Skiddle Event Promotion and Ticket Sales Blog

Do you sell tickets for your events via your own website? Read on to find out about some complex (and costly) regulations you may not be aware of…

The number of visitors using Skiddle to plan their weekends is growing and growing. The table below demonstrates traffic rankings for UK websites by Alexa (an independent analytics company), indicating Skiddle’s huge traffic flow.

It’s traditionally always a big one, but the final week of January again lived up to expectations with plenty of promoters capitalising on the first payday of 2015 to push events on sale and announce their line ups. That was reflected in a flurry of activity by ourselves with both existing and new events coming on […]

Part of what makes Skiddle so useful is our news and editorial section, and what makes us manage to create such great content is the input of a multitude of promoters, PR agencies, writers and many more who help us find the best information out there. This blog post tries to go some way to […]

We’ve talked previously about how best to pitch to use our various social networks, but one of the best ways to do so is a competition. We’ve started 2015 with our busiest ever Facebook contest and as more and more people realise our social networks are places to secure fantastic prizes, there’s the chance for you […]

Guest post by Richard Howle People just don’t get booking fees. They don’t understand why, having paid for their tickets, they then have to pay extra just for the privilege of buying them. No one likes them, no one wants to pay for them (me included) and the ticketing industry is really poor at explaining them. […]

Another exciting new development from us here at Skiddle – this week we’ve started the roll-out of new style event pages. Incorporating a fresh new cleaner look, these pages will be the first to carry the new design which will be later rolled out across the entire website. Cleaner layout, easier to use We’ve tidied […]

Most promoters now are utilising tiered ticket pricing/dynamic pricing to maximise their income from sales. An example of this might be offering earlybird tickets at £15 when the event is first announced, then pushing ticket prices up by say £5 every month until you hit close to the event date, when you are selling tickets at […]

Are you organising an event where you need to collect additional data from your ticket buyers? Skiddle have just released a new feature, allowing you to collect custom information during the checkout process. Now you can save time by capturing all the information you need when you sell tickets online.   This information can be […]

As part of our continual enhancements to our what’s on guide, we’ve just added over 50,000 local points of interest to our events search. Visitors can now find events near to a specific point of interest, including 1,000s of smaller towns and districts, as well as tube stations, railway stations and football grounds. This enhancement […]