vital marketing

I have a non-profit client – www.vppac.org – that is hosting an annual conference for several hundred members in Vegas next February. Another client – www.ostermancron.com – is hosting a small open-house event to show off the latest and greatest in office furntiure this fall.  In the case of VPPAC, I needed a way to accept credit card payments. In the case of OstermanCron, I needed online registration and a way to track attendees.  A colleague of mine – Greg Doud www.doudsystems.com – found a great site for getting this done. Event Brite -www.eventbrite.com. Just started playing around with it but it looks like it is going to work brilliantly. Plus it’s FREE. If you aren’t charging for the event as in the OstermanCron case, it is truly free. If you are charging for registration/tickets as is the case for vppac.org, then you pay a transaction fee to Paypal and 2.5% to Event Brite with a max fee of $9.95 per ticket. Well worth it given all of the functionality you get and the time saved in trying to manage yourself. I’ll let you know how it goes……