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Can I migrate my TicketWeb tour history to VeloCMS?

Yes. TicketWeb does not offer a self-serve archive export, but you can contact their support team to request a past-events CSV. For Eventbrite, the export is self-serve: Organizer dashboard → Reports → export event history. Once you have the CSV, create a Post in VeloCMS for each past show — title (venue + city + date), clip embed if you have video from that night, and the city + show tags. The posts stay live after the shows are over, which is the main difference from TicketWeb: your permanent tour archive at yourdomain.com/shows builds SEO domain authority that a dead TicketWeb event page never will.

How does the bit archive category system work?

Every post in VeloCMS supports multiple tags. For your bit archive, you create a post for each bit or set topic — the title is the bit name or theme, the body is the written version (or an essay about how you developed it), and you tag it with one or more category tags: political, observational, dark, family, dating, alt, sketch, satire, or any custom category that fits your style. When a fan or booker visits yourdomain.com/tags/political, they see all your political material in one filtered index. When a booker is casting a 'family-friendly corporate show,' they can check yourdomain.com/tags/family to see exactly what your clean material looks like. The archive compounds over time — every bit you add makes the next booking inquiry more qualified.

Why is Manifesto Black the recommended theme for stand-up comedians?

Manifesto Black was designed for independent creative voices that do not fit the polished startup aesthetic: brutal-poster typography, high-contrast black-dominant layout, underground zine design language. It carries the same aesthetic logic as a hand-pasted comedy poster in a club bathroom — raw, intentional, zero corporate smoothing. A touring comic whose site loads in Manifesto Black is communicating their brand before a fan reads a single word. The theme also performs well for comedy-writing essays: the column width and typographic hierarchy make long-form text readable without feeling like a content-marketing blog. Alternative: Hackerstack if your persona is more text-heavy, comedy-critic-blogger — monospace credibility for alt-comedy and satire writers. Brutalist Press if you want more structural variety with an indie-zine editorial column layout.

How do paid comedy-special unlocks work via BYOK Stripe? (one-time vs recurring vs hybrid)

In Admin → Settings → Membership, you connect your Stripe account via 60-second OAuth and create products in three patterns. One-time unlock: a fixed price for access to a specific recorded special (e.g. 'One Hour — $10' — buyer pays once, gets a private video link via email). Recurring newsletter: a monthly fee (e.g. 'Comedy Insider — $5/month' — members get the written bit archive, early tour announcements, and clip drops before public release). Per-clip pack: a one-time purchase for a curated batch of sets (e.g. 'Best Sets 2024-2025 — $15' — 10 clips behind a single paywall). Each product gets its own checkout page at yourdomain.com. VeloCMS takes 0% on all of them; only Stripe standard 2.9% + $0.30 processing applies. Every buyer automatically joins your email list.

Can I host my comedy podcast RSS feed natively?

VeloCMS does not generate a native podcast RSS feed at launch — that is a planned feature. What you can do now: create a 'Podcast' tag and publish each episode as a post with the episode audio embedded (paste your Buzzsprout, Anchor, Transistor, or Spotify for Podcasters URL into the editor and it embeds as a native audio player). The episode post includes show notes, timestamps, and links. Your podcast host continues to distribute the RSS feed to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts — VeloCMS serves as the episode homepage and searchable archive on your domain. Fans who find your domain via search or a clip embed can listen to the full episode without leaving your site.

Should I still post to Instagram and TikTok?

Yes — keep posting on both. Instagram and TikTok are still the primary discovery channels for comedy clips: a short clip of your strongest bit reaching a new audience is more valuable than any SEO article about your comedy style. But these platforms should be the discovery layer, not the archive. Every Instagram or TikTok post should point back to yourdomain.com — link in bio to your show page, clip caption to your special checkout, story to your newsletter signup. A fan who discovers you through a 30-second Instagram clip and clicks your bio link should land on your VeloCMS site, not a Linktree. Your domain is canonical. Instagram and TikTok are billboards that send traffic to it.

How do tour-date posts handle ticket-link integration — TicketWeb, DICE, venue box office?

Tour-date posts in VeloCMS are standard posts with a custom structure: the body carries the venue name, city, show date, show time, and a direct ticket link — any URL from TicketWeb, DICE, See Tickets, venue box office, or your own BYOK Stripe checkout. There is no proprietary ticketing API to integrate with — you paste the ticket URL as a link in the post, and fans click through to buy wherever you have already set up ticketing. This keeps your options open: you can use TicketWeb for major venues, DICE for club shows, and your own Stripe checkout for intimate shows or pay-what-you-want events. After each show, you can update the post with a clip embed, turning the 'upcoming show' post into a permanent 'past show archive' post at the same URL.

Can I run Hackerstack or Brutalist Press instead of Manifesto Black?

Yes. VeloCMS themes are swappable with one click — you are not locked in at signup. If you apply Manifesto Black now and decide six months later that Hackerstack fits your text-heavy comedy-blog persona better, you switch in Admin → Themes → Hackerstack → Apply. Your content does not change — themes change CSS only, never HTML structure or post organization. Hackerstack is the right choice if your identity is more comedy writer than touring comedian: monospace typefaces, minimal chrome, and a layout that foregrounds the text and positions you as a serious essayist who happens to also do stand-up. Brutalist Press is better if you run a comedy publication aesthetic — multiple column widths, structural hierarchy, and a zine-editorial feel with more layout variety than Manifesto Black. Both are available on the Free plan.