How to sell show tickets online
How to sell tickets to your show: A great online tool!
hey everyone and welcome to the SAT no
connections video blog my name is jewel
tolentino and in this video we're gonna
go through how to set up an event on the
Eventbrite page alright so before we
even get started if you want to know why
Eventbrite is important for you and how
it can help you as an artist or
performer you can check out the written
blog on the SAT no connections blog
section on our website and I'm also
going to be providing the direct link
below this video alright so let's get
started
and obviously before we get into things
you're gonna want to sign up for the
free account on Eventbrite and the
website is eventbrite.com and you just
sign up and then once you log in click
on this tab here create event and we're
just gonna go through the 8 steps to get
started on creating your event alright
so the first step is to add an event
title let's just go test event I'm just
creating one just to show you guys
and then to add ticket information and
you'll see here it says you must create
at least one ticket for your event to be
published alright so ticket name I
usually just call it general admission
and light let's say the cover is $10 and
the quantity I usually put a ballpark
number of 100 but you can put any number
you want and you can adjust this number
later on if it goes past a hundred but I
just put 100
and you're also going to want to click
on advanced options alright so this is
where you can went at what time you can
start the sales
I always start sales when I'm actually
creating the event so today is Monday
whoops and then we'll just leave it at
that 1:00 a.m. or we can change it and
then put the date that it ends let's say
the events not happening until July 10th
and it's ending I usually put the ticket
sales ending one hour before the show so
let's just put a random time of 8 p.m.
and I don't usually touch the minimum
tickets per order or the maximum tickets
we don't usually have restrictions on
that and you can put a little
description so this gets you entry into
the crazy event exclamation mark now
you're gonna want to choose whether
you'd like to add the fees on top of the
total ticket price or include them in
the ticket price we chose to add it on
top so that you won't have to pocket
that yourself at the end you can't
include it if you want but we like to
add it on top so click Save after you've
done that and you'll see here that it
pops up so the fee that we were just
talking about is the dollar 59 per 10
dollar ticket and that will be added on
top when the person purchase is a ticket
and you can choose the payment options I
usually choose PayPal and I put my
paypal email address
click save you can also put in Google
Checkout or pay by paypal and Google
Checkout or credit card processing I
just choose PayPal all right then the
event details so this is like a word
document where you can add a background
color put different fonts make fonts
bigger you can really get crazy with the
customization so you can play around
with that and here don't forget to
choose your URL to send to everyone this
is the actual website address for your
event so let's just choose so I called
it test event Eventbrite calm oh that's
actually taken so let's use something
else crazy test event available ok so
I'm actually moving down the page and
well are already at step 7 so let's go
back up here to the right hand side and
this is where you can choose a logo or a
picture to represent the event that's
happening so you just click browse and
if you have the picture on let's just
choose a random picture of a REIT here
for her let's just use her debut album
there upload you'll see that it uploads
like half of it don't get freaked out it
actually uploads the full size it just
only shows you half I mean I spent so
long trying to figure that out last time
but I'm saving you so now we're moving
on to step four alright so over here you
want to choose when the actual date of
the event was so that was July 10th this
is just a fake events not real and it's
starting at 9 p.m. and it's ending
the same date you can choose the time
zone that you're in and if this event is
in there is a repeating event so if you
have this event once a month or once a
week you can choose to repeat it can
also choose your location so I'm just
gonna choose the Coast Capital Playhouse
Theatre because we actually did play
there and you see how it pulls up Google
Maps for you and it pulls up the address
so people can print this off right when
they print out their ticket when they
order you can also add a host so we'll
just still choose me and then now we're
back to step 7 is adding the colors so
you can choose one of their themes that
they've got here all laid out or you can
choose your own colors you can really
get creative with if you have a specific
color scheme that you want to match your
logo or you've already got a color
scheme going on then you can choose your
own colors but we'll just choose this
one as a test I'm just going to go up
here and just go test details
we'll make it really big there you go
all right and step eight the privacy so
you're gonna want to choose the category
that this is let's say it's a festival
slash fair and it's for movies and you
want to choose your keywords so the
keywords for it
it's um no not test festivals Vancouver
festivals and Coover Film Festival we're
just pretending that's what it is and if
you want you can make this event private
and it won't be listed in the
directories or search engines and over
here we've got the additional options if
you want you can show the number of
tickets remaining on the registration
page so if like the event is going to
sell out and its really popular and you
want people to see that there's ten
tickets left that they better buy it you
can do that I don't usually show the
number you can also show the attendee
list sometimes I do that and you can
track this page using Google Analytics
you can put your code that you get there
and you can show the custom header and
footer
I don't usually touch that one either so
you want to save and publish or you can
actually preview it let's preview it
first all right so here's the test event
as you can see the colors are all in
place there's the picture right there
it's called test event and you can even
tweet about this people can Facebook
like it you can share it on email or
and they've got the payment options here
with PayPal and right here the test
details I only wrote test details and
that's why it's small but when you put
all the information this this area will
get larger and you've got the map and
it's when and it's hosted by and the
person people can contact me if they've
got any questions for it and you would
just get that URL that you set the the
crazy test event Eventbrite calm and you
would give that URL to anyone that you'd
want to invite to the event and
basically that's how you would promote
your event is with that URL so if you
want to find out more again like I said
in the beginning check out our written
blog on the SOT no connections website
and I'll also be putting a direct link
to that specific blog post and I hope
you guys found this useful and stay
tuned for more online tools and other
tricks all right well thank you very
much you guys and I'll see you in the
next video
