Running search engine optimization campaigns is an effective marketing strategy for promoting events. Event Smart provides Event Schema Markup to provide Google and other search engines event data in the format it needs. When search engines find your event page and index it to their results, your event can be shown to attendees who are searching for relevant events in your area. Additionally, you can leverage paid search engine marketing to increase your event’s exposure – especially for … [Read more...]
A Better (More Affordable) Alternative to Eventbrite
If you are thinking of organizing an event, having an online presence is incredibly important. When your event is published to the web, you are able to accept online registrations, sell tickets online from your site, and reach a wider audience. Not to mention, a functional and informative event website significantly improves the user experience. And to set up an event website that allows you to accept online registrations and sell tickets online, you’re going to need to sign up with an online … [Read more...]
How to Start an Event Planning Business With No Money
Unlike most startups, you can start a successful event planning business with a fairly limited startup budget. There are many different types of events you can offer your event planning services for, including: Corporate and Education: conferences, meetings, seminars, and graduations. Promotional: product launches, fashion shows, charity events, and fundraisers. Celebrations: birthday parties, weddings, sports-related events, local fairs, festivals, and other special events and social … [Read more...]
How to Let Attendees Know They’re an Important Part of Events
Letting event participants know they’re an important part of your event is a great way to engage with them. When done right, it can enhance their event-going experience and improve their chances of attending future events you host. What’s more is that it gives you an opportunity to encourage them to: Attend your next event. Recommend your event to their friends and peers. Share your event’s details with their social media following. Give testimonials that you can add to your … [Read more...]
MailChimp for Beginning Event Marketers
As an event marketer, you’re always on the lookout for different ways to promote your event, encourage prospective attendees to register, or sell event tickets. One of the best ways to market your event is undoubtedly through email marketing. Email marketing is an incredibly effective marketing channel for promoting events. And the good news is that you can integrate your Event Smart website with one of the most popular email marketing platforms, MailChimp. In this article, we’ll show you … [Read more...]
iPay88 Payment Gateway Now Online for Malaysia Events
With Event Smart you can use your own payment gateway account to get paid directly for your online event registrations and ticket sales. Today, we’d like to announce that we’ve added ipay88 to the Event Smart network for Malaysia as new ways to get paid directly. If you currently have an account with either of these gateways, or want to get a higher level of service and better transaction rates then we encourage you to consider using one of these gateways. About ipay88 iPay88 is a leading … [Read more...]
Event Management Can Be Beautiful
Whether simple or complex, your event registration and ticketing experience can be more successful and beautiful with the Advanced Event Editor. The Advanced Event Editor can: Save you time Simplify your events Incentivize your audience to buy more tickets Simplify your ticket options Modify Prices with Taxes, Fees and Discounts Control the look of your event pages and ticket selector Start your free trial today! This is a lot of information, and we have a nearly … [Read more...]
23 Ways Event Smart is the Best Cvent Alternative
Let's talk about Cvent alternatives for online event registration and ticketing. Event Smart is an awesome alternative to Cvent for your online event registration and ticketing management website needs. Below we've listed 23 of the more obvious ways Event Smart is the best of the Cvent alternatives, and there are even more reasons - but we'll cover those later. Previously we outlined 19 Ways Smart is Better than Eventbrite. There are are some similarities with how Event Smart is a great … [Read more...]
2 Ways Online Event Registration Improves Cash Flow & Profits
Compared to traditional (offline) event registration, online event registration and ticketing can dramatically change how many people attend your event and when they register for it. That, in turn, impacts your cash flow, profitability and ultimately the success of your events. Online event registration can get MORE people registering for your event, in LESS time than you spend managing offline registrations, ultimately giving you a better bottom line. Up to 30% More Attendees No matter how or … [Read more...]
Multiple Event Registration Now Available
Your audience will attend more events if they can register for more events during a single checkout. Now, your audience can easily register for multiple events at the same time with Multiple Event Registration. No other online event registration and ticketing website makes it so easy for your audience to register for your events. Multiple Event Registration is super easy to use. The standard ticket selector, registration system, and checkout are automatically updated to allow registrants … [Read more...]