1. Networking

No matter what one looks to gain from an event, interacting with other attendees, getting in touch with the ones who are known and getting to know the ones who are strangers are activities that every attendee looks forward to when he attends an event. Mobile apps for events let people connect via Facebook, Twitter or Google+ so that they can find out people who belong to their circles and are attending the same event.

2. Their Choice

The primary reason why all your attendees may not enjoy your event equally is because they might have to sit for all presentations and seminars even if they aren’t interested in all of them. Using mobile apps for event management, let your attendees themselves choose the sessions they are interested in so that they get all they want from your event and there’s no chance of them missing out on a lecture or presentation they were interested in.

3. Keep Them Informed

Most of your attendees are going to rely on online ticketing system or your website to know the day, date, time, venue, and schedule of your event. But, conveying last minute changes to them while they’re probably already on their way to the event can get difficult, and this might lead to miscommunications and eventually, attendee dissatisfaction. Using the best mobile apps for event management to communicate all the details and last minute changes to your attendees through push notifications, and ensuring that they enjoy the event without a hassle.

Maybe their event preferences differ, but one fact remains common to all your attendees – their heavy reliance on their smartphones. Having one event management app can help you give your attendees a personalized event experience, and there is no way that you won’t get a positive feedback from each one of them after that.

Also, if you’re increasing the usage of smartphones for your attendees, giving away a Portable Charger as a free gift with your company name on it will be extremely smart, even with a branding perspective. Looking for the best mobile apps for event planners? Make sure to try Yapsody’s free mobile apps for events – YapStats and YapScan, to take your event experience to the next level. Want to explore other swag ideas apart from using an event management app for your event? Go check out https://www.yapsody.com/ticketing/blog/promotional-giveaways-for-your-event/ and try these amazing swag ideas along with the best mobile apps for events to make your attendees happier!

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Set Clear Goals

The first thing on your mind – to have clear goals for your event planning ideas. Depending upon the kind of goals you want to achieve with this event, you can proceed to decide what kind of event would be suitable. Later, you also have to take into account the attributes of your target audience, the impression you want to create on them, and what can you attendees gain from your event.

Team Up

For small business owners, events can be a little heavy on your pockets. Collaborate with similar businesses to share the workload, expenses, and of course, the benefits. You could even hire a professional event organizer to make sure your event is remembered by all your attendees. Also, ensure that the marketing needs of each of the businesses are met during the event.

Help Is Given To Who Ask For It 

And if this is your first time organizing an event, you need to ask for it. Most people think – “How much effort is it going to take me to put up an event that’s only going to last a few hours?” and the answer is A LOT. Setting a date, finding a venue, organizing a team and allotting tasks, finding caterers, putting up decorations, sending invites – it’s a seemingly endless list. Don’t panic; ask event organizers or those who have done it before to help you out. In such cases, collaborations can be highly beneficial.

The Right Kind Of Promotion 

More than what you say or how you say it, the right kind of promotion relies on where you say it. Once you know who your target audience is, you’ll be able to find out their online and offline hangouts and carry out promotional activities there. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are regulars when it comes to social media marketing. Apart from these, you could go up to your customers and clients and get the word out about your event face-to-face, encouraging your team members to do the same, too.

Incentivize Event Attendees

Even after the right kind of promotion, you might want to be on the safer side and ensure attendance by offering the right kind of incentives. A remarkable guest speaker, a quirky theme or venue, interesting interactive sessions, all pose as points that intrigue attendees and make them register for events. In fact, they might even recommend your event to their friends, boosting people to buy tickets for your event and filling up your venue.

Return Gifts

Who doesn’t like gifts, now? All kinds of freebies make event attendees happy. You don’t have to necessarily provide them with expensive ones. Promotional goodies, product samples, information packets, all are real charmers. They create brand recall after your corporate events are done.

Get Feedback

Where there is scope of being better, there is scope for growth. Getting feedback from your attendees is extremely important so that you can figure out your flaws and correct them, and polish the things you did right. Yapsody lets you have a personalized FAQ section on your online ticket platform, and you can even mail your attendees a short questionnaire. Apart from that, publish blog posts and update your Facebook and Twitter with the highlights of your event, so that your attendees have access to the wonderful moments they spent at your event.

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Social walls are big screens that are put up during events that collect and display all the social media activity that’s happening inside the event. For example, if you are hosting an casino events and have a dedicated hashtag for it, the tweets sent out by your attendees with your hashtags will be displayed on the social wall. This is refreshed every few seconds, ensuring that the display is real-time. Of course, your attendees will love it if their tweets are flashed on the big screen for everyone at the event to see, but is that all a social wall has to offer? If not, what else? Well, let’s have a look.

SCREENCEPTION

As funny as it sounds, that term is on its way to competing with ‘selfie’. The few seconds of glory that is received when an attendee sees his tweet on the screen encourages everyone to keep posting more and more on social media with your event’s hashtag. That level of social media activity can just work wonders for your event and your brand. Coming to screenception, it is a phenomenon that’s observed when someone clicks a picture of the wall when his tweet or post is being flashed and posts it. Doesn’t make sense, but sure as hell makes your online presence huge.

PROGRESS

The technology only witnessed the display of tweets and Facebook posts related to the event in its early days, but now social walls have a lot more than just that. Walls now have aesthetically arranged and integrated posts, images, and videos from across a large number of social media outlets including Instagram, Vine, Tumblr, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

WORKING

As much as I wish it were true, this Wall-E cannot think on its own and find out what has to go up and what needs to be ignored. For text posts, hashtag filters are used, while keyword or phrase filters are used for images and videos. Social walls can be highly customized, though, according to what you need for your event.

MODERATION

Like I said, this Wall-E doesn’t have a brain of its own, so it cannot moderate the posts that go up. Usually, live moderation is the most preferred technique where you can view and moderate every post before it is sent up on the wall using your phone or laptop. If you don’t have the time or resources for live moderation, you could also buy packages that provide basic profanity and keyword filters that can be preset. The easiest way to moderate the posts is by creating a twitter handle where you simply retweet the posts that you want to share and only these posts get to go up.

OPTIMIZATION

Social walls can be included in all kinds of events including conference events, trade shows, and fundraisers. You can embed social walls in a website or mobile app to create a buzz and encourage social media activity before or after the event. But, what matters is that your screen be large enough so that it is viewed by a large number of people at the same time. Social walls can also be used for internal purposes. For example, a private live screen can be used to connect remote employees to enable them to connect to each other.

WHY

• SOCIAL REACH: Like I’ve mentioned a million times before, it’ll increase social media activity around your event, boost conversations and foster communities before, during, and after your event.
• EASY TO USE: Live displays are big, but not complicated. They can be easily set up and configured. Plus, they create a happening environment that entertains your attendees and gives your event a tech savvy edge.
• MONETIZE YOUR WALL: You don’t have to share a random train of tweets when you can easily use your wall for running competitions and marketing your brand. Some smart techniques and you’ll be able to come up with a hundred ways of using the big screen.
• QUALITY CONTENT: Since their tweets will have a chance to get displayed on a screen that is being viewed by so many other people at that very instant present in the same room, the quality of the content is bound to shoot up.

WHAT

Social walls are a big leap when it comes to technology in events, and within no time, presenters have come up with innovative ways to put them to use. At the same time, one should realize that events have a lot more to them than just social media, so care should be taken that these big screens don’t overshadow everything else the event stands for. Your event wall shouldn’t just be an add-on; it should blend with the rest of your engagement tools and represent the innate values of the event. Depending upon your event, you can have a list of things to do with your wall, and the best way to figure that out would be to look at examples, sit with your team and brainstorm.

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Content Is Our Middle Name

If content is the source and audience the destination, bloggers are the channel between the two. We practically breathe content. Like I already mentioned, being a part of your event would help us get new facts and insights for our readers. Apart from that, our mind has industry-related content in abundance, so we can give varied contributions to the discussions in the event, thus enriching it.

Gateways To New Possibilities

Writers are quite synonymous to wanderers, because whenever we come up with a piece of writing, we thoroughly evaluate what kind of people would be attracted by the blog or article. We explore the reach of all kinds of content, and can show you potential in a kind of audience you might not have ever thought about. Almost 80% of internet users are frequent blog readers, so imagine the benefits of coming into view of this percentage of readers.

We Are The “US” in “TRUST”

We already have readers who follow and appreciate us, and find our content credible. This credibility can be tapped by you if your event is covered by one of us. Apart from that, inviting a blogger to cover your event shows that you’re a sport in accepting appraisals and criticism from a trusted influencer on the online media which, in turn, will make you look open and approachable.

We’ll Be Your Ayn Brands

As already mentioned, we have a strong base of followers, and through us you can create brand awareness amongst these folks. Consider mouth-to-mouth marketing that involves one person spreading the message amongst ten people, and those ten people talking to ten other people each, thus making people aware of your brand. With us, this process will be a lot faster because hey, it’s going to be just one person spreading the message amongst hundreds and thousands of other people in a single go. Isn’t that huge?

Who’s Scratching Whose Back Now?

If we’re suffering from a writer’s block and we receive a free invite, that’s what we’re going to tweet, post and blog about for the entire following week. And if you post our blogs on your network, you’ll be giving us your followers, too. It’s a mutual promotional strategy that benefits both parties equally.

All said and done, you must choose your bloggers wisely. Just because someone is influential doesn’t mean he’s right for your event, and just because someone is a niche blogger doesn’t mean he can’t meet the requirements. You’d rather try choosing bloggers who are experts in your industry so that you can appeal to just the right target audience. And if they’re also influential, it’s an icing on the cake!

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Neither Yours, Nor Mine

Negotiation skills are the primary traits of a good manager, be it sales, finance, or marketing. You don’t just have to keep the ball in your court; you also have to make sure the person on the other side is happy with the ball being in your court. Though it sounds tough, just keep this in mind – as long as you know how to keep the other person happy, you can have as many balls in your court. Don’t play the game, play the man.

Just a few Dollars Here and There

Unless this is the last event of your life, you have to keep an eye focused on the budget. Of course, cost cutting is important, but it has to be done in the right way. If you mention a platypus and give a duck, it’s acceptable. But, a chicken would be too much.

Do NOT forget about The Price Tag

Quite contrary to what Jessie J might feel, you have to decide upon just the right pricing strategy to sell your event tickets, which can indeed be very tricky. Go through the strategies of some of the previous successful events, and look at how much you’re offering to the attendees. A lot for a little will make you look greedy, and a little for a lot will make your event underrated.

Where is it?

This is something people are going to base their decisions on. Just walking into a venue and deciding upon it because of ‘weird positive vibes’ would be foolishness, even if it’s a place related to your childhood and has priceless memories attached to it (gee, it’s not your wedding! Even if it is, that’s not the best idea). Create a checklist with all your requirements for the venue before you start hunting, and choose the one the scores the most! Also, read the venue contracts carefully before investing (I give the credits to this post-script to the multiple insurance advertisements. Thank you, guys!).

Free Food? I’m in!

Except, it’s not going to be free, right? You’re going to charge your attendees for every service you’re providing at the event, so you’ll have to make sure the services are worth paying for. A happy stomach leads to a happy heart, so if your caterers can’t deliver that, you’re putting a great deal at stake.

This is when You come to Us

Finding the right event ticketing software can be a big pain, because most of the time the ones that are easy-to-use aren’t professional, and the ones that are professional are too complicated. Have no fear, Yapsody is here (alright, that sucks, but you get the point)! Our UI is easy, reliable, packed with features and downright professional. Plus, General Admission events are absolutely FREE! If you wish to get the best of both worlds, Yapsody is your thing.

Because Memories are Priceless

The future of your company depends upon the memories your event gives not just to the attendees, but also to everyone else involved – the sponsors, the speakers, the organizers, the partners – everyone! Their positive feedback is going to reflect on your status in the market, so make sure you’re giving them good reasons to ensure a positive feedback. Right from the beginning to the end, and even after that, you have to keep working to make sure your event was memorable.

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