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More Global Perspectives On Tickets In 2018 (Primary and Secondary)

December 18, 2017
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I’ve been doing quite a bit of focusing on challenges and opportunities in the ticket industry in 2018. Today, I want to pull together a few more with a mixture of primary and secondary voices and some international voices. Patrick Ryan, Co-Founder at Eventellect: There is a flipping of the roles between the primary […]

December 11, 2017
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My friend, and first customer, when I left Americana Tickets to start my own venture back in 2006, Peter Shankman, says that he hates “prediction” posts because its often someone that has no real perspective or expertise from which to make the predictions and are often just focused on outlandish things to get clicks. […]

December 6, 2017
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This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. I came across an article on CNBC this morning about teams using “dynamic pricing” to help bring fans back into the stadiums. The idea behind dynamic pricing is awesome. It is the idea that a ticket isn’t some static thing and that some games or events have more perceived […]

December 5, 2017
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As we head into 2018, I reached out to a bunch of brokers and prominent thought leaders on tickets and the secondary market for their opinions on what would be the big challenges and opportunities for the industry in the new year. To help make this a little more digestible for people, I’m going to […]

November 1, 2017
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https://quotefancy.com/quote/1609021/Nick-Saban-Focus-on-the-process-of-what-it-takes-to-be-successful One of the toughest challenges a business faces is balancing between the short term and the long term. For too many organizations, everything is always short term. We get pulled from one fire to the next, never allowing our long term priorities to take hold. For too many organizations, the opposite can occur as […]

October 10, 2017
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I’ve been writing and thinking about what I think the new world of tickets would look like. And, while change is always slow to come to the industry. If I could wave a magic wand, here are some of the things that I would want a new business model of ticket sales to look […]

September 14, 2017
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I was reading about “maximized systems” the other day which the simple explanation means “commodity” systems. Why? Because the only objective is to produce, distribute, and move as quickly as possible. No relationship to value. No relationship to anything except for anything except for maximizing yield. Which usually leads to cutting corners: price, experience, […]

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The Challenges and Opportunities I See Facing The Secondary Ticket Market In 2018

Empty Seats Aren’t All About Price!

What’s 2018 Hold For The Secondary Market? Let’s Ask! Part 1

You don’t get to the long-term without short-term success…

If I could reinvent ticket sales…

Is Our Modern Ticket System Just Another Maximized System?

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