These types of promotions are useful when you want to use discounts to stimulate sales, reward existing customers, or attract new customers. Groupon, Living Social, and scores of other daily deal websites have revolutionized the discount based promotion model over the past year, and with this new feature we’ve made it easier than ever to work with those services.

Check the video below for more info.

“In 2008, we were one of the first ticketing companies to offer seamless Facebook integration, and now we’re setting the pace again,” said TicketBiscuit Chief Marketing Officer Eric Housh. “Using Facebook for live event promotion is a necessity now. If you’re not doing it well, you’re not as successful as you could be,” he continues, “Our new app has taken it a step further, transforming a client’s Facebook Fan Page from a marketing channel into an actual sales channel .”

Housh says that the TicketBiscuit Facebook app is unique in that it links in real time to the client’s TicketBiscuit account, meaning that ticket sales can be taking place simultaneously on Facebook, on the client’s website, via the TicketBiscuit-provided mobile optimized smartphone interface, and via TicketBiscuit’s web-based box office point-of-sale software, with all inventory managed centrally in real time.  The look and feel of the ticketing interface matches the clean look of Facebook. And in keeping with TicketBiscuit’s core philosophy, the client’s brand stays out in front. “It takes the concept of white-labeling to a whole new level: now you can have a white-label ticketing solution seamlessly integrated into your Facebook Fan Page along with your other web properties.”

Though TicketBiscuit just publicly announced Fan Page Ticketing today, it has been in testing for a couple of months. Several clients, including the Re:Generation Festival, Yarmony Grass Festival, and Comedy Zone Charlotte are already using the app with great success. The TicketBiscuit Fan Page Ticketing App can be added to any Facebook Fan Page with a couple of clicks. Housh says the only requirements are that you be an Admin of the Page and that you have a TicketBiscuit account.

Already built in to all TicketBiscuit accounts, this powerful little bugger lets you schedule pre-written, post-dated tweets about your events that will go out automatically – from your own Twitter account – at pre-defined times relative to your events.

TicketBiscuit's Twitter App Makes it easy to tweet consistently about your events.

Your auto-tweets are fully under your control. Customize any part of the tweet, and insert event-specific details by using the handy drop down menus. Some of the details you can include:

• Event title, name, and date
• Links to buy tickets and to event details pages
• Ticket price ranges
• On-sale dates and times
• Venue city, state, and name

Scheduling your auto-tweets is a breeze as well: choose to publish the tweet when the event is announced, when the tickets go on sale, on the date of the event, or at any date or time prior to any of these.

You can schedule as many tweets as you like!

The TicketBiscuit Twitter App is just another example of how we never stop innovating to help you sell more tickets. For more information give us a call or send us an email.

Here are some of the things you can do with the On-Ticket Ads module:

• Add custom images or automatically display images associated with the event or artists within the event
• Highlight Upcoming Shows
• Place Google Ads
• Sell sponsorships and ads
• Include coupons or vouchers for your guests
• And more…

There are seven customizable slots in total, so the possibilities are as unlimited as your imagination. For more info about On-Ticket Ads check out http://ticketbiscuit.askcts.com/ticketbiscuit/ticketing-system/print-at-home.aspx or call us at 866-757-8330.

]]> http://blog.ticketbiscuit.com/2010/08/18/cool-new-tech-from-ticketbiscuit-customizable-print-at-home-tickets/feed/ 0 ehoush http://blog.ticketbiscuit.com/2010/07/27/ticketbiscuit-affiliate-program/ http://blog.ticketbiscuit.com/2010/07/27/ticketbiscuit-affiliate-program/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:55:49 +0000 ehoush http://ticketbiscuit.wordpress.com/?p=524 ]]> We never stop thinking of cool ways to help our clients sell more tickets. Today, we’re launching the TicketBiscuit Affiliate Program to the general public.

How does it work?

The concept is pretty simple actually – website owners, bloggers, and publishers link to our events from their website or blog, and we pay them commissions on referred ticket sales.

How did we do it?

First, we took our massively cool legion of clients and their ever-expanding multitude of awesome events.

Next, we built an easy, intuitive way for web publishers, bloggers, and site owners to tap into those events.

And finally,we topped it off with a generous commission structure. One that even pays commissions for presale tickets or ticket purchases made within 24 hours of when tickets first go on sale to the public (unlike that other, less awesome ticket affiliate program). 

Where can I learn more?

Check out our affiliate program page to learn more, sign up now, or email affiliate (at) ticketbiscuit.com.

RSS Feeds are now active on all accounts!

This week we activated RSS feeds for all client accounts. You can access the RSS feed for your account by customizing the following address:

http://www.ticketbiscuit.com/eventlist.rss?ack=ACCOUNTKEY where ACCOUNTKEY is the part of your TicketBiscuit URL immediately following www.ticketbiscuit.com. The TicketBiscuit URL can be found in the backend under Account > Account Details at the bottom right of the page. 

For instance, if the ticketbiscuit URL is www.ticketbiscuit.com/workplay, the correctly formed RSS address is http://www.ticketbiscuit.com/eventlist.rss?ack=workplay

For those of you who are new to RSS, it’s basically a simple way for your ticket buyers to subscribe to your upcoming shows as they are activated in the system – they can be automatically notified whenever you put tickets on sale. Learn more about RSS by watching this video, it does a pretty good job explaining the benefits.

Some tips:

• Put an RSS icon in the header of your website and link it to your RSS feed. Savvy web surfers will know what to do. You can find some RSS icons here.
• Publicize the availability and address of your RSS feed via your newsletter.
• Use services like rss2twitter , twitterfeed, and ping.fm to automatically update your twitter or myspace pages with your new events.
• Sign up for a feedburner account at www.feedburner.com and import your RSS feed into it. Then, you can get detailed statistics on how many people are reading your feed.

For help or questions about RSS, contact our support team.

Wait, what? Oh, yes. TicketBiscuit becomes one of the first ticketing providers in the nation to release this technology, and the absolute first to make it free.

For our clients, this means that they get a mobile optimized version of the TicketBiscuit powered pages on their website.

For our clients’ customers, this means they can now buy tickets using their cell phone, or handy, or celly, or piece, depending on where you’re from.

Check out the video release below.

If you want to see the mobile software in action, point your smartphone to any of these sites and click the “buy tickets” link

www.exitin.com

www.thebottletree.com

www.minglewoodhall.com

or check out any of our other clients’ websites. If your favorite club isn’t feeling the TicketBiscuit love yet, send them our way.

Now, when you set up an account in TicketBiscuit, you can automatically publish your event to your Facebook page. If you update the event, it will be updated on Facebook as well. There is simply no easier, quicker, or cooler way to connect with your fans and keep them in the loop.

I know what many of you are thinking: “I don’t have time for some kid’s toy!” But think again. Rapidly approaching 100 million registered users worldwide, the Facebook community is expanding into all demographic categories. Those 25- 40 year olds with deep pockets? Over 11 MILLION are registered on Facebook in the United States alone. That will probably be 12 million by the end of the month. The takeaway is that this ain’t just a kids toy. It is a serious marketing tool and can reap mucho benefits. (UPDATE: read this blog post if you’re still not convinced)

Check this page out to learn more about Facebook Pages. Here’s another overview page about the other business products you can get.

If you’ve already set up a Facebook account and want to get this feature hooked up pronto, give us a call.

(Full Press Release: TicketBiscuit Ticketing System adds Automatic Facebook and Eventful.com Integration)

As I have stated before, major roadblocks in the proliferation of this technology are bar code reading issues, lack of reader infrastructure and availability of near field communications (NFC) handsets.

Here’s a link to the full article just in case you’re made of free time, but the salient points are these:

• Mobile will catch on in Travel first, followed by live entertainment and then sports.
• Total gross mobile ticketing transaction value will reach $92 billion by 2013.
• The Far East & China region, together with Western Europe and North America will represent in excess of 80% of this global gross transaction value by 2013.
• Mobile ticketing must “make life easier” for users. In this respect, NFC, with its convenience, is a crucial development.
• NFC will reach its tipping point over the 2011 to 2013 period (meaning that my prediction of 2009 may have been a little aggressive)

What do you think? Would you be comfortable purchasing tickets over your mobile phone?

You can now publish your events AUTOMATICALLY to Eventful.com

You may have remembered our tip on how to sell more tickets from a couple of weeks ago- when we introduced a lot of you to Eventful.com. For those of you who missed the post, Eventful.com is an event aggregator site- they maintain a comprehensive listing of local events in cities nationwide. It is a very cool service and as of last count had upwards of 7 million users.

Well, thanks to our team of super genius developers at TicketBiscuit, we’ve now made the process of adding your event to Eventful.com as easy as clicking a button.When you set up your event, it will be automatically populated to Eventful and kept up to date as you update it in TicketBiscuit.

Seven MILLION more sets of eyes. Zero additional effort.

We’ve got more innovations like this in the pipe coming your way soon, all geared toward helping you have more successful events and helping you sell more tickets. If you have ideas or enhancements that you feel would be useful to your business, we’d love to hear them. Just drop us a line and let us know.