A significant part of venue and artist revenue can be swag and peripherals sales--promotional items such as posters, clothing, bumper stickers for both artists and venues. Venues can also capitalize on free sponsor-supplied promotionals, such as branded serving ware, free samples, signage and sponsored events or oher co-pay promotions. MGN has hundreds of these types of vendor arrangements available to any venue who indicates an interest within their Profile.

A complete database of promotional printers who have online interfaces is available to interested venues and artists. Every effort is made to find and develop relationships with such local vendors in addition to mail order ones. This points up an MGN value of encouraging members and partners to "buy locally." MGN observes that paying the least amount of money for something is often done at the expense of either customer service or quality, which can simply become deferred costs on down the line.

Therefore, MGN maintains a reviewing system with feedback from artists, venues and other vendors about the companies they deal with, and post this feedback on the Vendor Profiles and relevant MGN Forums. All vendors new to the MGN Vendor Database begin with a "Recommended" rating. Should a vendor receives consistently bad reports, without any attempt to remedy, MGN removes the "Recommended" status until the vendor rectifies the conditions causing the bad reports.

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