Our 2023 Q1 giving summary: £25,533 donated

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Our 2023 Q1 giving summary: £25,533 donated

Did you know that every ticket sold through Ticket Tailor helps protect the planet? For every ticket sale on our platform, we donate 1p (1.3c) to our three climate charity partners: Ocean Conservation Trust, Rainforest Foundation UK, and Cumbria Wildlife Trust to protect our oceans, rainforests and bogs.

Keep reading to find out how much we’ve given in the first three months of 2023, learn more about our charity partners, and see what our exciting news is all about (hint: three becomes four!)

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6 examples of festival websites that work brilliantly

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6 examples of festival websites that work brilliantly

Your festival website has a pretty big job to do. It needs to convey practical information that’s super easy to digest, as a starter for ten. But it also needs to communicate a feeling – to give potential attendees’ a glimpse of what your festival’s all about. Most importantly of all, it needs to provide the perfect portal for you to sell tickets online – thick and fast, preferably! 

Don’t worry: this is all actually much easier than it sounds. The truth is, a festival website doesn’t have to be overcomplicated, or even designed by a professional.

You just need to be sure to stick to a few simple principles. And it doesn’t hurt to seek out a little inspiration first, too. On that note – here are some quick tips for creating a killer festival website, with six brilliant examples to get your creative juices flowing. 

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20 Earth Day ideas for event planners 

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20 Earth Day ideas for event planners 

Earth Day is just around the corner – and this year’s theme is to Invest in our Planet.

As an event planner, one way you can do so is to recognise Earth Day through your events, whether that’s to raise money for a specific charity or simply to get attendees thinking. Raising awareness alone can be an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to encouraging others to take action. So it’s definitely worthwhile taking some time to give one or more of your events an Earth Day theme over the course of the next month or so.

On that note – below are 20 ideas to get you started. We’ve broken them down into ideas for:

  • Craft workshop events/classes

  • Fitness & wellness events/classes

  • Community events

  • Music, entertainment & other events

Let’s go 👀👇.

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Boost excitement (and sales) with automatic Gift vouchers

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Boost excitement (and sales) with automatic Gift vouchers

You can now sell gift vouchers effortlessly.

Whether you run calligraphy workshops in London, gin distillery tours in Yorkshire, or even a comedy club in New York – gift vouchers are a great way for venues of all shapes and sizes to boost sales, grow your community and allow your biggest fans to share the magic of your events with their loved-ones.

Find out how they’ve changed and how to set them up in a matter of minutes!

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How to successfully promote an event on Instagram

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How to successfully promote an event on Instagram

Thanks to its hundreds of millions of daily users, Instagram has fast become the creme de la creme of social media marketing. It works particularly well for event promotion because of its image and video-rich approach to content consumption. In other words, long gone are the days where lackluster flyers in shop windows offered the only means of capturing potential customers’ attention.

Today, it’s possible to woo your future event attendees with a myriad of engaging content types. From fleeting Instagram Stories that create intrigue (and FOMO), to eye-catching giveaways that build hype and spread the word – the possibilities are vast.

Here’s a closer look at how to make Instagram really work for your event promotion strategy:

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5 last-minute & super effective marketing tactics for your recurring events

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5 last-minute & super effective marketing tactics for your recurring events

Whether you run a regular music night, pub quiz, workshop, class or another kind of event, the gut-wrenching feeling of not selling enough tickets is universal. The fact is, sometimes recurring events just slip off people’s radar, which (while frustrating) is something most event planners will have to contend with at one point or another. 

A million factors can contribute to sluggish sales, from the economic climate through to the actual climate ☔… and pretty much everything else in-between. So this definitely isn’t anything to beat yourself up about.

Sometimes the marketing efforts that usually see your tickets selling like hotcakes simply fail to hit the mark. And that’s ok! It just means it’s time to shake things up a bit, and employ some last-minute promo tactics to get the ticket sales a-rolling in.

Let’s go👇.

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Meet Becky, Founder of Legs Body Finish – the wine club with a full-bodied difference

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Meet Becky, Founder of Legs Body Finish – the wine club with a full-bodied difference

Legs Body Finish is a wine tasting events business with a big difference. Several differences actually – the most refreshing of which has to be its dedication to lightheartedness and fun over cliched snobbery. (Note the opening line on its ‘about’ web page: “We love wine… the taste and the effects.”) 

Then there are the club’s wine tasting events for mums and dads – called Champers & Pampers, naturally – which have us raising our arms to the sky asking how on earth no one has thought of this before. Genius. 

There’s a Sip & Savour Supper Club too, which sumptuously combines thought-provoking food with equally as impressive wine. 

There’s nothing not to love about Legs, Body Finish, so we’re sure you’ll enjoy reading what founder Becky Jackson has to say in this event creator spotlight👇.

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IWD 2023 embracing equity: Meet the Ticket Tailor women

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IWD 2023 embracing equity: Meet the Ticket Tailor women

Did you know that the UK tech workforce is only 26% female? We want to change that. 

Here at Ticket Tailor our team is 48% female, which we think is pretty good going. And today, on International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the brilliance of women: in our community of event organisers, our team, and beyond. Keep reading to hear from some of the women that make up our team, about challenges we’ve faced, achievements in our careers and personal lives, and our future ambitions and advice for women looking to work in the tech industry.

IWD may only be a one-day event in the calendar, but taking strides to forge a gender equal world is a year-round, long term commitment. And we firmly believe that together can forge gender equality, and #EmbraceEquity.

Now, settle in with a cuppa and get ready to meet the team.👇

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You can now issue Memberships and Season passes: helping to cultivate and reward your most loyal customers

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You can now issue Memberships and Season passes: helping to cultivate and reward your most loyal customers

It's never been more crucial to cultivate and reward your most loyal customers – particularly during a cost of living crisis. And now you can, with the brand new Memberships feature, already live in your box office!

Learn more about Membership customisation, and register for our webinar on March 22nd.

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