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Mobile Marketing with QR Codes
Chances are you’ve seen these mysterious little barcodes of arranged squares of various sizes. Japanese company Denso Wave created Quick Response codes, more commonly known as “QR Codes,” to be decoded at a high speed. This two-dimensional data matrix can hold 100 times more information than a traditional barcode and can be encoded with text, URL links, contact information, and binary information. A variety of free applications exist for smartphones that decode this information and displ...
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Groupon, Coupons, and More! Oh my!
Groupon Coupon Code Upload With the growth of “daily deal” sites like Living Social and Groupon, we’ve had a lot of requests for easy integration of your coupons. When a customer buys from one of the daily deal websites like GroupOn, they are assigned a unique code for every GroupOn they purchased. GroupOn will provide the business owner a spreadsheet of all purchases, customers, and codes when the GroupOn sale is over. Our new bulk import tool allows you to take the csv...
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Oh, what to tweet about on Twitter!
In February, Twitter eclipsed the 50 million tweets-per-day-mark or a mind-numbing 600 tweets per second. Facebook’s even higher at 700 posts per second. For those on the receiving end, that’s a lot of network noise to filter through to find value. On the flip side, the job of reaching folks is even harder when you are on the disseminating end. “Turn invitations into gifts. Each invitation sent by your members should have an immediate value attached in the payload of the mes...
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Triggering Impulse Ticket Purchases
Relatively inexpensive impulse purchases allow for much quicker decisions than say, deciding which ticket and event management software to use at your venue. For venues that want to trigger impulse purchases, posting time sensitive offerings might be just the trick to raise attendance at events. One of the most inexpensive and low-tech methods of providing these triggers is through an old-fashioned calendar. Display 2-3 months of the venue’s upcoming schedule on your website. Include speci...
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Introducing the ThunderTix blog
For years, we’ve been posting newsworthy articles, educational tutorials, and tech notes on our original Thunder Data Systems blog. Since adding our ticketing and event management system to our arsenal of products several years ago, an increasing portion of our business and resources is devoted to ThunderTix. Over the last couple of months, we’ve worked hard (and followed the pattern of our early TDS success) by creating valuable content for our clients about event management, cr...
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