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Should you charge ticket fees?
4 Points to Consider Regarding Fees Venues, promoters, and organizations selling event tickets should understand the impact fees have on ticket sales. Ticket fees may be either a sales deterrent or a profitable revenue stream when your venue retains 100% of the fees collected. These factors should weigh in your decisions regarding fees: 1. The Impact on Profitability and Fan Respect Ticket fees can add 25-30% to your profits when you keep revenues collected. If your venue uses ticketing sof...
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New Barcode Scanning Features
Scanning with Order Search, Resend Email… Brand New Bar code Scanning Features We have two new features to introduce for barcode scanning that will further streamline your gate’s efficiency. Scan All Events – Now you can scan an entire evening’s performances all on the same page–no more toggling back and forth between browser windows for different events or ticket types. Example: If you have one event for general admission and another event for VIP seating, the per...
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Understanding the 5 Types of Event Ticketing Software
Nothing indicates the success of a gig, play, tour or event than the sale of tickets to those events. The method of event ticketing software you choose will impact when and how your revenue is collected, how tickets are delivered, and ultimately, the price of tickets and its effect on sales and consumer satisfaction. Making sure you select the right event ticketing company for your venue starts with an understanding of the five types available. 1. Fee Added to Ticket Price This is the ticketin...
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It’s Time: 10 Reasons to Finally Open That Online Box Office
The web has been around for so long that you’d be hard put to find a business that doesn’t have a website. The same holds true for online ticketing and box offices. Yet there are a few holdouts still using pen, paper, and desktop software to record sales over the phone. For those last venues wondering if the time is right to transition to online ticketing sales, here are 10 reasons to solidify your decision: 1. Open 24/7 with No Staffing Costs Online ticketing provides customers ...
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Paperless Ticketing – How it works and what it means for your venue
What is paperless ticketing? Thwarting scalpers and maintaining a fixed cost: these are the aims of new paperless ticketing systems. How does it work? Imagine using the same system used to purchase airline tickets: A customer purchases a ticket online or over the phone using a credit card. The customer then brings that same credit card and photo ID to the venue and gains admittance with a swipe of the card at the gate. Upon entry a slip confirming the location of the customer’s seat is printed...
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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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