“Nah, nah, hey, hey, goodbye…” is the verse you’ll be singing after reading this week’s Fee Free Friday. Why? Because earlier this week the NHL waived all ticket fees on home games! Such a positive development is immediately offset by a “personal seat license” fee being a final insult to injury for Dallas Cowboy fans. Plus, Fee…
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Nostalgia isn’t just for rowdy Rock & Roll concerts. Sometimes the most enduring memories are made far from traditional venues like nightclubs and stadiums. This week, a vintage locomotive marked its 150th anniversary by taking passengers on a train ride down memory lane. Surprisingly, the nostalgia for trains chronicled in this post has parallels to nostalgia for music concerts gone by – including ticket sales.…
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This edition of Green Means Go contains new theater funding announcements and a reminder of what a rich resource Kickstarter can be for theaters and nonprofits. These triumphs are presented in a digested format for quick scanning but also contain the requisite external citations to read more in-depth. Reminder: Kickstarter Theater Funding In the ongoing pursuit for…
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Here at ThunderTix, we’re resolving to help you get your jobs done more efficiently in 2013. This might take the form of more interlinks between pages for faster navigation, more bulk processes, or features to save staff time. To that end, if you ever get phone calls about email delivery, you are going to love…
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So-called tweet seats represent the best, and worst, of what social media has to offer. From the first experiment in 2009 right up to today, the controversial policy has its fans and its foes. We look at the latest examples, the good, the bad and the ugly, then suggest how it should be done in the overall context of…
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On Tuesday Google announced it will be providing free wifi to the residents of the Chelsea neighborhood in New York city. The announcement is just the latest example of how the public has come to expect wifi being available everywhere they go. That expectation will continue at venues and events. You may be surprised to learn the conversation of…
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As a theatre box office software, ThunderTix’s Green Means Go prides itself on being a source of information performing arts theater and nonprofits can use for creative solutions to vexing problems. ThunderTix offers many features to theaters as an easy-to-use theatre box office software. We want to help theaters sell tickets, accept donations, and promote…
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Music concerts at schools come with special circumstances that are not usually found at commercial “for-profit” venues. Schools, from the local elementary to the largest college campus in the country, face the same challenge – financial transparency, return on investment and creating a memorable experience for the students. This post lists some of the “do’s and don’ts” for campus…
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Industry expert Roger Tomlinson has written a rather gloomy 2013 forecast for performing arts ticket sales – Is it really going to be that bad? We seem to have managed to not go over the fiscal cliff and a staccato of funding announcements indicate all is not doom and gloom for The Arts. This installment of Green Means Go…
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Can a restaurant sell tickets in lieu of taking reservations? If so, how about selling restaurant season tickets? The answer to both questions is “yes”. How this innovative approach works is far more sophisticated than you might think. We’re not talking about a old fashion supper club, or all-you-can eat buffet. Plus, selling tickets instead of taking reservations has become so…
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