Crowd Seats Press
Justin Cener's Crowd Seats: The Groupon For Sports Fans
The site runs on the same concept as Groupon or Living Social -- without the randomness. Customers don't have to wade through a buy-now flood of manicures and helicopter rides to find the games.
World's Only Flash Deals Site for Sports Tickets Is Going Nationwide
...But the huge market of cash-spending sports fans has not yet been isolated in a major way. CrowdSeats.com aims to change that.
Are You Ready For Some (Cheap) Football?
Weak economy spurs deal sites to pitch pigskin tix; enter Crowd Seats.
Great Ticket Deals for Sports Fans
Crowd Seats founder Justin Cener on how the site offers great deals for tickets to sporting events.
A Groupon For Sports? Crowd Seats Brings The Daily Deal Model To Sports Tickets
Crowd Seats seems to have picked a great niche market in which to leverage the daily deals model, and if the team can forge some early partnerships with big sports franchises, the startup could be headed for long-term viability.
Best Industries 2012: E-commerce | 5 Online Retailers Cashing In
Although it hasn't yet received additional funding, Crowd Seats sells nearly 500 tickets each month to showdowns like the Boston Celtics vs. Orlando Magic and the Yankees vs. the Rays.
The Californication of the Daily Deals Market: Cheap Tickets
...members don't get "deal fatigue," because they aren't getting inundated with offers they don't care about.
And The Crowd Goes Wild: Entrepreneur Starts Site For Daily Deals On Tickets
A young sports marketing entrepreneuer has launched Crowd Seats, a "daily deals" website offering sports tickets at discounts of 50-90% off their face value. Justin Cener, a 23-year-old Rutgers graduate and founder of CrowdSeats, looks to develop a model based on the hugely successful Groupon discount site.
Good deal: Crowd Seats takes Groupon concept to sports tickets
A key feature of Crowd Seats is there is no added service charge, convenience fee or delivery charge. The price of the deal is the entire cost of the transaction.
Crowd Seats Brings Group-Buying and Sports Tickets Into the Same Arena
The inherent overages (i.e. additional revenue streams) that are guaranteed for each ticket sold on Crowd Seats are what makes sports tickets a perfect fit for this business model. Popular group buying sites get merchants on board by promising new customers in exchange for huge discounts. Crowd Seats' merchants can expect more.
Carving out a Niche with CrowdSeats.com
The daily deal model for these other sites is all across the board with what they have to offer me here locally. Probably one of the main reasons I delete the vast majority; one day it's dental cleaning, the next day Thai food, and skydiving the next. With CrowdSeats.com they squash both of these excuses with their niche opt-in model.
Crowd Seats Hits a Homer with Their First Sports Deal
When you consider the costs of getting into professional games today, the additional savings equates to families being able to enjoy an outing together doing something memorable that they may not have been able to afford.
How Social Media Is Changing the Sports Ticketing Market
...Crowd Seats is no stranger to social media's impact on the ticketing business, either - a full third of its sales come through social media and CEO Justin Cener is speaking this week at the Sports Business Journal's ticketing symposium.
Crowd Seats Takes Flash Deals to Sports
This strategy stems from a single fact: sports tickets are perishable. Tickets that remain unsold from a game are a total loss, and selling them at a deep discount will get people in those empty seats. Furthermore, Crowd Seats maintains stadiums will make back the discount in so-called "secondary items": popcorn, souvenirs, and even parking fees are all extra income in the stadium's pocket.
