The Trunk Space Blog

Hello friends and family of the trunk space!
We need your advice and input.  I keep thinking about the fact that there are 5million people in phoenix, and how amazing it would be if we could get 20-100 people at each and every Trunk Space show.  We do alright at a certain level, but lots of really great bands only get seen by a small handful of regulars and volunteers.  Plus. it bums me out when we only have $10 or $20 bucks for a touring band.
I feel like this is do-able. There are so many people in Phoenix, we just need to reach them.  The truth is, Trunk Space doesn’t really have any extra money to spend on ads, and even the price of gas money to drop flyers off all over town is getting to cost an arm and leg these days.  We look for cheep or free ways to promote trunk space; we’re all over myspace, facebook, livejournal, blogger, twitter, we do press releases for about 1/4 to 1/2 of our shows each month and a list of all ours shows goes to every media outlet we can think of, plus distro-ing as many flyers and posters as we can afford.
Are their things we need to do esthetically to make us more “attractive” to audience?
We’re in a creative rut, and I thought hey – maybe all the people that continually support the Trunk Space might have some ideas we’re overlooking or haven’t considered yet.  You’re brilliant, we know it, now we just need to get your new ideas to turn on all those people who would love to hear about what we do.
If you have any suggestions on where we can post shows and were we can promote or how we can do better please give ideas!