Comments on: How to Promote a Local Event

By: Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:19:06 +0000

Shameless plug here, but we’ve got a new and growing events search engine at http://www.playster.org

You can submit events directly into the index which link back to your site or blog.

We’re designed to help people gain exposure and traffic for events.

By: Ashley K. Edwards

Ashley K. Edwards — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:12:13 +0000

@Andrew Warner Eventbrite is an awesomely useful tool! The company I work for hosts various events throughout the year, and we use Eventbrite for all of them. Great features and capabilities!

By: Dustin Nielson

Dustin Nielson — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:51:07 +0000

If your looking for a cheap way to promote or sell tickets online you should checkout the Facebook application Viral Events. http://www.viralevents.net. Viral Events does NOT charge a per ticket transaction fee for selling tickets like most companies and offers some nice tools for promoting your event from within Facebook.

By: Havana

Havana — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:10:48 +0000

Wow, these are great tips! I recently had some success with an event but I didn’t look at outside resources for advice on promoting it. I posted a blog about ten things I learned about promoting events on my blog: http://havananguyen.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/10-ways-to-promote-an-event/

I’ll try out the partnership thing next time! Thanks!

By: How to Promote a Local Event « Society of Women Engineers Region i

How to Promote a Local Event « Society of Women Engineers Region i — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:47:40 +0000

[...] a bit overkill for your local section events, but I have seen many of the elements described on the Thinking Serious Blog site in what I would consider good [...]

By: Andrew Warner

Andrew Warner — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:32:22 +0000

I also like using eventbrite.com for my invitations. It helps guests add themselves to my mailing list and get future invitaitons.

By: DavidMoyle

DavidMoyle — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:48:32 +0000

This is very well written and quite comprehensive.
The only thing I would add is, when you go hang out where your target market is, bring something to give them if it is within the budget.

Whether an inexpensive postcard, or a cool promotional item related to the event itself, give them a reason to remember your event.

By: JD Rucker

JD Rucker — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:02:48 +0000

An easy way to get volunteers is with T-Shirts. You would be amazed how people will step up and offer their time if they have something to prove that they did it. One event that I helped with for the March of Dimes used nice, inexpensive T-Shirts as “payment” to volunteers. It was their biggest turnout, both in volunteers and participants. The T-Shirts said something to the effect of “March of Dimes Volunteer – Paid with Love”