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Spotlight - Full Figured Fashion Week

A convergence of designers, retailers, bloggers and activists celebrate plus-size women in Manhattan during Full Figured Fashion Week. Positive and empowering, the 4th annual Full Figured Fashion Week is next month, June 13-16, 2012, in New York City. ThunderTix is proud to be the ticketing software of choice for fffWeek and we love the way…
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OMG hashtags IRL - Part 2

In our earlier post we showed you examples of hashtags in real life. Now in part 2, we go more in-depth with a “how-to”, “when-to” and, most importantly of all, why unique hashtags raise event awareness. Why do we blog this? Our experience shows that there is a direct correlation between event awareness and ticket…
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OMG hashtags IRL - Part 1

Why do we blog this? There is a direct correlation between event awareness and ticket sales. We know you are making every effort to wrangle the direct channels that you have control of, but there is a vast resource that may be going underutilized – hashtags. Hashtags exist outside the constraints of any one given…
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What happens to ticket collecting in the paperless “e-ticket” age?

Concert ticket collecting is a popular hobby and a lucrative commercial industry. In this post, we spotlight some examples of concert ticket collecting, past, present and future. Why do we blog this? Your ThunderTix account supports the three most popular ticket printing methods and we recommend that you use the print-at-home option to lower costs…
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George W Bush at Plumstead Christian School

Spotlight - George W. Bush keynote for Plumstead Christian School

We have written about the time-sensitive nature of re-starting a past event, now we’ll discuss another time-sensitive aspect of ticket sales – the importance of graceful non-availability prompts once your event has concluded. Why do we blog this? This post is part of an on-going series of “spotlights”. We want to bring examples of how…
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Add Your Venue's Twitter Account for Sharing

As promised, our ThunderTix system upgrade to the cloud enables us to make more frequent updates without service interruption. This increased agility would be hampered if we needed to send our emails notifying our venues about each upcoming change. Instead, our new policy will be to notify you only when new changes are more significant…
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Embed Event Code

Wrangle a Multi-City Tour: Simple Embed Events Toolkit

Do you need to promote your event or performance on myriad websites at every stop on a multi-city tour? That’s no problem with a simple a toolkit consisting of an embed, a sharable link and customized tweet button. A Herd in Each City If your event or performance is occurring in multiple cities, as part…
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Cultivating a shared experience - A “slightly stoopid” example

This week was the highly anticipated return of Glee on FOX. Millions of fans watched and even if you are not a fan yourself, the show’s huge viewership must be acknowledged. Of course Glee’s popularity comes from excellent writing, acting and production values as well as the FOX Broadcasting Company’s marketing prowess, but there is…
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ThunderTix - Cloud Based Ticketing Software

ThunderTix is on the Cloud

A Cloud Based Ticketing System We’ve had a tremendous year and in order to prepare for continued expansion and new features, we made the switch to a cloud infrastructure. What does this mean to you? Faster navigation, quicker reports downloads as well as no slowdowns due to heavy server traffic. A cloud based event ticketing…
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Tell your event’s story with the new Facebook Page Timeline format

The benefits of a Facebook Page for your event or venue are numerous, now there are even more with the new Facebook Page Timeline format. In a previous post, we explained the value of your venue or event having its own Facebook page. “Venues without Facebook Pages lose out…There are no greater businesses to reap…
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