Webinars serve a wide range of purposes. Businesses use it to launch new products, increase sales, build expertise, expand their customer base, and even train remote teams. As you offer valuable content through webinars, there’ll be an increase in customer retention, engagement, and even satisfaction. That’s why it’s not shocking to know that 95% of marketers consider webinars as an essential digital marketing strategy. Recent research from Outgrow backed the effectiveness of webinars as they … [Read more...]
8 Practical Steps on How to Host a Webinar
What to Look for in a Course Registration System
Imagine this: You're an event planner who's just been given the task of organizing a series of online classes for your client. You're feeling excited and ready to take on the challenge, but then you're hit with a wave of panic. How are you going to handle the registration process? It would be a series of classes that will run through the whole week and you already have interested attendees. You contemplate manually doing the registration and admission process but is it really the best way to … [Read more...]
9 Factors to Consider in a Training Registration System
If you are offering training courses, may it be a training program for instructional coaches/educators, a training class about financial literacy, or a business training program, you know how important it is to have an efficient registration system. We all went through the painstaking process of manual registration. Using a professional training registration system saves you time and effort. Plus, it offers advanced additional features and services. One of these is data analytics which will … [Read more...]
How to Plan a Class Reunion Checklist
Class reunions can either be nerve-wracking or something you can look forward to attending. Some may find meeting an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend awkward or seeing past friendships that turned sour uncomfortable. But overall, class reunions can be quite fun and beneficial for you. Reunions are a great way to reconnect and mend old friendships. They are great avenues to be updated with your classmates’ lives and they create the perfect setting to just comfortably talk about life, career, and … [Read more...]
5 Fundraising KPIs to Track for Nonprofit Events
Nonprofit events represent more than just a fun opportunity to bring community members together. They have the unique ability to generate engagement and excitement among their communities while raising a lot of money for worthy causes. As a nonprofit fundraising professional or event planner, you can learn a great deal about where your organization stands with supporters from your events. They allow you to gather data on supporter engagement and fundraising strategies, analyze your results, … [Read more...]
Streamlining Event Processes with Digital Donations
As a nonprofit event coordinator, you’re always busy planning your next event, which means you’re probably thinking about how you’ll incorporate fundraising into the experience. After all, strengthening donor relationships and raising money are among the top reasons for hosting nonprofit events. Luckily, there are plenty of ways you can use digital donation tools and strategies to keep fundraising at the front of your supporters’ minds throughout your event. Whether you’re hosting an … [Read more...]
Event Engagement: 4 Creative Ways to Engage Attendees
From massive corporate conferences to small-scale nonprofit 5Ks, memorable events all have one thing in common — they actively engage their attendees. For many event planners, creating an atmosphere that piques the audience’s interest is a major priority that they center their entire event around. They’re constantly looking for the latest trends to leverage in order to connect with their audiences. Thankfully, capturing attention and capitalizing on engagement doesn’t have to be some … [Read more...]
Dating the Unknown Uses Event Smart to Host a Virtual Dating Show
University students from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh created a fun, socially distanced charity event--and delivered it virtually in the middle of a pandemic that kept us all away from in-person events. Are you searching for an event registration system for your virtual events? In this success story, we highlight the Dating The Unknown to learn more about how they use Event Smart for event registrations to bring people together during a time when we have all been forced apart and … [Read more...]
How To Improve Event Engagement With Social Media
Organizing and managing events is not only an important element for the success of your Event, but audience engagement is the most critical aspect for the success of any event. It is important that people who come to attend your event must feel entertained and engaged from beginning to end of the event. Simply promoting your event on social media cannot be enough for your event marketing and audience engagement. You have to create exclusive event strategies that comprise reaching … [Read more...]
Quick and Easy Last-Minute Tips for Event Planning
If you're an event planner, you know how hectic the final days, hours, and minutes can be leading up to your big event. Between last-minute crises, perfecting the final details, and ensuring everything are scheduled to go on cue, there is a lot to finalize before your event. Add a pandemic and socially-distanced measures into the mix, and event planning can feel the most stressful it's ever been. Last minute planning doesn't have to be stressful though, especially if you're staying prepared, … [Read more...]