7 event registration hacks to help increase sales

7 event registration hacks to help increase sales

Running events can be thrilling and stressful in equal measures. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of making that first ticket sale, or witnessing the electric atmosphere at a gig that you organised. But there’s a lot of work to do to get to that place, and it can definitely come with it’s ups and downs.

One of those can be that sometimes the ticket sales don’t come flooding in as you’d imagined. This can be really disheartening, especially when you’ve put such a huge amount of effort into creating your event.

There can a number of reasons for this – but we find that the answer often lies in making some simple fixes to the way you’re running your online event registration. Here are seven hacks that could make all the difference:

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Client spotlight: The Corn Exchange in Edinburgh

Client spotlight: The Corn Exchange in Edinburgh

Every event organiser and venue is currently looking at their space and capabilities to assess what the future looks like and what changes are required to kickstart their businesses. We love this example of entrepreneurialism shown by the team at The Corn Exchange in Edinburgh. In normal times the venue has a long list of uses and events, but post-lockdown, they knew exactly what the local community wanted most…

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Client spotlight: Tibbs Drive-In Theatre

Client spotlight: Tibbs Drive-In Theatre

These retro theatres are a classic part of American film culture and were a staple of post-war entertainment, with over 4,000 theatres in the US by the 1950’s. This tailed off down to as low as 317 theatres in 2019, but even before the pandemic hit business was starting to boom again as an appetite for a nostalgic night out was coming back into fashion. As the lockdown eases, the appeal of being able to stay in the safety of your own car whilst enjoying a night out is an obvious attraction.

We spoke to Marcella from Tibbs Drive-in Theatre who started using Ticket Tailor for ticketing their drive-in theatre just this year.

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Future opportunities for ticketing conferences and trade shows

Future opportunities for ticketing conferences and trade shows

There’s no getting away from the fact that conferences were always going to be one of the hardest hit types of event in this global pandemic. Lots of people congregating and networking in one place (plus lots of hand shaking) meant there was no choice but to either make the hard decision to postpone, or to shift to an online model.

Now that more time has passed, and timelines are starting to become a bit clearer, it’s leading organisers of conferences and other business events to ask – what’s next, and how can I start generating revenue?

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