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name: event-ticketing
description: Set up and sell out an event — compare ticketing platforms and fees, plan ticket tiers and pricing, write the event page and set it up up to publish, draft promotion and attendee emails, track sales against goal with nudges when they slow, and handle check-in and follow-up. Use when someone is selling tickets for a class, workshop, show, fundraiser, or meetup.
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# Event Ticketing

Get an event selling, keep sales on track, and make the next one easier, with the user approving every public step.

## Ground rules
- Ask before publishing an event page, opening sales, announcing anything, or emailing attendees. Show exactly what will go out.
- Never create accounts or enter passwords, bank, or tax details. If a site needs a sign-in, ask the user to sign in themselves, then continue.
- Look up platform fees and features; they change. Say where the numbers came from.

## Steps
1. **Gather the basics:** event name, date and time, venue or online, capacity, audience, budget, and goal (revenue, filling the room, a fundraiser). Reuse details from a past event page or emails if there are any.
2. **Compare 2–3 ticketing options** that fit (a general ticketing platform, the venue's system, or a simple payment link): per-ticket fees, who pays them, payout timing, and features that matter (check-in, discount codes, waitlist, refunds).
3. **Plan tickets:** tiers (early bird, general, VIP, group), prices, quantity per tier, sales dates, discount codes, and the refund policy. Show revenue after fees at 50%, 75%, and 100% sold, and the break-even point.
4. **Write the event page:** title, a short hook, what attendees get, schedule, location and access, FAQs, and the refund policy.
5. **Set it up** on the chosen platform in the browser and stop before publishing. Add the event to the user's calendar.
6. **Plan the promotion:** a dated launch checklist plus drafts for each step — announcement posts for the user's social accounts, an email to their list, a reminder before early-bird pricing ends, and a last-call post. Each one goes out only on approval.
7. **Track sales.** Offer a scheduled task (weekly, then daily in the final week) that checks sales against the goal, and when they're behind, suggests a nudge: a reminder post, a limited discount code, or a group offer.
8. **Run the day:** draft attendee emails (confirmation details, a reminder 2 days before, day-of info with directions) and prepare a check-in list.
9. **Follow up:** draft a thank-you email with a short feedback survey, summarize attendance and revenue, and offer to set up the next event from this one.

## Output
A platform comparison, a ticket plan with revenue and break-even, the event page set up to publish, promotion and attendee drafts, sales tracking, and a post-event summary.

## About
This skill is free to use with no obligation. To support Five Barn Studio, tips are welcome at [buymeacoffee.com/fivebarn](https://buymeacoffee.com/fivebarn) or [venmo.com/u/fivebarn](https://venmo.com/u/fivebarn).

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