ABCey’s Tech Tuesday: 5 Best Event Website Templates

Want to build a buzz around your event and wow your registrants? The convenience and customization event websites offer to both event planners and attendees are amazing! Thus, today’s #techTuesday features 5 best event websites to help you create your next event website template.

1. Splash

Pricing Details: Free for personal events and trials, custom pricing for business licenses

From simplifying event asset creation to capturing attendee insights and measuring event impact, Splash is a great event marketing tool.Splash’s content management system makes it super easy to create your event website while maintaining brand consistency. You can also customize your invite, check-in guests, print your event badges, and more with this tool!

2. Squarespace

Pricing Details: Squarespace has 4 price plans, ranging from $12 to $40 per month.

Squarespace is a drag-and-drop website builder with the best quality templates in terms of design and flexibility. With this tool, you can have full customization control without the need for coding. Squarespace also has good SEO, and its pages all follow SEO best practices. It provides you the best tools to promote your brand.

3. EventCreate

Pricing Details: EventCreate has 2 price plans, ranging from $9 to $29 per month.

In addition to website creation, EventCreate is also a ticketing & registration platform. EventCreate uniquely offers fully white-labeled, custom-branded event pages and is the only platform that offers A/B ticket price testing, to help you maximize your event revenue.

4. Planning Pod

Pricing Details: Planning Pod has 4 price plans, ranging from $19 -$69+ per month.

Planning Pod is an online event management software that aims to help people and organizations that manage multiple or complex events and registrations. This tool offers a centralized platform to manage events, clients, staff, venues, vendors, payments and business details. More importantly, the floor plan feature allows event planners to customize designs for the venue, so they can help clients visualize the event.

5. Bookmark

Pricing Details: Free version available; Professional plan: $11.99/month; Business plan: $24.99/month.

Bookmark is one of the most advanced website builders when it comes to web technologies. Its AI software AiDA (Artificial Intelligence Design Assistant) can help you create an exceptional website in less than 90 seconds! The AI can help fill your website with blocks that suits the most, puts on sample content and customizes design colors. And all you need to do after is to change the text and images. This tool is super efficient and is perfect for non-technical professionals and small business owners.

Have you used any of these event website builders before? Did we miss any? Let us know in the comments below or on Facebook and Twitter!

Startup Spotlight: Splash

Startup spotlight is ABCey’s weekly post that features some of the best and brightest companies in the Bay Area. They are often companies that we have our eye on, or have worked with in the past and would like to share with the friends and followers of ABCey Events.

ABCey knows the value of a good event ticketing app, which is why we have chosen to spotlight an up and coming San Francisco startup that provides ticketing services and more! Splash is of particular interest due to its unique customization capabilities and interactive qualities and it’s booming success after the win of SXSW13. Not only does Splash offer awesome ticket/check-in but it doubles as a marketing and interactive guest platform that other competitors are lacking.

Here are the top 5 things we love about Splash:

1. Complete Website Customization

Registration for an event should create anticipation and excitement for attendees. Using a bland registration platform could potentially be the “kiss of death” in attendee numbers. Splash allows full event planner digression when designing the web based platform for events to give each event the unique online vibe that will carry over to the real thing.

2. Real Time Social Media Integration

Here at ABCey, we are all about killing two birds with one stone. Splash makes it easy and convenient to do so by eliminating the middle man so we can get our guests set with interactive tools. Event planners can utilize the app to check in and scan tickets as well as live stream photos guests take. Smile for the selfie!

3. The Online After-Party

When the event is over, we need the data that matters. Splash delivers by allowing detailed user profiles and client lists to be tracked as well as complete analytics of web traffic, emails and all the social media interaction. Having this information at our fingertips allows for growth and change event planners need for future event reach.

4. Top Brand Representation

Reputation is everything. Splash is used by many top reputable brands including Spotify, Sundance, and Thrillist. Although this start up is only four years old it has made a lasting hold in the event marketing world which says a lot about the great service they provide for event planners.

5. They Walk & Talk

A company that provides insider knowledge on the complex world of event planning is something all event planners look for when using a ticketing and marketing platform. Splash’s blog outlines their experience out at their events with their services along with photos to document the guest interaction. Seeing and reading success stories makes them all the more appealing.

What do you think about Splash? Let us know in the comments below or find us on twitter and facebook!

Splash – The Best Event Management Platform!

Startup Monday is ABCey’s weekly post that features some of the best and brightest companies in the Bay Area. They are often companies that we have our eye on or have worked with in the past & would like to share with friends and followers of ABCey Events!

We recently came across Splash, a comprehensive event management platform that helps to maximize the impact before, during, and after an event.

Splash makes it possible for you to control every aspect of your event making it easier and less stressful to organize. When using Splash, you can organize the perfect invite list – every time, maximize the impact of every touchpoint, and measure the impact to your brand and community.

Before your event, you can create a beautiful website to represent your event and that can be seen from any laptop, tablet, or smartphone. The website includes cool features that allows you to promote your event with an integrated custom design email sender list, sell tickets, and collect info you need on the perfect RSVP form!

While enjoying your event, Splash allows your attendees to share the action as it happens! The Splash On-Site Mobile App allows you to check in guests and scan their tickets. The App also has a live stream where the guests can be updated on what’s going on during the event and share the amazing moments they have just experienced.

After the event you can analyze the web traffic on your website, email performance, and more social activity. You can also create a targeted contact list with the profile information from your attendees.

Splash offers three great different packages to get you started:

The Event Marketing Package this package gets you: dedicated account management, completely flexible and customizable web design, and the full power of our CRM and email marketing tools.
The Influencer Marketing Package includes everything within the first package but with this package your community members are empowered to create their own events.
The Sampling Package extend beyond awareness with Splash software see measurable upticks of local sales, community membership in key demos and produce the type of social content that has a real viral co-efficient.

Would you use Splash to help organize your next event? Let us know by commenting below or on Facebook or Twitter.

Startup Monday: Splash

Startup Monday is ABCey’s weekly post that features some of the best and brightest companies in the Bay Area. They are often companies that we have our eye on or have worked with in the past that we would like to share with the friends and followers of ABCey Events.

It’s time to usher events into the online age. It’s about time you used Splash.

Splash, a service to better event goer’s online experiences, is like the Apple of event apps. Unlike Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, Splash boasts an extremely user-friendly interface so event planners can take control of the event’s internet buzz. The team will help you in every stage of the event process from building budgets to tracking tasks!

With Splash, you can create a mobile-friendly customized event website, custom e-vites, and social media galleries! This service even makes it easier to get guests to your event. Tickets can be sold through the website and Splash keeps track of every RSVP and mobile check-in!

We think Splash is a great tool for large-scale events… what do you think? Tell us your thoughts in a comment below, on Facebook, or Twitter!