Ticketing Stars: Valory Dalton
Valory Dalton says teamwork has been the dominant theme during her time at Chesapeake Energy Arena and Cox Convention Center.
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Ticketing Stars: Caroline Zalman
Caroline Zalman got her start in ticketing while she was working at a branch of Sound Warehouse, the former Southern record store chain.
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Ticketing Stars: Danielle Pope
Danielle Pope studied math and Spanish in college, but as with many in the live entertainment business, life had other plans.
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Ticketing Stars: Katie Dempsey-Fischer
The Milwaukee Bucks have one of the highest digital entry percentages among NBA teams, and Katie Dempsey-Fischer deserves much of the credit, a colleague says.
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Ticketing Stars: Ann Bihari
Ann Bihari has been with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys since 1992, and you’ll find out when you ask her that it’s no accident.
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Ticketing Stars: Yahaira Carmona
Yahaira Carmona has worked at SNederlander Concerts for roughly two decades, but her history with the company extends even further.
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Ticketing Stars 2021: Don’t Count Them Out
What do ticketing professionals do when there aren’t any tickets to sell? In 2020, we found the answer to that question: They don’t stand still. An exponentially larger volume of refunds for postponed and canceled shows had to be navigated. At some venues, events trickled back starting in late summer and required the creation and management of socially distanced seating maps. Others stayed quiet but for the buzz of preparation around innovative solutions like touchless ticketing. We again take the opportunity to salute some worthy ticketing pros, for their work both in the previous year and in their many other years of busy and more normal activity in the box office. It’s a pace we all hope to be back to soon. ANN BIHARI, Dallas Cowboys and AT&T Stadium YAHAIRA CARMONA, Nederlander Concerts VALORY DALTON, ASM Global – Chesapeake Energy Arena and Cox Convention Center KATIE DEMPSEY-FISCHER, Milwaukee Bucks and […]
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Vote for the 2021 Ticketing Star Awards by Friday, December 11
Vote for the 2021 Ticketing Star Awards by Friday, December 11. It’s time to vote for the 2021 Ticketing Star Awards, a tradition VenuesNow magazine initiated 12 years ago. We will be honoring this year’s outstanding ticketing professionals during the INTIX Live! Digital Conference January 25-29, 2021. These individuals have been nominated for their achievements or outstanding service in their own ticket office or in the ticketing industry at large. We will showcase the winners in our February issue. Subscribers and INTIX members, please use the link in the email sent to you for voting. The email sent is exclusively for you. Please do not forward to anyone as it will nullify your vote. Only active subscribers and INTIX member votes will qualify and be tallied. ************************************************************************************************** 2021 VenuesNow Ticketing Star Nominees: Ann Bihari Senior Director of Ticket Operations, Dallas Cowboys and AT&T Stadium Ann Bihari is Senior Director of […]
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Rick Abramson’s Space Adventure
VenuesNow Hall of Honor member Rick Abramson says the most rewarding phase of his career at Delaware North was managing the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
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VenuesNow Hall of Honor 2020
We’re happy to announce 2020’s honorees: Rick Abramson, Jimmy Earl and Carol Wallace.
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Hall of Honor 2020: Carol Wallace
A New Direction What seemed like a move toward retirement for Carol Wallace was just another door opening Starting a consultancy and easing into semi-retirement after 35 years of venues industry service appears to have been one of those best-laid plans that went a bit astray for former San Diego Convention Center Corp. President and CEO Carol Wallace. Now president and CEO of San Diego Theatres Inc., the nonprofit entity that runs the San Diego Civic Theatre and Balboa Theatre, Wallace was still with the SDCC and owned an impressive resume in 2012 when some of the center’s sales and marketing functions were shifted to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau and moves to expand the center stalled. Wallace started Carol Wallace & Associates, which offers consulting services in the areas of venue management, marketing and communications, staffing, facility development and expansion. The San Diego Convention Center, it turns out, […]
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Hall of Honor 2020: Jimmy Earl
All With a Smile The always smooth Jimmy Earl helped make Austin arena a concert magnet Jimmy Earl is among the last of a vanishing breed, a self-made arena manager. His early training came on the job, supported by continuing education through groups such as the International Association of Venue Managers. Earl retired this fall after spending close to 40 years running the Frank C. Erwin Jr. Special Events Center, the University of Texas’ on-campus arena. The 16,734-seat home of Texas men’s and women’s basketball also stands as a lucrative concert venue. He made a brief pit stop running the Fort Worth Convention Center from 1987 to 1990 before returning to Erwin Center after John Graham took over as director. Earl assumed his same position, senior associate director, before taking over for Graham as director after he retired in 2017. In Austin, considering UT is building the new $340 million Moody […]
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