Yesterday I attended the Florida Drupal Camp http://fldrupalcamp.org/ at Rollins College in Orlando. In addition to learning Drupal there were Social Networking track offered by the Social Media Club of Orlando http://socialmediaclub.org/chapter/orlando. I realized how many different types of social networking platforms their really were and how functional they are! Not only the popular ones such as Facebook, Twitter and You Tube but also FourSquare, Gowalla, Bizzy, Yelp, Heat Tracker, etc. I learned the importance of these "Location based Marketing" tools! Not only important for businesses to utilize them but also important for people that are using them! The future of advertising & marketing will be changed simply by using these growing popular networking platforms. And the good news is that they will all be able to be linked in together!
Hearing presentations from the several different presenters representing WESH 2, Orlando Sentinel, Enzian Theater & Florida Film Festival, and Orange County Commissioner Jennifer Thompson energized & excited me! All the possibilities! One of the main points I took away was how important a good marketing plan is. If a good marketing plan is created and set into play, not only can you save time daily but also have an opportunity to creatively target your audience with specific points. This help create brand consistency and raise visability.
Since Meeting Planning For You offers to help small businesses get started in social networking this updated information will only help us keep everyone updated and at the forefront of the networking community. A special thanks to the Social Networking Club of Orlando!! I hope to become more active with this group!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Website Registration Advantages
Many companies try to find the most economical way to host meetings & events. Countless hours are spent sending out email's, manually collecting information and organizing that information so it can be sent to the appropriate person. But is handling all this information manually really the best way? Although you may think website registration is expensive, it doesn't have to be. In fact by having a company handle your registration needs, it could save you money in the end.
Website registration serves many functions. Having a registration website will definitely help your event look professional, organized and inviting. You can even have your website registration match your own website or gear it towards a certain theme for the event. On the website registration site you will be able to provide & collect information from attendees such as meeting registration information, attending dates, hotel information, airline information, dine-around suggestions, program evaluations, recreation options, workshop sign ups, payment information and much more! These website have so much functionality that it is almost a necessity to use one for all your programs.
In addition, through the registration website you will be able to communicate with all the attendees at any time. You can send out multiple e-mails to the whole group, customize them for specific groups or send them to an individual. There is no limit to how many e-mails can go out. Once you have people registering everything is able to be tracked such as; number of attendees that will attend and not attend, room nights needed, payments made, etc. You will also be able to see who has opened the e-mails, who has not yet responded and who needs reminders. The system allows you to target e-mail based on these guidelines.
When creating an event that you will be collecting money, simply incorporate the processing fees into the registration amount. In addition, allow for registration costs and include them in the registration fee as well. Then all your fees are covered and you will have money needed to have your event look professional and organized.
Not only can information be collected, but there is also an opportunity for you to get out as much information on the event as you can. Once the site is live, you are still able to update information so your attendees will see things in real time. You can put deadline dates for people to sign up as well as maximum capacities on recreational activities, workshop sign ups or even attendee registration.
How can this save you money? Once the website registration site is set up, it pretty much runs itself. It collects the information for you and can generate and reports you need to get your information over to others. It will tell you how many people are registered without you having to manually count them. It will let you know who hasn't registered so you can re-send those people an invite. If you put a limit on something and it has reached capacity, the system won't let people sign up over the amount. What this does is saves you time that you would normally be paying staff member(s) to do. All the manual labor to collect for the meeting or event is being done for you, all you have to do is pull a report and the information is there!
The next time you are planning a meetings, event, dine-around, reunion, trip or anything that requires organizing a group, consider hiring a company to do your website registration. Your attendees will be impressed with how great it looks and you will be impressed with how little it cost you!
Let Meeting Planning For You help: www.meetingplanningforyou.com
Website registration serves many functions. Having a registration website will definitely help your event look professional, organized and inviting. You can even have your website registration match your own website or gear it towards a certain theme for the event. On the website registration site you will be able to provide & collect information from attendees such as meeting registration information, attending dates, hotel information, airline information, dine-around suggestions, program evaluations, recreation options, workshop sign ups, payment information and much more! These website have so much functionality that it is almost a necessity to use one for all your programs.
In addition, through the registration website you will be able to communicate with all the attendees at any time. You can send out multiple e-mails to the whole group, customize them for specific groups or send them to an individual. There is no limit to how many e-mails can go out. Once you have people registering everything is able to be tracked such as; number of attendees that will attend and not attend, room nights needed, payments made, etc. You will also be able to see who has opened the e-mails, who has not yet responded and who needs reminders. The system allows you to target e-mail based on these guidelines.
When creating an event that you will be collecting money, simply incorporate the processing fees into the registration amount. In addition, allow for registration costs and include them in the registration fee as well. Then all your fees are covered and you will have money needed to have your event look professional and organized.
Not only can information be collected, but there is also an opportunity for you to get out as much information on the event as you can. Once the site is live, you are still able to update information so your attendees will see things in real time. You can put deadline dates for people to sign up as well as maximum capacities on recreational activities, workshop sign ups or even attendee registration.
How can this save you money? Once the website registration site is set up, it pretty much runs itself. It collects the information for you and can generate and reports you need to get your information over to others. It will tell you how many people are registered without you having to manually count them. It will let you know who hasn't registered so you can re-send those people an invite. If you put a limit on something and it has reached capacity, the system won't let people sign up over the amount. What this does is saves you time that you would normally be paying staff member(s) to do. All the manual labor to collect for the meeting or event is being done for you, all you have to do is pull a report and the information is there!
The next time you are planning a meetings, event, dine-around, reunion, trip or anything that requires organizing a group, consider hiring a company to do your website registration. Your attendees will be impressed with how great it looks and you will be impressed with how little it cost you!
Let Meeting Planning For You help: www.meetingplanningforyou.com
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