Social Media Webinar: Facebook 101

Tickets.com is happy to announce that we have scheduled the following webinar:

Topic: Facebook 101 – Getting Started

Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Time: 11:00 am, Pacific Standard Time/2:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time

Who should attend: Box office management, marketing and communication groups

Description: For venues who haven’t jumped on to the social media bandwagon, this is for you. Learn the critical steps to create an effective Facebook presence and the strategies to keep it going.

What you will learn:

• How to create a Facebook page

• Ways to get fans and friends to follow you

• What to post and more

Enrollment for this Technology Information Exchange seminar is now open. To attend this webinar, you must first complete the enrollment process.

Please click here to enroll.

Once you have enrolled, you will receive a confirmation email entitled “Enrollment Approved” that will provide you with the information needed to join the session, including the password. Please note: It may take up to 48 hours to receive your approval email.

Donate to the Red Cross & Support their relief efforts in Japan

Our hearts go out to those affected by the earthquake and tsunami. If you'd like to help, donate to the Red Cross. You can donate $10 by texting to Red Cross and entering 90999.

General Manager Has A Close Shave

David Borg, the Asia Pacific General Manager at Tickets.com will be participating in the World’s Greatest Shave to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. Since 1998, World’s Greatest Shave has raised in excess of $106 million and the event is the Foundations biggest source of income.

Every hour, someone in Australia is diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma. Every two hours, someone dies from one of these blood cancers. The money raised is used by the Leukaemia Foundation to fund services to support patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders. All services are free! Fundraising efforts also fund blood cancer research to find better treatments and cures.

David is aiming to raise $5,000 so if you can help, please use the link above to make a donation directly to the cause. You can also follow him on Facebook at ProVenue APAC to see updates and to view pictures of David after the shave.

David’s Great Shave will occur on the 30th March.

A Bit of Good News .....

We couldn’t help but share the great news and positive feedback from our friends at the Oakland Athletics regarding the integration of dynamic pricing with the ProVenue ticketing platform.

"Can't stress enough how seamless and easy the process was on ProVenue.... Great work, the ProVenue product integration with outside vendors is a huge selling point."

- Josh Ziegenbusch, Director of Ticket Operations, Oakland A's

Tickets.com - Job Openings

Tickets.com is now hiring for the following positions:

Client Services Representative (St. Louis Cardinals) – St. Louis, MO
Telecom Engineer – Costa Mesa, CA
Sr. Security Engineer – Costa Mesa, CA
Test Automation Lead Engineer – Costa Mesa, CA
Desktop Administrator – Costa Mesa, CA
Software Engineer – Costa Mesa, CA

Please visit www.provenue.com for a more detailed description.

Tickets.com integrates social media into ProVenueOnline®

We’re excited to announce this new capability, making ticket sales more viral via social media.

When a consumer purchases a ticket online through our system, they can share their attendance with their social network via Tickets.com’s system.  What better time to offer people the option to share their excitement about the tickets they acquired than when they’ve just completed their purchase?  Tickets.com is placing the familiar Facebook and Twitter options on the ticket purchase confirmation page.  People can then modify the text they share or use what’s provided.  

Sample screens are shown below.

A link to the venue’s events page is provided with the share feature so other friends/followers can purchase tickets.

Seattle Theatre Group is the first venue to use this new social media integration.

Congratulations 2011 Box Office Stars: Sharon Dunaway and Bernie Berry

Congratulations to Sharon Dunaway and Bernie Berry for Winning the 2011 Venues Today ‘Box Office Stars” Award.

Each year Venues Today honors the people who make our industry move forward. This year, Tickets.com would like to congratulate two of our clients; Sharon Dunaway, BOK Center, Tulsa OK and Bernie Berry, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna, VA. Each day these super stars make it happen and today we celebrate you! Congratulations on well deserved recognition!