Showing posts with label Tickets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tickets. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
It doesn't hurt to ask your ticket broker affiliate manager for more money
Being in an affiliate program is not different then anything else in life. You are not going to get something if you don't ask. If you are not happy with the commission that you are receiving, simply e-mail the affiliate director for the ticket broker affiliate program that you are in and ask them if they will give you more money. A lot of times that is all it takes and they will. This is especially true if you are already generating a lot of sales for them or if you are new to the program and you can prove that you were doing it for someone else. Just remember, If you don't ask, you will never know.
Attention ticket broker affiliates - Hannah Montana tickets are hot hot hot
If you are in a ticket broker affiliate program, you have to be crazy if you are not promoting Hannah Montana Tickets right now. The lowest priced ticket is going for an average of $240.00 in every city on her tour. That means if you are in a good ticket broker affiliate program like Barrys Tickets that pays you 10% on every oreder, you will be rewarded $24.00 per ticket. You have to figure that you will at least get a minumum order of 2 tickets, that would make you an easy $48.00 and if by chance you send someone who buys 2 of the best tickets in the house that happen to be averaging at about $2000 per ticket, well then you just made yoursell a quick $400.00
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Concentrate on making money in more then one city
If there is one thing that I have noticed about my customers shopping for tickets, it is that they do just that, shop for tickets. That is why I am not member of just one ticket broker affiliate program. While it is true that most ticket brokers do not even offer an affiliate program, the ones that do can offer you a little known benefit.
When a ticket broker has their own inventory, it most likely is inventory to events near them. That is where their connections are and that is where they do most of their business. Some ticket brokers purchase inventory for events all across the United States but I could almost certainly guarantee you that the majority of their inventory is for their surrounding area.
How can this help you and a ticket broker affiliate. Well, As I stated in my LAST POST, on a ticket broker's website all of the other ticket brokers in the United States inventory is listed on their website and is automatically marked up in price 20%-30%. What I did not mention is that if a particular ticket broker is also selling tickets to an event, their tickets are listed before all of the other ticket brokers inventory, and guess what? There is no mark up and there will be no hidden service charges. You will not find those particular tickets any cheaper, anywhere on the internet. So it makes sense that if you are selling Chicago Bears tickets to try and be an affiliate for someone who actually sells Chicago Bears tickets because the customer you refer is going to find some of the tickets 20%-30% cheaper then on any other ticket brokers website.
As I stated above, most ticket brokers do not even offer an affiliate program but here are a few in some major cities that do. These are the ones I actually use.
For anything in the Chicago area
Ticket America
Ticketsnow
For anything in the New York City Area
Surftix
For anything in any city is California
Barry's Tickets
For anything in Kansas City
Ticket Solutions
It is ALWAYS a good idea to contact the affiliate manager of the ticket broker affiliate program that you are in and ask them to specify which events that they actually hold inventory to. Believe be, this gives you a huge upper hand when people are shopping for tickets and they find your link.
When a ticket broker has their own inventory, it most likely is inventory to events near them. That is where their connections are and that is where they do most of their business. Some ticket brokers purchase inventory for events all across the United States but I could almost certainly guarantee you that the majority of their inventory is for their surrounding area.
How can this help you and a ticket broker affiliate. Well, As I stated in my LAST POST, on a ticket broker's website all of the other ticket brokers in the United States inventory is listed on their website and is automatically marked up in price 20%-30%. What I did not mention is that if a particular ticket broker is also selling tickets to an event, their tickets are listed before all of the other ticket brokers inventory, and guess what? There is no mark up and there will be no hidden service charges. You will not find those particular tickets any cheaper, anywhere on the internet. So it makes sense that if you are selling Chicago Bears tickets to try and be an affiliate for someone who actually sells Chicago Bears tickets because the customer you refer is going to find some of the tickets 20%-30% cheaper then on any other ticket brokers website.
As I stated above, most ticket brokers do not even offer an affiliate program but here are a few in some major cities that do. These are the ones I actually use.
For anything in the Chicago area
Ticket America
Ticketsnow
For anything in the New York City Area
Surftix
For anything in any city is California
Barry's Tickets
For anything in Kansas City
Ticket Solutions
It is ALWAYS a good idea to contact the affiliate manager of the ticket broker affiliate program that you are in and ask them to specify which events that they actually hold inventory to. Believe be, this gives you a huge upper hand when people are shopping for tickets and they find your link.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Understanding how the ticket industry works
Anyone can just join an affiliate program and place a link on their website and hope that it works. Successful affiliates, including myself know that it is not that simple. If you truly want to make money at what you are promoting, you have to understand everything about your product. So before I go and start promoting affiliate programs and helping you succeed, I want to make sure that you understand how the game is played. So let's start at the beginning.
As I stated in my 1st post, there are over 1000 ticket brokers online. What most people do not know is that they all share the same database. Let me explain. Let's say that you wanted to become an online ticket broker. Easy enough, you would design your own website and you would list any tickets that you have for sale. The problem with that is that there are literally thousands and thousands events going on in the USA at almost all times of the year. If a customer were to come to your website, they would check to see if you have tickets for a specific event. Most likely, you will not. You will have some events for sale but I would take a very estimated guess that you would not have tickets for about 99% of the events that they are looking for. So now in order to make your website and your business appear much bigger and profitable, you would probably want to get into a ticket database.
What a ticket database does is literally bring all the online ticket broker inventories together into one database. Currently, there are 2 main companies in the USA that provide these ticket database services, there are more but almost every online ticket broker use either one or both of these databases, and they are Eventinventory (ticketsnow.com partner company) and Ticketnetwork. Almost every ticket you see for sale online is listed through one of these databases.
Eventinventory and Ticketnetwork both offer the same service. If you wanted to list your inventory on one of their databases, they have wonderful packages to sell you.
The advantage of these services are awesome if you want to be an online ticket broker. These companies have a full suite of service from just access to the database for buying and selling to a complete website with every ticket brokers tickets in their database on your website, and yours on theirs.
If you choose just access to the database, you will be able to list your inventory on the database. They will charge you a small fee a month plus 1%-3% of all your sales. This is big because your tickets are not just on one little tiny portion of your website, they are now on every ticket brokers website in the country.
If you choose to also take the website that they offer, well then your little tiny website with less then 1% of the nations events for sale on it just became a huge website with every event in the country for sale and every ticket brokers inventory in the country is on it. That is quite a big difference. So, you see, getting in on one of those databases in huge.
So next, you might be wondering how you make money when you are selling other ticket brokers tickets on your website. Well along with the website that they sell you, they also sell you a Point of sale system. In this point of sale you can keep track of your inventory, accounting, marketing methods and every other thing imaginable. Most importatly, you can control the mark up of the other ticket brokers tickets that are displayed on your website. The industry standard is about 20% - 30% per ticket. So if a ticket broker was selling asking $100.00 for his tickets, your website would automatically list them at $125.00 per ticket because in your POS you went in and marked them up 25%. Because the ticket broker industry is so competitive, ticket brokers have become very creative in making that extra 20% to 30% per ticket.
This is very important on the success you will have as a ticket broker affiliate so please pay close attention. PEOPLE SHOP AROUND WHEN THEY ARE LOOKING FOR TICKETS. Let me say it again, PEOPLE SHOP AROUND WHEN THEY ARE LOOKING FOR TICKETS. More then you can ever imagine. The reason is that the secondary ticket market is so huge that the prices have just gone through the roof. I myself think that it is rediculous but people are still buying but they are shopping first. When they look for tickets online they are mostly shell shocked when they first see the prices for the tickets that they are interested in. Naturally, they think the prices are absurd and they want to find them cheaper somewhere else. This is where the ticket brokers have got creative with hiding their 20% - 30%. Istead of displaying a markup right on the website, in our example this would be $125.00, they wait until the customer is checking out and then they will hit them with a 20%-30% service charge. It is sneaky but in their defense it somehow works.
As I stated in my 1st post, there are over 1000 ticket brokers online. What most people do not know is that they all share the same database. Let me explain. Let's say that you wanted to become an online ticket broker. Easy enough, you would design your own website and you would list any tickets that you have for sale. The problem with that is that there are literally thousands and thousands events going on in the USA at almost all times of the year. If a customer were to come to your website, they would check to see if you have tickets for a specific event. Most likely, you will not. You will have some events for sale but I would take a very estimated guess that you would not have tickets for about 99% of the events that they are looking for. So now in order to make your website and your business appear much bigger and profitable, you would probably want to get into a ticket database.
What a ticket database does is literally bring all the online ticket broker inventories together into one database. Currently, there are 2 main companies in the USA that provide these ticket database services, there are more but almost every online ticket broker use either one or both of these databases, and they are Eventinventory (ticketsnow.com partner company) and Ticketnetwork. Almost every ticket you see for sale online is listed through one of these databases.
Eventinventory and Ticketnetwork both offer the same service. If you wanted to list your inventory on one of their databases, they have wonderful packages to sell you.
The advantage of these services are awesome if you want to be an online ticket broker. These companies have a full suite of service from just access to the database for buying and selling to a complete website with every ticket brokers tickets in their database on your website, and yours on theirs.
If you choose just access to the database, you will be able to list your inventory on the database. They will charge you a small fee a month plus 1%-3% of all your sales. This is big because your tickets are not just on one little tiny portion of your website, they are now on every ticket brokers website in the country.
If you choose to also take the website that they offer, well then your little tiny website with less then 1% of the nations events for sale on it just became a huge website with every event in the country for sale and every ticket brokers inventory in the country is on it. That is quite a big difference. So, you see, getting in on one of those databases in huge.
So next, you might be wondering how you make money when you are selling other ticket brokers tickets on your website. Well along with the website that they sell you, they also sell you a Point of sale system. In this point of sale you can keep track of your inventory, accounting, marketing methods and every other thing imaginable. Most importatly, you can control the mark up of the other ticket brokers tickets that are displayed on your website. The industry standard is about 20% - 30% per ticket. So if a ticket broker was selling asking $100.00 for his tickets, your website would automatically list them at $125.00 per ticket because in your POS you went in and marked them up 25%. Because the ticket broker industry is so competitive, ticket brokers have become very creative in making that extra 20% to 30% per ticket.
This is very important on the success you will have as a ticket broker affiliate so please pay close attention. PEOPLE SHOP AROUND WHEN THEY ARE LOOKING FOR TICKETS. Let me say it again, PEOPLE SHOP AROUND WHEN THEY ARE LOOKING FOR TICKETS. More then you can ever imagine. The reason is that the secondary ticket market is so huge that the prices have just gone through the roof. I myself think that it is rediculous but people are still buying but they are shopping first. When they look for tickets online they are mostly shell shocked when they first see the prices for the tickets that they are interested in. Naturally, they think the prices are absurd and they want to find them cheaper somewhere else. This is where the ticket brokers have got creative with hiding their 20% - 30%. Istead of displaying a markup right on the website, in our example this would be $125.00, they wait until the customer is checking out and then they will hit them with a 20%-30% service charge. It is sneaky but in their defense it somehow works.
There is big money to be made as a ticket broker affiliate
It is estimated that the secondary ticket market is worth $10 - $12 billion dollars. The internet is a huge market place for both buyers and sellers alike. To date, there are over 1000 online ticket brokers, and that does not include the huge individual customer base on places like Stub Hub and Ebay. I used to be an online ticket broker, and well, let's just say that it was very competitve and way too much work. I am making a lot more money now as an affiliate of numerous ticket brokers then I was when I was an actual ticket broker.
Anyone can be an affiliate for a ticket broker and the best part is that is is very easy and it is very good money. So what is a ticket broker affiliate? An affiliate is someone who advertises for a ticket broker and in turn is paid, very nicely I might ad, when a sale is made. Advertising is not that hard. There are a ton of free places to advertise on the internet. You can also just put a link on your website, newsletter or blog. That is the thing, there are a ton of different ways to advertise and most of the time it just takes your time, not your money. It is like anything else in life, you have to work for it.
In future posts, you will read everything that you need to learn about being a ticket broker affiliate.I will give you tips on where to advertise and everything. I will also give yu tips on what is selling like hot cakes and what you should not waste your time with. There are THOUSANDS of events for you to promote weekly and you just have to know how. Heck, you will even learn how to be a ticket broker with your own website if you would even like to do that. Now, being a ticket broker is not something that I am trying to promote here but because I am going to be so thorough about everything, you will know how to do it. One more thing, to me, selling tickets online and being a ticket broker are two different things. I still sell all kinds of tickets online and I do pretty well with it, but I do not consider myself a ticket broker. So, welcome to my site and if you ever have any questions, fell free to e-mail me.
Anyone can be an affiliate for a ticket broker and the best part is that is is very easy and it is very good money. So what is a ticket broker affiliate? An affiliate is someone who advertises for a ticket broker and in turn is paid, very nicely I might ad, when a sale is made. Advertising is not that hard. There are a ton of free places to advertise on the internet. You can also just put a link on your website, newsletter or blog. That is the thing, there are a ton of different ways to advertise and most of the time it just takes your time, not your money. It is like anything else in life, you have to work for it.
In future posts, you will read everything that you need to learn about being a ticket broker affiliate.I will give you tips on where to advertise and everything. I will also give yu tips on what is selling like hot cakes and what you should not waste your time with. There are THOUSANDS of events for you to promote weekly and you just have to know how. Heck, you will even learn how to be a ticket broker with your own website if you would even like to do that. Now, being a ticket broker is not something that I am trying to promote here but because I am going to be so thorough about everything, you will know how to do it. One more thing, to me, selling tickets online and being a ticket broker are two different things. I still sell all kinds of tickets online and I do pretty well with it, but I do not consider myself a ticket broker. So, welcome to my site and if you ever have any questions, fell free to e-mail me.
Please go to my next step Understanding how the ticket broker industry works
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