4 Tools To Make Your Event Run Smoothly [Guest post]

Author Bio: Jonathan heads up the marketing for Virtual Venue Visit, an online venue finder, and regularly blogs with advice and tips for event professionals.

Running an event can be time-consuming and stressful. From planning, to managing on the day and wrapping up following the event close, with so many balls to juggle at once it is a wonder that everything gets done. However the last few years have seen the rise of numerous tools that can be invaluable weapons in an event manager’s arsenal. Here’s a run down of five great tools to help make your next event run smoothly.

1. Eventzilla

Eventzilla allows you to sell tickets and manage attendees and registrations all in one online platform.  It also has functionality to integrate with a number of social platforms allowing easy promotion of your upcoming event. A great ready to use event registration solution that can save you time and money.

2. Virtual Venue Visit

Finding a venue for your event can be time consuming, taking days out of the office to scope potential event spaces. Virtual Venue Visit hosts video tours of major venues, allowing you to get a great perspective on a venue’s rooms and facilities without even leaving the office.

3. Ustream

What to do when potential attendees are based distances too far away to make your event? A decade ago this would have been a problem that couldn’t be solved. Now, with increasing levels of bandwidth online, live streaming is a feasible option and a great way to spread your content further afield. Ustream allows you to stream your event online for free and also allows viewers to interact with your video through social recommendations.

4. Slideshare

If your event utilizes presentations and speakers, then Slideshare is a tool that allows you to gather all these presentations in one place and invite attendees to view after the event. This is a great way to cement the knowledge sharing that was taking place during your event and extend the attendee experience beyond the event.