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.

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.

The fact of the matter is, there are very few ticketing providers that can handle extreme ticket demand. We’re proud to say that we’re one of them, as recently proven by our management of the ticketing for Garth Brooks’ Benefit Concert for the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, which took place yesterday (Sunday, August 1).The Sun Valley Summer Symphony entrusted TicketBiscuit with this event by allowing us to secure the ticketing rights to the concert in 2009.

The tickets went on sale over a month and a half in advance. We instantly saw demand equal to several times the supply of tickets available, and we sold them all within minutes. That sort of phenomenal spike in demand is difficult to manage, but TicketBiscuit proved our solution has the ability to handle it.

The best part is that we’re able to provide this level of reliability to our clients without a lot of additional cost to them. As demand increases, computing capacity is added via Amazon EC2  in real time. We’re able to bring on an arsenal of additional servers within seconds, and ensure that no ticket buyer has a frustrating experience due to website timeouts. After demand subsides, the solution scales back to normal operating levels. Since we only add capacity when it’s needed, we’re able to provide the capability at a drastically lower price point.

Sun Valley Summer Symphony Executive Director Jennifer Teisinger says,”From the onset [TicketBiscuit] has been fantastic. Not only is their software smart, reliable, and robust, but the service and attention we’ve received throughout the process has been remarkable. I’d recommend them to anyone.

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.

May 28, 2009 – LOS ANGELES, CA, – The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club opens its doors this weekend, and Co-Owner Frank Kelley isn’t shy about his aspirations – he wants to have the top club in Los Angeles. The idea, according to Kelley and Lovitz, is to offer an alternative to the dimly lit showroom and common black-box stage – “the club will be bright and tropical,” according to their website.

But building a unique club with marquee talent is only part of the equation when the pockets of Americans are feeling the pinch, and most are making cuts to their discretionary expenses like live entertainment. Clubs like Lovitz’s may be competing with literally hundreds of other entertainment events on any given night. To get and keep the attention of potential ticket buyers, Comedy Club owners like Lovitz and Kelley are increasingly turning to Social Media. From Twitter to Facebook and YouTube, the comedy industry is realizing that the online space is a fertile environment for nurturing their fan base.

TicketBiscuit , a ticketing system provider headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, offers several features that help comedy clubs promote their events via popular social networks. Lovitz and Kelley became TicketBiscuit clients earlier this year.”When Jon and I decided to open our own club, I knew what I needed my ticketing system to do to help run the business. TicketBiscuit is perfect for us.” One of the most popular features of TicketBiscuit is the ability of the system to instantly post event details to a client’s Facebook Page and keep them updated. Another feature, Promotozoa, enables web visitors and ticket buyers to share event information quickly across over 30 popular social networks and web sites.

TicketBiscuit CEO Jeff Gale says that the company will continue to find ways to make its ticketing system help clients sell more tickets and foster online fan interaction. “Businesses are beginning to learn more and more about the importance of social networks and how to build community – our system makes that process much easier.”

Another Los Angeles club, the World Famous Comedy Store, recently became a TicketBiscuit client as well. Marketing Director Alf LaMont says of the relationship: “TicketBiscuit blew us away. The marketing tools they provide really help us sell more tickets. From Facebook integration, to the automatic website updates, to the built- in email blast engine, to the mobile phone ticketing– TicketBiscuit was the obvious choice for us.”

About TicketBiscuit: TicketBiscuit, founded in 2001, provides proprietary, web-based ticketing systems and box office software to over 400 venues and 200 clients nationwide, including over 20 of the nation’s top comedy clubs. Learn more at www.ticketbiscuit.com.