How Midwest Builders School hosted a multi-day conference

Are you organizing an upcoming conference? Do you need an online registration and ticketing solution? In this success story, we had a conversation with Midwest Builders School about their conference across a couple of days in January.

Who is Midwest Builders School?

Midwest Builders School helps financial representatives grow their businesses. In a study about learning, scientists found that learning from experts was an effective way to get ahead:

“Getting involved with the right experts is an important undertaking for any student in any field at all levels of training.”

Expert business training is what Midwest Builders School offers with their multi-day conferences. Imagine being surrounded by like-minded professionals who have experienced the same challenges as you and then being able to move past them so you can accelerate your growth. Learning from experts helps you leapfrog at a faster pace than you would have been able to by yourself through trial and error.

What were things like before Event Smart?

Rick Ayres from Midwest Builders School talked to us about how they are using Event Smart for their conference registrations.

Before Rick discovered Event Smart, he spent a couple of weeks doing some research.

Rick shared:

“I spent literally a couple of weeks scouring the internet. I happened to stumble across a top ten post form a web page and mentioned something about how Event Smart claimed to better than Eventbrite and went as far as to generate a list of reasons why. A major reason why was because the price per ticket ratio (total cost for services divided by tickets sold) was substantially cheaper than Eventbrite and other platforms.”

This reason helped nudge Rick to start a free trial: Event Smart is more affordable than other event solutions like Eventbrite because there are no commission or booking fees.

How Midwest Builders School uses Event Smart

Once Rick started his complimentary trial, he set up a couple of test events using the event editor and quickly realized how flexible Event Smart is.

In early January, attendees traveled to Michigan to attend a fast-paced training conference that took place across two days. To plan and get organized, Midwest Builders School opened registrations a few months in advance and offered different online ticketing options for attendees including early-bird ticket options, group registrations, and general registrations for individual attendees.

Midwest Builders School also used Event Smart’s online ticketing system so that their attendees received tickets through email that could be scanned using a mobile phone (e.g., iPhone, Android) or scanned with a 2D barcode scanner. The mobile apps let their team quickly check-in attendees at the start of their conference.

When asked how he would describe Event Smart to someone new, here is what Rick said:

I would tell them that Event Smart is a very flexible, and cost-effective platform for anyone who runs small scale to large scale events. Provides a lot of flexibility and quite a few integration features with 3rd party sites such as social media platforms and multiple payment platforms.

How to set up a conference with early-bird pricing on a conference registration website with Event Smart

 

Need to accept online registrations for your upcoming conference? Try Event Smart by creating your own conference registration and ticketing website today.