Notes on websites that actually bring in work

Most event sites are slow to update, so they stop being updated. Structure is what fixes that, not discipline.

Ticket platforms sell tickets. They do not build your reputation, own your audience, or answer the questions that come before a purchase.

A festival site has a brutal job. Thousands of people arriving at once, all wanting different things, most of them on a phone.

Airsoft sites lose most of their potential bookings to confusion. Newcomers need reassurance before they need a game day list.

Instagram is where people find you. It is a terrible place to keep your listings, your archive and your ticket links.

Sessions, grids, timings and photography. A track day site has a specific job, and most of them get the order wrong.

I am in Holmfirth and I build for clients anywhere. Here is how it runs, and why distance is not the thing that breaks projects.

Both work. They fail in different ways, and that is the useful part of the comparison.

Realistic timelines, and the one thing that delays nearly every project.

Word of mouth is brilliant until it goes quiet. A site is what catches the people who have not heard of you yet.

A straight comparison, without the platform loyalty. What each one is genuinely better at.

Half your visitors are on a phone, some on two bars. Every extra second is people leaving.