I’m excited to announce that AttendStar has released a new FREE 12-step guide, How to Plan a Successful Christian Concert. I wrote this guide exclusively for non-professional event planners after hearing from so many Christian event organizers that they need this resource! If your ministry is counting on you to make its upcoming concert successful,…
Organizing a music festival can be fun and exciting, but you need to have access to money to do it. To hold a successful music festival, the finances have to work. You can’t rely on ticket revenue (if you’re charging for tickets) when ticket sales don’t start until weeks before the event but you have…
Ad retargeting is a great way to sell more tickets to people who visit your event’s ticket sales page, but email remarketing is an even better way to re-engage your email subscribers (including those who add their email addresses on your ticket sales page but leave without buying). What is Email Remarketing? Email remarketing includes…
If you want to attract a crowd to your concert, you must promote it. Whether you’re working as an event organizer or you work for a venue, church, PR firm, band, speaker, or performer, there are things you can do to promote your concert. The following concert promotion tips will help you attract larger audiences…
Festivals are a great way to entertain large crowds, but all festivals must be well promoted to be successful — whether they feature local artists or world famous musicians or they’re focused around a hobby or common interest. I’m often asked how to promote a festival, and fortunately, there are some easy ways to do…
When you share your event online, the free advertising it provides can lead to explosive ticket sales. That’s because posting your event on multiple websites increases the chances that someone will see it. Every post can drive word-of-mouth marketing, more traffic to your ticket sales page, and more ticket sales. It really is that simple….
Every day, more than 1 billion people in the world use Facebook, which means if you’re not promoting your event on Facebook, you’re losing a big opportunity to boost ticket sales. However, Facebook isn’t an easy nut to crack. In recent years, Facebook has become very much a pay-to-play place. If you’re not paying for…
Did you know that 80% of the people who visit your event ticket sales page won’t buy tickets on their first visit? It doesn’t mean they’re not interested in your event. In fact, they might really want to buy tickets, but for some reason, they didn’t buy on their first visit. As a ticket seller,…
Data, data, data! It seems like everywhere you look marketers, business people, and even event organizers are obsessed with analytics. We can track so much these days that it’s easy to get caught up in data paralysis. In other words, we fail to take risks and take action unless we have data to support those…
When buying tickets for an event, most people purchase more than one ticket in a single transaction. They’re buying tickets for themselves as well as for friends or family members. Unfortunately, for event ticket sellers, this creates a problem. You only have access to the contact information for the buyer – not the other ticket…
