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A complete guide to event email marketing

I really wanted to begin this article with some grand claim that effective email marketing is going to 100x the number of attendees to your event... I even tried to look up some studies that might back up this bold claim. However the ones I could find were dubious at

How to Create a Google Form for Event Registration

Looking for a simple way to collect registrations for your upcoming event? Feeling a bit bamboozled by all the software options available, and want something that's quick? Google Forms is a great option. You'll love it! I'll talk you through everything from start to

How to Sell Event Tickets Fast: 6 Ways to Boost Ticket Sales

All the event planning is done. The schedule’s in place, the venue is good to go, and you’re ready to roll. Congrats!  But before we pop the champagne to celebrate, there’s still one thing you need to think about.  You need to sell event tickets. After all,

Top 10 Eventbrite Alternatives - The Ones You Need to Know About

Not sure if you've noticed, but Eventbrite is crazy expensive. The kind of expensive where if you do the maths, it kind of makes you cry a little inside... If if you sell 100 tickets at $20.00, Eventbrite is going to charge you roughly $328. ...Yep...$328.

How to Write a Reminder Email for Your Event (Including Examples)

You've launched your event and the ticket sales are rolling in. The numbers on the screen are spinning as you sell ticket after ticket after ticket. Life's good. Grab that margarita, sit back and enjoy the good life. You've made it... But then the

How to Create an Event Registration Form (That Doesn't Suck)

Registration forms - not always the most exciting topic is it? Probably not something you should bring up at a party if you're trying to impress someone anyway...but... Hear me out. Sit down while I tell you this... Picture your ideal attendee to your event...imagine him

How to Sell Tickets with Stripe (With No Third Party Tools)

There's a secret that the big ticketing platforms don't want you to know... Would you like to avoid the huge fees ticket platforms charge? Does the idea of paying 'big corp' (Eventbrite) huge sums keep you awake at night? Well it turns out that

How to publish and embed your outlook calendar

So maybe your business or community has got its events in an Outlook calendar? And you're looking to get these events into the world? Let's make it happen. What does it mean to publish your Outlook calendar? Microsoft uses this term 'publish' and what

3 Essential emails you should send to all your attendees

Your number 1 aim is to deliver a great experience for your attendee. If you deliver a great experience the odds of them returning increase 10 fold. If you deliver a great experience, they'll tell their friends, family, and you'll be the talk of the town

What is a subscription calendar and how can I create one?

Does your business have events? Do you have a calendar your customer can subscribe to? If not then you're crazy. 🙈 Ok, I'm being abrupt. But what you're missing out on is one of the easiest ways to ensure your customers know when your events

The 8 best embeddable calendars

So you're looking for a new embeddable calendar for your website? You know we've got the goods. 👍 What do we mean by embeddable? We all know that coding is so 2021. An embeddable calendar means you don't need to know how to code to

How to create a community events calendar

Looking to create an events calendar for your community? Whether that be, the area you live, a sports group, a local festival, your online community...or really anything? Let's talk about why you would want a community events calendar in the first place. Events are fundamental to any

How to embed Google Calendar into Wordpress

Looking for a way to embed your Google Calendar into your Wordpress site? There's two ways you can go about doing this: 1. Use the Google Calendar embeddable widget. This embeds a very basic (and I'll be honest, ugly) grid style calendar onto your website. It&

How to sell tickets using Wordpress

You've got a site built on Wordpress and you want to sell tickets? Seems a reasonable request.  What are your options? Third party ticket websites Let's first address the billion dollar gorilla in the room whenever it comes to ticket sales. Eventbrite. The option you'

How to sell tickets on Shopify

So you're looking to sell tickets on Shopify? You're looking to sell tickets to courses, classes or events that you run? Let's have a look at how this is possible with Shopify alone. It's important to remember that Shopify is built to

How to embed Google calendar in Notion

There's two main options when it comes to embedding Google calendar inside notion: 1) The free (but ugly) way. Google calendar has an embed option. You can use this to embed your Google calendar on different websites. There's a lot of limitations to this, but we&

ICS Calendars - How to create a event calendar for your website from an ICS feed

Many Event Applications export what is called an ICS feed. This is basically just a document that contains a list of events. Google Calendar, for example, lets you export any calendar in ICS format. This can be found in your calendar settings. Google will then continue to update this feed

How to have recurring events on your Squarespace Calendar

As I am sure you know by the fact you have landed on this blog post, the native Squarespace calendar does not support recurring events. Unfortunately it seems, judging from this community forum post from last year that Squarespace have no intention of changing this. The reason is apparently a

How to sell tickets on your Squarespace website in 2024

Have you noticed Squarespace's ecommerce functionality is built for selling products, not tickets? Yeh, me too. There's workarounds, but nothing that works like it should. Squarespace suggest you create normal 'products'. Then, you create events in their 'calendar block', and link the

How to collect RSVPs to your event on Webflow

Do you have a Webflow website and you're looking at hosting an event or events that you would like to collect RSVP's to? Collecting RSVPs is a great way of finding out who is coming to your event. It also allows you to limit numbers. For

How to sell tickets on your Webflow website.

Webflow, as fantastic as it is, doesn't have any way for you to sell tickets in a way you would want. Webflow Ecommerce is geared around selling products whereas what you want is to sell events. You want a way to add lots of dates, to limit ticket

How to embed Google Calendar on Squarespace

Squarespace has a calendar option built in, which you can use to add a calendar option to your website. It's pretty nice, but has the big downfall that if you already maintain a Google calendar with all your events in, then you now need to manage two calendars.

How to add an Event Calendar to Carrd

Carrd, as fantastic as it it, unfortunately lacks any sort of Event Calendar functionality. We're biased, of course, but Event Calendar App is a great solution to this. Let's get started. Here's some example Carrd sites we made using a made up company '

How to sell tickets on your website

There's a lot of different tools that will let you, in some way or another, sell tickets from your own website. In this example we're going to use Event Calendar App as it is the only ticketing tool that was designed from the ground up to

How to charge for zoom meetings on your website

Would you like to sell tickets to events, classes, courses or webinars that you'll be hosting on zoom? And would you like to do all this from your own website? Let's make it happen. In this scenario, we're setting up online events for fictional