Event Tool: Event Brite

My next event will be run through EventBrite.  I looked into this when I was thinking about running an ace race and I really like some of its features.

For example:  EventBrite will accept registrations for your event and payment through PayPal, Google Checkout, and make it easy for registrants to pay by check or at the door (if you want) as well.

EventBrite allows you to give an early bird discount and to allow affiliates a fee as well.  You can set different cutoffs (expiration dates) and discount codes.  You could set it up so that the first 5 registrants get a $5 discount or that if someone knows a special discount code it takes off 10% of their fee.  For referrals, if a friend with an active blog or newsgroup puts the link to the next GITHOT, hypothetically in February, on their site, they could receive one dollar for each person who registers to the event through their link.  A disc golf club could get one dollar for each person they send to your tournament as well.  You would pay that referral fee but that's a pretty cheap acquisition fee.

I paid in person for the Outlaws tournament I was in this weekend because, frankly, I didn't want to pay $4 to sign up through the local disc golf store's online service.  $4 is a little steep.  When I run an even through EventBrite, it will just cost registrants $1 to sign up.  I'll probably price the event at one dollar less so that it's transparent to registrants.  It's worth the $1 for me to have the process automated.  There's also a fee from PayPal, Google, or whatever payment service you are using.  EventBrite's fee is just for the registration. You can create different level of "tickets" so that people can pay to be in the recreation division, the open division, the recreation division plus ace pot, etc. For board games, you could easily set up a ticket that is for the whole convention, for a Saturday pass, for a Sunday pass, for a convention plus poker tournament ticket, and the participants could just print out the ticket and bring it to the event for their admission.   That stuff is really annoying to keep track of if you want to actually play games at your convention and not sit at the registration table.

If you are doing something with an inexpensive fee like a $10 disc golf mini, it really doesn't make sense to go through EventBrite as their minimum fee is $.99.  If you are doing a game convention or tournament though, consider using Eventbrite for your next event.  Also, if you click the link above and sign up for EventBrite through this link, I'll get 35% of the revenue generated through you for the next year.  I just think it's a cool tool and I'm not expecting someone to click and create events that generate funds for me. There's an amazing number of reports that you can generate about your registrants picking fields for phone numbers, address fields, or whatever.

Oh, Twin Parks is going to hold an amusing competition that combines disc golf, ping pong, billiards, and "washers."  The venn diagram gets smaller and smaller when you combine those interests like the Disc Golf Board Games weekend we once talked about planning at Twin Parks.

 

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