Eventbee Launches Event Register App on Ning

We are super excited to announce availability of Event Register App on Ning.

By joining forces with Ning, Eventbee’s Event Register App is now available to more than 1.5 million Ning Networks and 33 million Ning Network members.

We have been working very closely with Ning for a while in getting this App on Ning platform. Event Register App runs within Ning as a native application, and has complete event management functionality generally available at eventbee.com. Ning Network Creators now can add Event Register App to Ning Networks to sell tickets, collect payments, and create the perfect social experience around their events.

To see Event Register App, please visit the Ning Apps Directory: http://about.ning.com/ningapps

We already have Event Register App on Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/eventregister), with this launch we solidify our lead in Social Ticketing space while bringing disruptive $1 flat fee per ticket sale regardless of ticket price and currency model to the millions of users around world!

Here is the complete text of the Press Release:

Eventbee Launches Event Register App on Ning, the Social Platform for Interests and Passions Online

With Eventbee’s Event Register App, Ning Apps empower even more flexibility and customization to support interests and passions online.

Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) September 10, 2009 — Eventbee, Inc., the online Event Management software company trusted by thousands of event managers and attendees, announced today the availability of Event Register App on Ning, the social platform for interests and passions online. By joining forces with Ning, Eventbee’s Event Register App is now available to more than 1.5 million Ning Networks and 33 million Ning Network members. Ning Network Creators now have even greater choice over the features and applications they can add to Ning Networks to create the perfect social experience for a given topic, interest or passion. Today, Ning Apps are available for e-commerce, information, education, causes and entertainment. To see Event Register App, please visit the Ning Apps Directory: http://about.ning.com/ningapps

Ning Network Creators now can add Event Register App to Ning Networks to sell tickets, collect payments, and create the perfect social experience around their events. Event Register App runs within Ning as a native application, and has complete event management functionality generally available at eventbee.com. Ning Apps extend the Ning Platform by providing more than 90 new diverse and rich applications like Event Register for Ning Network Creators. With Ning Apps, a Ning Network Creator can now add Event Register App to expand the functionality of their Ning Network and increase engagement by their members.

The FAME World Tour hosts over 75 annual events in multiple countries around the world, and our community website http://www.bodyproud.org is built on the Ning Platform. Powering our events with Eventbee’s Event Register App streamlines event management while giving a seamless registration experience to our attendees

Eventbee has definitely increased ticket sales within the Body Proud Community and dealing with the Eventbee team has been a pleasure

Ning is committed to being the social platform for the world’s interests and passions

Event Register App is a great example of the innovative and creative set of diverse features Ning Apps offer the more than 33 million members of Ning Networks today.

“The FAME World Tour hosts over 75 annual events in multiple countries around the world, and our community website http://www.bodyproud.org is built on the Ning Platform. Powering our events with Eventbee’s Event Register App streamlines event management while giving a seamless registration experience to our attendees” said Jeffrey Kippel, President & Founder, FAME World Tour. “Eventbee has definitely increased ticket sales within the Body Proud Community and dealing with the Eventbee team has been a pleasure” said Mindy Blackstien, President & Founder, Body Proud

The Event Register App leverages the Ning Platform to create a seamless user experience, and the Latest Activity feed feature to create a viral ticket selling phenomenon to increase ticket sales.

Notable highlights of Event Register Application:

Single click ticket purchase and payment processing within Ning Networks Complete event management functionality within Ning Networks Supports PayPal and Eventbee credit card processing $1 FLAT fee per ticket sale, regardless of ticket price and currency

The Ning Platform provides a new way for Event Register App to reach more people, faster. Rather than being added by individual members, when a Ning Network Creator adds Event Register App to their Ning Network, by default it’s available to all members automatically, regardless of whether a Ning Network has 100, 1,000 or 1 million members.

“Ning is committed to being the social platform for the world’s interests and passions,” said Jay Parikh, senior vice president of product engineering. “Event Register App is a great example of the innovative and creative set of diverse features Ning Apps offer the more than 33 million members of Ning Networks today.”

About Eventbee

Eventbee, Inc., provides state-of-the-art web-based event management and event promotion tools to the Events Industry. Since 2003, over 8000+ Event Managers have sold tickets using the Eventbee Platform. Eventbee operates with the single mission of maximizing ticket sales while providing easy to use web-based software to the Events Industry.

Press Contact:
Angela Rio
angela@eventbee.com
408 310 6768
http://www.eventbee.com

All material presented here is a copyright of Eventbee, Inc., and all features mentioned in the document above are the property of the company. Sell More Tickets. Put Less Effort!

Eventbee Makes To Mashable’s Top 10 Impressive Implementations Of Facebook Connect

We are proud and honored to inform that we made to the reputed technology blog Mashable’s top 10 most impressive Facebook Connect implementations list

says:

Facebook has an amazing platform for virally publicizing events, but right now, it doesn’t have any way to support ticket sales. Eventbee solves that problem using Facebook Connect in a very clever way.

Here is the link to the complete article -  http://mashable.com/2009/07/21/facebook-connect-new/

Introducing Tracking URLs

You might have noticed that we keep adding new features but don’t blog much about them!

But, this new Tracking URLs feature deserves special Blog post, as it is powerful and easy to use tool to measure which Partners/Affiliates (or Websites) are bringing in visitors and ticket sales to your event.

This feature allows you to create a unique link to the event page, share it with Partner/Affiliate and measure ticket sales from that Partner/Affiliate. You can also measure ticket sales from particular Website by placing tracking URL on it.

Creating Tracking URLs:

Go to Event Manage page, and click on Create button in Tracking URLs box to create Tracking URL. Tracking URLs have easy to remember URL format, http://<event page URL>/track/<tracking URL name>.

NOTE: Create custom Event page URL before creating Tracking URLs

For example, we created Twitter specific Tracking URL to measure visitors/ticket sales from Twitter, and another for Angela to measure visitors/ticket sales she is brining in from her Tracking URL.

Managing Tracking URLs:

Event Manager or Partner/Affiliate can manage and customize Tracking URL by visiting http://<tracking URL>/manage

• Event Manager has complete control on managing Tracking URLs:

- Suspending/Activating Tracking URL

- Setting Password

- Customizing resulting Event page with photo and custom message

- Viewing visitor/sales reports

• Partner/Affiliate can do following tasks:

- Customizing resulting Event page with photo and custom message

- Viewing visitor/sales reports

Eventbee Announces Support For Ticket Payments In 18 International Currencies

Today we announced support for 18 international currencies at VirtualEdge Conference.

Now Event Managers across 33+ different countries can benefit state-of-the-art online Registration Software while paying $1 flat fee per ticket sale regardless of the ticket price and currency.

Launch customers include:

• Merlien Institute, Netherlands
• Irish Wind Energy Association, Ireland
• CI Guys, Australia

Here is the complete text of the Press Release:

Eventbee Announces Support For Ticket Payments In 18 International Currencies. Brings Disruptive $1 Flat Fee Per Ticket Pricing Model To The Global Market

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (PRWEB) May 28, 2009 – Eventbee, Inc., the online Event Management software company trusted by thousands of event managers and attendees, announced today support for accepting Ticket Payments in 18 international currencies.

Now Event Managers across 33+ countries can benefit state-of-the-art online Registration Software while paying $1 flat fee per ticket sale regardless of the ticket price and currency. Combining favourable $ conversion rate with the flat fee model, Event Managers around the world are poised to save big in event ticketing costs.

“At Merlien Institute, we are always looking to cut down our event registration costs so we can pass on these cost savings to our delegates. Eventbee has provided us the right solution to achieve this. Through Eventbee’s value-added services such as social networking integration and online attendee management, tasks that we used to do manually are now done efficiently online” said Jasper Lim, Conference Chair of Merlien Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands

Currencies supported by Eventbee:

• USA Dollars
• Canadian Dollars
• Euro
• British Pounds
• Yen
• Australian Dollars
• New Zealand Dollars
• Swiss Francs
• Hong Kong Dollars
• Singapore Dollars
• Swedish Kroner
• Danish Kroner
• Polish Zloty
• Norwegian Kroner
• Hungarian Forints
• Czech Koruny
• Israeli Shekels
• Mexican Pesos

“Eventbee’s flat service fee of $1 per ticket sale, regardless of ticket price was one of the key reasons we selected Eventbee ahead of other products on the market, for all of our event ticketing management going forward.” Caitríona Diviney, Chief Operating Officer for Irish Wind Energy Association, Ireland’s leading renewable energy representative body.

About Eventbee
Eventbee, Inc., provides state-of-the-art web-based event management and event promotion tools to the Events Industry.  Since 2003, over 8000+ Event Managers have sold tickets using the Eventbee Platform. Eventbee operates with the single mission of maximizing ticket sales while providing easy to use web-based software to the Events Industry.

Press Contact:
Angela Rio
angela@eventbee.com
408 310 6768
http://www.eventbee.com

All material presented here is a copyright of Eventbee, Inc., and all features mentioned in the document above are the property of the company.  Sell More Tickets.  Put Less Effort!

Event Marketer Magazine Covers Eventbee

We are the only online registration/ticketing provider who has deep roots into Social Web. Check out our coverage in Event Marketer Magazine

Insidefacebook says “Eventbee is perfect solution for your social media event marketing needs”

Insidefacebook.com recently covered our Network Ticket Selling Social feature. Here is the snippet of what they say:

If you’re an event coordinator or interested in event marketing through social networks but don’t know what the best way is to integrate your service with Facebook, EventBee is likely a good place to start and may be the perfect solution for your social media event marketing needs!

For complete coverage, please visit http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/01/22/eventbee-integrates-with-facebook-connect-and-introduces-social-ticket-selling/

Eventbee Integrates with Facebook Connect and Introduces Network Ticket Selling – Social

The news hit the wires few minutes back, here is the press release link:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/01/prweb1831454.htm

Here is the complete text of the Press Release:

Eventbee Integrates with Facebook Connect and Introduces Network Ticket Selling – Social

Now Event Managers Can Tap More than 130 Million Facebook Users to Increase Ticket Sales.

Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) January 15, 2009 — Eventbee, Inc., the online Event Management software company trusted by thousands of event managers and attendees, announced today the release of Eventbee Network Ticket Selling – Social. It is the next evolution of Event Management Platform – enabling any Facebook user to seamlessly “connect” and “tap” into their Social Graph to sell more tickets and be rewarded for each ticket sale.

Now Event Managers can designate any Facebook user to become a ticket selling Partner by simply enabling Network Ticket Selling on their events. The incentives set by Event Managers motivate Partners to promote events across their Social Graph through social interactions. This innovative feature allows Event Managers to tap the viral effect of Social Networks in an eloquent manner and reach new attendees that are not available through traditional methods like Email Marketing.

Eventbee’s complete integration with Facebook Connect allows any Facebook user to become a Partner and promote events hosted at Eventbee, without ever having to sign-up with Eventbee. If allowed, Partner can pass some or all of the incentives offered by Event Manager to the Social Graph, encouraging friends within their Social Graph to register for the event for a discounted price. With this feature, Eventbee demonstrates that there are true benefits of being part of a Social Network or one’s Social Graph.

“We love Eventbee. We have been using Eventbee on our events of which includes Obama for Change-Organizers and Volunteer Victory Celebration (http://obamainaugurationparty.eventbee.com). This new feature that allows passing discounts to Facebook friends is really exciting and a big CHANGE in how we sell tickets online. We are looking forward to tapping this innovative feature in all our events!” said Jenn Shaw, Jnine Media/Music Video 2.0 LLC.

Notable highlights of this feature include:

• Event Manager is allowed to set different commissions for different Partners.
• Event Manager can pre-split, and optionally lock in the commission between Partner and Friends.
• Partner can pass some or all of the commission to Friends, resulting in maximum event registration discount to the Friends.
• Partners can create custom event pages to build their own brand.
• Commission payments to the Partners is managed by Eventbee.
• Real time reports to monitor Partner ticket sales activity.

“We were excited to see how Eventbee’s new offerings could help expand our reach through leveraging our social networks. After thoroughly testing their functionality, we were convinced to switch our company’s entire online ticketing program over to Eventbee!” said Steve Chen, founder of ALIST – the largest event production company in Northern California.

EVENTBEE PRICING: Flat fee of $1 per ticket sold using Eventbee’s Network Ticket Selling feature. This is in addition to Eventbee’s disruptive flat service fee of $1 per ticket sale, regardless of ticket price.

About Eventbee:
Eventbee, Inc., provides state-of-the-art web-based event management and event promotion tools to the Events Industry. Since 2003, over 7000 Event Managers have sold tickets using the Eventbee Platform. Eventbee operates with the single mission of maximizing ticket sales while providing easy to use web-based software to the Events Industry.

Press Contact:
Angela Rio
408 310 6768
http://www.eventbee.com

All material presented here is a copyright of Eventbee, Inc., and all features mentioned in the document above are the property of the company. Sell More Tickets. Put Less Effort!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

We wish every one of you Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

For curious minds, go here to track Santa:
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html

As always we are working very hard to bring disruptive, ground breaking new features in 2009….stay tuned for more news….

-Eventbee Team

Customers love Eventbee

We get lot of thank you emails from our customers, the one we got on Friday has more than couple of sentences, just thought of sharing with our blog readers:

Thank you, Eventbee!  As a very small scale non-profit, you saved us a lot of time, effort and money in putting together our annual fundraising event.  Your website was very easy to use. Most importantly, your staff is very helpful, responsive and easy to work with.  We look forward to working with you for future events.

Thank you so much!

Rae Levine,
Executive Director
CLAM ( Community Land Trust Association of West Marin)

Eventbee Difference

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