About

Despite the advances in technology and the fact that online purchasing is a universal behavior, the events industry is lagging significantly behind in terms of adoption of new and advanced ways of connecting and selling to the customer. The consumer is demanding fairer, more personal engagement and a greater ease of buying. Those who respond to this new way of selling will reap the rewards" [(c) ticketscript - Research conducted by Redshift Research Crowdology Survey]. Ticketcore intends to create a holistic experience for the users, providing flexible, add-on services around the ticket purchase, such as pick-up and transfer, parking, food, professional guidance and social interaction.

Solution & Product

We will seamlessly support all your ticketing operations though several channels, providing a central, robust and easy to manage interface. We provide a powerful visual seating planner, where visitors can easily select their seats while also getting a glimpse of the view. We provide you with all the necessary equipment to scan and validate the tickets on site. Our Event Dashboard serves as a powerful strategic tool to help you decide how to manage the promotion of your event in the most effective and efficient manner. We offer extensive social media connectivity, to leverage the power and capabilities of social media in favor of your event’s visibility. The active engagement of visitors is one of the most challenging aspects for every event organizer. Our platform will encourage visitors to finalize their booking, share it in their network and invite their friends. We can easily support your marketing efforts with percentage or fixed-cost Promotion discounts to selected visitors

Innovation & Scalability

Competition in the greek market is not too fierce, however many of the worldwide competitors are long established, large companies which have invested several million euros to fund their ventures. They have acquired large market size chunks and a wealth of expertise, know-how and experience with all kinds of events. The event ticketing industry can be disrupted anytime and it is difficult to predict the exact way. Emerging technologies like big or small data analytics, blockchain, vertical social networks, VR and advanced gamification, are all well suited to improve and trasform the concept of tickets as we know them today. The recent Sports Law favours the electronic ticketing system as a way to increase accountability, safety and security in large events. The global event ticketing market is dominated mainly by large US companies. Ticketmaster and Stubhub are huge players of primary and secondary ticketing respectively. Ticketmaster has recently set foot in Greece by acquiring Tickethour. Viva is the second big player with a bigger market share locally. [International Ticketing Yearbook, 2017, page 51: https://issuu.com/gregiq/docs/ity_2017] For US, revenue in the Event Tickets segment amounts to US$33,73b in 2018. Revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2018-2022) of 11.0% resulting in a market volume of US$51,29b in 2022. [https://www.statista.com/outlook/264/100/event-tickets/worldwide#marketStudy]

Traction & achievements

In the ticketing management background, the decisions taken in order to optimize the marketing and selling process play a role of primary importance. Only by truly identifying the strategies to be adopted for marketing and scheduling relevant operations to be performed, in fact, it is possible to survive in such a competitive environment such as the ticketing management software environment. The marketing process for selling tickets for any events, such as sports, festivals, museums, cultural events, theatres, etc. is tightly engaged with the outcome of this process, that is selling and managing these tickets. At the same time, live digital “conversations” between the event participant and the organizer create next-level experience and an ultimate source for customer engagement. Our company TICKETCORE falls into this context, trying to respond to needs expressed directly from the market. Our company has already developed a ticket management software platform that deepens into our long market knowledge and experience by handling seamlessly and reliably the ticketing requirements of event organizers, while at the same time providing awesome customer experiences.

Team & Why Us

Manos Roussakis has been working in Sales for the past 30 years. He begun as a Sales director at the regional branch of Nestle. After about 10 years he resigned in order to establish Alfa Plus SA, a promotion services company. His entrepreneurial spirit led him to develop Heraklio, the (in printed and electronic versions) the de facto tourist map of the biggest city of Crete, with more than 250.000 copies distributed each year, Cretelife - an online traveller guide of the island, and Crete-booking an online booking site. He will be assigned with the role of CEO Manolis Stratakis has a long experience in the Internet and Telecom sector and in the design and implementation of internet applications and services. He will take care of all technological issues as well as the innovation management needs of the platform and service. At the first stages of Ticketcore he will act as CIO

Funding Needs

Financing we can use to: Supplement cash flow Suport online sales, run marketing campaigns, hire a consultant Cover expenses 100.000€