Event Technology is constantly upgrading and moving faster every minute. But sometimes it seems events lag behind in use of these cutting edge technologies, but not for reasons you might expect. You might believe event professionals are unwilling try them. In fact, in our experience event professionals are actually always looking for new and better ways to do things. That’s why they got to be where they are as event professionals, because they know how to plan and adapt to things very effectively.
Outisders may have a general perception of event professionals as being nose down in their excel spreadsheets only coming up for air when the event is over, but in my experiences they are using technology, but are tied into multi- year contracts with slow moving and un-innovative ticketing systems posing as “event management” or "event marketing" solutions. Yes, registration is a huge part of events management, however many other things must be considered and managed, things like agendas, surveys and attendee engagement tools along with event ROI reporting.
With the advent use of open cloud based systems like Message Blocks, EventBrite, Meetup and Salesforce, planners now have the Agile ability to not only manage their current event planning process, but also be able to try new thing emerging technologies that will offer ways to quickly measure and improve ROI, engagement metrics and attendee satisfaction at an exponential rate.
At Message Blocks we find that our members save on average more than 30% of their time, not only because the Message Blocks event planning platform is easy to learn, but because it connects to other systems they already use on a daily basis. We call these connections “integrations” so workflow and information is familiar to the event team. if you would like more information on how Message Blocks is able to do this please sign up for one of our demo’s here, chat with us on our website here or reach out to us by phone directly at (844)668-3348.
