Ian Bolender Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Oh

Patchboard creates websites, mobile apps, & communities that bring people together. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, we create websites for many great clients including music festivals, venues, and sports teams. Additionally, we offer marketing services to clients including Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Advertising, Video Advertising, and Display Advertising & Retargeting.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Founded this local resource for the Greater Cincinnati music community. We publish and maintain a comprehensive local music calendar, a growing catalog of local band profiles, and articles about the Cincinnati music scene and how to succeed in the industry.

• Develop artists in the Cincinnati area from small clubs to Theaters, Arenas, and Festivals.• Place offers for artists to perform at various events, negotiate contract terms, execute contracts, work with several building/venue owners, oversee marketing and settle events. • Work with local organizations, venues, and groups to program their facilities.• Responsible for marketing shows with very limited budgets utilizing guerrilla tactics, street teams and digital marketing.Fountain Square Summer Series: (2016-Current)• Work with 3CDC to program Fountain Square each summer. Generally, this consists of 14-16 shows each summer with three artists each. Ubahn Festival: (2016-2018)• Worked with AGAR to develop this unique hip hop/edm festival in a tunnel located underneath 2nd Street in downtown Cincinnati, OH.• Worked with agents to program the event with emerging hip hop/edm artists.• Coordinated the marketing efforts, including a strong focus on digital advertising.• Part of a small team that built a village in a tunnel & made it safe for everyone to attend.Bunbury Music Festival: (2012 - 2015)• Charged with the job of finding artists to perform the festival. Solicit agencies for submissions, research trending artists, submit offers, and negotiate contract terms.• Oversee artist production during the event.• Serve as a consultant to publicist and marketing agencies promoting the event.Buckle Up Music Festival: (2015)• Developed this music festival that focused on Country, Folk, & Americana artists.Forecastle Music Festival: (2009-2010)• Worked with agents to negotiate deals for artists to perform at the festival. Part of a team effort to transform a homegrown festival into a destination for an entire region of the United States that drew over 25,000 fans.• Placed ads and sought out publicity as part of a national integrated marketing plan for the Festival. • In addition to buying talent and marketing, I stage managed the side stage at the event.

• Responsible for the design, launch, and maintenance of cycloneshockey.com, all social media accounts, and various custom apps used for in-game experiences and information gathering. • Focus on ways to interact and improve our usage of digital marketing initiatives such as Facebook/Instagram Advertising, Video Preroll, PPC, Display Advertising, Search Engine Optimization, and E-mail Marketing. • Work with account reps and promotion coordinators at various media entities to maximize the teams exposure in the media throughout the entire season (paid and unpaid).• Integrate our custom website CMS, In-Game Assets, E-mail Program, etc with Salesforce and build complex automations to communicate with fans before, during, and after events. • Find unique ways to gather information about fans while they are at the games that we can utilize to market to them in the future.

• Research and analyze ticket sales, web traffic, and consumer responses to capitalize on opportunities in the promotion of Arena events. Special emphasis on social media / digital marketing.• Responsible for creating promotional materials and maintaining brand consistency in graphic elements.• Purchase media within given budgets, serve as liaison between promoters and account reps, create ad-packs to summarize all marketing efforts for events.• Work with outside promoters, agents, and other entities to program the facility.

• Coordinated over 50 events per month in the historic 4-story music venue.• Responsible for marketing events. Most campaigns typically focused on very niche segments of music and art lovers.• Overhauled online presence and ticketing service.• Managed venue staff, oversaw production, and settlement for events.

I helped develop the club as a venue for local/regional/and young national artists to connect with their fans. I booked, promoted, and ran all production for the events I booked.