Crowd Seats Offers Cheap Seats to Sporting Events
Michael Hines — June 18, 2011 — Lifestyle
References: crowdseats & springwise
Crowd Seats may be the greatest site on the entire Internet. Mind you, that opinion is heavily biased, as I feel that any website that gives daily deals on sports tickets is instantly awesome.
Crows Seats is much like LivingSocial or any other daily deal site, except that it deals strictly in tickets to sporting events. The site sends out daily emails with offers for unsold tickets. Discount range from 50 to 90 percent off and can be shared through Facebook and Twitter, with each referral through the social media services netting you a $10 credit on Crowd Seats.
Unfortunately, Crowd Seats is only available for sports fans living in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Boston and Chicago. Here's hoping they expand to more cities and are able to market tickets for all types of sporting events. Half-off NFL tickets would be too good to pass up.
Crows Seats is much like LivingSocial or any other daily deal site, except that it deals strictly in tickets to sporting events. The site sends out daily emails with offers for unsold tickets. Discount range from 50 to 90 percent off and can be shared through Facebook and Twitter, with each referral through the social media services netting you a $10 credit on Crowd Seats.
Unfortunately, Crowd Seats is only available for sports fans living in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Boston and Chicago. Here's hoping they expand to more cities and are able to market tickets for all types of sporting events. Half-off NFL tickets would be too good to pass up.
Trend Themes
1. Daily Deal Sports Sites - Crowd Seats is an example of how niche daily deal sites that cater strictly to sports tickets offer great value and convenience to sports enthusiasts.
2. Social Media Referral Marketing - Crowd Seats' referral program that rewards users who share their discounted deals through social media provides an opportunity for other daily deal sites to incorporate social media referral marketing into their business strategy.
3. Expansion Into Other Markets - The potential expansion of Crowd Seats to other cities and other types of sporting events presents an opportunity for the growth and development of the daily deal sports ticket industry.
Industry Implications
1. Online Ticketing Services - Crowd Seats is disrupting traditional online ticketing services by offering daily deals on unsold sports tickets.
2. Daily Deal Sites - Crowd Seats is part of the daily deal industry, but within a specific niche - sports events.
3. Sports Events Industry - Crowd Seats is shaping the sports events industry by offering a more affordable and accessible option to sports fans.
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