Investing in Pennsylvania’s Future
TicketLeap’s Founder and CEO, Chris Stanchak, is featured in Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ January 2012 issue of Keynotes.
Chris spoke to our friends at BFTP about how TicketLeap has evolved. In 2010, TicketLeap had successfully carved out a place in the online ticketing industry but Chris and the team recognized that in order to continue growing in leaps and bounds, an upgrade to the original system was needed.
“It was like building a second airplane while you’re already flying one,” Chris said. “But we went from being toward the back of the pack in terms of the competition to definitely being right at the front. It really differentiated us.”
Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ investment in TicketLeap has helped the company grow into an industry leader.
Click here to read the full article and learn about the company’s experience with BFTP.
Read MoreTicketLeap’s Chris Stanchak featured on Spreecast
Watch an interview with Chris Stanchak, Founder and CEO of TicketLeap
Last week, TicketLeap Founder and CEO Chris Stanchak checked-in with Josh Benson on Spreecast to talk about how TicketLeap works.
Chris described how, in just minutes, an event organizer can use TicketLeap to start selling tickets and discussed advances in the platform from the iPhone and Android mobile scanning apps (offering quick access control) to TicketLeap’s social tools.
Head to Spreecast and stream Chris and Josh’s conversation. Chris told a number of behind the scenes stories about the evolution of TicketLeap and talked about recent top events – from the hundreds of New Year’s Eve parties that used the platform to Comic-Con and the inaugural ball for the Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael A. Nutter.
Read MoreEvent Spotlight: Annual Hair O’ the Dog in Philadelphia
Chorus Communications will present the 18th Annual Hair O’ the Dog on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at the Westin Philadelphia.
For those of you who’ve experienced the fun and wild times before, you know the drill: great music, exclusive venue, gourmet food, and 4.5 hours of top-shelf open bar, all mixed together with over a thousand people dressed to impress!
Located within the Liberty Place tower, the Westin is one of the premier hotels in Philly.
If you have never been to The Hair O’ the Dog, this is the year for you to jump to the front of the line and join the party. Get your tickets now!
The black tie affair will benefit Garden of Reflection 9-11 Pennsylvania Memorial and Friends Are By Your Side.
Read MoreTicketLeap Webinar: Get The Word Out with Paid Search
Looking for another way to get the word out about your event online?
Check out our December 8th Webinar with Crystal Anderson from SEER Interactive, and learn about Paid Search (also known as PPC)!
The Webinar will be touching on ways to promote your event with PPC – and touch on topics like:
- How to use PPC platforms like AdWords or Facebook to promote your events
- What tools you need to succeed
- How Search and Display campaigns can be effective
- How Remarketing can raise event awareness
Crystal, the head of SEER’s Paid Search division, was formerly a VP of Business Development at the Dalai Group, an international media agency in Towson, MD, and oversaw PPC and Online Media projects while she was there.
Over the past six years, she’s focused on PPC as a means to drive leads and sales for various businesses, and has managed global PPC accounts with budgets from a few thousand dollars to six figures.
After it starts at noon on the 8th, we’ll be live-tweeting the biggest points on our Twitter account, with the hashtag #TicketLeapWebinar. Crystal will be answering PPC questions after her presentation, so make sure you’ve got a few ready!
The webinar is free; the information could be priceless. Get your tickets now!
Read MoreTicketLeap Webinar: Sell Out Your Events with SEO & Social Media with Wil Reynolds
Ask yourself two questions, right now:
1.Do I know how to make SEO drive my event’s sales?
2.Do I have a spot at TicketLeap’s next webinar?
If you answered “No” to either of those questions, you need to change that – and get your tickets to our November 17th Webinar with the Founder of SEER Interactive, Wil Reynolds.
Read MoreWebinar Spotlight: Get the “Experience Effect” with Jim Joseph on Nov. 3rd!
He’s worked with Kellogg’s, Cadillac, Tylenol, Kraft, and Durex. He’s marketed to millions. And on November 3rd, the president of Lippe Taylor Brand Communications himself, Jim Joseph, is going to teach you the secrets of “The Experience Effect” in an exclusive webinar.
Happy Halloween from TicketLeap!
Halloween is a very special time of the year for us – there’s plenty of candy in the office, “Frog Zombie” (the alter ego of our awesome Business Development Manager, Lee) is usually shuffling about, and our Haunted House clients are in full swing!
This year, the results have been fantastic; more Haunts have joined the TicketLeap family and are having a great season. In the past few days, there have been three separate articles written about how TicketLeap’s helping Haunts achieve success – making Philly.com, TicketNews, AND the national front page of Inc.com!
We’re excited to know that the season’s going well for everybody, and we can’t wait to see how the rest of the year turns out. But for now, Happy Halloween to all of our fantastic clients!
Read MorePlatform Update: RSS Feeds
We’ve got a nice little addition to our platform that we think you’ll appreciate: RSS Feeds.
A sample Organization (Women International Leaders) with an RSS feed, indicated with the red arrow.
Some of you know what RSS is, others may not; RSS, short for RDF Site Summary (and commonly called “Really Simple Syndication”), allows people to subscribe to “feeds” and receive updates whenever they’re made to a particular site. It works in a twofold fashion; if a patron subscribes to a particular keyword or organization (say, “Philadelphia”, or “TicketLeap Parties”) with their e-mail or an RSS reader, they’ll get regular updates about upcoming events. Some sites also pull from RSS feeds for content, which, by linking to your events, increases the Search Engine Optimization for those events.
Read MoreThree Lessons Learned from the SponsorPitch Webinar
On September 29th, we put on a joint webinar with Kris Mathis, SponsorPitch’s CEO; he shared some great pointers on finding event sponsorship to the digital equivalent of a packed room. For those of you who couldn’t attend, we picked three lessons you’ll definitely get a lot from.
iPhone scanning is here!
We’re just so proud right now.
Our free iPhone Scanning app is available at the App Store – just search for “TicketLeap”, download it, and get scanning! That’s all there is to it. Nothing else.
What can you do with said app? You mean, aside from scan on the biggest non-Android smart phone platform on the planet?
We’re glad you asked!
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