Tried and True Tech Tools for Festival Directors

Whether you’re planning a multi-day fandom event or an arts and music fest in the woods, there are plenty of tools to help you get the job done. There are numerous mail services to help you communicate with fans, countless promotional channels to amplify your marketing campaigns, and a multitude of event apps to choose from. But which ones do you use, and how do you know they’re the best at what they do?

To help answer these questions and more, we looked to see which tools successful organizers are using to:

• Streamline and simplify their workflow
• Solve their greatest challenges
• Create events attendees love

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Event technology…with so many tools to choose from, it’s become increasingly difficult to stay up-to-date on the latest, greatest tools available to you. To help you out, we looked to see what tools organizers are using to solve their greatest challenges, how they create events attendees love, and which ones they can’t live without.

Whether you’re planning a bacon and beer festival or a three-day music fest, use this list to evaluate your own technology, and find new technology to add to your tool chest.

MailChimp. Email is the driving force behind every successful event. With MailChimp, marketing to potential event-goers and sending important updates to registrants has never been easier. If you’re using Eventbrite, you can sync it directly with MailChimp to send customized emails to targeted email lists

SurveyMonkey. If you never ask your attendees for feedback, how will you ever know what’s working (or not working) at your event? Thanks to SurveyMonkey, you can smoothly survey attendees to gauge their expectations before the event, and measure satisfaction after. Using Eventbrite? Our extension allows you to seamlessly integrate with event templates and import guest lists with a single click.

Ticket Sync by Sched. When your festival has multiple activities going on at any given time, ensuring a smooth attendee experience can be a struggle. Ticket Sync by Sched takes care of the headaches by letting attendees create their schedule based on which ticket they’ve purchased, or join a waitlist for popular activities with limited space.

Facebook Official Events. 60% of people discover events through their News Feed — that’s free promotion you won’t want to pass up. By creating a Facebook Official Event using Eventbrite’s Publish to Facebook tool, you can expand your reach by showing up more on Facebook’s search and News Feed recommendations.