How Event Ticketing Software Works- From Setup to Check-In

How Event Ticketing Software Works- From Setup to Check-In

Most large-events need a third-party event ticketing software. There it is. We’re starting out this blog with a cold fact. Not a suggestion, not a nice-to-have add-on but a necessity. Unless your team has the time and technical skills to build a  native event ticketing software for your event, from scratch, then you will need n a ticketing platform to support your operations. And don’t even think about: Well, can I just not manually sell these tickets? 
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Guide to Managing Multi-Track Event Schedules Effectively

Guide to Managing Multi-Track Event Schedules Effectively

If planning an event is difficult enough, then planning a multi-track event surpasses that measure. Managing multi-track event schedules is perhaps one of the most operationally challenging things a planner can come face-to-face with. That’s the reason why most event planners rely on event scheduling software today.

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How Dryfta’s Mobile Event App Replaces Printed Materials

How Dryfta’s Mobile Event App Replaces Printed Materials

Sustainability is a term that gets thrown around massively these days. In the event management industry as well, many contemporary organizers are making active amends to ensure sustainability in their events. They do this by minimizing wastage, tracking their net carbon emissions and keeping a watch on energy consumption. That’s primarily why event organizers are switching from printed materials to mobile event apps for conferences.  
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Finding the Best vFairs Alternatives- A Complete Guide

Finding the Best vFairs Alternatives- A Complete Guide

Plenty of event planners today realize halfway through that the service they signed up for does not meet their needs. And their attendees’ expectations. In this view, the team is forced to reckon with the reality of the software they have been working with. Sometimes costing tens of thousands of dollars, discontinuing a service is never easy. And never the first choice, at all. However, circumstances outgrow our events and we look for alternatives.  It is with this thought that we have set out to discuss some of the brilliant vFairs alternatives. 
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Mobile Event App- 10 Reasons Your Attendees Are Not Using It

Mobile Event App- 10 Reasons Your Attendees Are Not Using It

You made it. The team you had appointed to design your organization’s very own mobile event app has just handed it over to you. Officially. This is an incredible and worthy milestone for event planners who are just starting out and carving a mark for their organization.

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How to Manage Parallel Conference Sessions

How to Manage Parallel Conference Sessions

The multi-session conference format is now standard practice across professional industries, academic institutions and global summits alike. But its adoption is not without reason. The benefits of hosting said parallel conference sessions are plenty. Parallel programming lets organizers cater to the expectations of audience segments that come from different walks of life.

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Hosting Webinars in Universities- Effective Strategies

Hosting Webinars in Universities- Effective Strategies

Most of us have sat through at least one university webinar that felt like an endurance test. You’ve seen the speaker’s audio cutting in and out. The moderator fumbling with the mute button. And someone in the background has a pressure cooker going off. And the session, which was scheduled for an hour, is somehow still going at the two-hour mark. Needless to say, hosting webinars in universities can get chaotic too quickly.
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Major Differences Between a Summit and a Conference

Major Differences Between a Summit and a Conference

Summit and conference are two words that are often used interchangeably. While the two share more similarities than differences, there are a few things that draw a clear distinction between them. In terms of the size of the event, the topic of focus and even the number of days, a summit and conference have unique strings attached to each of them.

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10 Ways CRM Helps in Effective Management of Events

10 Ways CRM Helps in Effective Management of Events

A great and damaging misconception about Customer Relationship Management (CRM), is that many believe that this is something that concerns conventional businesses. The commercial ones. The ones that you purchase from on a regular basis. Hardly does anyone think of customer relationship management when it comes to event management. 

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Challenges in Post-Event Engagement in Academia

Challenges in Post-Event Engagement in Academia

Today, a non-negotiable aspect of organizing an academic event is associated with what you do post-event. Yes, you read that right. Post-event. If you’ve signed up to be an event planner in this day and age, well, we’d like to warn you that there are clear boundaries. And perhaps no finish lines. It is a race that continues well after your event officially draws its curtains.
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6 Registration Metrics Event Organizers Must Track

6 Registration Metrics Event Organizers Must Track

Event registration is a live data feed. Statista notes that about 328.77 million terabytes of data are generated daily. Every spike, drop-off and demographic detail in your registration flow is telling you something about how your event is landing with your audience. If you are a proactive organizer, you should be paying very close attention to this data. If not, you are seriously missing out.

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Informal vs Structured Networking in Academic Events

Informal vs. Structured Networking in Academic Events

Everyone who has attended an academic conference has felt the weight of networking. You sit through two days of presentations, collect a dozen business cards, eat the complimentary pastries and leave feeling oddly disconnected. You spoke to people, yes. But did you actually network with them? Probably not.

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