Founder’s Corner – Eventbrite’s Weakness is Ad Strategy

Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. Eventbrite has had a history of overstating things a bit too much. This blog digs into the details of how Eventbrite is: Overstating their impact on ticket sales stating repeatedly “Eventbrite-driven demand was once again roughly 25% of…

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Farm Event Sales Tax

Farms that have events like sunflower festivals, haunts, fall fests, and corn mazes may need to collect sales tax on tickets, merchandise, and other items sold. Selling tickets online with TicketSignup can alleviate the burden of calculating, collecting, filing, and remitting sales…

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Eventbrite Charges Events for Email

In Eventbrite’s efforts to help them promote themselves more than their customers, they now want to open up a revenue stream from not only advertising, but providing the basic tools like email that events need to be successful. So they now charge…

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Eventbrite Promotes Eventbrite

Eventbrite does a marvelous job of promoting themselves, unfortunately at the expense of their customers. If you got to a typical event page that uses Eventbrite, the top of the page is taken over by an ad for the Eventbrite App, which…

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Sales Tax for Ticket Events

TicketSignup takes care of all the obligations of calculating, collecting and remitting sales tax for ticket events. This takes many hours of work, as well as fears of incorrect calculation, off of event operators. All ticket vendors are obligated to provide this…

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No Ads, No Spam, Non-Exclusive Contract

One of the core tenants of our business (all the way back to 2010) has been that we want your event listings to be about your event and will never take your attendee data to market someone else’s event. We focus on…

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Sales Tax for Tickets

We have extended our Sales Tax automation that we have had on RunSignup to all Ticket Events. We collect sales tax for all 45 states that charge sales taxes, and make payments for the taxes on behalf of events. This means events…

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Managing and Reducing Chargebacks for Your Ticket Event

That irritating move when people who purchased tickets to your events (willingly!) contest the charge with their credit card company and attempt to force you into a refund (and an additional fee from the credit card network for processing the chargeback). For an event…

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Eventbrite Q2 2021 Earnings Report

Today, we review the Eventbrite Q2 2021 Earnings Report. We have been following Eventbrite because they are a similar company serving events with having a similar business model of charging for their services only with processing fees since they went public. Additionally,…

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Eventbrite Q1 2021 Earnings Report

Today, we are reviewing the information in the Eventbrite Q1 2021 Earnings Report. We have been following Eventbrite since they are a similar company serving events with a similar business model of charging for their services only with processing fees since they…

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