Written by nuwud
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05 October 2010
I just started my new position as the multimedia developer at Drew's Tickets. I am really excited about this latest career move for many reasons. Firstly, Drew is a great guy, so working for him in my field of expertise is a joy. Second, I love the ticket broker industry. For me there is always a constant stream of work to do on the site; from updating the concert events, sports events and theatre events to SEO, online marketing, and programming. I have experience in Drew's field from working for another ticket broker who was also based in the Los Angeles and surrounding areas of Southern California.
So far I have already made DrewsTickets.com a better site by removing the previous header and displaying some of his top L.A. events tickets, like the Los Angeles Lakers basketball, Shakira, Lady Antebellum, and NCAA College Football, in a coverflow to make things easier to find for people visually. I also cleaned up some of the other images on the site and am working on informing Drew's clients about the event they are about to attend with some relevant content. I may even begin a blog on the site to keep our users aware of our offers and upcoming events for those who prefer RSS feeds to get their news.
I have made the NCAA section available on the main header menu of the Drew's Tickets site and organized the listings into each seperate college division listed by team to make finding college football and basketball tickets easier to find than before. I have done the same for the NBA, NFL and NHL Tickets pages.
One of the challenges I have faced is having to learn how to work on an ASP.NET framework based website with C# and SOAP. I had to install the IIS component on my Windows operating system to employ Microsoft's Visual Studio Pro which I need to edit the ASPX pages properly. I have already overcome many hurdles in that department after many hours of research and development, not to mention the blood, sweat and tears.
I prepared a newsletter worthy of Drew's loyal clientele. It is much more sleek and easier to read the information provided in the Drew's Tickets Newsletter than before. Drew really wanted to make sure he could update his mailing list subscribers with all the latest deals on Lakers Tickets, NCAA Tickets and the like. I am making sure to handle that for him. I can't wait to send out the first newly designed newsletter. It is coming soon!
Getting Drew's SEO on track is another great step we are taking in the right direction. It is particularly important because a huge amount of the business we make happens online. I realize that this will be one of my greatest challenges since so many other sites are already showing up for the things we want to show up in search engines for, like Los Angeles Lakers Tickets, Los Angeles Dodgers Tickets, and USC Tickets. A lot of other sites have been around longer, so this might take a little bit of doing and none of us at Drew's Tickets expect it to happen overnight.
Driving Drew's Tickets social media networking into high gear is another part of what I do to enhance the online presence of DrewsTickets.com. Drew's Facebook and Twitter had not been updated in quite some time and plan to make regular updates to the profiles I plan to subscribe to the Drew's Tickets pages.
I am also in the middle of putting together a great little video to help promote Drew's Tickets. I plan to put it on YouTube and Vimeo once it is complete. I am a little excited because this will help bring us to a higher level of marketing in my eyes. People love to see visual and audible promotion in the companies they support with their business and although it won't be what soley drives us new clients, it will help reenforce some of our other marketing efforts.
In conclusion, I am elated to be working in my element again. It is part time, which allows me more time to work on my Nuwud Multimedia clients' projects, too. Drew's Tickets is a great place to work, I enjoy what I do and am thrilled to have a steady paycheck at a trustworthy company once again! What more could a guy ask for?
