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10 Sure-Fire ways to Attract Attendees to your next Event

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A well-executed event can help boost brand awareness, facilitate lead generation and increase your sales. However, a well-planned event but a poorly promoted one does little to meet the goals you set out for it. Nothing is more discouraging than a lukewarm turn-out for an event you’ve invested your physical and intellectual capacities in. Which is why we’ve put together a list of activities you must tie in with your promotions.

Here are some sure shot ways you can boost the attendance to your event and make it a success:

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Management Tools & Workflows for Speakers and Attendees

 

The ability to delegate tasks and getting them done right and on time is the key to a successful event. For easier and efficient task management, it is important to have a well-planned, task-by-task approach for volunteers and admin staff and be able to hold them accountable for their tasks that they have been assigned with.

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Design and Print Beautiful Name Badges

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We’re happy to announce the partnership with Conferencebadge.com! Their state-of-the-art badge builder tool allows you to print customized name badges along with option to add attendee photo and QR code.

Simply go to Badge builder in your Dryfta event platform, select attendee data you wish to include in the name badges and export the file.

This file can then easily be uploaded to ConferenceBadge.com to create beautiful name badges that you can print at your premise or have Conference Badge print and ship right to your doorstep.

Here’s how to customize and print your name badges :

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Event Organizers, here’s How to Backup your Gmail Account to your Computer

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More than 1.2 billion users use Gmail everyday i.e. almost around 15% of the world population. With so many users, there have been moments when Gmail service experienced outages and crashes.

What’s more worrisome though is numerous horror stories of Gmail accounts being closed without consent. Gmail tends to close accounts without notice and there’s very little you can do to recover them. The only way you can keep your mails safe is by keeping a backup copy of your mails.
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Sell Tickets on your Event Website using Square Payment Gateway

Less than 5 percent of the people have PayPal account, while more than 95 percent have credit cards. If your event website permits only PayPal, it will mean that most attendees will be unable to pay. In such a case the creation of your event website was pointless. Therefore, a credit card processor is necessary to facilitate all payments and not just PayPal.

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Square payment gateway charges lower transaction fee (2.75% on card swipe), is very user-friendly, and has option to transfer money to your bank account instantly. Also, since we already have an integration built for Square, just like we have integration for Stripe, PayPal, Cybersource and other payment gateways, it takes only a few minutes to set up your payments form.

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