Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Introducing Easier Ticket Printing With “My Tickets”

Are you looking for a way to print tickets? Trying to help your customers print tickets to your next event?

We recently revised our website to accommodate ticket buyers who need to print their tickets or resend their mobile tickets. “My Tickets“ has replaced the “Member Area” of our old site, and we’ve streamlined the process to make things as simple as possible for ticket buyers. (more…)

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Five Things to Remember for Your Fourth of July Event

It’s almost time for America’s 237th birthday! If you are hosting an event for Fourth of July, we’ve got a couple things you should remember before you start up the festivities:

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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

How Online Ticketing Makes Events Easier

If you’re planning your next event, have you considered online ticketing? Why do you need it when you can sell tickets on your own through Paypal or at the door, right? (more…)

Monday, June 4th, 2012

ShowClix Speeds Up Check-Ins at Omaha Beer Fest

We all love summer. It’s a lazy (but very busy) time of year filled with accidental sunburns, exposed toes, longer days… but best of all, its festival season! ShowClix is proud to be one of the leading ticketing systems for the best beer, wine, food, and music festivals around the world. We’ve helped to support hundreds of festivals over the years, which often results in a resounding, “See you next year!” (more…)

Monday, May 7th, 2012

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. (more…)

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

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

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. (more…)

Monday, March 19th, 2012

4 Steps to Create a Top-Selling Event Page

If you’ve already set up your event, it’s time to dig into the ShowClix admin and create an event page that gets your ticket buyers pumped for the day of the show.

Our creative team has put together some attractive default templates, but you also have the option to customize your own colors for your ticketing page. You can even add tiled background textures or custom header images of your flyer or logo. After you set up your template, you’ll be able to direct ticket buyers to a place to buy tickets that looks and feels like your own website.

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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

6 Ways to Promote Your Events on Social Media

Now that people spend over one quarter of their online time on social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, these sites have become the best way to promote your events. By diving into these networks, you’ll be visible on the sites that people visit the most.

Once you have your event page ready, you can easily share it on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites that encourage users to share it with their friends and followers.

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

SongKick Lists Music Events on Spotify

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In a major announcement today for the Stockholm-based streaming music cloud, Spotify debuted its own app market, Spotify Apps. As a response to criticisms of the platform’s previously barebones discovery system, Spotify revealed new integration with major music/social media crossover Last.FM, as well as several more traditional music cred heads like Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.

Additionally, the application now features a concert and ticket listing app from live music SongKick:

Similar to our iPhone application, our Spotify application will scan your Library on Spotify and figure out which bands you’re listening to and give you an calendar, right within Spotify that shows all the concerts for artists you love, and finds you the cheapest tickets to the show. [via SK Blog]

The update is big news for both music fans and concert promoters, since ticket prices will be available within the app on Spotify itself. As Spotify Apps gain ground with the subscription service’s growing community of users, this integration could prove to be an innovative avenue for connecting new fans with live music at venues around the country.

Other apps announced today for Spotify include U.S. chart-reporting chart-topper Billboard, as well as TuneWiki, a site that posts lyrics without the skeezy pop-up spam of many ad-riddled lyrics resources.

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Facebook Implements Less Awkward Event RSVPs

Whether it’s a birthday blowout 400 miles away or “The Solid Dudes’ Last Show EVER!” we’ve all had to click “Not Attending” on a Facebook event.

Maybe a wedding RSVP would add “regretfully,” but it’s still polite enough, right? (more…)