Wikkit your next swing dance (wireless tickets - no convenience fees)

The team at Wikkit are big supporters of local music and dance events. With Wikkit, any group that's holding an event can easily do advance ticket sales on wikkit.com and scan tickets at the door with our free app for iPhones or Droids.

The best part is that Wikkit is TOTALLY FREE for event organizers to use and customers purchasing tickets only pay the 2.5% processing fee charged by credit card companies.

Just think -- wouldn't it be great if you could buy tickets to the The New York Swing Dance Society party featuring The Boilermaker Jazz Band on Saturday, January 22, 2011 or one of the many events put on by the NYC Balboa Club? We can even wikkit the tickets to Dance Manhattan's big New Year's Eve party at the MARC Ballroom!

Ticketing for these events isn't being done on Wikkit (or anywhere online) YET, but that's easy to change -- just shoot us an email (info@wikkit.com) and we'll have tickets to your next dance or party online by the end of the day!

Here's how it works:

STEP ONE: Email us with all of your event info, pictures, etc.

STEP TWO: Send everyone a link to your event on wikkit.com

STEP THREE: Download the free Wikkit app for iPhones and Droids and scan people's cell phones or email ticket printouts when they arrive at the event (no more clipboards or searching lists for everyone's name - all you need is a smartphone).

STEP FOUR: HAVE A GREAT PARTY!!!

STEP FIVE: Get paid by Wikkit (we send all funds via paypal to the event creator's email address on file within 24 hours from the end of the event along with an Excel spreadsheet of all the ticket purchases and a timestamp of when the tickets were scanned at the door).



Psst - don't forget to follow us on Twitter @WikkitWikkit

Wikkit your NYE @ Dream Ultralounge (save $25 from price @ the door)!!!

Get your ticket for just $25 and $0 "convenience fee" on Wikkit.

(or you can always pay a $5 fee ($30 total) for the same ticket on Ticketweb if you really like wasting your hard earned cash :-)

Wikkit 2.0 - Sell tickets and drink deals online!

Wikkit is pleased to announce the launched of Wikkit 2.0 -- now with credit card processing and a sleek new look for people looking to get event tickets, drink deals and more.

Check it out at http://www.wikkit.com!

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter @WikkitWikkit

How Wikkit Eliminates Check-In Fraud

As reported yesterday by the San Francisco Chronicle, "services like Facebook Places and Foursquare make it easy to 'check in' to places without actually going to them."

Unlike these services, Wikkit puts local businesses (like Yorganic) in control of user check-ins by providing a free scanning app and sending offers to customers via 2d barcodes ("wikkits"). When customers arrive at the store, the BUSINESS uses an iPhone or Droid with the free Wikkit app to check-in the customer. In addition to verifying that the customer is actually in the store, wikkits can be received on any cell phone--no smartphone is needed.

Not only does the Wikkit approach help eliminate the "well documented check-in fraud" that Michael Arrington of TechCrunch blogged about -- it allows local businesses build longer lasting relationships with customers by collecting email addresses and other user data when customers redeem promotions.

Click here to email us about how you can try using Wikkit (for FREE) to power your next promotion!

wikkit gets listed

Wikkit is pleased to announce its role handling VIP passes for the NYC launch of Listed Productions at the Hotel on Rivington: Sunday, December 5th from 2:00pm to 1:00am.

We're working hard to launch a new suite of tools for promoters nationwide and are thrilled to get listed.

Non-VIP tickets available here -- make sure to get yours asap!!

Follow Wikkit on Twitter @WikkitWikkit!

Wikkit Sponsors Old Soul Rock & Roll Concert This Monday In Brooklyn

Wikkit is pleased to announce a TOTALLY FREE show tomorrow night (Monday, November 15th) at Cameo (inside the Loving Cup @ 93 N. 6th St. in Brooklyn - map) for anyone that gets their wireless ticket ("wikkit") and brings it to the show.

That's right--anyone can get their COMP tickets via text message at Wikkit.com.

Here's the lineup:

8pm - Reyka Open Bar Starts/Old Soul Introduction
9pm - Fugitive Souls
10pm - The Dream Station
11pm - Old Soul feat. Jené & Dennis Davis

*The evening is also being sponsored by Reyka Vodka, an incredibly smooth Icelandic Vodka made from the cleanest water on earth, filtered naturally through lava rocks. Don't miss Reyka's open bar from 8-10pm.

ABOUT WIKKIT

Wikkit is true ticketing democracy.

The idea for Wikkit started years ago when the founder and president of Wikkit got outraged after paying almost $10 in Ticketmaster's ridiculous "convenience fees" for a $20 concert ticket. He became determined to figure out a way to send tickets over text message so that anyone could afford to go to a show and offer ticketing fees that really are "convenient."

If you're a band and want to sell your own tickets to a show (or if even if you're just in charge of planning the next school dance), then you can create wikkit tickets at Wikkit.com and your fans will get a wikkit texted to their phone and/or sent to their email account when they sign up.

Then you just need the FREE Wikkit app for iPhones or Droids to scan wikkits at the door. Without the costs of having to have a bricks and mortar storefront or delivery fees, Wikkit currently charges nothing for this service -- we just want you and your fans to have a convenient way to get your tickets quickly, securely and without having to pay an arm and a leg.

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Don't forget to follow Wikkit onTwitter and on Facebook. You can also watch all the Wikkit videos on YouTube or on Wikkit.com and download the The Wikkit Song from iTunes.

Big Shout Out to DS Pictures and the Undergrads

We love their Wikkit song and the new video that they just put out. Thanks a million to DS Pictures and Savvy of the Undergrads from the Wikkit team!!!

Check out the video on YouTube.