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Jeff and I are in Colorado Springs, Colorado today at the Association of Railroad Museums annual conference. We flew out here to introduce our latest product, WhistleTix. WhistleTix is a ticketing solution built for railroad museums and tourist railroads. If you’ve never visited Colorado Springs, you owe it to yourself to visit at least once. The scenery is simply gorgeous – here’s a shot of Pikes Peak taken from the window seat:
So what’s different about WhistleTix? WhistleTix has enhancements that allow trains to change train car configurations on the fly, and has a streamlined user interface to make it easier on volunteers to use the point of sale system. Those features are in addition to all of the great standard features in the core TicketBiscuit system.
You can read the full copy of the press release here.
We had a great time yesterday. Jeff and I met several interesting railfans and train characters, and we’re looking forward to the remainder of the conference. Here’s Jeff hard at work, and a sweet shot of our new tradeshow display in action:
The Biscuit Team (or at least a couple of us) are packing up and heading to Colorado Springs, CO this week for the Association of Railway Museums (ARM) Conference, where we will be hosting a seminar on automated ticketing and mingling with the hardcore railfans. We’ll be blogging from the event AND we’ve got some special news in store for later this week, so stay tuned.
- Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs
It’s been a while since we talked about BattlePass, our first product line extension in the history of the company. BattlePass is doing extremely well, with new MMA Promoter clients being added daily. We launched a myspace page shortly after we released the product, and quickly made “friends” with Dana White (head of UFC), Chuck Liddell, and many other icons of the sport.
Check out our myspace page by clicking here
Speaking of Liddell, did anyone see the fight this weekend?
ouch.
If you weren’t living under a rock today, you probably heard that Google released a new web browser called Chrome. Initial reviews of the web browser have been extremely positive: here’s what TechCrunch and Scoble had to say. We’ve been doing some testing at The Biscuit and TicketBiscuit seems to run extra fast in Chrome.
Give it a try and let us know what you think. Post your comments here or send us feedback at support@ticketbiscuit.com. As always, thanks for using The Biscuit!
Oops! TicketsNow Flubs US Open, StubHub Talks Smack
September 8, 2008 in Commentary, ticketing news | Tags: Commentary, sports, ticketmaster, ticketsnow, us open | by ehoush | Leave a comment
Ah, the secondary market. We primary market innovators honestly get a little chuckle when the industry giants drop the ball like our good friends over at TicketsNow (aka Ticketmaster) did this week.
Not a good thing when one of your big clients forces you to stop selling tickets. In other news, the price of NFL football tickets is on the rise. According to a recent study by Team Marketing Report, the average ticket price increased by almost 8 percent to $72.20. The two most expensive teams? The New England Patriots (of course) and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (wait, what?)
Myself? I am a college football fan. The NFL lacks soul. Discuss.
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