3 ways to market your event and sell tickets online
Planning an event can be a rewarding experience. While planning the event is a huge undertaking, so is marketing and selling tickets to it. In this day and age, there are many ways in which one can purchase tickets to an event. Gone are the days where people would stand in line at a box office to purchase tickets. Now, it is likely that people purchase their tickets online or via an app on their phone. This article will discuss ways in which you can market your event and sell your tickets online with minimal stress and much success.
- Best Way To Sell Tickets Online is to use a reputable website that is likely to have a good amount of traffic visiting on a consistent basis. It is helpful if this website markets themselves well and has a great track record for customer satisfaction. Be sure to explore seller and buyer fees before choosing to list with a company. Sometimes the fees can be so outrageous that they price out a potential buyer and eat up your profits.
- Market with social media. If you have tickets to sell to an upcoming event, be sure to advertise on social media. You will be amazed at how much exposure you can gain just by adding an event posting to Facebook and asking your friends to share it. In addition, create a hashtag and use it on all social media platforms. This hashtag can be used all the way throughout the event which will assist in getting the word out about the success of your event.
- Choose an online marketplace that includes an app for both iOS and Android smartphones. Ticket sales has increased a great deal due to the use of apps on smartphones. Now people can stop whatever they are doing when tickets go on sale and they can purchase tickets from wherever they are. No longer do you have to sit by the phone and call back many times to be able to get through to a service agent. No longer do you need to call in sick to work so that you can stand in line at the ticket office. Now you can access tickets from your phone and you can purchase them from anywhere.
Selling tickets to events used to be a daunting task that took a great deal of manpower. In addition, marketing the event cost a great deal more than the relatively free marketing that is afforded due to the internet today. The convenience of selling and marketing tickets that is allowed due to the internet is profound. Selling and marketing tickets online has never been easier with the use of social media platforms, social shares, smartphone apps, and websites. Many are finding that they are able to fill seats faster than ever before because of the ease of accessibility to event tickets and the increase in inexpensive marketing due to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.
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