YourTicketZone.com Launched To High Acclaim

Online, March 30, 2010 (Newswire.com) - (Waterloo, ON) Recognizing the need for lower event ticket service charges and seeing the opportunity to offer more options than large, well-known ticketing websites, Canadian music industry veteran Derek Schaaf has formally launched www.YourTicketZone.com. YourTicketZone is an innovative, low-cost, fully customizable online ticketing solution for conference organizers, event planners and concert promoters.

After discovering that there wasn't a cost-effective, accessible, flexible ticketing method to serve upcoming music artists, Schaaf created the original YourTicketZone in 2002 as a part-time test project, and rolled it out for individual concert tours. When conference organizers showed interest and needed both ticketing and specialized conference registrations, the program was adapted and further developed to accommodate changing needs.

When the company at which he served for the past 18 years, most recently as CFO/COO, was sold in 2008 Schaaf took the opportunity to venture out and further develop YourTicketZone, customizing the program to offer a range of marketing tools and accommodate online sales, charitable donations, individual event seating, and seminar selection. "It was clear that it was the right time to move forward with YourTicketZone. We had created a proven tool with unique capabilities and highly flexible solutions because we had worked with event planners, artists and concert organizers to tailor it to their specific needs. After I had to pay a $16 service charge to buy a $20 concert ticket from another vendor, I knew we had something that consumers would love." says Schaaf.

Schaaf explains, "Our clients appreciate that their customers can buy a barcoded event ticket, make meal and seminar selections, purchase a CD download, receive an electronic coupon for future sales, and make a donation to their favourite charity - and not be hit with a high 'convenience fee' or service charge."

Even with all these new developments and their significant added value to event planners, Schaaf has remained committed to keeping YourTicketZone as a cost-effective, accessible ticketing solution. The service is offered completely free to event organizers, and customer service fees have been kept to rates far lower than industry standards.

YourTicketZone clients have included bands like Hillsong United, Jars of Clay, Starfield, Casting Crowns and Thousand Foot Krutch. Conference and event clients have included Unite in Worship, Revolution Rewind Conference, many other festivals and the Ontario Universities' Application Centre. Ready to launch worldwide is a new partnership with Integrity Music.

Early adopters have offered high praise for YourTicketZone:

YourTicketZone was the perfect way for our band to sell tickets online to our public gigs. It was very user-friendly and easy to use, presented our event and image in a very professional manner and most of all was much better value compared to anything else available.- John Swain

They have become an indispensable part of my marketing team.- Nicole Smith, Event Coordinator

I strongly endorse YourTicketZone and we will be using them for all of our events in the future. It is both an excellent advertising and selling tool that contributed to the success of our event.....which sold out! - Robert Glatt

For more information on YourTicketZone visit www.yourticketzone.com or contact Tim Underwood, Graf-Martin Communications

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