NO TICKET REQUIRED — The Veritix Blog

Veritix^® would like to wish its clients the Colorado Rapids and Real Salt Lake the best of luck as they begin the 2013 Major League Soccer season. Veritix’s Flash Seats^® marketplace is utilized by both the Rapids and Real Salt Lake to give fans the opportunity to buy, sell, or transfer seats on a safe, secure, team-endorsed site. To view the “Official Secondary Marketplace” for both teams, visit these sites:

rapids.flashseats.com

realsaltlake.flashseats.com

We would like to wish you and your family a happy and safe Thanksgiving. During this time of thanks, we are grateful for the partnerships, successes, and growth this year has brought, and we look forward to an exciting year ahead. Have a wonderful holiday!

With the NBA preseason in full swing and the regular season set to begin on October 30th, Veritix^® would like to wish its NBA clients success in the 2012-13 season. Flash Seats^® (www.flashseats.com), the Veritix paperless ticketing platform, will once again serve as the Official Secondary Marketplace for our NBA clients. Fans can buy, sell, and transfer tickets for some of the league’s best matchups throughout the season. We look forward to an exciting season of basketball for our clients!

Cleveland Cavaliers: http://bit.ly/bw01Wv

Denver Nuggets: http://bit.ly/rQdFHa

Houston Rockets: http://bit.ly/86Nx8b

Utah Jazz: http://bit.ly/8wITVG

Many of the NBA’s future stars will be front and center this Thursday in Newark, New Jersey for the 2012 NBA Draft. As part of this exciting night, many of our clients will be holding draft parties to entertain fans with giveaways and special appearances and welcome their new additions.

• The Houston Rockets, who own the #12, #16, and #18 picks will host a free party at Toyota Center. Fans will have the opportunity to win a trip to Las Vegas, two tickets to a future Rockets home game, and meet Rockets forward Chandler Parsons.

• The Cleveland Cavaliers, who hold the #4, #24, #33 and #34 picks in the draft, will host a free party at Quicken Loans that includes contests and interactive games. All tickets ordered online will use Flash Seats®, our paperless ticketing system, enabling fans to conveniently swipe in with their registered credit card or driver’s license.

• The Utah Jazz, who have the #47 pick, will host a free party at EnergySolutions Arena . The first 1,000 fans will receive a certificate for a free hot dog and a Salt Lake Bees ticket voucher. Fans will also receive a free NBA draft guide and have the opportunity to win tickets to a Heat vs. Jazz game.

• The Denver Nuggets own the #20, #38, and #50 picks in the draft.

It promises to be an exciting night for all NBA teams and fans alike as they look towards the future and the 2012-2013 NBA season.

Flash Seats^®, the patented paperless ticketing platform from Veritix^®, is the NCAA-approved secondary ticket marketplace for both the 2012 NCAA^® Men’s College World Series and 2012 NCAA^® Women’s College World Series. Flash Seats will be used as a fan-to-fan marketplace—enabling fans to have access to tickets through season ticket holders and as a method of delivery to games being played at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb., and ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Okla. Flash Seats provides fans with a legitimate and safe means to purchase tickets on the secondary market and easy game entry with an electronic ID. Best of luck to the schools participating in these great events!

We are pleased to announce that Duquesne University has entered into a multi-year exclusive agreement with Veritix.   Duquesne, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will use the Veritix ticketing platform to support all university athletic events and select special events at the A. J. Palumbo Center and Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field.

“We look forward to our relationship with Duquesne University and are honored that they see the value of our technology platform and service-oriented company culture,” said Guy Villa, Veritix Vice President of Sales.  ”Duquesne University is a first-class organization, and we look forward to a long and successful relationship.”

Full press release here.

If you’re an NBA fan, this is the most exciting time of the year as the 2012 NBA playoffs tip off this weekend.  Eight teams (16 in total) from both the Eastern and Western Conference will compete against each other for a chance to meet in the NBA Finals in June.  Each round will be played in a best-of-seven series format.  The last team standing will be crowned NBA champion, staking claim to the Larry O’Brien Trophy.

We’re excited that our clients the Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz will both be participating in this year’s playoffs.  The Nuggets, who are seeded sixth in the West, will face the Los Angeles Lakers.  The Jazz, seeded eighth in the West, will face the San Antonio Spurs.  (Click here to see the rest of the playoff matchups.)

Just as in the regular season, many fans will turn to our paperless ticketing system Flash Seats® for venue entry and to buy, sell, and transfer their playoff tickets.  Fans will also have the added value of knowing they are buying from a safe and secure marketplace that is endorsed by their team.  This is especially important during the playoffs with the high volume of counterfeit tickets that tend to circulate.   All primary tickets for each home playoff game will be sold through the Veritix® platform.

We look forward to what we hope is an exciting few months of basketball for our clients!

Playoff Marketplaces:

www.nuggets.flashseats.com

www.jazz.flashseats.com

We recently expanded our ticketing business by providing primary ticketing services to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s 2012 Induction Ceremony at Cleveland’s Public Hall Auditorium. Tickets to the sold out show, which were gone within minutes and available to the public for only the second time in induction history, were exclusively sold through the Veritix platform. The event featured live performances from the 2012 Inductees which included Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Beastie Boys among others. The event further exemplified that Veritix’s ticketing technology can be adopted for any event, large or small.

Full Press Release: http://prn.to/ILUWmt

We are halfway through the NBA season, and we are excited to say that Flash Seats® is continuing to grow significantly among fans who want to see their favorite NBA team. More people are using it for easy, fast entry into games with a registered electronic ID and to buy, sell, and transfer tickets to games in our secure marketplace. Because of its popularity, we have been able to collect 7 million unique behavioral profiles for users in our system, providing important details on fan behavior, such as what games fans attend, where they sit, and how often they attend. Imagine if you had that kind of data on your fans. Imagine the targeted offers you could provide. Imagine expanding your revenue and strengthening your relationships with fans. Imagine the future of ticketing today…with Flash Seats. If you’re interested in stepping into the future and taking control of it right now, contact us at 216-466-8082 or via email.

Many fans spend time and money arranging ticket exchanges with family members, friends, or coworkers.  Whether it’s driving to meet someone at a specific location, shipping tickets via standard or express mail, leaving tickets at Will Call, or listing tickets for sale on multiple websites, these old methods are no longer necessary.  With Flash Seats®, the Veritix® paperless ticketing solution, seats can be transferred instantly and electronically online, anytime, in one central location. It’s easy and painless!

The Flash Seats transfer feature is unique in the ticketing industry because it allows fans to transfer tickets to anyone, as long as that person has an email address. There are no limitations or restrictions. They just pick the tickets to send and transfer away. It’s one of our most popular features, and since 2006, our system has handled more than 800,000 transfers, moving 1.3 million paperless tickets, and processed over 5.1 million total paperless transactions.  Fans are using paperless tickets at a rapid rate because of its convenience and flexibility, and the success of paperless tickets will continue to grow as more and more fans adopt this technology to manage their tickets.

Not only is it simple and easy to initiate a transfer, but the system tracks each user’s  transfer history, which is available on the Transfers tab in the system.  Information, such as the date and time of transfers, number of seats transferred, the email address seats were transferred to, and event details for the transferred seats, is tracked and shown for easy viewing and review.  This is a real timesaver for many of our users, but especially businesses.  Outside of Flash Seats, many businesses track tickets they give to clients in a spreadsheet, manually entering and managing the information. But with Flash Seats, they can throw the spreadsheet away! With all the transfer data, including seat specifics and contact information, available right on-screen on the Transfers tab, the process to track client tickets is easier and faster than ever.  Most importantly, when initiating a new transfer, the system provides a drop-down menu that displays all email addresses to which the user has ever sent tickets.  All the email addresses are saved, giving the person transferring seats easy access to past contacts. With Flash Seats, users essentially have an electronic rolodex for ticket transfers at their disposal.

For teams and venues, this transfer data provides valuable insight into fans’ behaviors.  Flash Seats is the only system that can show exactly who each person in a transfer is, when a transfer took place, and what specific seats were transferred.   Because Flash Seats paperless tickets exist only in an electronic environment, you always know who owns a ticket.  It’s permanent visibility, start to finish, and the tickets are guaranteed.

Gone are the days of paper tickets getting physically passed from friend to friend, leaving teams and venues in the dark, not knowing or understanding who used the seats.  The future is here with Flash Seats paperless tickets. Take advantage today!