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Coast to Coast Tickets is an American online marketer of event tickets, also known as a ticket broker, operating in the secondary ticket market. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois. Coast to Coast Tickets entered the Ticket News Top 20 Secondary Ticket Sellers list at #13 in March 2007, and holding the #4 position as of April 4, 2009.〔 * "( Ticket Industry Rankings )", ''TicketNews.com'', 2009-04-04. Retrieved on April 13, 2009. (TicketNews seller rankings calculated based upon a combination of market share data, the number of unique visitors a website receives, and the average number of pages viewed for the previous week.) 〕 ==History== Coast to Coast’s founder first began selling tickets in the late nineties while studying at the University of Missouri, a community with a strong local market for tickets (, ) but without the size and population to attract established brokers.〔 * 〕 In 2000, Coast to Coast Tickets was officially founded, and the name was trademarked in 2001.〔United States Patent and Trademark Office. Reg. No. 2,694,940. Registration complete March 11, 2003.〕 The business expanded over the next few years, occupying a small home-based office before moving to an old church building, then finally converting to a larger office building in Austin, TX.〔 * 〕 Sales grew as well, grossing $2.6 million in revenue in 2004,〔 * 〕 and $8.7 million in 2005, for a 3-year growth rate of 915.4%.〔 * 〕 In 2004, the Coast to Coast website went through a significant redesign, its goal to add an elevated level of customer service to the secondary ticket market by including concert and sports schedules, artist and team biographies, and event guides for cities and venues throughout the world. Over the same period, the size of the team was tripled, bringing in full and part-time help to provide telephone support.〔 * 〕 In 2005, the company grew again when Jason Randall (formerly of the Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs and Deloitte & Touche) left his position as Director of Brand Marketing at Maritz Inc. to join Coast to Coast as CEO.〔 * 〕 The company website adopted its current look and slogan (great tickets from nice people) in early 2006.〔 * "(Archived version of Coast to Coast Tickets' website )", ''WebArchive.org''. Retrieved on June 28, 2007. (Archived October 2005, before the 2006 version became live.) 〕 In 2009, Coast to Coast Tickets shifted their marketing approach from an advertising-only model to a social media marketing model, becoming active on Facebook and Twitter,〔 * "(Company post regarding Facebook and Twitter ), ''Facebook.com''. Retrieved on May 22, 2009.〕 and incorporating an official company blog.〔 * "(Company post regarding new official blog ), ''CTCTickets.blogspot.com''. Retrieved on May 22, 2009. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coast to Coast Tickets」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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