It is true that the future of event awareness for festivals is social media. One of the lesser known formats is the wiki. And specifically for festival operators there is wikifestivals. Here’s a quick look at a new spin on the established wiki information format as it relates to the event awareness for festivals – including yours.…
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Here’s three reasons why your festival should have a different theme each year and how that theme can be part of the purchase process with festival ticketing software. Mum’s The Word Every year since 1961, Tipp City, Ohio has been host of the Mum Festival. The festival is a celebration of the official flower (the chrysanthemum…
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Sometimes even those with a command of social media wonder how to build event awareness. Part science, part art, using social media to make the maximum amount of people aware of your event is a very important aspect of your business. Whether you are an old hand at it, or have just begun to realized…
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Just a week before the Steven Spielberg film ‘Lincoln’ opens nationwide, the city of Richmond Virginia and the Richmond National Battlefield Park hosted a historical walking tour that retraced Abraham Lincoln’s footsteps made in April 1865. We look at how a guided tour can intertwine prominent past events with popular culture to provide a history lesson and…
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The Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds has a rich 40 year history of being a place where great memories are made. ThunderTix is proud to be the ticketing software of choice for Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds and we love the way the family friendly venue uses social media to bring about event awareness and cultivate the shared experience.…
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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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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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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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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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