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#2905 - Q&A: ““What’s the best ticketing strategy for my event?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode tackles a question about the best way to sell tickets for an event. Should you keep sales open on a rolling basis or create urgency with a waitlist and limited sale dates?

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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

Turning an idea into a small business doesn't happen by accident. You need to be all in.

0:05.5

At constant contact, we have the digital marketing tools you need to get the word out, close the sale,

0:10.3

raise the funds and gather a community around this thing you've built. So let's do this together.

0:15.2

Let's send this, share this and shout this from the rooftops. Let's segment this, automate this,

0:20.3

and AI this for real results fast. Let's get out of this what we put rooftops. Let's segment this, automate this, and AI this for real

0:21.6

results fast. Let's get out of this what we put into this. Let's build this. Let's grow this. Let's

0:26.6

win this. Get started today at constantcontact.com. What's the best ticketing strategy for an event?

0:44.1

This is a fun question because I have been doing ticket sales myself recently after a couple of years of not doing live events.

0:51.2

I'm really excited to do a new event on neurodiversion next spring in Austin,

0:55.1

Texas. And so here we've got a listener who has also been producing events. She's wondering

0:59.7

about ticket sales and what's the best strategy for it. Should she release tickets on a rolling

1:05.1

basis or use more of a wait list strategy with limited dates of sale? So we're going to talk about

1:10.8

the pros and cons of

1:11.7

both methods, help or decide which approach might lead to more engagement in higher sales or better

1:16.5

conversion, basically. So if you ever want to do any kind of live event or if you're just

1:19.8

interested in why people buy when they buy, this applies to more than just events, but we'll

1:25.3

look at it in the context of running an event. Ticket sales

1:28.1

strategy, what's the best way to do it? Detailed question and my answer coming right up.

1:35.3

Turning an idea into a small business doesn't happen by accident. You need to be all in. At constant

1:41.1

contact, we have the digital marketing tools you need to get the word out,

1:44.6

close the sale, raise the funds and gather a community around this thing you've built.

1:48.8

So let's do this together. Let's send this, share this and shout this from the rooftops.

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