Webinar whizz-through – Ticket Tailor x Tixel integration: How ethical ticket resale can help your events thrive

Webinar whizz-through – Ticket Tailor x Tixel integration: How ethical ticket resale can help your events thrive

We recently ran a webinar with Tixel to talk all about the exciting new Ticket x Tixel integration – plus *why* this matters for you, as an event organiser. 

If you’re strapped for time – read through this quick whizz-through for the key takeaways 👇.

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Webinar whizz-through: Using LinkedIn to promote your event & engage your audience

Webinar whizz-through: Using LinkedIn to promote your event & engage your audience

Ticket Tailor recently launched an exciting new integration with LinkedIn, designed to help users of our platform grow thriving, long-lasting communities around their events. 

Last month we ran a webinar with LinkedIn to dig deep into how exactly the relationship between the platform and events can be leveraged. In it, we got to pick the brains of George Labs, who’s own George UX Conf acts as the perfect case study for the above. 

Watch the full webinar here or, if you’re strapped for time, read through our quick whizz-through of key takeaways 👇. 

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How to live stream an event – your step-by-step guide

How to live stream an event – your step-by-step guide

Live-streamed events have become hugely popular in recent years, and with good reason. Thanks to the tech available today, it’s become relatively easy to open up what would be a limited event to a basically limitless audience. There’s no need to worry about location or venue size – meaning you can reach a lot more people without having to spend a lot more money. 

This is probably why 65% of B2B marketers recently revealed that live virtual events are one of their most profitable content assets. And why major brands like Apple have jumped on the bandwagon with eye-wateringly successful results. (Apple’s live product launch streams get millions of viewers worldwide.) 

In terms of which types of events lend themselves well to this format –  the scope is vast. From conferences, workshops, and industry events through to comedy gigs, cooking classes, and book clubs; anything ‘watchable’ has go-live potential. 

Feeling inspired? Read on for all you need to know about running your first ever live streamed event.

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Come on Barbie, let’s go party: How event organisers are jumping on Barbie fever for their upcoming events

Come on Barbie, let’s go party: How event organisers are jumping on Barbie fever for their upcoming events

Pink-fever has gripped the globe in anticipation of possibly (definitely) the most epic movie to hit the silver screen in a looooong time. It is, of course, Barbie that we’re talking about. Real-life Margot-Robbie-kind-of-beautiful Barbie, and her satirically metrosexual BF Ken-cum-Ryan-Gosling.

One of the best things about all this? We’re seeing tons of awesome Barbie themed events popping up on Ticket Tailor, providing a glorious, bubblegum-pink dose of lighthearted relief to bogged-down people everywhere. Without further ado, here’s a quick lowdown on all things Barbie the movie, plus a round-up of some themed events you definitely won’t want to miss out on 💓.

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Amsterdam Tulips Tour: How one man with a vision went from niche tour operator to private tour guide for Barack Obama

Amsterdam Tulips Tour: How one man with a vision went from niche tour operator to private tour guide for Barack Obama

In the Netherlands, something pretty special takes place every spring. From around mid-April to mid-May, vast swathes of its countryside are transformed into a technicolor dream, with rows upon rows of blooming tulips opening their petals to the blue spring skies. Pink, yellow, purple, red, orange… these are rainbows like you’ve never seen them before. 

Below, we chat to Rory, a member of the Ticket Tailor community who’s made a successful tour business out of these precious weeks in-bloom. A tour business with Barack Obama on its roster of past attendees, no less. 

Amsterdam Tulips Tour offers backroads tours of some of the region’s most stunning tulip fields with a visit to a fully private tulip farm. Rory is friends with the farmers, so his tour groups get to spend plenty of time in the fields without having to fight their way through swarms of tourist crowds.Read on to learn all about how Rory has crafted a unique offering that allows visitors of the region to experience Amsterdam’s tulip fields in a truly authentic, intimate way.

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Webinar wizz-through: Getting the most out of memberships

Webinar wizz-through: Getting the most out of memberships

We recently ran a webinar on our memberships feature – one of the many different revenue-boosting products you can use to enhance your events business through Ticket Tailor. But if you don’t have time to watch it, don’t worry! We’ve compiled all the important info into this quick read, including a handy Q&A section from the Ticket Tailor community👇. 

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7 game-changing venue ideas for your Halloween events

7 game-changing venue ideas for your Halloween events

Halloween is one of the busiest dates in the calendar for event creators (case in point: see the Rocky-Horror-esque crowds that took over Liverpool one Halloween a few years back).

With so much competition to beat, it might be time to think outside the jack-o-lantern by choosing a venue that goes way beyond your usual highstreet pubs and clubs. 

Think about it like this: marketeers have long been promoting the statistically backed-up idea that millennials prefer experiences over things (great news for you, as an event creator). And what could be more tantalisingly experiential than a Halloween event hosted in a seriously spooky, original or downright weird location? Short of conjuring actual vampires to do a meet-and-greet, we don’t think much else. On that note, read on for some game-changing Halloween venue ideas, which are sure to have you selling tickets scarily fast 🎃.

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A guide to pricing for online ticketing

A guide to pricing for online ticketing

Ticket platform pricing can be a minefield, and the consequences for your events budget can be significant. Whether you are running a charity event and it means less money going to a good cause, or a music festival and it means budget for one less artist, it’s an important decision!

In this blog we breakdown how fees are charged and warn of some of the common pitfalls.

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You can now accept payments seamlessly with Square

You can now accept payments seamlessly with Square

Earlier this year we exhibited at two buzzing conferences in America. And the most common feedback was that you wanted to use Ticket Tailor with Square.  A couple of months later, and now you can!

Our dev team has worked tirelessly to integrate Square with Ticket Tailor – giving event organisers (and ticket buyers) even more payment choice ahead of the summer season and beyond.

Keep reading to find out how, and why, you should be using Square for your payment processing.

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How one cycling enthusiast turned their passion into a thriving tour business

How one cycling enthusiast turned their passion into a thriving tour business

Adventure Velo was born out of one woman’s newfound love of cycling. Just over a year from launch, the company’s become a successful cycling tour operator in the Cotswolds and beyond. “My motto is dream, believe, achieve,” founder Lauren Shaw tells us below; an attitude that’s as intoxicating as it is – evidently – effective. 

Not only does Adventure Velo offer a range of bespoke guided and non-guided cycling tours around the enchanting Cotswolds, it runs a bi-annual and wildly successful Ladies Weekend event – a real gamechanger for women who want to try cycling but have been daunted by male-dominated clubs in the past. As if all that weren’t impressive enough, Adventure Velo wheels are soon to be spinning across beautiful landscapes overseas, too, with their Euro tour taking place this month. 

Read on for our chat with Lauren, where she talks about everything from the initial inspiration behind Adventure Velo through to the breathtaking beauty of the Cotswolds, and the self-confessed perfectionism that makes her business stand out.

Let’s go 🚴👇. 

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