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Event Page URLs to Help People Find Your Event

TicketBud

When people search for your event online, it’s important that your Ticketbud event page shows up as high as possible in the search results. For search engine optimization (SEO) purposes, it’s crucial to set up a proper URL that includes the organization and event name. Having a URL that closely matches your organization and event name makes it easier for attendees to find your event and buy tickets!

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What Will We Call Face-to-Face Meetings Next?

Fork in the Road

The third-party, face-to-face meetings industry has, by design, placed itself in a silo. For whatever reason—lethargy, existing infrastructure or the lack of a compelling impetus for change—it has developed a superiority complex. Meanwhile, another environment has emerged, courtesy of the Internet, where individuals can learn, network, establish relationships, buy and sell using digital platforms.

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An open letter to hotel room designers

Event Philosopher

Common sense is very uncommon. - Horace Greeley I'm not a road warrior, but I'm in and out of hotels often enough to understand how most people generally use a hotel room. There's a bed, a bathroom, and electricity. For the most part, those are the important parts. With that in mind, I would like to share some helpful tips for hotel designers. 1) The bed.

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5 Event Management Principles Every Planner Should Know (But Most Don’t)

Event Leadership Institute

Most event planners today are self-taught and learn on the job. Either they wing it, and hopefully learn from their mistakes, or they learn from someone who winged it. The best case scenario is that they got to spend a lot of time shadowing a more senior colleague, who in turn may have learned from a colleague, etc. If you follow that chain back far enough, the original person winged it.

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Unlock the Secrets of Event Marketing Masters

The greats learn from the greats. Set yourself and your team up for success with tried and tested strategies and insights from event marketing geniuses at Vanta, Partnership Leaders, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, and Explori.

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EventHero

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SPOTLIGHT: Meatopia 2013

TicketBud

When your event has been acclaimed as "a meat-lover's paradise" ( New York Magazine ), "spectacular" ( Esquire ), a "bacchanal of pork, beef, lamb, chicken, duck , turkey and quail" ( New York Times ), and "a glorious city of meat" ( Huffington Post ), you know you're doing something right. Simply and appropriately named, Meatopia brings together world-class chefs, premium quality meat and, of course, hungry guests at Pearl Brewery in San Antonio for a festival of meat, mirth, and the celebrati

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Multi-User Access: A Safer Way To Share Access To Your Event

TicketBud

Whether you're planning a small supper club or a huge charity gala, organizing and managing an event is a massive undertaking. It's wise to rely on others to help with your event but with more people assisting comes more security concerns. At Ticketbud, we understand how important it is to have the tools necessary to seamlessly run your event without sacrificing you and your event's security & privacy.

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Ticketbud Integrates With Socialvents

TicketBud

We first demonstrated our API integrations designed to help promote and publicize your event with our Eventful integration. Now we've added another one! We've integrated our ticketing platform with another event discovery site, SocialVents, to help bring more attendees and, most importantly, more ticket sales to your Ticketbud events. Now, when you publish your public event on Ticketbud, we will automatically send your event information to SocialVents where it will be listed in their directory a

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How to Get Speakers, Exhibitors, and Attendees to Promote Your Event With Video

In this best practices guide, you’ll learn how to tap into the cost-efficiencies of advocacy and word-of-mouth marketing with video. Examples include speakers providing a preview of their upcoming sessions, exhibitors creating “please stop by” invitations and attendees creating “looking forward to seeing you” introduction videos. Learn about best practices and programs created by leading companies and associations including ASIS, AUVSI, SuperZoo, National Restaurant Association, World of Concret

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Winter Cocktails: 6 Of Our Favorite Winter Inspired Drinks

TicketBud

The holidays are underway and you know what that means! The beginning of holiday parties! How do you make your holiday parties memorable? With amazing drinks, of course! Here are some of our favorite Winter cocktail drinks to serve to your guest! Cheers! via Marie Claire. 1.) Baileys Spiced Coffee. Ingredients: 2 oz. Baileys with a Hint of Coffee. 1 oz. pear-flavored liqueur.

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Essential Thanksgiving Survival Tips

TicketBud

Your Guide to Surviving Thanksgiving. When you were a kid, your parents assured you that your family was normal. “Every family has an uncle that loves fart jokes a little too much or a cousin that likes to start food fights and snort milk up his nose.” Well, your parents lied. These people are crazy and you should probably pat yourself on the back for having made it this far.

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Socialize Your Events With Ticketbud's New Instagram Photo Wall

TicketBud

Whether it's providing a seamless Facebook integration or a free Check-In App that lets you scan users tickets with your smartphone , we love helping our event organizers and their attendees do more with their events! That's why we've created our brand new Instragram Photo Wall , which leverages the power of hashtags to allow organizers to display Instagram photos from their event directly on their event page where they sell tickets and collect registrations!

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Holiday Party Lighting Special: Intelligent Lighting Design

TicketBud

It's that time of year again! While the holidays are just around the corner, it's time to start planning for your upcoming holiday events. In an effort to always provide our readers with the best tips, tricks and deals in the event industry, we've got an incredible holiday event special from our friends at Intelligent Lighting Design. Check out their amazing deal and learn more about their critically acclaimed event lighting design !

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Download Now: 2022 Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template - Enterprise Edition

Download 200+ new RFP questions for hybrid and virtual event technology success. After 10,000 downloads, the SpotMe Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template is the ultimate procurement tool for event technology. This template is ideal for companies looking for a vendor to fulfill their specific virtual + hybrid event platform needs and requirements!

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6 Ways To Pack The House At Your New Year's Event

TicketBud

Everybody is looking for a party to spend their New Year's Eve at, give them a reason to pick yours! From building the buzz to keeping people excited once they're there, here are a few tips from Ticketbud to make your party the party everyone will be talking about in 2014! The List: Add A Countdown Clock. Create An Event Page. Have Your Own Signature Cocktail.

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The Ultimate Guide to Social Media Image Dimensions [Infographic]

TicketBud

One of the most powerful ways to promote your event is to give it a voice and a personality. If your event can "speak for itself" it becomes an entity completely separate from any event organizer or organization and creates a brand attendees will start talking to and following. The best way to create this event "persona"? Social media! Create a Facebook page, Twitter profile, Google+ page, Pinterest account and more to give your event an outlet to be creative, funny, informative, sarcastic or wh

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Ticketbud Integrates With Eventful

TicketBud

When it comes to selling out your event, we know there's nothing more important than having the right promotional tools to back you up. That's why we've integrated our ticketing platform with Eventful to help bring more attendees and, most importantly, more ticket sales to your events. Now, when you publish your public event on Ticketbud, we will automatically send your event information to Eventful where it will be listed in their directory and seen by millions of people browsing the site, look

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Top Spots For Your Austin Event

TicketBud

Learn more about Ticketbud & events in Austin. From concerts on 6th Street to tailgate parties on the UT campus to food & wine festivals along South Congress, Austinites know there's never a shortage of great events to attend. Part of what makes Austin such a live event mecca is the plethora of beautiful, creative and downright odd spots and venues available to host those events.

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Dominate Your Local Market With These 4 Reputation Management Strategies

Speaker: Adam Dorfman, Lindsay Harrison, and Erin O'Brien

Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers use local search and 88% use smartphones for those searches? With that in mind, I think it's safe to say your online presence is the silver bullet of your business. Think about the revenue you could be missing by not prioritizing local search optimization. Fortunately, there are a handful of steps you can take right now that will immediately impact your business's pace in local search, and we're happy to share them.

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The Best & Worst Times to Send Email (Infographic)

TicketBud

Whether you’re inviting friends to your show or emailing a big contact list about a last minute change to your event, sending invitations & emailing your attendees are two simple yet incredibly effective ways to increase the engagement and buzz around your event. However, when you send out your emails and invites can be just as important as the invite or email itself.

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3 Ways To A Perfect Check-In Experience

TicketBud

It's almost time for your event to start. You've done your promoting and sold your tickets. Now, all that's left is for your guests to arrive. Are you ready for check-in? The check-in experience is your first impression on event day so make it a good one! To help you impress your guests, here are 3 quick and easy ways to set yourself up for check-in and registration success. 1.

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Choosing Your Payment Set up

TicketBud

As you think about setting up your event, you also need to think about how you will collect the money from your event. Ticketbud offers two flexible payment options, which you can easily access and set through our Payment Setup page. When making the final edits to your event, you can access the Payment Setup page through the link of the same name at the bottom of your Event Checklist.

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Ticketbud's "Interactive Event Page Editor"

TicketBud

In looking at event creation processes across the industry we noticed one consistent, glaring problem; the space where you edited your event page was completely separate from the page itself. In other words, you could not tell what your creation and edits would like without be forced to go to another page to see them. For an organizer simply trying to quickly setup their event page, this caused confusion and frustration and, ultimately, led to an unpleasant experience.

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5 Things Businesses Need to Know to Thrive in a Post-COVID World

People are itching to get back into the world. 54% of consumers say they plan to dine out at a restaurant at least once a week this year. As COVID-19 restrictions ease, the competition for their business is stronger than ever. Download this eBook today to learn how your restaurant can be prepared!

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Welcome to the New Ticketbud!

TicketBud

You’ve probably noticed something’s different about Ticketbud since the last time you logged in. We've gotten a makeover! Based on your feedback, we’ve redesigned the site to be more intuitive and less expensive for both event organizers and attendees. 3 New Features Created For Users, By Users. 1. New Per-Ticket Pricing Option. In addition to our $99 Guarantee option, we now offer a “Per-Ticket” pricing option that allows you to sell tickets for free.

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Fostering Family Time: Events The Whole Family Will Love

TicketBud

With school back in session every parent knows how busy and hectic life gets. Driving little Timmy to soccer practice, taking Susie to band rehearsal and rushing to the grocery store to get dinner ready can take over your whole day. So where do you find the time to spend some quality TLC with your family? With hectic school activities and work schedules family time is spread out very thin.

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Why Your #Event Needs A Hashtag

TicketBud

If you don't use social media much or just never gave it a chance in the first place, then you're probably wondering what a "hashtag" is. Have no fear, I'm here to help you! The # symbol, called a hashtag , is basically used to mark keywords or topics when you're on Twitter, tweeting. It was created by Twitter as a way to categorize messages or to search for a message by simply searching for the hashtag.

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Fantasy Sports Made Simple: Collect Payments & Registration For Your League

TicketBud

Bust out the projections, listen to your most trusted analysts and start pretending you're the world's smartest GM: it's fantasy time ! Whether you cruised to a league championship last year or crashed and burned on that "sleeper pick" strategy that just didn't pan out, a new year is another chance at repeat glory or redemption, respectively. But wait!

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A CHRO’s Perspective on Substance Use in the Workplace: Supportive Strategies to Help Your Workforce Thrive

Speaker: Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, Medical Director, Psychiatry and Naj Wright, MBA, C-Suite HR Executive

The last year and a half has been one of extreme stress and anxiety for the American Workforce. A 2021 New York University School of Global Public Health survey of 5,850 people who drink alcohol found that 29 percent have increased their drinking during the pandemic. Among people who have been experiencing depression (64% more likely) and anxiety (41% more likely), which have also become more prevalent over the last 18 months, the risk is even higher.

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Fundraising 2.0: Boosting Profits & Turnout With Social Media

TicketBud

Need help to boost your profits for your fundraiser? We had a little chat with an expert who knows what it takes for a non-profit organization to meet their fundraising goal. Jessica Young , Community Manager at VolunteerSpot.com , gave Ticketbud a few tips on how to use social media platforms to boost fundraiser profits and turnout. "Fundraising is like a ball game,” says Young, “and a guaranteed way to hit it out of the ball park and reach your goals is with social media engagement.

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Quick & Easy Finger Food Appetizers For Any Event!

TicketBud

No matter what kind of event you're throwing, you'll almost certainly be hosting hungry guests. To help you keep on budget, we've put together a list of delicious appetizers you can easily make that will impress you guests & avoid breaking the bank for your event! Cold Roast Beef, Blue Cheese & Grapes: Photo by: Georgia Glynn Smith Via Oprah.com.

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Pay When You're Ready With Ticketbud's New "Free Trial" Feature

TicketBud

After pouring over hundreds of feedback responses, we've really been able to narrow down our focus on how to make Ticketbud the perfect event solution for our users. We're going to start rolling out a lot of new features based on this feedback and we're happy to be able to debut the first of these today: Free Trial events! Many of our users would rather wait to buy their events until they're ready to start selling tickets, and they really want to see how the event will look and how the ticket p

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