Selling Tickets

[GP1]

I posted this idea on the board over three years ago so it must be a good idea.

I just got off the phone with a young man from Wake Forest calling about my season tickets for next year. I forgot to send in my renewal, but his call reminded me. Seats are being assigned at the end of this week so if you want the same seats, you need to get the check in by Friday. He asked me to make the envelop to his attention. Why? I asked..... Well, WF has set up a program where they pay their staff commission for ticket and Deacon Club renewals and new sign ups. They are one of the first schools in the country to try it and he said it is working great. Of course it is, give people incentive to work and they will work.

The WF athletic director has won the national award for the best AD in the country two times in the past five years. This is the kind of creative thinking an AD should have. Stop doing what everyone else is doing, be creative and different. It works.

Very simple. Renewal = 5% of sale. New customer = 10% of sale.

[g-mann17]

Commission is a great idea. It does require having hired staff, unless grad assistants can earn additional money for their stipend (I don't know how that all works out).

But yes, you need a larger incentive than "it's for your school, have some pride."

[GP1]

Commission is a great idea. It does require having hired staff, unless grad assistants can earn additional money for their stipend (I don't know how that all works out).

It requires no more staff than they currently have. Run the promotion from now until the end of July. The results can easily be tracked on a spreadsheet by someone in finance. Believe me, there are enough people sitting around the University with their thumbs up their butts that tracking this for Athletic Department staff would not be hard. This is a way for everyone in the Athletic Department to get involved and earn some extra cash. They all complain about not making enough, well...here you go.

[Zipmeister]

Commission is a great idea. It does require having hired staff, unless grad assistants can earn additional money for their stipend (I don't know how that all works out).

It requires no more staff than they currently have. Run the promotion from now until the end of July. The results can easily be tracked on a spreadsheet by someone in finance. Believe me, there are enough people sitting around the University with their thumbs up their butts that tracking this for Athletic Department staff would not be hard. This is a way for everyone in the Athletic Department to get involved and earn some extra cash. They all complain about not making enough, well...here you go.

Or you could have someone in the athletic department track it using paper and a crayon.

[g-mann17]

Commission is a great idea. It does require having hired staff, unless grad assistants can earn additional money for their stipend (I don't know how that all works out).

It requires no more staff than they currently have. Run the promotion from now until the end of July. The results can easily be tracked on a spreadsheet by someone in finance. Believe me, there are enough people sitting around the University with their thumbs up their butts that tracking this for Athletic Department staff would not be hard. This is a way for everyone in the Athletic Department to get involved and earn some extra cash. They all complain about not making enough, well...here you go.

Or you could have someone in the athletic department track it using paper and a crayon.

And then use that as the art for the season ticket books.