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At the time of making this career choice, you probably pictured yourself bowing on stage at the end of the show, in front of three thousand spectators, while they applaud the spectacular show you or your enterprise put on. In reality, well, it happens more often in your dream. 

Here’s presenting an event presenter’s 8 worst nightmares.

1. Never Ending Queues: You’ve managed to get a Hollywood A-lister to perform in your city and you just announced you’re selling tickets outside the venue gates on the coming Friday night. Next thing you know, fans have already started to camp at the door so they can get hands on your tickets first. Sure, this is a great sign – you’re event is going to sell out for sure! But, do you really want to put your attendees through the experience of waiting in lines in the scorching heat, rubbing shoulders? More importantly, do you want to be sitting there all day selling tickets and disappoint fans towards the end of the line? We didn’t think so either. 

What you need to do: Use Yapsody’s online event ticket store and let fans skip the queue. Sell tickets online without having to deal with any person. People wanting to buy your tickets can check the number of seats remaining in real time, so you won’t leave anyone disappointed.

2. High Ticketing Fees: You’ve decided to take the smarter way out and sell tickets online instead. But now you browse through multiple websites and come across the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever seen – ‘$2 fee for every ticket sold.’ Your tickets only cost $8! The event management spirits welcome you into nightmare number 2 – the one where they rain fire all over your finances. 

What you need to do: With Yapsody, you have two solutions. Yapsody’s ticketing fee is extremely low, you wouldn’t mind paying it. In the case that you do, you have the option to pass on the ticketing fee to your ticket purchaser. Again, it’s so low, they won’t mind paying either. Additionally, we’re also running Holiday Season deals so you can avail another 25% off on your ticketing fees.

3. Unsupportive Customer Support: A nightmare common to humans of all the segments of demographics – poor customer support is something we all dread. Having to deal with a higher number of stakeholders than other people, event presenters have it the worst. While you strive to give your attendees the best experience during, before and after the event, you need your stakeholders to cooperate with you. If they don’t, your nightmare also becomes your attendees nightmare (we’re talking late refunds.)

What you need to do: Use a ticketing system you know provides the best-in-class support. Customer support is our USP – we are literally available 24/7. Each presenter that has shared their experience with Yapsody has ONLY good things to say about our customer support. Whether it’s your ticket purchaser or yourself, reach out to Yapsody for a query (in our capacity) and we’ll happily provide you with just the resolution you need. 

4. Bouncer Brawls: This one’s a popular nightmare. We’ve seen it in the movies and in person – somebody conveniently “forgets” to bring a ticket they never purchased and walks in with a face like they obviously have a ticket. The usher stops them to check the ticket and, well, you know the drill. While one fake attendee is detected, there may be 10 that go unnoticed.

What you need to do: Don’t let this happen, obviously. Using Yapsody’s online ticketing system, you get access a mobile application called YapScan that lets you scan your attendee’s tickets. Validate tickets quicker and identify fake tickets in an instant.

5. Empty Seats: This one’s the greatest of all nightmares. While most of the other issues generally pop up when the sales numbers are too high and there is too much to deal with, this one is a sign of an unsuccessful event – a nightmare than can make the presenter question his career choice. The unfortunate incident often happens because the event wasn’t promoted using the right techniques and at the right time. 

What you need to do: Yapsody’s online ticketing system is integrated with all the promotional tools you’ll need to publicize your event far and wide, or to the designated area of your choice. Our MailChimp integration, SEO tools, social media sharing tools, and campaign tracking ability using Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel will help boost your ticket sales. If marketing is not your forte, leave it to us! We’ll list your event as a premium listing and publish your event on our social media platforms that you can simply share with a click.

6. Seating Confusion – How often have you found yourself acting like an intermediary between two people fighting for a seat? We’re guessing, plenty. When you sell tickets to a general admission event, giving attendees seats on a first come first serve basis, you make yourself vulnerable to complaints about attendees reserving seats by placing their shopping bags or popcorn on it. Yes, this is a nightmare you want to avoid at all costs.

What you need to do: When there is a possibility of the above mentioned actions to occur, always go for a reserved seating system. Yapsody’s online ticketing system gives you the ability to sell reserved seat tickets, so attendees wanting to save the best seat in the house can do so without fighting for it and involving you in it. 

7. Currency Not Supported: Is your local currency not as popular as the US Dollar? Do you find yourself looking up uber cool softwares you’d want to try but shut the tabs soon after you read a little note at the bottom saying ‘Accepts US Dollars only’? This one nightmare almost makes you upset about where you’re located and collecting payments online becomes close to impossible. Without collecting payments in advance, you take the risk of paying other event stakeholders from your own pockets, without  any estimate of how many people will actually purchase your tickets – truly a nightmare!

What you need to do: Leave this one to us. Yapsody supports 150+ currencies from around the world, so you can collect payments, no matter where you’re located. Relax, we’ve got you covered. 

8. Oh-So-Basic Tickets: Let’s assume you’re hosting a Princess themed party for the little girls in your community. You’re selling tickets to an event the girls are looking forward to. The parent hands over the ticket to the highly enthusiastic child and they have a look at it but are not as excited as they should be. Why must that be? Take a guess – your tickets looked as if they were passes to a conference about ‘how to deal with finances’ – white, black and boring fonts. While this is not a dealbreaker, your tickets can make or break a ticket buyers perception about your event.

What you need to do: Make use of Yapsody’s ticket customization feature. Whether you’re hosting a professional conference on leadership or a kid’s party, customize your ticket to set the tone for your event and get your attendees eager to attend it. 

It takes plenty to put on a successful show, a superhero ability of sorts. While things may have gone haywire the last time you organized an event, know that there are always solutions – whether it is in the form of humans or softwares to make sure you have it in control the next time you present a show. At Yapsody, we’ve fit our system with every possible feature to make sure nothing goes wrong at your event and you never have to have a nightmare again. Go on, sign up with Yapsody and see your nightmare switch to a daydream turned reality.

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Halloween Disney Costume Contest
Every kid has a favorite Disney cartoon character. You can host a Halloween Disney costume contest in your neighborhood and let the kids go Disney bounding as Mickey Mouse with wicked false teeth or Halloween Snow White princess. If you’re hosting this contest outdoors, you can decorate the place with posters and props of characters like the Madam Medusa or the Hag.

Witches and Wizards
Host a Witches and Wizards Halloween party for the kids. Let them come dressed as cute little witches and bring their brooms and hats along. Decorate your party space with spiderwebs, spiders and a cauldron with dry ice. Serve your wizards and witches with some spooky yet fun food like candy corn rice crispies, Halloween witch fingers (without coloring) and soda float.

Pumpkin Creativity Contest
Knives can hurt the little hands and turn your Halloween into an actual scary party. Instead of carving, host a pumpkin coloring contest. You can keep pumpkins of different sizes, paints, teeth and eyeballs and let the kids show their creativity. The winner of the best-carved pumpkin wins a Halloween cookie hamper. The Jack-O’-Lanterns created in the contest can be displayed outside the house for your evening Halloween party.

Ghost Hunt
This Halloween party game will make the kids run around the entire house. You can either choose to host it indoors or if you have space outside your house, plan this event outdoors. Make 7 – 8 cute little ghost-shaped cut-outs using cardboard. Paint it white and place round black eyes on it. Hide it in different corners of the house. If hosting an outdoor ghost hunt, place it in the bushes or behind trees. Give cues and hints and let the ghost hunt begin.

Decorate your Monster
Kids love coloring anything and everything around them. Give them an opportunity to show off their painting skills once again. Host a decorate your monster party, in which they form teams of two. They can choose the Halloween character they want to paint on their partner. To make it interesting, make it time-bound activity.

Pop Goes the Balloon
In this game, you’ll need a lot of white balloons (that’ll look like ghosts) and thread to tie it up. Gather the kids in one area. Blow the balloons and hang them from the wall in a row. Each kid will face one 1 balloon and will get a dart. They need to aim and throw the dart at the balloon. The one who pops the most balloons is the winner.

Aim the Witch
This Halloween game requires witch hats and hula hoops. You can place 3 hats next to each other at a little distance. Make teams of 2 in each team. Blindfold one member and let the other one guide him/her to aim and throw the hoop on the hat. The team that gets it right is the winner.

Host a Halloween Craft Contest
There a lot that kids can do when it comes to a Halloween craft contest. Pick one theme and get started. Paper Jack-O’-Lanterns, spider webs on ice cream sticks and bats made out of black paper plates with wings are some ideas you use for the Halloween craft contest.

Make a Halloween Snack
Kids love snacks. Host a Halloween snack making contest. You can invite the moms as well so they can help the kids in making a great snack. From trick or treater sugar cookies to chocolate-dipped oreo bat balls, you have multiple options, the mom and kid duo can pick and make at the Halloween snack contest.

Find the Cherry in the Pumpkin
This may sound a bit gross but is one of the best Halloween fun ideas for your party. Grab a Jack-O’-Lantern and add slime made of glue, glitter and confetti. You can throw a cherry or a vampire ring in it. Let the kids put their hands in the slime to find the ring within a minute.

Time’s flying like the witch on the broom. What are you waiting for? Pick the Halloween ideas you find fascinating and start planning your party. If you’re an event presenter, wanting to set up your Halloween event, you’ve come to the right place. At Yapsody, we’re #TixOrTreat-ing! Create your event with Yapsody and avail 25% off on your event ticketing using promo code HALLOWEEN25. Sell tickets online for free using our online ticketing system and features like mobile apps and online ticket store. Sign up NOW!

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Plan Your Halloween Event in Advance
Plan and promote your Halloween event early to reach out to new attendees. Use early bird offer to attract more leads. Once the date and venue are decided, use effective marketing strategies to promote your event. That way, you can alter your sales strategy if the tickets are not sold by a certain date. The ideal time to plan and promote your event is around 90-120 days and guess what we are exactly 90 days from Halloween as of today. So this is the perfect time to go ahead and create your event. If you sign up now, you get the benefit of our Halloween offer, which gives you a 25% off on your event ticketing fees.

Pick Your Theme
When it comes to Halloween, you have various options to choose from. Do you like witches and wizards or you want to go for a subtle Jack-O’-Lantern theme? Picking your theme gives you a choice and a combination of colors to work with. Let’s say you’re hosting a Vampire Halloween event. Pick colors such as black, red and purple. Since you celebrate Halloween every year, most of your props can be reused depending on your theme.

Create Spooky Invites
It’s Halloween! If you didn’t manage to scare your attendees with a spooky invite last year, you better do it now. Be it a small Halloween night or a massive Monster bash, create email invites using Halloween templates of your event. You can also use creepy GIFs to make your invites more interesting. Always use an effective marketing tool like MailChimp to get your event invites to your attendees. Our Integration with MailChimp makes email marketing a breeze and it’s FREE!

Dollar Store
Most of the Halloween props and decor should be in your storage if this is not your first Halloween event. In case you’re going for the Zombie theme and you find yourself with no zombie-related props, settle for DIY props if you have the time or simply visit the dollar store. You’ll find some great stuff like glittery polyfoam tombstone, plastic skulls and Halloween themed black plastic yard signs.

Party Food
How eerie can you get to scare your attendees? If creativity is your second name, then this is the place to display it. Arrange a table setting and depending on the theme you chose, spruce it up with either a spider pizza or the eyeball meat curry. Organize a food & drink event and sell tickets for it in advance to make the required arrangements for your guests.

Drinks
Whether you choose a witches and wizards theme or a gothic Halloween party, serve your attendees with the spookiest cocktails. To be awarded as the creepiest event presenter, add eerie fruits in cocktails like lychees to look like eyeballs and some dry ice.

Photo Booth
Photos are the reason why social media is growing more powerful each day. Set up a photo booth at your event with different props and white bloodstained backdrop or a simple black backdrop with a lot of golden spiders pinned to it. The more attendees upload your event images, the more you’re getting famous without paying a dime.

Promote Event
Event promotion if done well can give you a sold-out event. Kickstart your marketing campaign in advance. Roll out Early Bird offer and contests to attract new people to your event. Use our integrated tool MailChimp to send out creepy invites directly to your attendee’s mailbox. Use popular platforms like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to spread the word. You can also post your events through Yapsody for FREE. Read more about the ideal time to promote your event in our blog.

Save More with Halloween Offers
Apart from the creepy parties, the scary fest brings with it Halloween offers. You’ll probably find Halloween sale at almost every store. Take advantage of those offers to pick the best stuff at low prices. At Yapsody, you don’t have to wait until Halloween to avail the best offers. Sign up right away and we’ll set up your next Halloween event. The best part is, you get a flat 25% off on your event ticketing fee. Isn’t that a good saving?

Budget-Friendly Ticketing System
When you plan an event, you look for features that’ll save you time. Here’s the deal, we give you an online ticketing system that will save your time AND MONEY. Our online ticketing system is equipped with features like online ticket store, virtual box office and mobile apps. Using our online ticketing system you can easily validate tickets, set up multiple payment gateways and get real-time stats of your ticket sales. If you are from a different region and want to target a particular native language speaking audience, you can do so by setting up your online ticket store in your preferred language with Yapsody. Using this feature, you can set up your Halloween event in multiple languages like French, German, Spanish and many more.

Our tips are sure to help you save a good amount even for your next Halloween party. If not, you can opt for our “Pass on Fee” feature and add the ticketing fee to the cost of the tickets making event ticketing free for you. Sign up Now to avail a 25% off on your ticketing fee using the promo code HALLOWEEN25.

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Invitations
One of the best ways to increase attendees to your Halloween event is to create exciting and spooky invites. Create Jack-O’-Lantern GIFs or Zombie based invites to get your attendees excited about your event Your invite must include details of the event and a USP, like live music for entertainment. Once your invite is ready, spread the word using the best marketing tool. You can use our MailChimp integration to send your invites to your attendee lists or post it on social media to reach out to your target audience.

Decor
Ghost balloons, broom, creative Jack-O’-Lanterns along with dim lights can make your Halloween event a perfect place for great pictures. Pictures, that your attendees can post on their social media profile to make you famous organically. Set up a photo booth with lots of eerie props like fake vampire teeth, popping eyeballs, ravens in a cast-iron cage, witch cloak, hats and brooms. Set up your venue like a graveyard with fake tombstones and a lot of Jack-O’-Lanterns at the entrance.

Food & Drinks
When it comes to Halloween, there’s a wide range of food options you can choose from. You can serve dishes like deviled eggs, red pasta that resembles a brain, a creepy feet loaf or simply some spooky green eyeball soup from the cauldron. If your event is organized in a small place, highlight your theme on a table setting with fake spiders and webs around the dishes. You can even bundle your event tickets along with food & drinks as a package and offer discounts on the same to encourage sales.

Live Music
To entertain your guests throughout the evening, you can arrange a live band or hire a DJ. While your band sets up a great mood with the best of Halloween classics for your attendees, you can have a small space for those who’d love to dance to those tunes. Make sure you promote your event and the artist well in advance to sell-out your event.

Vampire Volunteers
Spook your attendees by getting your event volunteers to dress up as vampires, but with volunteer badges. The volunteers can even dress up as wizards or ghosts to scare your attendees and have someone capture the moment so they have a memory of your event to post online or cherish forever.

Promote Your Event Hashtags
Reach out to the maximum audience with creative content on social media or ask Yapsody to do it for you. Use every popular platform that can generate maximum leads for your event. Choose Halloween related hashtags to promote your event. Optimize your Halloween page keeping the SEO parameters in mind, so you can increase the visibility of your event organically. The more people see your event, the more you increase your chances of a sold-out event.

Ghost Ride
Have you thought of taking your attendees for a Ghost ride? Set up an area with all the Halloween monsters, ghosts, witches, vampires and Dracula. Take your attendees through this creepy ride and play all sorts of scary sounds to scare the hell out of them.

Halloween for Nonprofits
If you aim to support a cause, hosting a Halloween fundraiser event can give you good revenue. Be it a Halloween high tea party or a live music concert, we always want to support your cause. If you’re a nonprofit organization, we have special pricing for you. You get a flat 50% off on your ticketing fee. Using our “Pass on fee” feature you can get the event ticketing absolutely free.
P.s. The Pass on fee feature is applicable for all event organizers irrespective of the type of events.

Choosing the Right Ticketing System
While you plan the best event, choosing the right ticketing partner can help you save a lot of money apart from just selling tickets online. Opt for an online ticketing system that’ll give you the best features at an affordable price. With our features like mobile apps, online ticketing store and virtual box office you can validate tickets, set up multiple payment gateways and get real-time stats of your ticket sales. Additionally, you can give your event a wider exposure by posting your events for free with us.

Customizing the Tickets
It’s Halloween! Customize your tickets depending on the age group you’re organizing the tickets for. Whether it is a Zombie theme or a Vampire Halloween party, create a spooky ticket and wow your attendees.

While you have our guide to host your next Halloween event, you can choose some of our wicked themes from our blog on “10 Halloween Themes To Host The Greatest Party Of All Time”. Host, promote and sell your next Halloween event tickets online with Yapsody. Sign up Now and avail a 25% off on your ticketing fee by using the code HALLOWEEN25. Click here to know more about this offer.

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Zombie Party
This is a classic theme your guests would love to dress up to. Dress up as brain-seeking zombies. Arrange party snacks like Zombie chocolate cookies, pumpkin rice crispies, watermelon brains, zombie ears, brains in a jar, zombie flesh cupcakes, and crunchy zombie eyes! Decorate your venue/party area with fun decorations like fake blood, fake eyeballs and bloody hands to give your guests the real feel of “Walking Dead”.

Gothic Halloween Party
All things grey and black – create the perfect gothic ambience with ravens in a cage, spiderwebs, white skulls, antique candelabras and portraits of scary ancestors. Cover up portraits with lace to make it creepy. Play goth music and light up the venue with candles. To make it more interesting, get your attendees to dress up as members of The Addams Family.

The Haunted House Party
Create a haunted house and organize a scavenger hunt inside the house with creepy characters hiding in corners that pop out to scare the hell out of you. Make a spooky graveyard outside your house and hide candies around dead and dry flowers. Let your guests find these cookies as a part of your scavenger hunt.

Scooby-Doo Theme
Halloween without Scooby-Doo and the gang is never any fun. You can create a Mystery Machine using cardboard and use it as a photo booth. Have your guests dressed up as Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma. Add spice to your party with some Scooby snacks your guests can munch on. Organize mystery games to find candies hidden in secret spots to make your party fun and interesting.

Halloween Garden Party
As the name suggests, this is an outdoor Halloween Party idea that can thrill your guests on another level. There’s a lot you can do when you’re planning a party outdoors. From flying ghosts, bloody footprints to pumpkin bonfires and glowing eyes in the bushes, you can spring out a whole lot of crazy ideas an outdoor event.

Halloween Movie Night
Invite your guests over for a Halloween movie night out. Think of the scariest movie that will make your Halloween movie night a night to remember. Some movies to consider are some classics like Friday the 13th, Halloween Series, Nightmare on Elm Street Series, Walking Dead and so on. Have your attendees write their choices on a piece of paper, mix them up in a bowl and pick one. You can play pranks that’ll make your blood run cold in a minute while your guests’ eyes are focused on the movie.

The Witches Night
Deck up your venue with witchcraft themed decor like black cats, cauldron with dry ice and lights to create the fake smoke effect, ouija boards and a witches book full of spells. Keep a corner reserved for the broom and hats your guests will bring. For dinner, you can serve your guests ‘Witches-Hair pasta’ made of squid ink oil and a lot of garlic, witch fingers, jello worms and cheesy chicken stuffed skulls. Use witch-faces stirrers in your cocktails. For desserts, simply serve the favorite – the devilish chocolate cupcakes with a witches black hat topping.

Murder Mystery
Host a Halloween murder-mystery party. Create a background story about the murder and let your guests get into character. Organize mysterious games with hints about who the murderer could be. Create a thrilling environment with some bizarrely lit dense fog and dark silhouette. To make it interesting, give away prizes to everyone who is able to solve each clue.

Harry Potter Party
Invite your guests with a Hogwarts Acceptance Letter sealed with a DIY stamp on it. Let them know in the letter the house they’ve been assigned to – Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor or Slytherin. Hang the house banners and organize fun games based on it. If you scored A in crafts, you can also create sorting hats for your guests. Have you invited kids? Entertain them hosting kid-friendly games like tabletop quidditch and wand making competitions.

Vampire Halloween Party
For those of you who want to become vampires this Halloween, this party idea is just for you. Choose colors like black, red and dark purple to go with the theme. Spruce up the decor with bats made of cardboard, fake teeth, coffins and a whole lot of fake blood. For lighting, use candles. Offer your guests with coffin cake, vampire floats and bloody mary to delight your vampires.

Which theme are you going to go with this Halloween? Plan your Halloween in advance with Yapsody as your premium ticketing partner. Sign up now and avail a flat 25% off on your event ticketing fees. Also, check out the awesome offers we recently launched for this holiday season!

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