TicketChoice, the ticket reselling site we first wrote about in December last year, have relaunched their site with a bunch of new features that should make it even easier for those with tickets to offload.

Some of those features include:

• A “What’s On” section to show you new tickets being sold
• An ability to embed your listing into your blog/website through automated embed code
• A new way to push your ticket listings out to friends and family on twitter, facebook and a raft of other social networks.

The last of these is similiar to the system another Aussie ticket-selling site, Posse,  uses to help sell tickets - the obvious difference being TicketChoice is focused on reselling tickets while Posse is focused on selling the original tickets. Either way it makes sense to give users a way to leverage their friends, who presumably have similar interests, to sell tickets.

I caught up with Jeremy Reitman from TicketChoice about the relaunch and this is what he had to say:

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How are your numbers going?

Prior to launching the new TicketChoice, we were easily maintaining around 100 sets of second hand tickets for Sport, Concert, Theatre and Family events. We’ve found the demand for second hand tickets in Australia is extremely high. If you post your tickets on our site, they are generally sold within 3-5 days; and all without any fees to the buyer or seller. The hardest part we find is keeping the supply up to meet the demand. Since launching the site, we now have just under 200 sets of tickets for all different events. The range of tickets is spectacular at the moment. If you find an upcoming concert to be sold out, chances are somebody has posted their unwanted tickets on TicketChoice.

Why have you decided to to relaunch now?

The redesign of TicketChoice has been in the works now for almost 6 months. We felt now was a great time to finally launch due to the fact that Australia has so many great concert tours lined up. From Beyonce, to Britney Spears and of course ACDC. So many of these shows are sold out, we’re confident the second hand ticket market during the summer will come in handy for people who were not able to get in on the original sale.

What’s exciting you the most about the new site?

You’ll see some great new features of the site. In particular, we’ve integrated with many social networks to help people spread the word about the tickets they’re trying to sell. Once a person posts their tickets on the site, they have the option of sending out a message to selected contacts within their social networks to help spread the word. This could potentially be hundreds or even thousands of messages to all of their friends, family and peers.

The site is also fully optimised for SEO. We’ve only launched the site a week ago, and we are already ranking very well in Google for such search terms as Beyonce Tickets, Socceroos Tickets, and many, many more. Again, this will help people get their tickets noticed. The more people we drive to the site, the better chance they have of being able to sell them.

Any last words?

We’d like to ask everyone to help get the word out and grow the TicketChoice community. Remember, buying and selling tickets on the site is completely free. What do you have to lose?

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