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Discount Coupons – The Runaway method to sell your event

December 30th, 2009

However great your product may be, you have to agree that everyone loves a discount. It’s the excitement of getting a deal that makes people all the more interested in it. Actually, the same goes for selling your event tickets as well. There are so many new potential avenues and audience that you can target once you open up to the field of discount coupons.

And, at Eventzilla, there is so much more that you can do apart from just creating your coupons:

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  • Create as many different coupons as you want. Be it a student’s discount, membership discount, group registration, returning customer or anything else that seems fit to you.
  • Create Coupon codes for your events and promote and distribute them online through mails, twitter, Facebook.
  • Measure the sales from the various coupons and the different channels on which you promote them.

Promotion of businesses and events through online coupons has shown a tremendous pace of growth in the recent years. The same can be gauged from the fact that the business from the coupons showed an increase of 140% in 2008 over the previous year.

Add to this the fact that with Eventzilla you can segment your coupons to target specific audience and we all know what a little personal attention can result in.

Promoting your event – The Social Way

December 21st, 2009

Be it your neighborhood get-together or a big gala party, you cannot deny that the success or failure of any event depends on the way it is promoted. You don’t really need to go to an event to know what its outcome would be for the organizers. And what better way to promote your event than the latest fad in the world of socialization. Welcome to event promotion, the social way. The social bookmarking websites are an immense potential that can be tapped into, to create the buzz for your event long before it starts.

So, where do we begin? Well, the first thing is to make a presence on the social bookmarking sites that matter. Needless to say, Facebook and Twitter top the list as the prime targets.

These sites have been designed to keep people in touch and that’s how we should use them.

Facebook Facebook: A lot of people would prefer creating a group on Facebook for the events but we believe that a page solely dedicated to your event would rather be much more helpful. Why? Well, simply because, everytime its updated, the feed would reach all the interested parties and keep them engaged about the event.
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Twitter:
Twitter is one of the best sources for an event promotion. This is because, you can use twitter to create a buzz, anticipation and excitement about your event even before it gets going. Keep the people posted on the latest developments and let them know more about it. Remember, keep giving them interesting facts and they would be waiting for the show, eagerly!

Keep in touch

  • Stay in touch with your audience. Create an event mail list so that you can pass on the happenings to one and all immediately.
  • Create a blog for the event and share your preparations for the event with your people. Be passionate about it, talk on forums, chat with them and understand what they are expecting from you and the event.
  • Use the bookmarking widgets like ‘Tweet this’ and ‘Send to a friend’ to spread the event-mania as much as you can.

Share it all

  • Share pictures and videos of the event and everything that matters on Flickr, Facebook, Youtube channels.
  • Live Streaming! Everyone may not be able to reach the event. Give them a chance to watch from home.