How do you plan the perfect event? What best practices are there for managing events? We’re constantly learning and sharing the best advice we find.
We can all agree that event management is one of the hardest occupations out there. In fact, event planning has been rated the fifth most stressful job in the world! With this in mind, it’s a good idea to find ways to minimize the burden by maximizing available resources. This way, you’ll reduce stress, all…
To say that we live in unprecedented times is quite an understatement. Event management now includes the extra layer of mask requirements, vaccination proof, and regulations that vary based on location and where the activity is taking place. With so much unpredictability in event planning, how can you successfully prepare events in advance? Well, one…
Using The Events Calendar to host your museum events is a surefire way to effortlessly display a WordPress calendar to your site’s users. Sure, if you want museum-specific pages, you might be able to adapt your entire site to meet your needs by planning out your ideas, finding the right theme, and hiring a developer…
How many times have you scoured the internet looking for the best taco place in town? If tacos are your thing, how do you get people to come to your taco place, rather than the one down the street? Well, for many small businesses, the best way to spread the word about what they have…
Peanut butter and jelly. Spaghetti and meatballs. Pineapple and pizza. Okay so we may not know everything about perfect food pairings, but one thing we do know is that Eventbrite and WordPress are a match made in virtual event heaven. Why is that? Well, each brings a set of unique features and when they’re put…
Many of us started off 2021 feeling hopeful about the possibility of getting back to our favorite pre-pandemic events. But the truth is, we’re not ready to break it off with Zoom quite yet—or maybe ever. For event planners, there isn’t much you can do about mutating virus strains, vaccine hesitancy, or evolving health and…
Letting users submit events to your website is a great way to populate your calendar and engage with your community. Sure, you could provide visitors with backend access so that they could then add events. However, wouldn’t it be easier if they were able to submit events from the frontend instead? Luckily, with our Community Events…
2020 was the year of the virtual event. We all learned how to set up a Zoom account and got used to seeing our colleagues only from the neck up. Now, virtual events are here to stay. With that in mind, it’s time to embrace taking our event planning duties into the virtual world. A…
Adding a calendar to your website is key to letting your users know all about your upcoming events. Whether you are listing new events every day or only hosting occasional special events, a calendar can help you engage with your community and drive website traffic. Organizations large and small can benefit from adding a calendar…
You’ve created an awesome event and you can’t wait for everyone to come. But you have guests responding via email, phone, and text, and it’s hard to keep it all straight! By adding an RSVP to your WordPress site, you can streamline the process so that you have one less thing to worry about. Adding…
Virtual events allow event planners to maintain health and safety standards that are necessary these days. Unfortunately, it seems that hosting large events just isn’t in the cards right now, as the rules and regulations for keeping everyone safe may prevent an event from going off seamlessly. Now that we’re all pros at hosting…
You spent so much time planning your event, selling tickets, and promoting it, and now it’s finally over. But how do you know if the event was a success? That’s where analytics and reporting come in. With analytics in hand, you’ll have concrete information to help you measure your event’s success. Once you create your…
After a year like 2020, we know it’s absurd to try and predict what’s going to happen in 2021. But we’re going to do it anyway. Based on our hunches, and on our team’s many years of experience with events, we’re sharing a few educated guesses about what to expect this year. And if we’re…
It takes a lot to organize an event, and virtual events are no exception. Sure, you don’t need to book a venue or worry about catering, but your virtual event still needs a Virtual Event Planning Checklist, thoughtful strategy, tools to run smoothly online, and a promotion plan. With so many moving parts to executing…
This post was originally published on Aug. 6, 2019. It was last updated on Jan. 13, 2021. To most people, “events” is just another way of saying “cool stuff to do”: concerts, birthday parties, nature walks, Zoom happy hours, book club meetings, Independence Day parades, you name it. But for event planners and promoters, we…