Here are 5 types of online workshops you can plan: 

1. Educational Workshops

Times like these, people are increasingly inclined to upskill their profiles through an online workshop or tutorial. Even if you weren’t involved in educational events or workshops, now would b a good time to reconsider your event planning. The need for educational workshops is at an all-time and you can easily be an imparting factor to your audience. 

2. Health & Wellness Workshops

The need to disseminate factual information in the COVID era is of paramount importance. This could be one of your weekly workshops where you bring on board and medical health experts to speak on current medical know how’s. This is a good strategy to let your attendees get a hint of your diversity as an event planner. 

3. Yoga Training 

Globally, there has a resurgence of holistic wellness and with it, the need for more yoga and meditation. Now would be a great time to connect with trained professionals to introduce them to your target audience. You could start small with a demo or free of cost event and then up the ante with every workshop session. 

4. Invite-Only Workshops

Looking to create an invite-only workshop for a select group of loyal attendees? Our Access Codes feature will help you create one. With an invite-only code from our event ticketing system, you can easily create a niche, well-crafted workshop. Think of workshops imparting specialty based insights and knowledge. Learn how to Set Up Access Codes For Your Event. 

5. Q&A Sessions 

This online workshop can be a follow up to al your workshops, no matter what kind you organize. Your attendees will appreciate that you’re taking their feedback and questions to improve their online event experience. Q&A sessions are also a good opportunity to increase your social media presence during these times.

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As an event presenter, here’s how you can make the best of this situation and still bring people together in the comfort of their homes. 

1. Test Run Your Digital Platforms Before Going Live

Many event presenters might not be an expert at hosting their events on a social media platform or other video streaming apps. This is a good time to get a hang of it before making it a habit of hosting events online. Start off by notifying your followers by going live to announce your plan of hosting events online regularly. This will also create a synergy between you and your guests with live feedback and comments. 

2. Go LIVE

Make the best use of your social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram with the help of your event marketing team. With Facebook and Instagram LIVE stream, it’s become easier for artists and performers to stay connected with their audience even in these isolated times. As an event presenter, you go virtual by hosting your events online. Everything from a live music set, conferences, school seminars, and stand up gigs can be done through live streaming. 

3. Reschedule Your Upcoming Event To On Online Event

For those using our event ticketing platform, have the option to change their live event into an online event. You might have loose out on some on-ground event investments that you might’ve made but going online with your events will make your guests feel connected to it even without being present at the venue. Learn more about changing your upcoming event to an online event in our handy guide. 

Remember, with Yapsody you can always choose to Pass On Your Ticketing Fees to your attendees and take advantage of our credit period to save your money during this critical phase. 

4. Inform Your Guests

To increase awareness about your online event, we suggest using our Mailchimp integration to send an email informing your online attendees. You can choose to issue new tickets or honor the preexisting tickets. If you wish to reissue tickets with the new date, click here to learn how you can re-deliver tickets.

We hope you’re able to re-structure your event planning in bringing your community together in the comfort of their own home. Remember, that we are in this together and our fully automated event ticketing platform is available at your service 24/7. If you have any queries while setting up our online events, reach out to support@yapsody.com.

Also read: 

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Resources for Event Presenters

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Before we move on to the tips, you need to have a clear idea about the key goals of your event. Why exactly are you having this event? Who are your potential attendees? How do you aim to organize the show? What all are you going to bring under the roof of the event? Once you are sure about the answers to these, choose a ticketing service that will fit all your needs. (Forgive me if my sales pitch is too high, but Yapsody, yeah, right over here, offers the most professional ticketing system with free features clubbed with an easy-to-use interface. We’re practically yelling “CHOOSE US!” and believe me, that’s what you should do.)

SELL YOUR EVENT

To answer that question mark on your face, um, no, that’s not exactly what you’re doing. Landing on black and white registration forms is like going up to register for an event and being greeted by a bored, old lady who keeps yawning and has a voice like a drone. Make your landing page exciting and cool, fill it up with the finer details and descriptions of tidbits of your event to get people pumped up for it. Put up content that people will love sharing and talking about, hence spreading the word about your event. Now, that’s how you sell your event, exactly.

IS IT ONLY WORDS?

No, it’s not. The attention span of an average human is close to 8 seconds, and the same average human can’t read more than 2 lines in that much time. So, if you really want to make an impression, use pictures that have the vibes of your event. Don’t try to explain it to them, show them instead.

BEFRIEND THE MOBILE

For if your event pages are not mobile friendly, all your promotional act might just flush down the drain because you’ll get people interested alright, but the moment they’ll try to buy event tickets instantly using their smartphones, the desktop version full of horizontal scrolling and zooming and aiming and choosing the right tab will discourage them. Also, Google favors pages that are optimized for mobile usage, hence giving you a chance to move up in the search results, too!

SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING

It’s while proofreading that I realized this point should’ve been the first one (like it always is in all the blogs). Social media is the place where nobody ever shuts up. So, if you want to get the word out about your event, do it on social media and watch it get viral. And if that’s not enough, there is all sort of cool stuff that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all these cousins of the Social Media family offer to promote your event for free (mostly).

THE CODE RED

All it translates into is – no coding, web developing, java, php, html, and all that jargon needed. If you use Yapsody to sell your tickets, we provide you with a customized URL for your online ticket store that you can personalize to fit your needs. You don’t have to be a geek to nail that perfect landing page, just find the right people. (Looks like the right people found you, though. *wink*)

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Centuries ago (that’s a hyperbole), presenters used retail stores and booking offices to sell their tickets. This tedious procedure of distributing the tickets amongst the retailers, keeping track of sales, collecting unsold tickets continued until online ticketing took the world by a storm. With the monstrous success of online ticket stores and box offices arrived another major blunder – How am I supposed to carry my computer around the whole time? We let the Yapsody POS app answer that for you!

WHAT’S THE FUSS ALL ABOUT, THOUGH?

Yapsody POS app converts your iPad into a fully functional mobile box office that rewards you the freedom of selling tickets from anywhere on the face of the earth (and beyond if they have Wi-Fi there). Our servers allow all sorts of devices to sync with them in order to enable real-time ticket availability service. Plus, the app is designed to help you manage a large number of customers with minimum wait time.

SOUNDS NICE. HOW DOES IT WORK?

You can download the app from iTunes, or simply follow the link https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yapsody-pos/id884078477?mt=8 to enjoy a candy shop of features already available, while we are constantly working to keep the app updated and efficient.

1. INVENTORY

You can access all types of tickets in one single place, that is, the inventory. You won’t be toggling between different tabs or windows for the different categories of tickets. No pain, but all gain!

2. PAYMENT GATEWAYS

You don’t have to worry about the constrictions of payment gateways available to your customers. We offer you cash, check, pay later or absolutely any other custom means of payment that you wish to set up.

3. COUNTRIES

The POS app is available to Yapsody accounts based in all the countries worldwide.

4. CURRENCY

All your transactions will be processed in the currency that you’ve selected in your box office. You may solemnly close that ever open currency conversion tab in your browser.

5. TICKET DELIVERY

Deliver tickets to your customers in a jiffy via email or use AirPrint to print the tickets on a local wireless printer.

6. REPORTS

Your sales and transactions will be recorded and reported in the Yapsody box office as well as the YapStat app.

If you are a Yapsody presenter and haven’t yet downloaded this app, what are you waiting for? Seize the day, my friend!

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FROM STALLS TO SERVERS

Gone are the days of setting up stalls and booking windows to sell your event tickets. Now, all you need is a computer and a working internet connection to get all your event ticketing done right at your fingertips. Plus, you won’t have to deal with angry customers as you put up a “Sorry, We Are Closed” sign. As long as you (and also your wife) are okay with it, you can keep up with the managing of your online ticket sales even at 3 AM. All the hassle of driving around town to distribute tickets to vendors and later returning to collect the unsold ones is saved. Also, you can cover a larger audience without even having to shift in your own chair. Anyone sitting in any corner of the world can buy event tickets without having to physically come down to any office or vendor. And for the cherry on top, online information and interaction are speedier, cheaper and more convenient as compared to offline. You can provide your customers with a truckload of information online and it won’t even take them hours of waiting in long queues to give their feedbacks.

RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THEN

Yapsody allows you to manage all sorts of dealings regarding your online ticket sales under a single roof. With the kind of extensive and easy-to-use features that we offer you, you can track sales, deal with cancellations, interact with your customers, provide services to your sponsors, and do everything else that an event covers (and sometimes, even more) in one place. You can add discounts, surcharges, and taxes to your events, sitting right there with a coffee mug staring at your laptop skin – not to mention, collecting the ticket sales in your local currency while dealing in your local language too! Could it BE any simpler?

THE “EFFECTIVE” IN “EFFECTIVE USAGE OF ONLINE TICKETING”

This is where we get to a major point in the process – how do I make sure I’m maximizing the benefits of Yapsody’s many features? Take advantage of the free opportunities we have to help you to promote your logo, advertise your next event and display your sponsors all on the e-ticket itself. Also, don’t hesitate to create multiple events because we got you covered on that front, too, as your customers can shop for events exactly like groceries, loading lots of them in their shopping carts all at once with one payment at the end. And check out our Social Media platforms for your promotions.

DO YOUR PART TO SAVE THE EARTH

Now, this might look like a cheesy school essay, but we can’t ignore the amount of havoc we’re causing in nature. Online ticketing is a much greener way to sell tickets, as you’ll be cutting down on the unnecessary wastage of paper by allowing your customers to store tickets on their mobile devices. And I don’t see any harm in choosing it as an alternative when you’re getting all the advantages of using the internet for event ticketing and also doing your little part in making this world a better place to live in.

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