Wanna Get Lucky?

Looking for concert tickets and information in the Tempe area? Well look no further than Lucky Man Concerts Online. (luckymanonline.com) This website is your source to everything you need to know about the upcoming concert events surrounding Tempe, AZ. All this information is gathered on in one convenient place to make it quick and easy to obtain all the necessary sources to enable you to have the best concert experience possible with it’s easy to navigate website and links.

         Lucky Man Concerts online is a website catered to local concerts and venues in the Tempe, Arizona area. The main function of this website is to give the user the ability to obtain tickets and information regarding who is playing shows in the areas venues. Furthermore, other information vis-à-vis the concerts are all handily accessible of the websites main page such as; Venue, shows times, and ticket prices. On the main page the next ten upcoming concerts are displayed with the calendar date and the above information obtaining to the event. For a full list of events there is a link at the bottom of the page as well as in the tool bar.

         Once you have found a concert you are interested in attending, tickets are easy to obtain and just a few clicks away. The process is very simple and straight forward, this helps cut down on user and computer errors. There are a few ways to purchase tickets via Luckymanonline.com; the first and most expedient way to purchase them online; this is made even simpler by a buy tickets button located next to all the information about the event. The online purchase is quick and secure, and should only take a few minutes and a credit card number. If this isn’t the course of action you’d like to take you can click the “Tickets” link in the toolbar, this takes you to a page that displays other options like; phone numbers to call to order through the phone. Also certified locations that will sell the tickets to you face to face are given with addresses, contact info, and a link to show it on a map. Overall the ticket buying process is rather easy to navigate. Another plus that I appreciate and know many other users of the website, especially fellow university students, is the ticket prices, I find them rather fair for the most part, the average ticket prices range in the $20-30 range plus service fees, and some of the bigger name artist reaching the $30-40 price category. So not only is the purchasing of tickets easy on the user it’s easy on their wallets as well.

         Another useful resource of Luckymanonline.com is all the venue information available to you. Though not all of it is located on the website itself, which is my main criticism of the website. That being said the website still does provide a decent amount of information regarding how to acquire info for the venues, including links to the venues websites where you can find directions and phone numbers. So this is still a helpful source in that aspect.

         The Marquee is the venue that is linked directly to Lucky Man Concerts Online, as this is where the website headquarters is located. A majority of the concerts in the Tempe area take place at The Marquee. The venues location in close proximity to Arizona State University makes it the ideal place to hold events geared to college aged music fans. Information about the Marquee can be found directly found on luckymanonline.com.  The site overviews all the necessary information needed when attending a concert event at The Marquee. Any contact information needed to communicate with questions or concerns are found if you scroll over the “About” tab in the toolbar and click on the FAQs tab. Under this section you will find such information regarding parking locations and prices. Also policies on what you can and cannot bring to The Marquee theatre during concerts. If you fully read the FAQs page you will find it is not only informative, but also there is some humour intertwined within the serious answers. I found this as a somewhat surprising entertainment and shows the relaxed fun environment the website and venue are striving to promote. Though a few of the questions and answers are repeated on the page.

         The overall appearance of the website is quite pleasing to the eyes and really fits the feel of the type of product that they are promoting. It has a young fun feeling to keep with the feeling of encouraging you to have a pleasant experience both on their website and at any of the concerts they are endorsing. This being said it manages to incorporate enough professionalism to not seem childish or poorly put together.

         When you first go on luckymanonline.com you are taken to the home page, which is bright and inviting. The background is white, with a grey design overlaid; this background is seen throughout the site. I find the design simple, yet not to plain that it is boring and bleak, I enjoy this minimalist background. The menu bar is black with white text, which really pops out and catches your attention. The majority of font found on the website is grey, black or orange. This is the general colour scheme of the site is a variation of those three colours. These colours flow well together and give a warm and happy sense to the sight.

         The font style is not just your boring old Helvetica or Times New Roman, that are seen too often and are rather unentertaining to the mind. This use a mixture of simple text style and a fun cursive style header that unique and add a subtle boost to the words written on the page.

         The front page is overall well organized and not cluttered at all, yet he front page gives you a lot of useful information the is relevant to the more recent upcoming events in the Tempe area. First You come across a slide show of pictures advertising the shows that are coming up using pictures to display the artist or their album artwork, this grabs your attention as it headlines the page. To the right of the slideshow, is a list of the next five upcoming shows listing the dates and names. Under both of these is a more detailed list of the upcoming 10 shows; these give the dates, times, ticket price, venue and the ability to buy tickets all accessible through the first page. This makes things quick and super user friendly. On the sidebar of the main page there is a playlist wittily named “Jukebox” that has songs you can play from the entire collection of artist who have upcoming performances. I really think this is a neat idea and more websites promoting concerts should take from this. Not only can users hear the bands they know but the user can hear the music from the other musicians as well, which could lead the user buying tickets to more concerts as well. This is a very useful tool both marketing wise for the company but personally for the consumer to broaden their knowledge.

         Another key feature of this website that has been become an almost mandatory unwritten rule of the Internet is the links with social media. In the upper right hand corner of the luckymanonline.com you can see links to its social media sites, these links are shown no matter what page of the site you are viewing. The links are for the websites Twitter handle, Tumblr blog, and Facebook page. There is also a box that you can input your email address to join the mailing list for the site, this is located directly next to the social media links. Social media is also present on the side bar of the main page where there is a box where you “like” their Facebook page and see what other people like that page as well and if any of your friends do. Social media has become one of if not the best way for companies and celebrities to promote and keep in touch with its target market, this website makes it easy for a user to find and link themselves with these such outlets, giving them an upper hand on the competition.

         Overall this website is simple and not much too it. In most cases you’d see this a negative cogitation but in fact is quite the opposite. The cut to the chase scheme of luckymanonline.com helps you getting right to the point of purchasing tickets and getting information in a quick manner. The website is geared towards doing it’s job and not over cluttering itself with irrelevant features and pizazz that takes up time and annoys the user. The appearance is very appropriate for the theme a music venue and promoter would use. There were some minor errors on the webpage but this a smaller business and can’t really fully blame them for a few minor errors on an overall fantastically user friendly and helpful website.