Thanks.....I will check out the Affilite's and get with Ticketmaster to see
if they would be interested.
I beilive the site would be in direct competiotion with the local news guys,
but I will check with them
on this.
Thanks for the suggestions, I will give it a go.
Rick
"McWebber" <mcwebber.RemoveThis@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> "Rick Sweeney" <webspindesign.RemoveThis@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> > I am starting a local city guide and have been looking around the web
for
> > the following:
> >
> > 1). A way to offer ticket purchase for local events....concerts , plays,
> > sporting events.
>
> There are some affilite programs for selling tickets from other buyers,
but
> for box office, Ticketmaster <spit> pretty much has that market sewn up.
If
> the venue doesn't work through them, you could contact them and see about
> offering tickets to events there, or maybe they'll do a pay per click with
> you as you're a very targeted site.
>
> > 2). Pull in local news briefs...
>
> Depends on the market you're in. Most of the news content sites aren't
free
> anymore, especially for local news. If there's a local paper that wouldn't
> consider themselves competition for your site maybe they would let you
pull
> content with PHP, or maybe they'll create a generic page of headlines for
> your site that you could pull either with PHP or WGET with a cron job.
>
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