Tag: barcode scanners

Book Festivals

Festival Ticketing Software For Book Fairs

Springtime plays hosts to many types festivals and that includes book fairs and literary events. While lesser known than music festivals, book festivals can draw big crowds encompassing several different formats. Here’s a look at different book festivals and how to best manage yours with the tools built into festival ticketing software (including one you are…
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Best practices: How to sell music festival tickets

Wondering how to sell music festival tickets? If you are new to online ticketing, or feel your current ticket software isn’t performing up to snuff, read this post and learn from one of the best – the Toadlick Music Festival in Dothan, Alabama! The Toadlick Music Festival Deep in the heart of Dixie is the Toadlick Music…
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Software Updates - On-Screen Barcode Scanning!

More in March! As part of our our on-going effort to bring you the very latest tools to help increase ticket sales, we’re excited to announce the following software updates. March 19, 6:00 p.m. Display Blocked or Held Seats Until today, seats that were on hold or blocked as a consigned seat all appeared to be…
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Festival Tickets

Festival tickets: Lessons learned

Not every festival is a triumph. What is important is that you apply the lessons learned from less than stellar results to future events. This edition of ‘The Business of Fun’ looks at beer festival gate efficiency issues, past and present – something any festival operator can learn from. Plus, some best practices for using barcode…
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Most sustainable arts festival business model?

A new report indicates that the size of an arts festival is closely related to long-term sustainability as a business. Yet an arts festival in Louisiana is bigger than ever and thriving. Is now the time to adjust the scope and scale of your arts festival? Arts festival data The latest entry in the The Guardian’s ‘Culture Professionals’ series, begins with the provocative question…
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Selling Alpha Psi Rodeo Tickets In (Little More Than) '8 Seconds'

The classic rodeo film ‘8 seconds’ gets its name from the length of time a cowboy has to stay on the animal for the ride to qualify. It takes more than eight seconds to sell all of the Alpha Psi Rodeo tickets, but not by much since it is one of the most popular events on…
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Gate efficiency – A look at barcode scanners

Like any technology, barcode scanners are constantly changing. What never changes is the need for your event to be cost effective and profitable. We’ll quickly take a fresh look at how ticket barcode scanners increase gate efficiency and reduce patron wait times. Why do we blog this? Whether your venue has one entrance or several, the use…
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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,…
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