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Turn your ticket buyers into your promoters the Quicket way
Promoting your event and working within your available budget is certainly a challenge. We know that it often feels as if the things that will really make an impact are too far out of reach from a budget perspective, or that the promotions you are running for your event are throwing…
Making the most of an event registration form: The eventhack too many people overlook
How far is your phone from you at this very moment? Chances are it’s less than 60cm away from you. Or on your desk. Or in your pocket. More than likely, you’re reading this on your phone. We bet it’s the latter. Mobile ticketing is a sure-fire way to improve your event. You’re…
Add value to any free ticket to help reduce no-shows
Increase attendance at your free event using one simple approach: simply increase the value of those free tickets. When people don’t spend their hard-earned money on a ticket to an event, their commitment to that event tends to become particularly low. Even more so should…
Confessions of a digital marketer: how big advertising tactics are used to sell event tickets
Advertising used to be a fairly desperate state of affairs. We’d broadcast messages widely across the country using expensive media and hope someone was paying attention. Meantime our clients would stand around in their stores hoping someone would walk in. And the…
Improve your event with ticketing on mobile
How far is your phone from you at this very moment? Chances are it’s less than 60cm away from you. Or on your desk. Or in your pocket. More than likely, you’re reading this on your phone. We bet it’s the latter. Mobile ticketing is a sure-fire way to improve your event. You’re…
The Quicket Image Cheat Sheet: Making your pictures speak for themselves
They say a picture paints a thousand words… Here’s everything you need to know about the image resolution and formats for your events on Quicket. Have you ever wished that all the image specs you need for running your event on Quicket were available all in one place? Well…
“Why aren’t people booking tickets to my event?”
Introducing the top reasons why people aren’t booking tickets to your event… So, you’re throwing an event. And you think you’ve got this whole thing pretty sussed. Well, we have two questions for you: 1. How many people visit your ticket sales page or your website each day? And 2…
The 6 Crucial Metrics you need for your event
You’re running an event, you’ve set up your tickets with a ticketing provider, and now it’s just about concentrating on the event itself, right? Wrong. As an organiser you need to keep up-to-date with how your tickets are selling, which of your marketing approaches are working (or not…
Time waits for no one, especially an event organiser
Organising a kick-ass event takes time, attention to detail, people skills, creative problem solving (often under immense pressure), and serious amounts of admin (which is why we sometimes call it “badmin” after it’s driven us up the wall). Unglamorous as that last piece of the puzzle…
A Quicket guide to building Exclusive events
Want to host an event that is strictly invite only? No problemo ? We definitely have a few solutions for you. (We also promise to never say “No problemo” again, well for as long as possible any way.) When an event is invite only, it’s not only important to create hype around it by involving…
Artisanal festival planning: coordinating a unique and successful Craft Beer Festival
Every month it seems there is a new festival popping up around South Africa featuring some locally produced craft goods or beverages. Any way you skin it, the artisan bubble is growing. And it’s exciting to see folks showcasing their new brands and concepts, but these festivals can…
Setting up Mailchimp: A newbie event organiser’s account of how to engage with eventgoers
Finding time to engage with event-goers at the event? Good luck with that… As a new, independent event organiser, the biggest nightmare I’ve encountered has been connecting with people present at the event. Naturally, you want to connect with people attending your event…
Awesome websites you must get your event listed on
Getting your event noticed is just a click away… One extremely cost-effective way to get extra exposure for your event is to make sure you get listed on websites relevant to what your event entails and where it might be happening. There are literally thousands and thousands of blogs…
Radio: Broadcasting your event to the right people
“Someone that I used to know” When it comes to making a decision about spending time and money we tend to do research. Especially when it’s our own money, we tend to ask questions like “Is the product, service or event worth our while?”, “Is it run through a trusted and helpful platform?”.
Influencing the influencers
With socially seeded advertising, and sponsored posts seemingly everywhere nowadays – it’s not surprising that Influencer Marketing has become an even bigger trend in 2017. When you think about it, who wouldn’t want to reach their target audience directly through someone they can relate…
The Seven Deadly Sins of creating a ticketing page
You’ve taken the time, the initiative and the not-in-any-way-minor effort to plan an event. So now it’s imperative that once you’ve driven an audience to your ticketing page, you make sure your ultimate end goal is reached: (said in a booming voice from outer-space) A SUCCESSFUL…
Want to sell more tickets? Here’s some marketing advice
Your event can be the best thing that’s come to town since Elvis (and we’re talking the real King of Rock Elvis here, not one of those terrible impersonators)… but if people don’t know about it, they won’t come. Here’s some marketing advice to help you get the word out. Know your…