Organizer Tips

Monday, April 27th, 2020

Introducing: Live Streaming for Virtual Events

Today’s event attendees are more connected than ever before, which makes this the perfect time to create an online version of your live event. With the release of our forward-thinking virtual events solution, you’ll be able to reach new audiences, gain deeper insights, and monetize your online events. With our ticketing, event management, and marketing tools, along with an intuitive way to control access to your streamed events, our solution gives you everything you need to create, promote, and generate real revenue from virtual events.
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Thursday, April 9th, 2020

4 Ways to Generate Fandom Event Revenue Year-Round

Even if your next fandom event is not yet on the horizon, there are other sources of revenue to explore beyond just ticket sales. Our event experts have spent years working alongside the organizers behind some of the world’s most iconic comic cons, gaming expos, and anime conventions, and we’ve tapped into that experience to bring you four additional sources of revenue you can explore. Read on, and put our tips to work today!
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2020

Did You Know: Donations

Did you know you can accept donations directly through your event listings?
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

5 Communication Tips for Handling Postponed or Cancelled Events

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, live events in every corner of the globe have been affected by social gathering restrictions, transmission concerns, and a sense of general uncertainty. When you’re faced with the need to make the tough call to postpone, change, or cancel your event, you’ll want to make sure your customers understand the situation as thoroughly as possible.
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020

6 Ways RFID Cashless Payments Improve the Convention Experience

Convention organizers routinely put months of planning, legwork, and coordination into crafting an event that typically takes place over the span of just a few days. With a narrow target for on-site success, it’s critical that every aspect of your fandom, gaming, or pop culture convention is optimized to provide unforgettable experiences for your attendees, and generate revenue and actionable insights for your team. For this reason, cashless payment technology is an emerging resource that simply cannot be overlooked.
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Thursday, February 27th, 2020

Did You Know: Reserve With Google

Did you know our system is integrated with Google to enable qualified partners to sell tickets without customers ever needing to leave the platform?
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Thursday, February 13th, 2020

5 Key Ways to Optimize Festival Operations with Marcato

If festival organizers have one skill in common, it’s multitasking. With tasks at hand like booking talent, managing vendors, updating website and app content, and issuing staff and guest credentials, successfully managing a festival is no small feat! Luckily, our partners at Marcato have festival management boiled down to a science. Read on to discover five ways Marcato optimizes and improves the festival management process, and see the difference today.
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Thursday, February 6th, 2020

5 Ways to Start Making Your Event Sustainable

As today’s event-goers continue to become more environmentally conscious, sustainability is a growing focus in the planning of live events. Attendees are looking deeper than just lineups and event programming to make their ticket-buying decisions. Potential attendees want to support events that align with their personally held values, and a serious devotion to reducing one’s carbon footprint can be a deciding factor. Event organizers serious about moving their events toward sustainability know it can be a challenging undertaking that requires consideration at every step of the event planning process, but more than worthwhile in the end!
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2020

Did You Know: Event Series

Did you know you could create one recurring event across multiple dates and times?
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Thursday, January 9th, 2020

Festival Tech You Need to Consider in 2020

As we enter a new decade, festival organizers have naturally begun asking themselves some important questions regarding the future of their events and the festival industry at large. How will the continuous development of event technology affect the festival landscape in 2020 and beyond? Our festival experts collaborated with our partners at Marcato to break down their predictions for the future of festival tech this year!
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