UK's No1 Promoter: Selling 1 Million Tickets & Building a Sporting Festival Empire - Dodge Woodall

A conversation with one of the UK's best promoters, Dodge Woodall. He is hugely successful entrepreneur who has built a festival empire. You may know him as the man behind the Bournemouth 7's Festival or as having one of the most successful podcasts in the UK with over 100,000,000 views on TH-cam.
In this two-hour conversation Dodge shares story from growing up above a pub to becoming a night life promoter and how he started one the countries best festivals. We discuss marketing, life as an entrepreneur and is the UK in a state of decline?
I think this is a powerful conversation for all business owners and entrepreneurs!
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My name is James Sinclair and I'm the founder and CEO of The Partyman Group of Companies. I started building my business when I was just 16 as a family entertainer after that I built up an entertainment agency, then moved into building a leisure and day nursery businesses. Today we operate a £30 million business which includes leisure, childcare, outdoor attractions, commercial property, arts and crafts manufacturing as well as one of the UK’s oldest Ice cream companies; The Rossi Ice Cream Company.
⌚️Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Keeping Numbers Private
02:15 Early life for Dodge Woodall
05:30 First time making money
09:00 Becoming a Promoter
14:00 Marketing Strategies for Night Life
19:45 Is Night Life Dead?
21:30 Starting a Festival
40:00 The Festival Business Model
50:00 The Costs of a Festival
01:00:20 Building a New Business & Selling It!
01:09:00 Starting a Personal Brand
01:13:00 Starting a Podcast
01:20:00 Monetising the Content
01:23:53 James' Favourite Podcasts
01:29:00 8 Traits of Great Entrepreneurs
01:33:45 Life as an Entrepreneur
01:42:30 Is the UK a good place for business?
01:48:00 The Problem with UK Business
01:54:00 The Future of Podcasts & Media
01:57:58 Dodge Woodall