Reason #2,085 why you won't find me in da club!
A colleague of mine just sent over an email putting a promoter on blast for hosting a very "unprofessional" industry event last night in New York. I won't name names because this person has no name. You wouldn't know "him". After being personally invited via telephone and being put on the list, they arrive to the venue and are told to pay after the promoter told the "door" to give them wristbands. That made no sense to me.
New Rule or should I say Rule Re-instatement: Promoters if you have guests coming you make sure they get in with no problem. Invites should never be left standing at the door or told to pay when they were in fact personally invited by you. Its not some email guestlist that closes, its a personal invite.
I know a lot of the "overnight event planners" are relatively new and not up on "proper event etiquette". Most of them didn't get out much to begin with but decided to start throwing events without the help of people who do this on a regular basis or at least attended events pre-2004!
You can't go everywhere!
Another item up for discussion also brought up by my colleague is the blatant disrespect of women when actually waiting to get into the clubs these days. My advice is to leave. Why bother? You go out to have a good time and those are the men going into the club. Satan's Sign of Stupidity.
I suggest you turn around because you'll be in for a long night. Even if you get into the club, you won't have fun. Guys like that just want to stand around with their dudes and just pose. They could care less about the ladies *hint.
A clear sign is bumping you out the way to get into the club. Another sign is scoping the the scene and seeing mostly dudes in the place. Real men are bothered by the lack of ladies anywhere with the exception of a sporting event or playing video games.
That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!
