Wazzup Local Blog

var myhttpServer = “http://demo.tixrus.us”; As promised, the nice positive “after” slideshow. Buying tickets online in the 21st century is nice and easy, but just a little BORING. Let’s see if we can actually suck a Javascript from the tixrus to render this.

Becky Clarkson of GraphiaCreative designed this poster featuring local tech-based businesses. It was printed by Core Communications. It is an immensely useful visual aid to convey the degree of vibrant technological fermentation that is going on in our little burg. I particularly like Becky’s attention to detail with the local landmarks. [...]

On 11 October, 2007 Tix•R•Us participated in a joint effort by the local etailing group to put together a booth at the High Tech After Hours annual High Tech show. It was a team effort to do the booth. We had a holiday tree featuring samples of our products, lots of SWAG, and [...]

Check out our slideshow about antiquated 20th century ticket buying practices! You might find it mildly amusing. We’re not far enough beyond it yet to truly roll on the floor about it. We didn’t laugh about doing bookkeeping by manually checking columns under strong light until Quickbooks and spreadsheets became de rigeur. [...]

It’s been a year, and I finally got around to blogging about this. In summer of 2006 Oregon State Memorial Union Program Council (MUPC) signed on with Tix•R•Us and became the first client to use our Self Printing Tickets for a major high-pressure sold-out event. They were also the first to ever use [...]

Tix•R•Us is undergoing some big changes.
Buyout: Colleen Dick bought out 100% of (ex) partner Deb Weitzman’s interest in the company for an undisclosed sum on 9 Nov. 2007.
Investment: Tix•R•Us has secured some F ‘n’ F investment. ’bout time. Some folks can just throw out some half thought-out Web 2.0 scheme and [...]