How to Become a Ticket Broker

If you've ever attended a hot concert or sporting event, chances are you bought your tickets from a ticket broker. This is because even when an event is listed as 'sold out', there's a pretty good chance that you can pay a little extra and still get some pretty good seats. But if you've ever wondered how you could make some cash buying and selling tickets, read on.

You can be a ticket broker in your spare time and pull in some pretty good money. With very little investment, you can start making 50%, 100%, even 300% profit right away, and you can work from home. Some ticket brokers make six figures consistently, but even if you just want a few extra grand to put in your pocket, it can be more lucrative than picking up another shift or getting a second job. And it's great to have a steady income that you control - nobody can fire you.

A ticket broker is anyone who buys tickets for an event and then resells them, often at a profit. It can be a money maker when done correctly, but the key is that buying and selling tickets, even as a side gig, is a business and should be approached as such.

If you decide to try your hand at being a ticket broker, you can't just buy tickets at any price for any event and think you're going to turn around and sell them on eBay for ten times what you paid. You need to learn what to buy, how much to pay, and most importantly, what to avoid. It doesn't really take a lot of money to get started, and these days you have more places to advertise good tickets when you have them. But it still takes some inside information.

The good thing about being a ticket broker is that anyone can get into the business with very little investment. The bad thing is the same thing - there can be a lot of competition. But that's true with any business where there's money to be made.

Here's a little note about competition:

When Best Buy, the electronics superstore, started opening stores they were competing against Circuit City, Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Sears and countless other well-funded, established electronics stores. It would have seemed impossible for another electronics business could carve out even one ounce of market share. Yet, when you look around today, Circuit City is gone, Radio Shack is limping along and Best Buy is undoubtedly the big dog of electronics retailers. You can't be afraid of competition. You have to make the competition afraid of you.

Of course, it helps if you have something that your competitors don't have. Unless you have a buddy who is already an old hand at the ticket broker game and can show you the ropes, you should invest a few dollars in the Ticket Broker Guide, which will give you just about everything you need to know from an insider's perspective. This book gives the breakdown as to the secrets to buying cheaper tickets, how to find the best events and most importantly, how to sell the tickets once you get them.

The Ticket Broker Guide covers everything from how to pull the best tickets to how to tell if an event is in high demand. Remember, even if you are only looking to bring in a couple extra thousand dollars a month, you are running a business and you need to give yourself an edge over the competition. There is very little information available for people who want to buy and sell tickets for profit, so this guide is like getting a seasoned ticket broker to give you all of the inside secrets.

You also should understand that some events are regionally more popular; that means that a musician that sells out in Denver might not sell out in on the other side of the Rockies in Salt Lake City. This is why you have to treat being a ticket broker like a business, so you can make the maximum profit and thump any competitors. If you want to learn more about how to make money buying and selling tickets, check out the Ticket Broker Guide.