One important aspect of event planning is choosing a theme for your party or gathering. Unless you are planning a wedding or a baby shower, the theme might not be obvious. The theme can be anything you choose, but it’s important to remember your guests’ comfort and therefore plan with that in mind. It’s wise to have a theme that all guests can easily adapt to. Having to go out and purchase a new outfit or rent an elaborate costume is a burden for some people, and attending an…
Offering A Guarantee: Increase Attendance By Promising Value
Many event planners, especially in the seminar and commercial events verticals, are always looking for new and innovative ways to increase attendance and revenue. While many event organizers have instituted strict refund policies when you register for an event they may actually be hurting their bottom line instead of protecting revenue.
One Simple Technique To Make Your Event Special
As the landscape in the conferences, seminars and meetings industry becomes more crowded and more competitive event planners are looking for more ways to make their event a unique experience for their attendees, vendors and other participants. I’d like to share one tip with you that will help make your event one to remember:
Online Registration Analytics Tips For Event Planners: Hand Out Cookies!
Most people who’ve spent some time browsing the internet are familiar with the concept of cookies, or have at least heard of the technology. Cookies are a very common element in most websites today. They allow a lot of great things like shopping carts, saved passwords and tracking visitors to a site. But did you know they can also improve the registration process for your event?
Online Registration Analytics Tips For Event Planners: Privacy Is Paramount
For an event professional, building a base of fans that trust you to provide a great experience at every event is crucial to being successful. One easy way to upset your regular attendees and lose their confidence is to violate their privacy. With the advent of internet technology that helps plan events and make their execution more efficient, many privacy concerns have arisen.
Instantly Accept Payments In Multiple Different Ways
All online registration systems will allow you to automate your event registration by moving registrations from manual to online, but only some will have the ability to process payments online. There should be no PDF downloads, no printed forms, and absolutely no faxing or mailing allowed. You should never have to take credit card numbers over the phone and manually key them in because all registrations should be processed instantly over a secure connection. Registration fees…
How To Avoid A Common Meeting Planners Nightmare
Picture this: You sign up for a new online registration service. You learn the system and you begin taking registrations for your event.
How To Cut Your Workload In Half
Using an online registration system for your event can make life for event planners far easier by saving time and removing much of the manual labor of entering data, processing payments and writing reports. However, often online registration systems offer only some of these options and only some of the time. The key, then, is to choose an online event registration system that offers total, integrated automation.
Fully Customizable Registration Forms
Online registration can take the hassle of event registrations by saving you the time of manually completing each step of the process. Online registration systems offer ready-made forms that especially when customizable can make the registration processing easier and more comfortable for both you and you registrants.
A Simple Trick That Increases Attendance By 30%
Did you know that only 50% of people who start filling out your registration form will actually complete it?
Access Control: Who Has Access To Registrant Data?
As a busy event planner ? in seemingly endless contact with venues, catering companies, and the oh-so-demanding event sponsor ? can you afford to spend time developing registration spreadsheets, keeping track of each registrant?s information, recording travel and hotel details, and taking and processing credit card info? For most event planners, the answer is a resounding no. The process of registration is often the straw that breaks the camel?s back, causing an event planner…
The Essentials Of Event Planning – Easy Steps That Secure Success
If you’ve ever planned or hosted an event you know how overwhelming it can be. Attending to every small detail can leave you wishing the party was over before it even began. This is even more magnified if you are overseeing a large event such as a wedding or a dinner party for business associates. Something always seems to go wrong and it leaves the person in charge of event planning carrying the burden of the blame.
There are steps you can take to guarantee that the party…