Archive for the ‘Event Planning’ Category

2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year for companies, small businesses, and individuals working to react and adapt to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. And while these particular groups dominate the news cycles, there’s another area of society equally affected—charities and fundraisers. Many of these organizations are also looking for innovative and unique ways to continue raising the funds required to meet the needs of those that count on them.  

One way many organizations, large and small, are adapting is by taking their events online. While it may require some creative planning, there are plenty of virtual event ideas that can help organizations connect with their supporters and raise the funds they need.

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As an event organizer, there are a number of different ways you can manage event registrations and ticketing through your WordPress site. What you shouldn’t do, however, is add Eventbrite on WordPress.

Eventbrite is a hosted event ticketing platform. This means you can create an account, create events, and allow prospective attendees to view event details and purchase tickets from your event page. Eventbrite also gives you the option to embed checkout on your WordPress site.

The main problem with adding Eventbrite to your WordPress website is that it takes away the user experience you’d otherwise be able to deliver if you were using an integrated event management plugin that is designed specifically for WordPress, like Event Espresso.

In this article, we’ll step through some of the main reasons why you don’t want to add Eventbrite to WordPress and explain what you can do instead.

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Since the beginning of 2020, I’ve attended over 25 events online. I created a list with the ones that I remembered vividly like a positivity workshop, calls with vendors, a live course on habits, team meetings, and more — all to find out “what worked well” with each of them. Then I looked for patterns that made each of them memorable. Not all of the virtual events were engaging, so I focused on the ones that were.

In this article, I’ll distill my experiences into actionable advice to help make your next virtual event memorable and engaging. We’ll start by talking about visualization.

Carol Dweck, in her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, introduces us to the concept of a concrete plan, which is created through thinking about what you want to do in vivid detail. Dweck says, “These concrete plans — plans you can visualize — about when, where, and how you are going to do something lead to really high levels of follow-through, which, of course, ups the chances of success.”

What Dweck is suggesting, in other words, is that doing some planning in advance can skyrocket your chances of following through. (more…)