YourTicketZone.com launched to high early acclaim

March 11, 2010 • No comments

INNOVATIVE LOW-COST TICKETING SOLUTION RELEASED
YourTicketZone.com launched to high early acclaim

(Waterloo, ON) Recognizing the need for lower event ticket service charges and seeing the opportunity to offer more options than large, well-known ticketing websites, Canadian music industry veteran Derek Schaaf has formally launched www.YourTicketZone.com. YourTicketZone is an innovative, low-cost, fully customizable online ticketing solution for conference organizers, event planners and concert promoters.

After discovering that there wasn’t a cost-effective, accessible, flexible ticketing method to serve upcoming music artists, Schaaf created the original YourTicketZone in 2002 as a part-time test project, and rolled it out for individual concert tours. When conference organizers showed interest and needed both ticketing and specialized conference registrations, the program was adapted and further developed to accommodate changing needs.

When the company at which he served for the past 18 years, most recently as CFO/COO, was sold in 2008 Schaaf took the opportunity to venture out and further develop YourTicketZone, customizing the program to offer a range of marketing tools and accommodate online sales, charitable donations, individual event seating, and seminar selection. “It was clear that it was the right time to move forward with YourTicketZone. We had created a proven tool with unique capabilities and highly flexible solutions because we had worked with event planners, artists and concert organizers to tailor it to their specific needs. After I had to pay a $16 service charge to buy a $20 concert ticket from another vendor, I knew we had something that consumers would love.” says Schaaf.

Schaaf explains, “Our clients appreciate that their customers can buy a barcoded event ticket, make meal and seminar selections, purchase a CD download, receive an electronic coupon for future sales, and make a donation to their favourite charity – and not be hit with a high ‘convenience fee’ or service charge.”

Even with all these new developments and their significant added value to event planners, Schaaf has remained committed to keeping YourTicketZone as a cost-effective, accessible ticketing solution. The service is offered completely free to event organizers, and customer service fees have been kept to rates far lower than industry standards.

YourTicketZone clients have included bands like Hillsong United, Jars of Clay, Starfield, Casting Crowns and Thousand Foot Krutch. Conference and event clients have included Unite in Worship, Revolution Rewind Conference, many other festivals and the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre. Ready to launch worldwide is a new partnership with Integrity Music.

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March 10, 2010 • No comments

Join Graf-Martin Communications Inc in it’s efforts to help increase funding for research so that one day they will find a cure and make a difference in the life of people with multiple sclerosis.

As a team we are doing the Kitchener - Waterloo MS Walk 2010 on April 18, 2010. Please feel free to make a pledge or donation for the cause. Thank you for your consideration of this cause.

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The Mission for the MS Society of Canada
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