Summerfest Free Admission – Surprise Promotion
Earlier today Summerfest released a surprise promotion for free admission between 3pm and 8pm.
Fans on Facebook, followers on Twitter, friends on MySpace, and those who signed up for text alerts all received a message with instructions on how to get free admission. For example, here’s the tweet from Twitter:
Print this tweet or bring your phone – show at the Mid-Gate promo tent NOW – get ONE FREE TICKET to Summerfest good today from 3 – 8 pm!
Hey, it’s not too late to become a fan, follower, friend, or to sign up for the text alerts…just follow the links below!
For text alerts, text SMILE to SFEST(73378) on your cell phone.
Ten Milwaukee Businesses on Twitter to Follow
Today is Top Ten Tuesday. Here’s a list of ten local businesses that tweet on Twitter and are worth following to learn more about their business, get information on special deals, or just be entertained.
The list is in alphabetical order. Just click on the @name to go to their Twitter page. There were way more than ten candidates, so it’s likely we’ll have another list soon. Feel free to leave a comment if you have a good business that our readers should follow on Twitter and that we should consider for our next list!
@BlatzLiquor …………… Blatz Liquor website
@FrugalGossip …………..Frugal Gossip website
@George_Webb ………… George Webb website
@Ironhorsehotel ………. Iron Horse Hotel website
@MarcusHotels ……….. Marcus Hotels website
@MosIrishPub …………. Mo’s Irish Pub website
@PabstTheater …………. Pabst Theater website
@RehorstVodkaGin …… Great Lakes Distillery website
@Streetzapizza …………. Streetza Pizza website
@Summerfest …………… Summerfest website
50 First Drinks Kicks Off Today
A new Twitter based Milwaukee bar promotion kicks off today with its first free drinking event. Followers of 50 First Drinks on Twitter will receive a Tweet at 3:50 this afternoon with the location, password, and special drink selection for today’s event. The first 50 people who show up at the drinking establishment will get their first drink for free. 50 First Drinks will do this every Tuesday throughout the summer, with a different location each week.
The locations of each week’s event will be kept secret until the 3:50 Tweet. As Stanley Miller wrote about in his blog last month, Lakefront Brewery is a client of the organizer of 50 First Drinks, and will most likely be one of the locations.
If Twitter and Tweeting is beyond your technological comfort level, you can also sign up to receive an email of the event details at 3:50 each Tuesday. For more details, check out the 50 First Drinks website.
Milwaukee Consumer is on Twitter
Our regular readers may have already noticed the Twitter updates in our sidebar. If you haven’t noticed, we took an important step this week in publicizing Milwaukee Consumer by joining Twitter. We have set up our blog to automatically update Twitter whenever we publish a new post. We also plan on using Twitter to update our followers on deals that might be good, but not necessarily worthy enough of a full blog posting.
If you’re a Twitter user, take a moment and become a follower of @MKEConsumer by clicking here. If you haven’t signed up for Twitter yet, take a look at our feed and consider joining.
Bucks Deals for Wednesday Night Game Against Atlanta
The Milwaukee Bucks only have 3 more home games before closing the books on the 2009 season. There are so many different promotions going on, that it is hard to keep track of all of the ticket deals you can get! Luckily we have been keeping track of every discount available for the game. For the Wednesday, April 8th game against the Atlanta Hawks, the following promotions are available.
Twitter Deal
The Bucks have a promotion for people who follow their Twitter feed (although anyone who knows about it can take advantage of the deal). They are offering $61 Lower Level seats for $20. As an added bonus, fans who purchase this special deal will get a VIP early entry to the Bradley Center and sit courtside to watch the Bucks and Hawks do their pregame warmups. Fans who want to take advantage of the VIP early entry need to meet inside Lobby B (southeast entrance at 4th and State St., Lobby B) at 5:30 P.M. Follow the link for the Twitter deal and enter password TWITTER to buy tickets.
$10 Weekday Madness
The Bucks are offering $10 Weekday Madness tickets for $29 Upper Level seats. If you want to upgrade your seats, you can also get great discounts on Lower Level seats. The Weekday Madness special pricing is as follows:
- $29 seats for only $10
- $61 Lower Level seats for only $20 (the Twitter deal is better since you get the VIP early entry)
- $96 Lower Level seats for only $35
- $176-$216 Courtside Club seats for only $75 (includes Courtside Club access)
To take advantage of this special offer, click here to visit Ticketmaster and enter special code BUCKS in the “Bucks Weekday Special” box.
McDonald’s Offer
The McDonald’s Extra Value Meal offer is available again for Wednesday’s game. For $25 you get 2 Upper Level seats plus 2 vouchers for McDonald’s Extra Value Meals. Or, upgrade to Lower Level seats for $50, including the Extra Value Meals.
To take advantage of the McDonald’s offer, click here to be taken to Ticketmaster’s website. The special promo code for this deal is shown on the Ticketmaster page.
Go Green
Did you know it is Green Week at the Bradley Center? Well, it is. The Bucks and Focus on Energy want to thank you for your efforts in keeping the environment clean, so they will be offering discounted tickets. All you need to do is prove that you are trying to keep the environment clean, and you’ll get some pretty good discounts (just kidding about having to prove it). Here are the discounts:
- $37 Upper Level seats for only $11 (good deal)
- $96 Lower Level seats for only $60 (Weekday Madness deal is better)
Click here to order tickets under the Go Green Promotion. The password for this promo is GREEN.
In addition to all of the promotions listed above, the first 10,000 fans will receive a Bucks poster courtesy of Kohl’s. Also, Bucks players will be signing autographs outside Section 203 for 15 minutes starting at 6:00 P.M.
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