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Pride 2012 Events in NYC, LA, Pittsburgh and More

For over forty years, people across the nation have united to celebrate LGBT culture with Pride parades and festivals during the hot summer months, and this year, ShowClix is very proud to be part of a multitude of Pride 2012 events happening around the country! Events for Pride are taking place everywhere: New York City, Provincetown, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, perhaps wherever you are!

Enjoy parades, concerts, and pool parties, making new friends and seeing old ones… there is so much to do for Pride! Now is the time to celebrate and come together. So round up your friends, your family, and your loved ones, and join us for all the Pride 2012 festivities:

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Why You’re Not Really Selling Tickets With PayPal

Selling tickets to your events with e-commerce sites (such as PayPal or Amazon Payments) can be a secure way to process transactions online.

However, you could take advantage of a system that gives you useful options like ticket barcodes and scanning, while still providing benefits you’re accustomed to, such as security and payment in advance. You’ll also be able to give your ticket buyers a convenient purchasing process that doesn’t require them to log in or create an account.

Using an event ticketing system allows you to have more control over your tickets, events, and sales data, as you easily create event pages without building entire pages on your website. See how e-commerce sites stack up against a system designer for event ticketing, when it comes to selling event tickets online:

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Glitzburgh in Pittsburgh, Glamour Meets Giving

Sure, concerts and theater shows can be fun, but how about a healthy dose of fashion, performing art, live music, exciting auctions, surprise guests, and charity?

Mark your calendars for May 20th because you and all your friends can make your way to Glitzburgh for a fashionably fun evening to benefit the Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh! This is the third year for the event, and it just keeps getting bigger and better… In the last two years of this event, Glitzburgh was able to double not only the people in attendance for this event — but also the amount raised for the Children’s Hospital!

We interviewed Rachel Kernic, co-founder of Glitzburgh, to find out more about the big night, what she is looking forward to, and how ShowClix is going to help to make this year’s event awesome.

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How to Help Your Fans Find Your Event: “Buy Tickets” Buttons and Links

We’ve already covered how social media event promotion can sell more tickets, as well as advantages of a web-based box office, but of course, you can’t sell tickets if folks don’t know where to buy them!

With our promotional tools, you can easily direct ticket buyers to your event page with a pre-made button on your website. All it takes is a simple copy and paste of some short HTML code into your site.

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April Events available only through ShowClix ticketing

Now that April Fools’ Day has come and gone, we can bring you some seriously fun events at venues across the country and not be fooling! Great stage performances, harmonious dinners, delicious beer tastings… just a few of the exciting happenings coming up next week. Also, did you know that April is National Grilled Cheese Month? There are so many ways to celebrate!

As always, you can do a simple search on our homepage to find similar events near you. Seek shelter from the April showers and cozy up with your friends and family with events ticketed through ShowClix!

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