Do you run events for a charity or organisation? If so, you might want to read on and find out how you can leverage the power of EventBrite to make your life a whole lot easier and more productive.
In 2013, we have a large women's outreach event at St Paul’s, with around 500 tickets. There are also regular talks on morality and public life, where well known speakers are invited. Traditionally tickets are made available by advertising someone’s phone number, and requesting people make contact for tickets. This person has to maintain a list of people attending, and number of tickets available, which can be an arduous task. I’m also conscious that this method isn’t the most effective, as it doesn’t reach a widest possible audience, and relies on someone being available.
What’s needed in this switched on world of social media, is an easier way of making tickets available, which self-administers itself and doesn’t cost a fortune, well, let’s even say is free, and hooks up with MailChimp for mailshots and social media. I choose EventBrite, and I’m looking forward to using it for some of our events in 2013. EventBrite is free to use if your ticket’s are free, but otherwise they make a charge per ticket.
The App
EventBrite boasts two Android apps. One is to view events in your area, and obtain tickets. The other, Entry Manager, is to manage tickets for your own event. Each ticket has a QR code, which the app can scan, checking in attendees using your phone. Of course you can also print of a paper list and go old skool too, but the sheer power of an app to do the grunt work, and potentially speed up check-in has to be tried out.
I’d love to hear how you manage tickets for events. Do you use a 3rd party system like EventBrite? What is your experience?
Previously published on bigbible.com
