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Posted on February 16, 2012 // 0 Comments

Let’s cover some basic points before we get into how you upload and access files within your Event Wizard account.

• All of the files you upload to Event Wizard are contained in your My Files section
• These files can be accessed from any event you’ve created
• You have 99MB of space in your file bank
• Allowed file types include .jpg, jpeg, .gif, .png, .pdf, .xls, .xlsx, and .swf

For the purpose of this post let’s say you had an agenda in a .pdf you wanted accessible on your registration site for download, even though the process for uploading your files will be the same for any allowable file type. The first thing you’ll do is go to the My Files section of your account and click Upload New File. Search for the .pdf on your local hard drive and upload. Once the file is uploaded it is now permanently stored within your My Files until you delete it.

To access your newly uploaded .pdf you have two options:

Option 1 – Your .pdf will be at the top of your My Files list, this is the case for any new file you add. When you click on the name of the file it will open in a browser tab.

Copy and paste the URL of the file when it opens and navigate into the events task list that you’re working on. Choose the area you would like the agenda to be available in, for instance the top of the registration form. Once you’ve opened the registration page editor you can simply paste the URL into the editor or hyperlink an image or text.

Click OK and be sure to save the changes when you’re done.

Option 2 – For this method you do not have to copy and paste the files URL after uploading it. Simply navigate to the registration pages editor and highlight the text or image as you did above, except this time when you click the hyperlink icon and the box appears, you will choose ‘Browse Server’. This will open your My Files bank so you can choose from any file you’ve uploaded.

Click OK, save the changes are you’re done! This same method should be used when accessing any photos or logos, except you will click the picture icon in the editor instead of the hyperlink icon.

Use the My Files section in your account to store any file types you may want to embed or link to from your registration site.

If you have any questions, let us know or post to the comments.

Category : Event Wizard &Event Wizard Tips

Posted on February 2, 2012 // 0 Comments

Let’s face it, building a fantastic registration form is not quite enough. Yes, it collects all of the information you require, creates a seamless registration experience for your users and carries over your brand standards perfectly, but if nobody knows about it they won’t register. You hear it all the time – offer early bird rates, create a contest, provide value and incentives to register. That’s fine, those tactics might work when people already know about your event but they do a poor job at making people aware of your event.

Just like your regular marketing strategy should include social media, so should your event marketing strategy. If it doesn’t don’t worry, we’ll assist you with the actual execution with our built in social media promotion tools.

There are two ways for your event to be promoted in Event Wizard. The first is from the edit menu of your event, which is usually where users will post to various social platforms when an event is first made live.

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The second is from the registration form itself using the original event registration social media bar located at the bottom of every registration form. The options in this bar can be turned off if you’d prefer, but that’s like having a party and locking the front door. That said, maybe you have an internal event and you don’t want it promoted, then the option is there.

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This is where registrants can help promote your event for you, by telling their friends and colleagues via their social platforms. The other great thing about the social media bar is that it provides an indication of how popular your event is. The reality is, an event that has 50 tweets and 40 likes looks good. Not only for your event but for you. For me? Oh yes, think post event reporting. Wouldn’t you like sitting in your debrief meeting proudly boasting how your event had 500 registrants, 75 likes and 300 Tweets?

There is one very important aspect to all this promotion stuff. You need to describe your event in detail or it’s just a random link without a title.

To do this, ensure you’ve filled out your page titles and event properties as much as possible. You’ll save your users from posting just links and you’ll have more control over what’s posted.

Lastly, follow @dotcomyourevent and we’ll retweet your event tweets whenever we see them. Now go promote that event!

Category : Event Wizard &Event Wizard Tips

Posted on September 16, 2010 // 0 Comments

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!

Category : Event Wizard &Event Wizard Tips