Of course, nobody can magically convert this into an easy trade (in fact, it’s only magic that can possibly make that happen), but it can definitely be made interesting for your sales department. These are some of the tips to sell tickets!

HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIDE, I MUST’VE CALLED A THOUSAND TIMES…

There’s a reason why it’s called “cold-calling”, it’s because it is heartless and so monotonous, the person on the other side suddenly feels life has been drained from the entire world. If it’s boring for you, just imagine the amount of patience a person will need to listen to you ranting a memorized and well-practiced set of dialogues.

Add a bit of creativity, humor, and interaction so that talking to you makes him let go off his other issues for those few seconds and actually enjoy dealing with you.

B POSITIVE – SO MUCH MORE THAN A BLOOD GROUP

You’re probably crammed in a workplace along with a hundred other people doing the same job as you –to increase ticket sales. It is monotonous and highly disheartening, especially when results aren’t showing. During such times, take the baton in your hand and be the sunshine of the group.

Smiling before calling instantly changes your tone. If you keep up your spirits and maintain a good attitude, your customers will enjoy talking to you and it’ll inspire your team members.

SCRATCH LAZY, BE CRAZY!

Even the Powerpuff girls needed a Chemical X along with sugar, spice, and everything nice to be the legends that they turned out to be. You can be an embodiment of positivity, but if you don’t try something new and creative to double your tickets sales, there’s no way you’ll be able to crack a deal. Starting off with a high sales pitch is definitely not going to work, so keep it subtle and interactive.

TELL A TALE

Remember how I’ve been repeatedly asking you to make your conversations more ‘interactive’? Well, here’s a way you could do that – by telling them a little story where they play the lead role. It could be something like this: “Suppose you own a blog for budding entrepreneurs, and you want to get a hundred followers in a single day. I’ll give you $15 to accomplish the same. Tell me, Henry, how will you go about it?” And when they start thinking and turn silent, you can jump in and say, “Well, you could buy an event ticket to the Entrepreneurs’ Summit where over a hundred start-ups will be participating, and you’ll also get to interact with big investors and other popular personalities belonging to this niche!” There, Henry is now a hero and an attendee!

So, you see how little things can just be tweaked in order to gain your potential buyer’s attention and convince them to buy your ticket, your booth or sponsor you? A little creativity and positivity is all you need to make this otherwise dull and difficult job far more energetic and fun!

With Yapsody by your side, you can streamline your entire talent buying, event registration, and ticketing process. Our platform gets you a broad pool of multi-genre artists who have decades of experience in providing top-notch entertainment. We offer Enterprise-Grade Features as standard, which will double your ticket sales, unlike other ticket selling websites.

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SPEAKERS CROWDSOURCING PLATFORM

Having attendees vote for their favorite speakers isn’t an entirely new trend, and has been adopted by many event organizers on existing platforms. But, a dedicated platform to crowdsource speakers remains absent (to the best of my knowledge, that is). Event organizers would love a platform where the registered attendees could vote for their favorite speakers.

COLLABORATIVE PLANNING

Many event planners have used Facebook apps for involving attendees while planning events, but they have usually been informal ones. The existence of a system where event planners could use a range of tools for involving attendees in planning their event would solve many hassles. With Facebook polls and the debuting Twitter polls, asking for yes or no opinions is easy, but voting, venue hunting, setting the event ticket price, project management, and sponsor sourcing could all be pooled together on one single platform dedicated to collaborative planning.

VIP CHECK IN NOTIFICATION

Being an event presenter, you might be well aware of what it means when a VIP checks in or registers for your event. Having an influential person attending your event could alter your registration process, and also send out a message to your social media management team to get in touch with them online. Probably depending upon their social/online presence and followers, one could single out VIPs from the list of attendees.

EVENT SPECIFIC SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS

Yes, the internet is flooded with tools to monitor Facebook and Twitter. And that’s the problem. Event presenters are not selling products, they’re offering services. They want to know if they’ve created an impact, and provided a good experience to their attendees – ALL IN ONE PLACE. Social media tools that can be used by event managers to improve the experience they’re offering would be different from the usual marketing tools, and this needs to be addressed.

Lastly, there is a possibility I might have missed out on other real problems that can be solved by young entrepreneurial minds. On the other hand, the issues I’ve mentioned above may have already been addressed by applications, systems, or tools that I’m not aware of. In either case, please drop in a comment to enlighten me (and others like me), because you may just be saving a presenter from a lot of hassles.

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