform there is. Load up on pics this weekend and then feed them into IG a few a day until you run out. Next year, feed them all back into the feed in the weeks leading up to the event, then load up on more pics and feed them in for the next few weeks. The next year before the event, repost all the top performing pics leading up to MiM. Then load up on pics and keep doing that.
The money to be made on Instagram is absolutely sick. Like my wife quit her job to be with the kids because of what I make on Instagram sick. As in, I very well leave my job by the end of the year sick.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
WHA?!Got an email from Maggie yesterday raving about how much fun she's had the last couple years and wants to come back this year with 3 GFs. Of course. She then says she's upset we've never met up in the booth and told me to look for her friday so we can grab a drink and finally meet face to face.
She sent these pics.
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I'll be in touch. I generally snap 50-75 photos a day down at the river and have albums of hundreds of photos from the last several years.
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BBQfest is a strange place. A good buddy on the team isn't one to pull much strange, but 2 years ago I walk back into the kitchen and this smoking hot 6' Brunette in a mini dress has him pinned to the prep table getting about as down as you can while fully clothed.
Another female friend once texted me joking about her girlfriend taking a guy from my team home to their hotel room. She sends a pic of them still in bed. Dude isn't on our team... just ran game and it worked
I think it's the bartender/backstage effect... they're at a ridiculous party and the guys running the show get on some mental pedestal in some chicks' minds I guess. Who knows...some wimmen are nuts.
I have an amazing, gorgous GF so I will prob say hey to Maggie, then sic her on @sbonomo
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TheFanatic
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Create a folder on a cloud drive you have access to from your phone. Go through ALL the pics you have from every year you've done this from every camera used to take pics. Load the top ones into that folder and start pumping them into IG right now. Do 10 a day. Do them all at once if you like. Oh, and hashtag the crap out of each pic. Oh, and I'm your 17th follower
TheFanatic
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Oh, the girlfriend thing. Now I get theBBQfest is a strange place. A good buddy on the team isn't one to pull much strange, but 2 years ago I walk back into the kitchen and this smoking hot 6' Brunette in a mini dress has him pinned to the prep table getting about as down as you can while fully clothed.
Another female friend once texted me joking about her girlfriend taking a guy from my team home to their hotel room. She sends a pic of them still in bed. Dude isn't on our team... just ran game and it worked
I think it's the bartender/backstage effect... they're at a ridiculous party and the guys running the show get on some mental pedestal in some chicks' minds I guess. Who knows...some wimmen are nuts.
I have an amazing, gorgous GF so I will prob say hey to Maggie, then sic her on @sbonomo
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Insoxicated
I don't even have the keys to our Instagram account. Nobody knows who does so I gotta figure that out. I'll get that sorted this weekend.
All my images are on iCloud and I have a 1TB Dropbox account so that much is easy.
Thx
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Guest list currently 750 folks long with 1/3 of the team having submitted names....not counting ~200 sponsors
Lines to get in our booth are going to be ridiculous this year.... anticipating the sidewalk/lawn out front to look like a small concert crowd. I think I'm going to randomly throw cans of beer out there periodically.
Lines to get in our booth are going to be ridiculous this year.... anticipating the sidewalk/lawn out front to look like a small concert crowd. I think I'm going to randomly throw cans of beer out there periodically.
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TheFanatic
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Try to log in from a computer and say you lost the password. It will email to the email address associated with the account. Then tell all involved to look out for the email and change the password to whatever and then you start posting.I don't even have the keys to our Instagram account. Nobody knows who does so I gotta figure that out. I'll get that sorted this weekend.
All my images are on iCloud and I have a 1TB Dropbox account so that much is easy.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
Oh, and next year, get me down there with my DSL and phone, I shoot all weekend, live posting pics on the spot, as well as doing Instagram Live and then I go home, edit the hundreds and hundreds of pictures I take and load them to your drive and you're set for years to come.
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Right on! Standing invite has been there for years, buddy.
Next year lets make it happen. Got the account sorted out. I'll populate it with some #### now and cross promote from Twitter/FB pages a bit.
TheFanatic
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First off, download IFTTT app and search for the IFTTT recipe "Instagram to Twitter." Then link the two accounts. This will push the picture to Twitter from Instagram every time you post rather than just the link.Right on! Standing invite has been there for years, buddy.
Got the account sorted out. I'll populate it with some #### now and cross promote from Twitter/FB pages a bit.
Then link the FB account to IG and select to push it to FB every time you post a pic to IG. You have to manually select FB, but IFTTT will take care of Twitter for you. Don't use IFTTT for FB.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
If you are an admin on the page, you can post to the page from IG. I do that with just about everything I post from IG. It has grown my FB feed by 29,000 followers the last 12 months
sbonomo
Footballguy
I am game!!!!! Honestly, I could hook up every night at this event if I wanted too. Whether it is someone from the booth or in the walk home on Beale street it is a target rich environment.BBQfest is a strange place. A good buddy on the team isn't one to pull much strange, but 2 years ago I walk back into the kitchen and this smoking hot 6' Brunette in a mini dress has him pinned to the prep table getting about as down as you can while fully clothed.
Another female friend once texted me joking about her girlfriend taking a guy from my team home to their hotel room. She sends a pic of them still in bed. Dude isn't on our team... just ran game and it worked
I think it's the bartender/backstage effect... they're at a ridiculous party and the guys running the show get on some mental pedestal in some chicks' minds I guess. Who knows...some wimmen are nuts.
I have an amazing, gorgous GF so I will prob say hey to Maggie, then sic her on @sbonomo
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sbonomo
Footballguy
I still want to see the video of the gals flashing the camera man last year in our promo video
sbonomo
Footballguy
Someone needs to show me how to do this. Icon gets pics of the party, I get the food porn.
sbonomo
Footballguy
This thing is a beast - I will post pictures of it fully loaded on Wed/Thur when we load her up for feeding the masses.
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My point is it's only allowing me to link to my personal FB page. Oddly went I went back to it an hour later it gave me options to post to my pages I admin..... so thats a good deal. Thanks!
I'm going to have to work with the guys on posting guidelines as we have some dudes who will take 59 crappy pics or drunken wobbly videos and chase off our followers. With this linked and double posting I need to keep the reigns pretty tight to keep on message and quality of content/communications high.
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$35,000 gets you the ability to slow smoke 84 Butts, or 72 Slabs of Ribs, or 96 Chickens in all its computer-controlled, convection-circulating, self-basting rotisserie spinning glory.
Rich Conway
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TheFanatic
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TheFanatic
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Yes, this, so much this. You need to focus on quality. That is vital to growing both on FB and IG.My point is it's only allowing me to link to my personal FB page. Oddly went I went back to it an hour later it gave me options to post to my pages I admin..... so thats a good deal. Thanks!
I'm going to have to work with the guys on posting guidelines as we have some dudes who will take 59 crappy pics or drunken wobbly videos and chase off our followers. With this linked and double posting I need to keep the reigns pretty tight to keep on message and quality of content/communications high.
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LOL I hear ya. There's no way I'd buy one of these unless I owned a restaurant and even then I'd do the non-mobile version.For the price of a good car, I would think there would be no or's in there!?
Thankfully Southern Pride provides the unit free, cleans it for us, etc. We don't have anywhere NEAR the kind of bankroll it takes to own one of these (nor would it make sense for 1-2 events a year.
I will say it's an awesome luxury for mass feedings though.
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Yep I take decent photos for on the fly iphone stuff. I've seen some videos/photos posted by others with no real subject, zero concern for visual balance or lighting, and no real purpose for sharing other than "YAY I'M HAVING FUN!". Folks following at home don't want to be shown the fun, they want to feel like they're being brought inside the event or to be shown something specific they can connect with.
and... as you know very well.... If you're shooting food, you HAVE to make effort to make it look amazing/appetizing. Perspective, lighting, etc all play crucial roles. Simply snapping a pic of a steak on a grill isn't good enough. Of course it looks awesome to us... we are there... but folks online only have that picture to go by and if care isn't taken in composing/editing/optimizing the image... it's not going to connect with folks.
I'm going to have a sitdown with the 3-4 guys who will be posting stuff and try to relay some of this.
thanks again for the feedback/guidance @TheFanatic
TheFanatic
Footballguy
Well if you ever have a falling out with Southern Pride, let me know. I've got an in with Ole Hickory.LOL I hear ya. There's no way I'd buy one of these unless I owned a restaurant and even then I'd do the non-mobile version.
Thankfully Southern Pride provides the unit free, cleans it for us, etc. We don't have anywhere NEAR the kind of bankroll it takes to own one of these (nor would it make sense for 1-2 events a year.
I will say it's an awesome luxury for mass feedings though.
TheFanatic
Footballguy
Lighting and perspective are the biggest keys. Shooting outside, stay away from direct sun light. Find some shade. Perspective, for food, make sure the shot is tight on the food. Most people are looking on mobile and only see a thumbnail of it. If the food is not front and center and people aren't sure what's going on, they won't look at the pic and thus no like and no follow. And you can't make up for a bad pic with a caption. A pic you have to explain is the same as a halloween costume or joke you have to explain. If you have to explain it, you did it wrong.Yep I take decent photos for on the fly iphone stuff. I've seen some videos/photos posted by others with no real subject, zero concern for visual balance or lighting, and no real purpose for sharing other than "YAY I'M HAVING FUN!". Folks following at home don't want to be shown the fun, they want to feel like they're being brought inside the event or to be shown something specific they can connect with.
and... as you know very well.... If you're shooting food, you HAVE to make effort to make it look amazing/appetizing. Perspective, lighting, etc all play crucial roles. Simply snapping a pic of a steak on a grill isn't good enough. Of course it looks awesome to us... we are there... but folks online only have that picture to go by and if care isn't taken in composing/editing/optimizing the image... it's not going to connect with folks.
I'm going to have a sitdown with the 3-4 guys who will be posting stuff and try to relay some of this.
thanks again for the feedback/guidance @TheFanatic
James Daulton
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WTF does the party stream start? More hot chicks and fewer photograph nerds please.
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Sooooo looking like our tendency to push the limits is extending into the interactive/digital realm as well... Some projects we have in place for this year:
1) SOCIAL WALL PRO for #GetSauced
Inside the booth we will have a direct feed running to one or more of the 90" Flatscreens we have running... It will scrape our Twitter and Instagram accounts, plus any images tagged with #getsauced, and work them on the fly into the social wall display. We have full admin/moderation ability to block posts/users (sorry FFA shtick).. but should be pretty heavily used by folks sharing images from inside/around the booth.
2) CUSTOM SNAPCHAT GEOFENCE FILTER:
Anyone using Snapchat within a couple hundred feet of our booth between wed and Saturday will be presented with the option to use our skin/filter for any snaps they're posting.
3) Short SMS DJ Request Line:
Sending a short keyword to 797979 will welcome you to "The Usual Saucepects Request Line". Users can then send song requests direct to the DJs.
This should be entertaining...
1) SOCIAL WALL PRO for #GetSauced
Inside the booth we will have a direct feed running to one or more of the 90" Flatscreens we have running... It will scrape our Twitter and Instagram accounts, plus any images tagged with #getsauced, and work them on the fly into the social wall display. We have full admin/moderation ability to block posts/users (sorry FFA shtick).. but should be pretty heavily used by folks sharing images from inside/around the booth.
2) CUSTOM SNAPCHAT GEOFENCE FILTER:
Anyone using Snapchat within a couple hundred feet of our booth between wed and Saturday will be presented with the option to use our skin/filter for any snaps they're posting.
3) Short SMS DJ Request Line:
Sending a short keyword to 797979 will welcome you to "The Usual Saucepects Request Line". Users can then send song requests direct to the DJs.
This should be entertaining...
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Some images from load-in....
The mudpit lot before construction
Sunset on the Mississippi Saturday night
Our unfinished booth Saturday night.
Construction of booth Saturday Another image
Deer swimming in MS river Sunday morning
Construction done. - Banners up
Custom 200 Amp electrical panel that powers the booth
Bar partially loaded Another image
Panoramic view from top deck yesterday before tent went up
View of inside setup underway (The large tarp on the side is to block out the neighboring tent. They are a MIM sponsor so we are concerned about them reporting us for live music friday.
Looking out at the river
Booth now with tent up top, view from above
Power is connected. Tent is up. Refrigeration is in place.
Tables/chairs coming today.
Light/Sound/Video going in Tuesday.
Meat/Beer being delivered Wednesday morning.
Party starts wednesday night!
The mudpit lot before construction
Sunset on the Mississippi Saturday night
Our unfinished booth Saturday night.
Construction of booth Saturday Another image
Deer swimming in MS river Sunday morning
Construction done. - Banners up
Custom 200 Amp electrical panel that powers the booth
Bar partially loaded Another image
Panoramic view from top deck yesterday before tent went up
View of inside setup underway (The large tarp on the side is to block out the neighboring tent. They are a MIM sponsor so we are concerned about them reporting us for live music friday.
Looking out at the river
Booth now with tent up top, view from above
Power is connected. Tent is up. Refrigeration is in place.
Tables/chairs coming today.
Light/Sound/Video going in Tuesday.
Meat/Beer being delivered Wednesday morning.
Party starts wednesday night!
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