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Sean: Recently, like we said, we caught up at Seaton in Las Vegas and other than an awesome custom shoe design, what were some of your key takeaways?
Dani Brown: Yeah, every time I go to see my key takeaway, which I said earlier is networking. That's where I meet the people that I can email on a daily basis, weekly basis, say, I got this problem. What are you doing for this? And so to me, it's networking. I love learning and getting ideas. And I come back with a lot of great ideas. But I do think just having those connections and being able to reach out to people when you need that help is just the underlying foundation of that conference and being able to just have that network of people that you can rely on.
Sean: I mean, you're in the NBA and the NBA is very good at work and collegiately among the teams. You catch up with other NBA colleagues at their marketing meetings or their data meetings, but at C, you get that, I'm talking to someone at the NHL or I'm talking to someone at the NFL. Yeah, that is the advantageous part of most conferences.
Dani Brown: Well, and a lot of times you go to like an eloquel conference for an example and it's all these things that I'm like not allowed to do. I'm like, well, I can't do that. And I can't do that. And because we have, we have this kind of bigger, you know, NBA and teams and players and all these other things. So it's like, in some ways I can't connect with them and like, well, that doesn't work. Or they use to your point earlier, which I blanked on our tech stack completely, but like they don't have the same tech stacks or they a team of 40 people, which sounds amazing, but I'm like, well, at the time, like I'm a team of one. How does one person do all those great things that you're saying?
And so I think being able to be a teams that have a similar, not only department structure, but a tech stack, different things like that. Yes, there's NBA teams with similar tech stacks, but I can meet an NHL team or something where they like, you have a lot at Microsoft and core and, all, like, I can just go down the line. I'm like, we have all the same stuff. We should hang out.
Let's do a monthly call where we can actually just connect over and over and over. And I always laugh because I have a group where it's like the group. like, we have the same stuff. Tell me what you're doing with this. Like, does it connect to all the things I need? And it's just this long email chain. I don't even know what the subject is. I'm just like, does this work? Are you doing it? And I mean, that's priceless.
Sean: And I mean, it comes down to what you started the conversation with is networking and finding like-minded people, finding people in like-minded tech stacks or like-minded markets. OKC is a really unique market in the US, but are there other markets that are like it? Because what you're trying to do in OKC would be completely different if someone's trying to do it in New York or LA, because it's just a completely different market size and those kind of things.
Dani Brown: For sure. For sure. It's a it's a whole different marketing plan. I mean, we like we have very different. I the magic and us have very similar tech stacks. But I'm like, you're doing tourist single game tickets like every game. Like that's your like bread and butter. Right. Because everybody's there for Disney and they go to a magic get like it's like bing bing bing bing. And and that's not the same for Oklahoma City, although hopefully one day it will. But yeah, for us, it's the long-term goal. It's the legacy, it's the building the season ticket member base. Those are the things that are our goals. And so there's very different goals, but do they still have great ideas and we can use some of them? Yes, but there are to your point, I'm like, those are totally different lanes when you're talking strategy.
