#18. Bournemouth 7s Festival Court Cases - Dodge Woodall
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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How I Dealt With The Financial Pressures & Court Cases of Bournemouth 7s Festival. We chat about how all the small tweaks each year lead to a better experience and a loyal following for Bournemouth 7s, and I explain why I think building relationships is fundamental to the success of an event.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the eventful entrepreneur. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Roger Woodall, founder of the Bormer Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. |
| 0:12.0 | With all events in 2020 grinding to a halt, I'll be bringing people back together, but in a different way. |
| 0:25.4 | Hello and welcome to the Eventful Entrepreneur podcast. |
| 0:29.3 | This episode is a continuation of the journey discussed throughout episode one and four of this podcast. |
| 0:34.4 | So if you haven't yet, do yourself a favour and go listen to them first. |
| 0:38.2 | And while you're at it, and this goes for everybody listening, please subscribe, rate and review |
| 0:42.1 | the eventful entrepreneur. This helps us reach a wider audience and keeps us getting amazing |
| 0:46.8 | guests to share their great stories with us. I'm producer Dan and I'm here with the eventful |
| 0:51.6 | entrepreneur himself, Mr. Roger Woodle. How are you, Dodge? |
| 0:59.7 | I'm very good, mate. It has been a wild couple of weeks, which we're not allowed to talk about right now, |
| 1:04.1 | but I'm not sure when this one gets released, but I'm sure everyone will hear the news. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, more coming soon. Big, big news for us. But before we go there, I'll just mention that in the previous episodes, we hurtled through your evolution from a young boy, flogging toys, recovered from bins, to your nightclub days, promoting parties. |
| 1:21.9 | And finally, to the owner of a new unique sport and music festival, Ballmer Sevens. |
| 1:28.3 | That all-important inaugural event, get over the line and you came out the other end, making a profit, albeit not enough to start planning early retirement. |
| 1:30.8 | I wish. |
| 1:31.9 | But from there, what did you start planning in the wake of the first festival? |
| 1:35.6 | I had a massive downer straight away after the first festival because you're buzzing, you put |
| 1:40.5 | on the festival, you know what happened. |
| 1:42.2 | It takes a couple of weeks to work at all the finances and then you realize you made a very small profit, which we were really proud of. You know what happened. It takes a couple of weeks to work at all the finances. |
| 1:44.5 | And then you realize you made a very small profit, which we were really proud of. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, like I said, in the previous one, it takes seven years that I was told to break even in a music festival. |
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