So you already have great, fresh content on your site—what’s next? Do you know what is coming that may benefit you selling events and shows.....QR Codes

Over the last number of weeks the development team set their creative genius to work, resulting in, integrated QR codes.
This allows the sharing of links to shows using QR code i.e. you can scan this to get a direct link to a show without having to type in the entry. The current main use would be, sharing a link to a show with a friend from a smartphone.

Please click on the link below,

http://screencast.com/t/EigL19VOB

This is just the first slice, in the next number of weeks we intend to add the below

- Add QR code to link to order - for sharing order details
- Add QR codes for individual bookings on web page that can be printed
- Add QR codes to regular printed ticket

We hope you like it and as always please drop us some feedback,

Best Regards,

The Ticketsolve Team

Now with the iPhones transcendence to almost a house hold item we have created an iPhone application giving our customers the ability to do tasks such as check sales on the go or use the iPhone as a scanner to check people in.

All you have to do is go to the App store with either your iPhone or iPad and search for Ticketsolve and download the app, it’s completely free.

Below are some images of the new app.

A little bit about Taliesin:

Taliesin Arts Centre is at the heart of Swansea University’s Singleton Campus. Open throughout the year, we host a broad programme of events including cinema screenings, an average of ten visiting exhibitions per year, and a great variety of live performances, from dance and drama to jazz and world music.

The emphasis at Taliesin is on quality and innovation - providing a vital Taliesin external shot by Annalise Richterservice to both students and the people of Swansea and acting as a regional centre of excellence. As well as events within the building, recently, thanks to increased funding from the Wales Assembly Government and the Arts Council of Wales, they have begun to take their productions outside of the theatre, holding Dance Days, an annual festival in the city centre, and touring their own productions and co-productions to other venues across Wales & beyond.

They recently celebrated our 25th birthday, having first opened in June 1984. Taliesin is named after the 6th century Celtic bard of the same name.

At Ticketsolve we are continuously being tasked with ways we can help our customers to drive more revenue through our system, and we always like to rise to the occasion.

So, by working very closely with one of our customers we have developed our new menu prompt tool, we think its pretty cool, and we hope you do too.

How does it work?

When a customer purchases a ticket for a show the next page in the customer journey will make some product suggestions which can be specified by you with some programming through the back end

Click the button below to see a video of the new feature

The Dock houses a 100+ seat performance space, three art galleries, artists studios, an arts education room and it is home to The Leitrim Design House. The Centre offers something for everyone, from performances and exhibitions, to classes and workshops. It is a place where art is made, where people can come to reflect or meet others, where bands might rehearse, a place for new and challenging projects to happen and a place of entertainment where people have fun!

Employing local actors, including Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds and Adrian Dunbar at early stages of their careers

Bar and Coffee Areas:

The Bars, Coffee and Interval Orders are all situated on the first floor of the Theatre and are easily accessible from the entrance foyer.

A private bar area (holding approx 50 people) is available on the first floor level.

Function Areas:

The Theatre has two areas available for functions and private hire. 

Soho Theatre owns its own Central London venue housing the intimate 150-seat Soho Theatre, 90-seat Soho Theatre Upstairs and their new 1950s New York meets Berliner cabaret space, Soho Theatre Downstairs. Under the joint leadership of Soho’s Artistic Director Steve Marmion and Executive Director Mark Godfrey, Soho Theatre now welcomes over 100,000 people a year.

As well as their famous BAFTA Awards ceremonies, they are committed to sharing the craft of film, television and games production, staging over 200 public events a year across the UK and beyond, which give their members, the industry and the public the opportunity to learn first hand from leading industry practitioners, many of whom are famous household names.

In this way, they provide a forum for knowledge which extends online at www.bafta.org/guru . This in turn drives standards and we seek out and encourage new talent, encouraging them into the creative industries and celebrating the very best creative work in film, television and games.

Online retail giant Amazon.com is perhaps the single biggest online success story of the past decade. While competitive prices and a huge product range are key factors in this success, the website’s worldwide popularity can also be attributed to the dynamic customer orientated features which it has seamlessly integrated into its website. One of the most useful and popular of these is the way in which Amazon recommends similar products to ones that the customer has already bought.

For venue operators and online ticket vendors, this strategy is one which could help boost sales and enhance repeat custom. For example, if a customer buys a ticket for a concert by their favourite band, the online ticketing front-end could then suggest other upcoming performances by the same artist, or by related performers in the same genre. This not only has the potential to generate additional sales, but would also provide customers with a far more personal experience tailored to their specific tastes.

In addition to suggesting similar products to the one that the customer has just bought, Amazon also uses the individual’s previous purchase history to generate ideas for products that they might enjoy each time they visit the website. In a ticketing situation this could be particularly effective, as when the user signs into their account to look for specific tickets, they will also be presented with a number of other events which might interest them.
Such dynamic and interactive content can provide a great service to customers, and a massive boost to the ticket company’s reputation and bottom line.

According to the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog), approximately 150,000 ticket applicants who were previously unsuccessful in their attempts to secure seats for London 2012 have now received tickets in the second round of sales.

Locog says that in the ‘second chance sales window’, which expired on 3rd July 2011, 750,000 tickets to the games were sold, bringing the total number of tickets sold to in excess of 3.5 million.  In this second round of ticket sales, only those who had previously applied and been completely unsuccessful were able to buy tickets.

Most events are now sold out, with the exceptions being football, volleyball and freestyle wrestling.  There are still 1.5 million tickets left for the various football games of the Olympics, and although the sport does have the largest venues and most fixtures of virtually all Olympic sports, this has prompted many to speculate on the reason for the relative unpopularity of the national game.

It is possible that one reason may be that people are deterred by events taking place away from the main Olympic centre of London, with football matches taking place at stadiums throughout the country. However it might also be that, for a nation used to seeing top flight football played every weekend, the amateur football of the Olympics is not quite perceived as a spectacle fit for “the greatest show on earth”.

Those who have already purchased tickets in the initial ballot process will also get the chance to buy the remaining tickets, which began on 8th July 2011 and will stay open until 17th July 2011.