The event organisers that are killing it share a common quality: they understand their core audience inside-out. Developing Buyer Personas – essentially, detailed profiles of your target audience – is a smart step towards this. The process of putting them together makes you think critically about your audience, while the personas themselves can be used to guide everything from curation to promo. Let’s break down what goes into a winning Buyer Persona and explore how you can use them to fuel ticket sales and grow your events business.
In the same way that growing your event feels inevitable when you’re deep in promo mode and the ticket sales are rolling in, the opposite is true when you don’t have anything specific to promote. The off-season can be a barren time for promoters, short of the marketing ammunition that an upcoming event naturally provides. But it doesn’t have to be. Below, we give you the insights and tactics you need to keep up momentum even when you don’t have any events on sale. If the time has come to put in place a more sustainable event strategy, one that goes beyond the sugar rush of ticket sales and social media growth, then this one’s for you.
We're excited to release our latest development for on-the-door ticket staff; a solution that enables sales before and during your event or club night. Powered by the CM.com Ticketing platform and enabled on a variety of hardware and operating systems, we help your staff connect online sales to offline sales, seamlessly. In this blog, we look at some of the key features of Box Office.
In today's fast-paced world, the need to capture fans' attention and build loyalty remains a key challenge for independent event organisers. Developing campaigns to boost ticket sales and cut through the noise in this increasingly crowded industry can feel challenging.
Ticketing is the first touch point of any event, which is why it's essential it runs smoothly to give your customers a great first impression. At the Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix, demand far outstrips supply, so the organisers were looking for an innovative ticketing system to help them manage ticket allocation smoothly. That's where we came in.
We talk to CM.com’s Sam Windridge about the state of sports marketing over the coming year. Technology presents both challenges and opportunities for sports brands over the coming year. On the one hand, increased access to news and event highlights on a wider-than-ever variety of digital channels threatens the in-person experience. On the other, if brands embrace the digital opportunity, they can build more seamless fan experiences for their customers across a wider variety of channels and satisfy the increased appetite for broader, more immersive experiences both from fans at the event and those watching at home. We’ve been working on what this means for the next twelve months in sports marketing. Here are some of the major trends we’ve identified for 2023.
With the 2023 cricket season fast approaching we sit down with Sam Windridge, Head of Sports Partnerships, to learn more about the CM.com and Glamorgan Country Cricket Club ticketing partnership.
Relegation has an immense emotional impact on a club and its fans. While we shouldn’t underplay that impact, it’s arguably less business-threatening and easier to recover from than the financial impact that follows. Here’s how to recover from the pain of relegation.
This summer the online experience for many festivalgoers will be better than ever. Many event businesses have discovered the benefits of digital transformation, which was fast-tracked thanks to the quick-thinking required by event organisers during a period of lockdowns and restrictions. The lessons of these 2 years have also prompted CM.com to develop its event app, created by Appmiral, to ensure that it better meets the needs of the industry. In this article, we'll give you an overview of how using a mobile festival app can help you take advantage of digitalisation. Get ready to fast-track your bounce-back strategy: 6 ways to boost your Covid comeback.
Hit heavily by COVID-related lockdowns and restrictions, zoos and attractions will be keen to make 2022 the year they bounce back. Consumers have changed, however, and their expectations– in some quarters at least – are very different to those of two years ago. So what’s driving industry change and what can the industry do about it? We’ve rounded up some of the key talking points that will affect how zoos, theme parks and other attractions will need to market themselves for future success.
With the right technology, you can create a seamless event experience that’ll keep your customers coming back for more.
Every event has its ticket sales challenges, whether it’s a small corporate event, or a stadium rock concert, filling your venue is never easy. To ensure you can drive strong ticket sales, you’ll need a variety of tactics at your fingertips to entice customers to part with their cash and spend it on, and at, your event. To help you create a successful ticket sales strategy, we’ve come up with 10 things you can do to boost your ticket sales.
Digitisation is shaking up the world of traditional paper ticket sales—and that’s a good thing! Ever since smartphones hit the market in 2007, people have quickly embraced the idea of using convenient digital alternatives. Now, when you want to attend a concert or festival, all it takes is a few taps on your screen and your e-ticket is at your fingertips, ready to be scanned when you enter the venue. But the benefits of e-ticketing don’t stop there. Let’s take a look at the top 5 benefits of e-ticketing for event organisers and attendees.
We’re delighted to announce that, at the beginning of November, CM.com acquired mobile festival & event app platform company, Appmiral. By joining forces, Appmiral and CM.com can fortify a common goal: to take visitors’ experiences to the next level through cutting-edge mobile and ticketing technologies.
Whether it’s a football match, music festival, or classical concert, there’s nothing more annoying than standing at a crowded bar, fighting to get the barkeeper’s attention for a drink while you miss big chunks of the event. After all, it’s the reason you’re there in the first place. So how do we solve this? Let’s start by looking at something almost all visitors take to events with them: a smartphone. It is already widely used for e-ticketing, so why not also for ordering food and drinks, too? This is where CM.com’s Mobile Order product comes in. The exciting thing is that reducing queuing time isn’t the only benefit this technology can bring events organisers. Let’s take a closer look…
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