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

We have been asked many times that “how are we different from others?” Here is the simple presentation on how we are different from traditional players. Your feedback is welcome…

How much I save using Eventbee?

This is the question we have been asked hundreds of times since we went live with our new flat $1 fee per ticket model.

To make it simple, we developed simple savings calculator. Find it on our home page, just below our contact info, click on “My Savings by switching to Eventbee” link. Make sure to enable pop-ups to see the savings calculator window.

Just input what you are paying now, it will display how much you save by switching to Eventbee You can also see savings in Credit Card processing fee by using Google checkout or PayPal as your CC processing provider.

Here is the screenshot:

Evenbee Savings Calculator

Eventbee covered in Bonjourevents.com

If you are looking for very precise third party view on Eventbee, don’t miss reading Eventbee article in Bonjourevents.com.

Here is the snippet from coverage:

Selling event tickets online can be complex, as well as costly, for the organizers. The team at Event Bee decided to change the business model and recently announced a new payment structure that should appeal to event planners, especially charity event organizers.

Event Bee now charges a $1 flat fee per ticket sold using their system rather than the industry standard of taking a percentage of the ticket cost.

Link to complete article:

http://www.bonjourevents.com/thefreshtips/2008/7/31/new-event-ticket-payment-option.html