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| September 01, 2005 | Sturgeon, Julie | COPYRIGHT 2005 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Selling tickets online didn't strike Buddy Wilkes as something to write home about. After all, in 2003, the general manager of Shipwreck Island Waterpark in Panama City Beach, Fla., sold less than 47 tickets through this channel. He also had to physically stuff those tickets into envelopes and stick them in the mail.

Yet he decided to try a more updated program--commonly known as an e-ticket--for the 2004 season. At the very least, customers would print their own tickets at home, saving him the labor, he figured. What he didn't figure on was the response e-tickets would get. In the first 12 hours, he sold more online tickets than the entire year before.

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