A letter of apology from NoTix CEO, Joshua Dziabiak, in which he referred to the ticket sales as "a debacle," was posted almost immediately on ShowClix.
As I wrote in my posts last fall about my AdWords debacle, I took my sales problem to my Vistage group in May 2012 and got some good advice — namely, that the problem was not the economy and that I needed to look within my own organization.
After the buyer of two Qing dynasty bronzes at last week's Yves Saint Laurent auction in Paris announced Monday that he would not pony up the $40 million he'd pledged to pay for the bronze animal heads, international art market watchers wondered what the debacle would mean for Chinese art sales going forward.
This week alone, the cost to the state of its energy debacle amounted to $1.7 billion in lost wages, sales and productivity, according to the estimate of Jack Kyser, chief economist at the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation.
But this use followed broader difficulties, as short-term credit markets were severely strained by the fallout from the money market mutual debacle, as American corporations that relied on sales of short-term commercial paper to the funds had to scramble for other sources of cash for their day-to-day needs.
This week, join Natasha Lomas, Steve O'Hear, and Romain Dillet (plus honorary Euro John Biggs) to comment on the Jolla phone, the Ask.fm debacle in the U.K. and the looming sales tax on Bitcoin in Germany.
These sales are associated with option exercises, but as the tech debacle of the late 1990s showed, they are still a bad sign.
With marketers salivating at the thought of selling to China's emerging 250 million-strong middle class, especially in light of the subprime debacle in the U.S. combined with slowing retail sales, many companies feel that sponsoring the Olympics is a great way to build brand awareness with Chinese consumers and increase sales.
Finally MySale, the Australian fashion flash-sale site, finally got its quotation right after Monday's debacle when its newly listed shares were quoted in pounds not pence.
The New York Stock Exchange NYSEE) says a test run of Twitter's share sale was 'a success', as it tries to avoid the debacle surrounding Facebook's flotation on the Nasdaq.
Bulls will also note that the resurgence of Aberdeen after its debacle in split capital trusts in 2002, and subsequent sale of its UK retail business in 2003, came by buying unloved asset managers from banks.
