Tasked with Finding the Right Software?

One thing that I've noticed remains consistent in the world of online registration software is that often times people that inquire about it need to gather up information and take it back to a board, stakeholders, boss or committee.

The reality is this can be very time consuming, especially when you're not even sure where to begin or what it is you're looking for.  Sure, everyone that contacts us about Event Wizard knows they are looking for registration software, but sometimes that may be all.

I decided it was time to gather up this information and post it on our website.  Now, you may be asking yourself, in this situation I would need to gather information on multiple companies.  Which means, you would need to show what your competition is doing if you really wanted to save people time.  Well, you would be guessing correctly, and yes, we did that and it's right here.

We also created a resources page that has pretty well everything you need when reporting back to the groups mentioned.  We are going to keep adding to this page whenever possible so check back often as it's very useful if you're searching for software, or even if you already use Event Wizard.

If there are any other items you'd like to see on these pages let us know.

New (and FREE) Promotion Tools in Event Wizard

As part of our ongoing effort to provide you with the most comprehensive event registration software available, we are pleased to announce three new tools in Event Wizard 5.0 to help you promote your events. These are:

1. Register Button Factory
2. Send to Twitter
3. Share on Facebook

These new tools can be found in your events task list under a new section called Promote.

The Register Button Factory has been created to give you a quick and easy way of creating custom 'register now' buttons for your events marketing materials.

Here's how it works. First, click the Register Button Factory icon in your promote section. Follow steps 1 and 2 to design your button just the way you want it. As you are designing your button you will see your creation take shape on the right hand side.

Step 1:

Step 2:

After completing these steps you can then indicate where you want the button to take someone when it's clicked. By default the button will direct to your events URL (www.event-wizard.com/events/_____/), but if you'd like you can also enter a custom URL destination. You can also create a button in any language you want and if you have created registration forms in alternate languages, you can create a button for each.

Once complete, click Get Button Code then copy and paste that code to any of the previously mentioned email campaigns, websites, etc.

Steps 3 & 4:

It's important to remember the Register Button Factory will not save your button creation, so make sure if you are leaving the page to save your code to notepad, WORD etc.

The other two promotion tools now available are Send to Twitter and Share on Facebook. Both of these are very simple to use; simply click the icon in the Promote section of your task list and either Twitter or Facebook will populate your message with your event information. You can even add a custom message if you would like.

These three new tools are the first in a series of releases that will help you promote your event and gain as many attendees as possible. These tools are 100% FREE to you, so create buttons, Tweet and share till your heart's content!

We hope you like them!

Online Event Registration Movie

To coincide with the launch of Event Wizard 5.0 we made a video to give new and existing users a better understanding of what it is and how it benefits you.

Have a look and let us know what you think!  Additionally, if you would like to post the video to your own blog feel free to grab the embed code.

Event Wizard - Online Event Registration Software from DotCom Your Event on Vimeo.