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Tips for Promoting Your Event
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SimpleTix provides a full-featured and easy to use solution for e-ticketing. However, when conducting an event, your job doesn’t stop at providing a way to purchase tickets. Potential customers have hundreds of options to choose, so it’s important to make your standout from the masses. For your event to be a success, it is critical that you take an active and progressive role in promotions to maximize interest and ticket sales. What are the best ways to attract customers? Here are a few tips from SimpleTix to help you promote your event and make it a success. Event Website Maximize the value of your event website and online store. Every SimpleTix site features a home, contact, product, event and unlimited content pages. Each time you create an event in SimpleTix, the platform automatically creates an event page. Obviously, your SimpleTix online store can sell tickets - but it can do much more. Make your site engaging with rich content like news articles, photos and even video using SimpleTix’s unlimited content pages. You can also sell related products using event pages. If visitors are entertained and informed when they visit you event site - in addition to being able to easily purchase tickets and select seats - they are much more likely to recommend your site and event to friends or become repeat customers. Social Media Use social media to promote your event. Social media is hot, so why not leverage it to promote your events. Let attendees help spread the word about your upcoming event using the SimpleTix integration with social media platforms like Facebook. The event and product pages of SimpleTix sites feature social bookmarking that allows user to add your event to their Facebook page with just a couple of clicks. In addition to social bookmarking, SimpleTix’s e-ticketing...
Customizable e-Tickets: 14 New eTicket Templates!
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SimpleTix has announced yet another new feature in its innovative e-ticketing platform. The next version of the software supports multiple ticketing templates and includes over 13 pre-made designs for users to personalize their ticketing experience. The templates, designed using feedback from existing clients across multiple industries, allow users to select new layouts for tickets. The new templates address five different venue and ticketing situations including theater, cinema, musical events, sporting and wrestling events. Allowing users to select from multiple templates offers SimpleTix customers an opportunity to customize their event by selecting a layout that is perfect for their needs. The existing version of SimpleTix supports a single template, like most of the company’s competitors. The layout works well, for many situations but the new templates provide a number of enhanced features like: Templates with Boca ticket printers compatibility Printing multiple tickets per page – some templates support up to 5 tickets per 8.5 x 11 page Define banners for each event or the same for all events White label support for resellers Full localization support - layouts work with your website's language The new feature integrates directly into the admin panel allowing users an easy and seamless customization process. Users log-in to the admin panel, select their preferred layout and the user’s preferred design is instantly applied to the e-Tickets. SimpleTix has long prided itself in exceptional customer responsiveness and a comprehensive feature set that rivals much more expensive ticketing platforms. The platform already features support for: Mobile devices Multiple payment types Promotions Seating charts 40+ language Social media Site traffic analysis Customizable themes and many other capabilities. With new features, like customizable templates, added each month, more and more customers are choosing SimpleTix as their ticketing solution. The new support for multiple ticket layouts will likely be a very...
SimpleTix and Social Coupons: A Perfect Combination
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Coupons are no longer just for high-strung penny pinchers that delight in buying 20 cans of $.08 tuna. Social coupon sites like Groupon and LivingSocial have made millions of web users couponers. Social coupon sites, led by the popular Groupon and LivingSocial, have become increasingly popular with their cleverly written daily deal emails offering big discounts. Consumers still recovering from an economic recession and enamored by social media, have readily embraced the concept that went from quirky only two years ago, to an almost pervasive part of daily life. Companies are embracing the concept as well. Small companies, non-traditional organizations and even healthcare providers use coupon to drive interest in their business. Groupon says that over 30,000 businesses are waiting for their turn to be featured on the site. The number is growing daily as more businesses become aware of the influx of new customers that appearing in a social coupon ad often means. It’s web speed, instant gratification marketing. Circus Gatti, a 50-year old circus group and SimpleTick client, moved into a new market and wanted to generate interest in their shows. By offering customers a convenient ticketing solution combined with discounts from Groupon, they were able to pre-sell over 300 tickets. Although the circus was in a new area, El Paso, they did not have to invest in an expensive and time-consuming promotion campaign to be successful. Circus Gatti experienced success and convenience by taking advantage of their e-ticketing platform, SimpleTick, and Groupon promotions. No pre-arranging radio ads. No contacting local newspapers or promoters. Just a few computer clicks is all it took. Like Circus Gatti, SimpleTick is breaking new ground to attract and delight customers. In addition, to an already comprehensive list of features like: Online, box office and mobile sales Email marketing Social Media Integration SimpleTick is...
Use Promotional Codes to Market Your Events
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Sell More Tickets Thanks to SimpleTix e-Ticketing Promo Codes Feature With SimpleTix, you can easily use promotional codes in newsletters and ads as a marketing tactic In order to create hype surrounding upcoming events. With promo codes, you can encourage sales for not only specific events but even specific event times. Say, if for example – you have showtimes on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and you know that Friday and Saturday are likely sellout or at least to have higher ticket sales than Thursday, you can set certain promo codes for Thursday. You could even go so far as to offer promo codes for a daytime show because it does not normally sell as well as evening shows. With SimpleTix, your possibilities are completely customizable and can be tailored to your desired needs. Your promo codes can be based on: Overall Purchase Amount Event Event Time A user enters promo codes in the shopping cart section on the ordering screen and the discount is then applied under “total cost.” Inside your SimpleTix control panel, you will find the options for Promotional Codes under the “Promotion & Marketing” tab. For more detailed instructions, watch this video tutorial .
SimpleTix and ePay Offer Services to Scandinavian Countries
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SimpleTick has an exciting new feature available to users in all Scandinavian countries! SimpleTick is now seamlessly integrated with ePay, the leading payment system in Scandinavia. The new integration makes SimpleTick’s services fully PCI Compliant and able to accept credit cards in all Scandinavian currencies. ePay has been in existence since 2001, making it the oldest and most experienced payment gateway in the Scandinavian region. SimpleTick and ePay bring their customers unmatched service that follows all the guidelines established by the Payment Card Industry in order to accept cards like Visa and Mastercard. The PCI was established by the five major credit card companies as a way of preventing credit card fraud and identity theft, two huge problems in the world of e-commerce, including ticket sales websites. Anyone that operates an online business can be susceptible to hackers and those with malicious intent. This is why it is so important to ensure you are PCI Compliant so that you can legally accept credit cards. With the new ePay integration, SimpleTick now works with the following currencies: - Swedish Krona- Norwegian Krone- Danish Kroner SimpleTick has a great deal to offer to Scandinavian countries. Selling tickets with SimpleTick’s e-ticketing software would be perfect for events such as ski races, Nordic festivals, business conferences and any other event you can fathom. Simpletick will help promote and sell tickets to your events. SimpleTick is excited to bring their services to this region and help businesses distribute and sell tickets to their events! Email us at support@simpletix.com today to learn how we can help market and sell tickets to your school, theater, company or any other event!
Event Registration for Gyms & Sport Clubs!
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SimpleTix is a great solution for Event Registration for Gyms & Sport Clubs! Such as: Triathlon Camps - Register camp participants online. Secure reservation deposits without a hassle! Yoga Studios - Allow yoga participants to book classes on your website! Rock Gyms - Sell rock climbing lessons and course reservations online! Spin Classes - Allow people to book spin bikes online!
Australian Payment Gateway Just Integrated
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The Australian payment gateway ANZ eGate has just been added to SimpleTix. If you’re looking for a safe and convenient way of accepting card payments online, try our internet payment gateway. ANZ eGate offers a complete payment gateway service allowing credit card processing via the Internet and can also support Call Center or Interactive Voice Recognition telephone services (IVR). So, whatever your customer’s online shopping needs, they can pay you anytime with peace of mind. Simple to set up and manageANZ eGate integrates easily with your online website, with the option to support Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) systems, online shopping baskets and Mail / Telephone orders. ANZ eGate provides a total online solution -- no additional equipment is needed. Improved cash flowPayments are settled to your ANZ account daily. High security standardsAdditional security offered through ‘Verified by Visa’ and ‘MasterCard® SecureCode™' Easy reconciliationsDetailed payment reports available. Support 24 hours, 7 daysDedicated specialist support is ready for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so you can call us when you need to. Fees and chargesFees and charges are payable. Competitive pricing packages can be customized to your business needs. More details about ANZ eGate can be found on their homepage.