Just catching up after a crazy week, this thing caught my eye. The following is going to be wholly out-of-game speculation based on my own production experiences with for-profit entertainment and event coordination, and mods please remove if it’s going too far behind the curtain here..
But here’s what I’m picking up from what you’re putting down, and tell me if I’m mistaken – you went to the mailing address at the bottom of the Tension Experience mailer sent via a Mailchimp managed mailing list??? The one they use to send generally out of game marketing emails to those interested in what Tension is, and haven’t really used since the experience launched??? The address put on the bottom of their Mailchimp email blast due to legal requirements and anti spam laws???
The office you visited was Bogart Business Management… which is a Business Management/Accounting firm, a business comprised of accountants and business affairs managers, based on a LinkedIn search on the business name. They’d be handling the books for Tension, LLC. and likely many other businesses, entertainment or otherwise. When they need to get location permits for events, when they need to pay their actors, when they need to pay their vendors, when they pull stock photography for their newsletters, when they have to take out insurance on events (especially events requiring waivers to be signed and stunts preformed), their security, their web hosting, literally any money changing hands, these people are the ones tracking that and likely executing payment. Their address was on the bottom of the Mailchimp-served-newsletter because that’s their legal physical mailing address, the address that Mailchimp is billing to, the address that Mailchimp keeps on record in case anyone goes back to Mailchimp and complains about spam.
When Tension, LLC wants to do ANYTHING, they have to worry about legal requirements including permits that need to be in place for an in-person event, or when they need to confirm wording on marketing messages that need to go out especially when using images, audio recordings, or written word of participants.. these people are likely involved in making sure everything is paid for, low risk, and allowable by law.
Now… When you have three people who don’t know what they’re getting into show up at a business management firm without an appointment, you’re going to do whatever it takes to make sure they’re cool and they leave quickly and quietly. I’m sure they have only been in that space for a few years, so when you mentioned another business they deflected in an attempt to get y’all on your way..
Like, imagine walking into Conde Nast’s offices and asking them for more information about an app that was talked about in an issue of Wired from a few months back.. they’d likely have a similar reaction and tell you anything you’d want to hear in order to make you leave.
Yes.. you did some research here and found a physical address… but honestly it would’ve been a great idea to think about how you got the address and look into what the business actually did before you paid them a visit.
