INTRUST Bank Arena's Jim Sachs Nominated for National Award

CONGRATULATIONS to our long time client and friend Jim Sachs on his nomination!

As reported by Josh Heck, Wichita Business Journal

INTRUST Bank Arena’s director of ticketing, Jim Sachs, has been nominated for a national service award for his work in converting ticket software for Select-A-Seat.

Sachs was nominated by Venues Today, a monthly industry trade magazine. The award honors people for noteworthy achievements or service in the ticketing industry.

The winners will be announced in January.

Sachs is being recognized for his work as project manager when Select-A-Seat converted to new Tickets.com software. Sachs helped structure the new system and trained arena employees as well as those with the Select-A-Seat outlets at Dillons supermarkets.

The new program gives consumers the option to purchase tickets using a mobile device.

Arena officials say the box office maintained daily function during the conversion with limited interruption.

INTRUST Bank Arena and Mercer University Both Convert to ProVenue®

INTRUST Bank Arena, an SMG managed facility, and all other regional Select-A-Seat venues have recently converted to the ProVenue Platform. INTRUST Bank Arena is one of the Midwest's premier arenas with a 15,000-seat capacity and host to several of the industry's top sporting events and live entertainment shows.

Select-A-Seat also provides ticketing services for several Wichita area clients; including the Wingnuts, Orpheum Theatre and the Grand Opera. The move enables the organization to recruit additional venues that would also benefit from a shared system (single database) to promote and increase ticket sales.

Mercer Ticket Sales (MTS), a regional ticketing distribution company based in Macon, Georgia, also joined the ranks of Tickets.com clients operating on ProVenue. The decision to move from the ProVenueMax system and invest in the ProVenue platform, along with Access Control for the Macon Grand Opera House, allows them to extend their regional ticketing service more readily in Central Georgia and beyond.

Residents of the Opera House, The Macon Symphony, will join MTS for their 2011-2012 season as well as Mercer University Athletics, which plans to add NCAA Division 1 Football in the coming seasons to complement its strong Division 1 Basketball program.

INTRUST Bank Arena and Select-A-Seat Now Offer Mobile Phone Tickets

Ticketing gets easier with ProVenueMobile™

(WICHITA, KS) – Chris Presson, General Manager of the INTRUST Bank Arena, proudly announced that tickets for Arena events can now be purchased and accessed via mobile phones. Tickets.com has partnered with top developers to bring Select-A-Seat, the Arena’s authorized ticketing agency, two revolutionary new technologies, ProVenueMobile™ and Tickets@Phone®.

Presson commented, “Mobile ticket purchasing and delivery will be available for all INTRUST Bank Arena events through www.selectaseat.com in 2010. As a modern venue, we’re pleased to be able to offer the latest technology for ticket purchasing and delivery, allowing patrons to buy tickets in real-time and receive a secure, digital ticket on their phones in mere minutes. This is an added customer convenience – one of our top priorities – and we’re hopeful that this option will be embraced by our customers.”

As the leading global provider of high-tech ticket solutions, Tickets.com enabled ProVenueMobile™ and Tickets@Phone® to cater to the growing consumer demand to use mobile phones to do everything home computers do. Tickets.com is the first to offer both ticket purchases and delivery via mobile phone in the United States.

“We focus on bringing tangible value to our clients by partnering with the best of the best technology developers, who create intuitive, easy-to-use, services that meet the needs of today’s on-the-go customer,” said Steve DeMots, Senior Vice President of Business Development for Tickets.com.

Tickets.com mobile partners include Usablenet Inc. and U.K. based Mobiqa.

While not all venues for which Select-A-Seat provides ticket purchases will allow ticket delivery to mobile phones, this option is available for all INTRUST Bank Arena events. After Arena customers purchase their tickets via the mobile site, they will be offered options for ticket delivery: will call, mail, print at home or mobile delivery to their cells phones where they can receive the secure, digital bar-coded picture message that serves as their ticket.

For additional information on the INTRUST Bank Arena, please visit www.intrustbankarena.com.