All sorts of businesses use calendars to allow customers and clients to book appointments, inform site visitors about upcoming events, and let employees know about meetings. If your website is built with WordPress then you are in luck! There are some great options for easily deploying a robust and functional calendar to your website! In […]
How to Determine the Best Event Ticketing Solution for You
Finding the right event ticketing solution can be a daunting task – especially considering the sheer number of options available to you. However, as is the case with most software, there are a number of factors you need to consider before settling on a solution for your event business. In this article, we’ll help you […]
8 Event Planning Trends for 2019
As an event organizer, you know that the event planning industry is introduced to new trends every year. These trends raise the expectations of event attendees which is why it’s important to stay up to date with them. Thinking ahead is integral to planning successful events. A clear understanding of event planning trends combined with […]
8 Features to Look for in Open Source Event Management Software
As an event organizer, finding open source event management software can be difficult. There are many tools out there – each offering a wide array of features. In this article, we’ll look at some of the most important features you should consider when choosing an open source event management software. But first, let’s take a […]
Comparing Hosted vs Open Source Venue Ticketing Systems
Keeping track of online registration and ticketing activities for your event can be pretty difficult. In addition to selling tickets, you have to set up payment gateways, send tickets to attendees, and gather analytics. Venue ticketing systems take the heavy lifting out of online ticketing, venue management, payment processing, and other event-related activities. In this […]
What is the history of event ticketing systems?
My answer to a question on Quora: Tickets – easily overlooked but essential to our enjoyment of theatre, music, sport, art and more. As we move away from the conventional paper ticket to e-tickets, we take a look over other key milestones in event ticketing history and beyond. Ancient Greece The first known tickets were used […]
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Blogs, Tips, and Websites
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? According to Wikipedia, SEO is “the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s unpaid results”. SEO is the process of optimizing your online content so that a search engine likes to show it as a top result for searches of […]
Email Marketing with MailChimp for Beginners
What is Email Marketing? Email marketing is an efficient way to stay connected with your clients while also promoting your business. With email marketing, you can easily and quickly reach target markets without the need for large quantities of print space, television or radio time or high production costs. Marketing tool used to send messages […]
Which is the Best Free Event Ticketing System?
My answer to a question on Quora: There are hundreds of different cloud-based (hosted) ticketing systems available on the internet, but if you want to take life by the horns, I would tell you to sell tickets from your website and cut out the middleman. “How the heck do I do that?”, you ask out […]
Naming Things is Hard. Naming an Event Management Company is Even Harder.
Do you ever ask yourself how a company name was created? I can tell you it’s no walk in the park. In some industries, such as the event management industry, new business names are so hard to come up with that many people have resorted to posting on Quora, asking for help naming their event […]
Is Blockchain the Key to Democratizing Our Future, Our Government, and Our Life?
Take a walk with me through the future of Blockchain. A place where the majority of humans are living in a world of automation, run by decentralized companies and governments. In the Beginning Ever since our human ancestors became aware and formed cognitive abilities sometime around 70,000 thousand years ago, Human Civilization has been working […]
WordPress Plugin Event Espresso Listed as a Top Eventbrite Competitor for Event Management
While Eventbrite is known as the best cloud-based ticketing platform, with a 61% market share in the event management industry, Event Espresso, a WordPress plugin, is listed as one of the top five Eventbrite competitors for “event management” on Datanyze.
