Last week, line-up for Lollapalooza 2013 was made known. And along with music festival’s line-up comes a candid admission about crowd safety stemming from Lollapalooza 2012. The weather related safety lesson from last year’s event is applicable to any outdoor event no matter the crowd size. A Crowd Safety Lesson Music critic Greg Kot has…
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Just how many additional tickets can you sell when you make use of ThunderTix custom emails? If the data from marketing authorities Hubspot and Razorfish are any indication – a lot! 71% More Likely When marketing authority Hubspot publishes an infographic about sales data, business owners pay attention. As it relates to tickets sales, check out…
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Many venue owners are asking “Will The Sequester Affect My Ticket Sales?” It depends on the type of event you have, but the ultimate answer will come from consumer sentiment. This post looks at how the sequester is impacting venues and events and suggests a way to offset any negative effects the sequester may have. Sequester 2013…
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With the Age of the Internet well underway, it is a foregone conclusion you should sell rodeo tickets online…or is it? Two big rodeos in Oklahoma and Oregon are selling tickets the old fashion way, but that may not be the best way to serve the needs of the buyers. Find out if time honored traditions for…
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Last week, consumer advocate Nedra Rhone published some tips to help consumers get tickets to popular events. Rhone’s list of tips are insider tactics used by the ticketing industry that she encourages the public to try for themselves Of particular vote to venue owners is the emphasis on how to use presales. Since Rhone is…
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As a sidebar to our lighthearted #FeeFreeFriday, this post looks at small business ticket sales in a more serious tone. Recent legal developments in the states of Maryland and Florida need to be closely monitored by small and mid-sized venues. The outcomes will impact your ability to make money.
It’s the day of your big event. Everything is set and all systems are go! The line to get in is getting longer, and longer – is your crowd safety policy up to the task? The time to review the best practices in crowd safety is preemptively, long before the event start date. To help you, this…
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In a recent OpEd the Chicago Times told the performing arts community to “Get Social!” to improve ticket sales and fundraising results. The days of paper handouts pinned to a cork-board are over but sifting through all the latest social media tools can be time consuming. To help busy theater owners, we’ve compiled 5 ways The…
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You may be surprised just how easy it is to expand your current walking tour to include the use of bicycles as a lucrative ticket upsell. Tour guides should consider expanding their service to include bicycles because more cities are building new bike lanes and “bike-only” areas that are away from the roads cars use.…
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Tickets for Google’s annual technology conference went on sale earlier today and, like in years past, there were several problems. Here’s a quick look at what the search industry giant can learn from the ticketing industry, namely the art of the pre-sale.
