Submit Your Event Once, Publish to Multiple Event Websites

Event Listing Service

 

Do you know? 86% of consumers looking for local events use Google search online with event listing websites delivering the results. Therefore, it is strongly advised that one should publish their events on event directories for gaining more visibility for their event. But there are so many event websites, each with their own system for getting events listed. And if you want to make sure your event shows up on all of them, you have to submit it individually to each site.

This is time consuming, and it can be frustrating! You’ve got a ton of things to do as an event planner or organizer, so why waste time submitting your information over and over again?

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7 Tricks to Keep Attendees Until The End of the Conference

7 Tricks to Keep Attendees Until The End of the Conference

 

If you're organizing a conference, you know it's not easy to keep people interested. A lot of things come into play during the event: the presentation format, the speakers, and much more. But there is one thing that affects everything else in a negative way: attendees who leave early after realizing they don't like what they see (or hear) at first sight. If you want to keep your attendees all day long, here are some tips that can help you achieve this goal:

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How to Boost Your Event’s Attendance Without Paying for Ads

Boost Your Event's Attendance Without Paying for Ads

 

I'm sure you've heard of the saying, "it's not what you know, it's who you know." That may be true in some cases, but in the world of promoting events, it can also be about what your friends and connections know. In this article, we'll talk about how to improve your event's attendance without paying for ads by building an audience online. We'll explore ways to invite your most engaged attendees via email, plus how to get speakers and partners involved in promoting your event (and why they should). Plus we'll discuss a few more tips for getting people excited about attending an event: make it simple for them to share on social media; offer up something valuable as an incentive; customize the email invite to show off its awesomeness—and more!

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37 Best Social Media Tools for Event & Meeting Planners {2025}

37 Best Social Media Tools for Event & Meeting Planners

 

How do you take all of your event marketing efforts and make them into a cohesive whole? How do you use social media tools to help market an event? What are the best social media tools for meeting and event planners to use? Here’s a list of 37 social media tools that will help you get the word out about your upcoming events:

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4 Ways to Create Buzz Around your Event

Create buzz around your event

 

Introduction

The best events are the ones that create a buzz long before they happen. The reason we know this is because of how much we love our favorite festivals, conferences and industry events. Whether it's the incredible programming or just the chance to be surrounded by like-minded people, these occasions become something you look forward to months in advance. People talk about them at work, they plan time off around them, and they even try to get into a special event simply because everyone else will be there too (and it'll make for some great Instagram stories).

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Want More Attendees? Here’re a Few Strategies to Get Those Bums in Seats

Want More Attendees

 
The goal of any event organizer is to fill their event with attendees and make sure they are having a good time. This can be tricky, as it requires you to maximize the number of interested potential attendees while also ensuring that those people attend your event when it happens. If you want more people in your audience, consider these strategies:
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Nonprofit Event Promotion – 10 Strategies For 2023

nonprofit event promotion

 

Whether physical or virtual, successful fundraising events are vital for any organization’s future. A well-promoted organization is more likely to receive help from its connections when needed, making it necessary to be known to the world.

Whether you’ve just started with the planning or near the event date, you need an effective marketing plan for nonprofit event promotion to get hooked with previous and new donors to make it a success.
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Best Social Network for Promoting Academic Conferences: Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest or LinkedIn?

social-networks

 

Academic social networking sites, or ASNS as they are referred to, are digital platforms that have been gaining immense traction over the last few years as means of publishing and sharing academic content. From research papers and academic events to professional networking, ASNS are bringing about a paradigm shift in academic information disbursement.

Having said that, social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & LinkedIn are communities that haven’t been given their due for their immense capabilities in event promotion & communiqué. Let’s look at how we ought to leverage these seemingly informal platforms to promote academic conferences.

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5 Effective Ways To Automate Tasks When Planning an Event

Automation

 

Most event planners struggle with having lots of essential tasks that need to be carried out with great detail to ensure the smooth flow of their events. For example, managing the signups and registrations, organizing the guests, sorting out billing and invoices and many other common tasks that are somewhat repetitive. To make things way more efficient and save you some time, it would be better to look into parts of event planning that you can automate.

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

Attendees in a conference
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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