Festivals, Gigs and Shows of any size:

You’ll find the LOCALTicket dynamic website, has an abundance of new and unique features. We are able to showcase all Events and Activities from the smallest to the very largest, If your planning a Trade Show, Festival or a Gig, publish it here, a Rally, Church Fete or Car Boot Sale publish it here, we can cater for all comers. Built into this website, is every conceivable variation required to perform almost any task its audience asks of it. The changes implemented here are only stage 1 of those planned for the site over the coming months. Watch this space.

Listing your Event is straightforward and once registered your personal details can auto-populate the listings form if and when you require them. If you would prefer to email the necessary details of your event direct to us rather than listing them yourself, please do so and we will be happy to submit them for you.(see Activity template / Event template) If you are selling tickets, you are very welcome to make use of the secure payment system attached to the website, This is an optional choice. The fees for this facility are modest and are added to your customers ticket sale price. It amounts to 13p in the pound. (Please see ticket costs).

Posting Options

There is a choice of two posting options, the first is the 'Regular' posting, which is totally free and is more than sufficiently sized to accommodate the requirements of most events. i.e. Event title, start and finish dates & times, contact details required by your customer and a text description area not exceeding 600 characters, that equates to approximately 100 words, which far surpasses the space allocated on the vast majority of event guide websites. The search results page reveals the published posting within an attractive box. Postings for this option are first screened by our staff before becoming live on the site, but this process should take no more than 48 hours maximum.

Alongside the Free (Regular) Listing, we have a Premium listing which is an upgrade The results search box is of a similar size to the Regular box but with the inclusion of 3 thumbnails, each will enlarge on a left click. A view button will open to a multi-page posting with a provision to upload up to 10 images, with its almost limitless information space and its option to hyperlink to your own website, it is certainly a value for money feature. We charge only £1 for the Premium. It includes the following extra features:

• First search results positioning
• A Google Map to pre-set exactly, your Venue location
• A choice of page top themes
• Almost limitless text space

To accompany these features we have a style builder similar to Word, allowing you tocreate an enhanced publication which includes:

• Rich style control for font size, type & colour
• Tables & Borders
• Font weight & alignement
• Inset web images
• Bulleting and numbered lists
• Full screen editing & preview
• Paste from Word or other txt editors*
• Easily insert hyperlinks*
• Insert Special Characters*
• Search & replace functionality*

*not available on all browsers and applications

In addition to the above, the Activity/Attraction section also allows for the following attachments: dot PDF, dot doc, dot txt and dot rtd.

Your email is automatically hidden, but is replaced with a simple contact the organiser form. The Premium posting becomes live on the site immediately. (Images of up to 1meg. each, can be uploaded or replaced at any time after the posting becomes live)

Both the ‘regular’ and ‘Premium’ postings have 24/7 editing facilities to tailor and enhance your presentation at will. The Premium has an addition of page top theme choices for further enhancement.

Benefits:

Our website has been developed to create a fresh and dynamic UK entertainment guide with the capacity to cater for the variable demands of all our customers, old and new.
Let us bring you the benefits of Showcasing your event on this ‘UK Event Guide’

• Full use of editing tools 24/7 for initial presentation and later updating if and when required. You can also cut and paste your content directly if you prefer.
• We have began a vigorous promotion campaign using various media to raise our website’s profile and as a result, we anticipate seeing an early and consistent increase in site traffic. We have also initiated an optimisation program to help maintain some of our search engine result positions whilst raising others.
• Your potential Patrons will find your Event easily through any of several search options.
• We can offer you the free option to use the ‘Box Office’ resource attached to our website. You may choose to offer your patrons a one stop opportunity to purchase your Event tickets using this on site secure payment system with the added advantage of the benefits below:
• We can save you the entire cost of ticket printing and postage costs by providing a free ‘eticket’ (an email receipt ticket). A copy of each customer transaction with code number is emailed to you automatically and in real time.
• We can offer the following ticket collection options to your patrons; collect by; email (eticket), by posted mail, or collect at the venue box office/gate/door on admission.
• An automatic ticket sales counter will be seated on your presentation page giving you up to the minute sales progress. This can be very helpful if you’re also selling tickets on your own website or elsewhere.
Selling your tickets through us costs you nothing and can save you valuable resources elsewhere i.e. manning the phones or other physical sales