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3 Ways To Make Your Event Go Viral

1. Use a Memorable URL url While planning your unique event page,  creating a catchy custom URL is crucial. Your typical URL is long can only be shared through copy and paste. However, once customized it can be shared on screen and also by word of mouth, opening up another dimension to promoting your event.  Not only does a custom URL sound cool, it looks professional and is easily shareable.d confusing so they can Don't be afraid to get creative either!  Here are a few ideas to get your brain moving:

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2. Utilize Social Media

After you are finished planning the ins and outs of your event, it is time to start promoting! A medium of promotion that should never be undersestimated is social media. Countless people check their social media accounts every day and if your event has an online social-media-icons-300x225 presence, you are that much closer to going viral. Share the event page link, fancy URL included (see above), on your timeline  and groups that you're involved with. If you know of a particular friend who would be interested in your event, don't be afraid to message them personally, especially if you won't see them in person before the event. Personalize the message so they know you are being genuine and not trying to solicit for attendees. Social Media Pro Tips: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Stay Active

active-wear Well, yes, it's good to exercise regularly but that isn't actually what I mean by staying active. Exercise your ability to communicate and remain engaged with your attendees. Stay active as an event host. Let your attendees know that you care not only about the event but them as well. If the event isn't happening for some time, communicate with your attendees using friendly reminders, or messages to get them pumped for your event. Hosts of annual events should collect some photos from past years and share with attendees. Facebook has walls to post on and Ticketbud has email messaging to all or certain attendees. Use these tools to your adavantage! You can undoubtedly succeed flying solo but working with others on the event certainly helps.  Others' individual networks and skills are at your disposal as well. Attendees love to see that an exciting event is not a one-man show and they feel that it is more likely to be a success.  ]]]]> ]]>

Global Perspective: ShowSpace

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As a global ticketing provider, Ticketbud constantly strive to bring you interesting and new event topics from around the world. Lets looks at ShowSpace! 

When US or EU companies go to Asia, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong, they need a local engineering and construction crew to build their exhibits. The standards, processes, materials, and even units of measurement are all different.

So, for example, if you're going to build a multi-story exhibit display for a conference or trade show, you're going to want a local and experienced team. That's where ShowSpace comes in.

Check out the video below for more:

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Fiesta: Cinco de Mayo

Decorations: Here are a couple of decoration ideas that you can use to decorate your backyard or any other location. cincocollage

For more ideas and DIY decorations check out our Cinco de Mayo board on Pinterest.   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Food: Dishes can be simple or elaborate as you want.  Here are some examples of easy dishes you can make for your guest. foodcollage For more ideas check out our Cinco de Mayo Board!   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drinks: You can not celebrate Cinco de Mayo properly without tequila! Here are some popular drinks that you can make. DrinksCincocollage To learn how to make these amazing drinks our Cinco de Mayo board has all the recipes!   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music: What's a fiesta without some music! Here's a playlist to get you & your guest to dance the night away! http://open.spotify.com/user/ticketbud/playlist/7A0wcPfhsoC8kNeunNWouH photo credit: Al_HikesAZ via photopin cc]]]]> ]]>

4 Uses for Event Registration That You Never Thought Of

event registrations that you could of never thought of. If you are planning a smaller event (relative to the last sold out concert that you attended), have no fear. Online event management has tools to optimize the attendance, planning and execution of any event. Here are 4 uses for event registration that you would never thought of: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

 1. House parties

Planning a party at your home (college party, dinner party etc.), can get expensive with food, beverages, decorations etc. You may ask your attendees to chip in a few bucks on their way in to help relieve some of the weight on your wallet. Let's be honest though; not everybody will be pay you then and there. If you setup online ticketing, your unique event page will give your event a great look while easily collecting payments from attendees to help fund the party. You can even set the price as high or as low as you need it to be. This way you can accurately track attendance and afford everything you need to throw an awesome house party! ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Meeting (1)

2. Organization Meetings

The attendance of your organization's next meeting strongly influences  how much gets done and ultimately the success of the organization. Accountability of attendance can be difficult to enforce for an org at any level. If your org is strict on the attendance policy, online ticketing is an extremely useful tool. Members can RSVP in advance to a meeting or event, you can print out the official attendee list the day of and match that up with who is actually there. No one says you actually have to print your tickets 100% of the time. Use the service to help best fit your needs because the possibilities are endless.   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

 3. Baby/Bridal Showers

Those of you that are expecting or recently engaged are familiar with the copious amounts ofplans and commitments that are involved.  Bringing your baby or wedding events online can reduce much of the inherent stress. Many families have to relay a lot of crucial information to out-of-town guests concerning direction,  event status, gift registry etc. An online event page keeps everybody up do date in real-time. As the event host, you also have the ability to contact all of your attendees simultaneously via email so all guests stays in the know. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Classes

moksha If you love working out, you don't a need to own a gym to help others get fit. If you are an artist, you don't need an art studio to share your skills with others. With online ticketing, planning and running classes of any kind is easy. Create an event for individual classes or the entire course. All attendance and sales statistics are measured and at your disposal so you can know exactly who should be in your class and who shouldn't. Ticketbud allows you to download all attendance and sales data onto excel  spreadsheets so taking attendance in class is fast and simple. Credit card processing is also taken care of too so you receive payments quickly and are able to hold attendees accountable. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ People value their time today more than ever, so sufficient attendance can be hard to come by. However, if you are a host of a small event, have no fear, puff out your chest and take assurance in the fact that online ticketing is at your disposal to simplify your event.  ]]]]> ]]>

Cheat Sheet 101: Planning Your Event (infographic)

Our organizers are truly experts in what they do in the event industry. We have all types of events on Ticketbud and for the past few years we have listened and learned at what it takes to run a smooth and successful event. Check it out with your event infographic.

We have put together a cheat sheet with main points that you want to focus on when planning your event.

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Sponsorship with Team Velox Rota

donation page.    Also, Check out and joint their current events that Team Velox Rota has on Ticketbud! https://ms.ticketbud.com/   Oh, did I mention that Team Velox Rota has raised over $725,000.... SEVEN-HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS! That is unreal for a Friends and Family team and they will reach this years goal of  $1,000,000.   They are awesome and we are so proud to sponsor them.  ]]]]> ]]>

Faster Check-in With Ticketbud's New Guest List

Rather than having to sort through columns of useless data, the Ticketbud Guest List provides only the information you need. The list is broken up into a clearly displayed, alphabetical format that makes finding the attendee you're looking for a cinch. screen shot To find your Guest List, (1) simply click the "Check In Guests" tab , (2) select the ticket type(s) of your choice and (3) click Print. Faster Check-in With Ticketbud's New Guest List  ]]]]> ]]>

Announcing Ticketbud App Update

ticketbud app update ticketbud app update The app, which allows organizers to scan the barcode on an attendee's ticket as well as manually check them in, is compliant with iOS7, Apple's most recent update. Most importantly to your check-in, the update means faster speed and greater performance when scanning tickets and searching for guests. The Ticketbud app is available in the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace.  ]]]]> ]]>

Control Your Sales With Scheduled Ticketing

Ticket Sale Scheduling", organizers can now set a start and end date for their tickets to be on sale. Whether you're setting up Early Bird Tickets, Limited-Time Tickets or just want to control the availability of a certain ticket type, you can now quickly and easily select the day and time you want your tickets to be available to the public and when you want them to be removed from the purchase path. scheduled ticketing

Click the "Options" next to the ticket type you want to schedule and select the time and day you want the sale to start and end.

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Once you've selected your start and end time, simply click the check mark to confirm your actions and your scheduling will be set!

Learn the details here.

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Introducing Ticketbud's "Find Your Friends" Promotional Feature

"Find Your Friends" feature, which sends a targeted email to the friends of people that have already purchased a ticket or registered for your event!

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This feature offers organizers a massive audience to market to and creates a community of friends all based around your event!
For example, if Zach and Anna purchase tickets to your charity fundraiser, their mutual friends will get a friendly email encouraging them to join Zach and Anna at your event. This allows your event to reach, arguably, the most desirable audience out there; friends of people already attending!
The best part is, this new sense of community and inclusion that has been created around your event will grow and grow as more and more friends decide to join their buddies in attendance!
If you'd like to learn more about this feature, feel free to comment below or email us at [email protected].
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4 Key Marketing Stats To Drive Registration: When to Post, What to Post & How to Improve

1. Keep it fresh Providing powerful and compelling marketing comes down to producing quality content. However, even the most impressive marketing can grow stale after enough time. Keeping your marketing and messaging fresh is one of the most effective steps you can take to keep engagement high and a great example to refer to is the content kings of the internet, Google. Google's job as a search engine is to continually provide the freshest and most relevant content to it's users and, to do so, it instituted a "freshness" algorithm. While I don't suggest trying to replicate this mathematical equation, basing your marketing off the key stats and points of the algorithm are a great way to determine whether or not you should make changes. Some takeaways from the algorithm to keep in mind for your marketing:

2. Avoid weekends and evenings

While fresh and creative content is crucial to a successful marketing campaign, it will be all for naught if no one reads or even opens the content you send. The day of the week and the time of day are both important factors in the success of your open and click through rates so before you start scheduling when your messaging will go out, here are few important metrics to abide by:

3. Help your volunteers, Early Bird attendees and loyal followers help you

Take a look at this stat from LinkedIn: "Employees are 70% more likely to take action on your update and spread your message to their networks by liking, sharing, or commenting on your posts." The idea here is that those closely connected to something are more likely to share and promote it. If we extend this idea to your event, we can make the assumption that volunteers, early ticket buyers and, otherwise, loyal followers (like the employees from the LinkedIn report) are more likely to be your best resource for building engagement and spreading buzz. Take advantage of this by including these followers in your marketing plans and making it simple for them to share and engage with your content. Send notifications and links every time you release or share new marketing material or when particularly important updates to your events go live. As Buffer nicely puts it, "Asking for engagement is sometimes all it takes to get your colleagues involved."

4. Optimize and thrive

As we discussed in one of our earlier posts, if you pay attention to what's working and what isn't on your event page and make informed refinements based on that, you will end up with an highly effective and high-converting page. This process, which many refer to as optimization, applies to your marketing efforts as well as is a great way to decide what to market and to who. Rather than guess as to what your audience might like, start with something basic (an email newsletter or social media page) and let the engagement and data from that tell you what to optimize next.
If a majority of people are clicking on the photos in your newsletter and not the text, you may want to consider adding a link to photo gallery or even include a video in your next newsletter.
Optimization is so powerful because it allows your audience to tell you what to do next. And who better to take direction from then the very people you want to come to your event?!]]]]> ]]>

3 Reasons Your Student Org Needs To Graduate To Online Ticketing

Any college student knows that all kinds of events are happening both on and off campus and the price of admission to these events vary from free to inexplicably over-priced.

Several issues attached to traditional admission will easily compromise the reputation of your organization and hurt future attendance. Online ticketing and event management helps relieve some of these issues. Here are 3 big reasons any student organization should use event management

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1. Fraud Prevention

The most popular forms of ticketing today for college events are paper or plastic wristbands. These are really easy for the org to distribute but also easy to replicate. Counterfeit ticketing could severely damage both your organization's reputation and attendance both today and in the future.
Ticketing Horror Story: "I wanted to purchase a wristband for one of the biggest greek parties of the year. The  event was highly anticipated so the price for one of these bad boys was quite high. I looked all over for a price that I could afford. Finally, my friend sold me one for $60.  That night, after waiting in line for two hours, security tore my wristband into pieces and I was escorted out. Turned out the wristband was a fake and he was selling them to unsuspecting party-goers all over campus. Some friend, right?"                                                                                                                                                                             Jeff House, University of Texas

Online event management asks attendees to visit the same link to an event and purchase a unique ticket. This ensures that the organization raises the funds it needs, the attendees get their money's worth, attend future events and avoid embarrassing situations.

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2.Money Collection

 99.9% of student orgs accept cash only. This form of collection is ancient, dangerous and straight unreliable for a few reasons:

-Nowadays, people rarely carry around cash, at least not enough to buy their way into an event. Plastic is the way of the future!

 -ATM's are hard to come by, expensive and time-consuming.

- Carrying cash leads to misplacement or theft. In this case, everybody loses...

I mean it when I say the struggle is real. However, by using online event management, collecting money through your organization is much simpler, faster and safer. The event host can see who has paid, and keep a running total of the funds including several other useful stats all while payments are securely transferred from attendee to host online.

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3.  Online Flexibility

Everyday, countless eyes move towards the internet. If your event has an online presence, its visibility increases exponentially all through internet users' abilities to find, read, share and repeat.

Its a win-win:

The internet's universal nature allows for event promotion and awareness to reach all-time highs. Use it to the advantage of your student org. Use the internet to grow your org's size and reputation to new heights. You have nothing to lose...

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