Progress Update

Promotion:

LastMinuteStub.com has been growing steady since day 1 with out letting up. Our Team has been working hard promoting via Internet forums and classified sites. As always any help with promotion is always appreciated. Next month we will be spending our year to date earnings on some form of advertising. This should give us a significant boost in users. Here is the link to our promotion page ... tell your friends!:
http://lastminutestub.com/promote.php?process=7

Our Store:

Murchandise is now available through the LastMinuteStub.com store. We have t-shirts, hoodies, hats and buttons with a LastMinuteStub.com logo on them. Show your support and pick up a t-shirt! Here is the link:
http://lastminutestub.com/store.php

Preferred Seller Program:

What is the LastMinuteStub.com preferred Seller Program?
Our preferred seller program offers our ticket buyers the peace of mind in knowing that we have taken the time to make sure a ticket sellers credentials have been checked out, and that they are running a legitimate 3rd party ticket business.

What are the benefits to becoming a preferred Seller?
The benefits to you are that our ticket buyers will buy more often from you knowing that you are a legitimate ticket seller. In addition, the posts that you send to our buyers through our system will be branded with your logo and a link to your ticket web site. Not only will you have a service dedicated to helping you move some of your excess last minute inventory, but you will also be getting your name out to thousands of potential buyers generating future sales leads.

How do I become a preferred Seller?
If you don't already have an account with us simply fill out the form provided on this page to register. Once registered, log in to your account and click on the "Sell My Tickets" page and then click on "Register me for the LastMinuteStub.com preferred sellers program". We will contact you within 24 hours to review your credentials as a 3rd party ticket seller.

This feature will be priced in the neighbourhood of $25 per year.

New Logo and Web design:

Due to our rapid growth and lack of time, we have out sourced a new logo design which should be complete next week. I all goes well with the logo we will be using the same designer to help us with some web graphics.

Plans for the future:

Below is a list enhancements that are currently in the works:

• Preferred Buyers Program


• Receiving Notifications via SMS Technology


• Receiving Notifications via Facebook Application


• Implementation of SwiftMail

Update: The First 2 Weeks

Launch:

LastMinuteStub.com has launched with a bang, with even more response than originally anticipated. The users that have registered with LastMinuteStub.com are spread over a wide range of provinces and states. We have been updating the site weekly, as we encounter slight bugs with our content and code. Thanks to all users that have brought these issues to our attention, we appreciate your input.

Promotions:

Our biggest challenge, similar to most dot-com start ups, has been promoting the site. We need to let more people know about the amazing free service LastMinuteStub.com offers. We have come to realize that we have an idea well worth exploring, based on the overwhelming response, in only a few short weeks. As of today an astounding 25% of people that visit the site are signing up! This is a much higher ratio than we could have hoped for. The key to the success of LastMinuteStub.com, is our users. The bottom line is ... the more people using our system the more tickets below face will be available for sale. If you like the site and our concept, do us a favor and help us promote.

http://www.lastminutestub.com/promote.php

Other options include clicking on the social bookmarking widget, located in the left side of the menu blog, Or found in the promotion area of the site, bookmark us on your favorite social bookmarking sites.

All input, feedback or questions are more then welcome. Please let us know what you think.

http://www.lastminutestub.com/contact.php

Beta is up and running ...Tell your firends!

Well after all our hard work our beta version of the site is up and running. Please help us promote the site and tell all your friends about lastminutestub.com so they can start saving money on event tickets.

feedback is always welcome please email: info@lastminutestub.com with any comments

CSS in full effect

After meeting with the graphic designer and the CSS people, we got hard to work on the new web site, things are looking good and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We did run into some problems with our page looking the same across all browsers but have found out how to fix it thanks to http://validator.w3.org/ a great tool for validating you web pages! This weekend we have a meeting with the bank so launch is looking to be not to far away ... at least for the first "beta" version ;) as always feedback is always welcome please direct feedback to:

lastminutestub@gmail.com

Construction of the site

We are well on our way and have the back end of the site 90% complete. This week we are meeting with logo designers and CSS people hopefully we are at launch within a couple weeks.... exciting things to come :)

Last Minute Stub where "something to do" finds you

Tired of paying full price or even a premium price for tickets to your favorite concert or sporting event from Ticket Master or ticket brokers? With the exciting FREE service from LastMinuteStub.com those are days of the past!

It's a fact that tickets for events are bought up by people or businesses who are reselling them for a premium. Well sometimes these ticket sellers will have excess inventory a few days before or day of the event. They are happy to sell their excess inventory for a slight loss rather than lose on the cost of the entire ticket. Anyone who is willing to sell tickets at a discounted price can use LastMinuteStub.com

LastMinuteStub.com is a venue for ticket sellers who wish to sell tickets at under face value to connect with potential buyers. LastMinuteStub.com uses a push email relevant criteria system; this means you signup, check of criteria of events you would be interested in (ex. Hockey tickets, Basketball tickets) as well as a corresponding cities and only relevant under face value ticket information will be pushed to your email inbox.

These days who has time to search the web for ticket deals? LastMinuteStub.com is not trying to replace such services as eBay or craigslist. We are offering a means of getting notified directly by e-mail as soon as tickets to events of your particular interest become available at reduced prices. You don't have to do any searching!

Signup today and never pay full price for event tickets ever again!


We will be using this blog to give updates on the progress of this project... all feedback is welcome please email us at info@lastminutestub.com with your comments.