Whether you are hosting a live online event or an in-person event, there are certain steps you need to take to ensure the event is successful. There are many great tools available to event planners and hosts to help make it all happen.
Read on for 10 tools you need to produce better live events.
Social Tables
Unless you are running a one-man show entirely, every event is going to need people to help run it. Social Tables helps bring all of these people, i.e. the planner, caterer, etc., together and lets them collaborate with one another more easily than having to meet in person. This is especially helpful if you are hosting an event in a different city and do not have the time to stay in that city for the planning and prep.
Trello
Every event needs a plan, a good brainstorm session, and a good place to keep everything pertaining to it. Trello is an excellent visual planning and organization tool that uses boards and cards to keep information together. Additionally, you can make the boards available to team members, assign tasks due date, etc.
EVENTup
If you are hosting an in-person event, you will need a venue to do so. EVENTup is like a registry of event spaces that you can search through to find an awesome venue.
Engagio Dash
For those using account-based marketing and hosting a live event, Engagio Dash can be an invaluable tool full of important insights on campaign insights. It can be used in tandem with live events to push existing leads through a sales funnel.
CampaignMonitor
CampaignMonitor is an email marketing system that lets you send personalized emails to your contacts. Event planners and hosts can push their existing leads further through segmented email campaigns.
If your event is geared toward professionals, LinkedIn is the place to advertise the event and get people talking about it. Make sure that your profile is up to date and attractive to those you wish to network with. Use the blogging section of LinkedIn to grow an audience of professionals. When you are ready to advertise an event, you will already have a following who will see the advertisement.
Glisser
After putting so much work into an event, the last thing you want is for your attendees to be bored and decide not to come to another. Glisser can help prevent this. It is a way to make events interactive by sending presentation slides to attendees’ phones, and allowing them to answer polls and be involved in a Q&A section.
Google Slides
This is a useful way to create and share slides. Since the slides are saved to the drive, they can be opened on multiple devices.
GoToWebinar
If it is an online event, you need a platform to present the event on. GoToWebinar is a great option with plenty of features for events.
Bizzabo
Bizzabo is mentioned last only because it covers so many things. With Bizzabo, you can do your email marketing: run your sponsorship platform; create an event website; and organize and manage your event.
All of the above-mentioned tools can help ease some of the pressure of planning live events. There are many more out there as well. Utilize them when you are ready to start planning your next event. You will most likely find that some do what you need them to do and some do not. Look through them before you start planning to choose the best combination of tools for you.