Bowling For Soup Street Team Spotlight

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Bowling For Soup has been around the block more than a few times, releasing 9 full length albums and countless singles since they formed in 1994 in Wichita Falls, Texas. It couldn't have been more fitting for the "BFS Army" to team up with Fancorps near the end of 2006 as the band's new album, 'The Great Burrito Extortion Case' was just starting to take flight.

Since that time the team has grown to over one thousand members from all around the globe, completing over 7,000 Orders within the Fancorps system along the way. Calling radio stations, voting in online contests, passing out flyers on the streets, posting banners online...these are just a few of the ways the team has exposed the band and their new album over the last few months.

"I never imagined that a street team could be so organized, task driven, and easy to use for both the moderates and the fans themselves.....Fancorps allows us to pin point fans in certain areas to hit their local radio station with requests, or call on our global team to make and post flyers about shows in their area....it definitely took our team organization to a level I never thought possible.."

- Jaret Reddick
lead singer of BFS

One of the more unique ways Bowling For Soup used Fancorps was to organize their 'Meet and Greets' for their upcoming sold out UK Tour. Before each show of the tour a select group of fans, or in this case Street Team Members, gets the opportunity to meet the band, talk for a few minutes, and get some things personally autographed. But, only 10 fans get to take part in the 'Meet and Greets' per show, so you can imagine the demand is quite high. By setting up a Membership Group for each of the shows it was easy for the team members to join whichever group they wanted to be a part of, and even easier for the team leader to manage and confirm who was attending which one. Once 10 members joined a Group it was automatically closed not letting anyone else in.

Current Team Stats:
United States - 732 Members
United Kingdom - 309 Members
24 Other Countries - 117 Members

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