7 Reasons Why Event Organizers Should Use DIY Event Registration Platforms
Events are like works of arts, each demands a vision, a planned execution and an audience that marvels on. Planning an event involves plenty. An idea, a vision, planning, finding the right people and connecting your message to the right crowd. The process is chaotic and draining all the same. We know. We’ve all been there. But what if we told you, there were ways to simplify the chaos and that we could help you plan your event better? Read on.
All the plethora of free tools and software services at your disposal and yet we bet every event has put forward its own unique set of challenges! And we are only referring here to managing the “online” set of activities — whereas an event’s core offering is by and large “physical”!
In today’s day and age, it is almost a given that your event would call for some sort of online presence for a variety of intentions — spreading awareness about, driving registrations and engaging with the attendees — to name a few.
So here are 7 reasons why you should really care about using a Do-It-Yourself event registration platform -
1. Super-organised
A DIY event registration platform un-clutters the details for you. It lets you have the luxury of filling in your required details, leaving the presentation headache to the website. The website absorbs information from your data and presents it to visitors in the simplest and most alluring format possible.
2. Hassle-free
Imagine being able to keep all event information in one place (agenda, speaker bios, venue details, attendee lists, ticket details — to name just a few) — rather than juggling between excel sheets, websites, email lists, email exchanges, etc. and to be able to refine and update and notify all stakeholders as things change on the fly. Now try doing something similar without using a DIY event registration platform without tearing your hair out!
3. Time Saver
With an easy to fill details and upload format, DIY websites, take the cake in getting things done quicker than ever. Throwback your worries of writing lengthy emails to your invitees, because DIY websites got you covered there. All you have to do go on the website and punch in the event details and you’re done. Kidding You Not.
4. Attention to Detail
A DIY event registration platform does lot of pre-event planning work for you. It reminds you of the details you need to put up, right from reminding you to put in the contact details, the nature of the event to asking you to get your crucial details right, like the event address. And this kind of attention to detail, is why organisers vouch for DIY websites.
5. Easy on your Pocket
Yup. This one’s dirt cheap. Imagine paying professionals, web designers, developers to get your event website up, while you can get it done without the amount of workforce and money, by making your event live on an already existing DIY event website, which will get you traffic more efficiently than what a paid one would.
6. Accepting Payments Online
With all the options of cashless payments available to people today like Wallets, Credit/Debit Cards, NetBanking, Paypal etc. and thanks to the ever increasing broadband penetration and the consumer behavior of shopping online; the ability to buy event tickets online but becomes a natural ask by the event goers of today. However as an event planner do you really want to bother about putting in all the time, effort and resources required to acquire the ability to accept payments online yourself?
7. Data, Analytics, Decisions!
Think about some obvious needs — How about being able to correlate your marketing campaigns with registration spikes (or lack thereof)? How about being able to poll and survey the attendees? How about being able to tweak either agenda or the speaker list based on attendee registrations or feedback? How about being able to directly access interested community of attendees for your future events? And we bet there are so many more you can come up with. It all just gets more convenient to collect, analyze and act upon with DIY event registration platforms.
To all those who continue to shy away from using DIY event registration platforms — we at Magnet salute you and want to especially hear from you as to why not!
