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Topic: Getting Info to Google, Yahoo, MSN, Fandango, and so on
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Ronda Fitzsimmons
Film Handler
Posts: 75
From: Pottstown, PA, USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 04-11-2010 07:05 PM
It also matters if your theatre is already listed. If you are, and you need corrections made to pricing, phone numbers, etc... then put that info first with a very nicely worded request. After about the 10th request some of the listings will be corrected (grins).
Just send the schedule info in an e-mail, with the theatre name and city/st in the subject line, and contact info below your schedule with a request to call or email with questions will usually get your times posted every week. We send ours whenever our schedule is confirmed. Usually Monday afternoon or Tuesday on short weeks. Occasionally we will send them out on Weds if there's a mistake or a late addition.
We looked at WWM's website program, but it wasn't cost effective for us. We do use their weekly email though. It's a reasonably priced way to reach our regular customers without driving someone nuts trying to keep up with all the changes to the list every week. Now we just send them an email every week, with our excel file attached, just like times@nowshowing.com and schedules@cinema-source.com.
For about a $200/yr we use Networksolutions website creator to host our site, and they have the site creator built into their hosting system. We then just copy/paste our manual MS Excel created schedule into the basic template and update what movies are playing with pics and a short description.
Good Luck!
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Scott Jentsch
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1061
From: New Berlin, WI, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 04-12-2010 11:46 AM
Since we buy our showtimes data from CinemaSource to publish on The BigScreen Cinema Guide, I can tell you what has worked in our experience.
Go to our Submission Information page:
http://www.bigscreen.com/extranet/submitschedule.php
That contains the contact information for CinemaSource where you can send them your showtimes via E-Mail, fax, or phone.
No matter how you submit it to them, they're going to need the essential items of information. Your theater's name and other identification (so that they can accurately distinguish you from the thousands of other theaters they are processing information for), and a clear list of the dates, movies, and showtimes.
We have a PDF form that you can use if you are faxing, or to use as a worksheet to see what pieces of information to provide by E-Mail/phone. I recommend sending an E-Mail, since you can be very clear with the information you are providing, and not worry about the quality problems that can come from faxing. If you are going to use a fax machine, make sure that you use large and legible print that will survive the shredding that fax transmissions create. I've seen just horrible submissions in the past (back when we used to get the faxes directly from theaters), and it makes the job of the data entry person much harder and increases the chances for errors to occur.
Also, I have direct contacts at CinemaSource, so I can resolve issues that arise with showtimes. It's in our best interest to have accurate information, and for the money we pay for showtimes, I expect that issues be fixed promptly and they have always been good about resolving issues that do come up. Such issues are inevitable when you are talking about hundreds of thousands of showtimes, but it's important to get them resolved and to try to keep them from happening in the future.
I'll be happy to help in any way that I can!
By the way, here is the Magic Theatre's entry on our site:
http://www.bigscreen.com/Marquee.php?theater=7989
We don't have showtimes for you for today, but that matches what I'm seeing on your site. The times are off by 5 minutes though, so I'm putting in an E-Mail to CinemaSource now about that.
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