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As all of our organizers know, it only takes a few minutes to have your event page up and running on Eventbrite. That’s because we have a simple interface and offer easy-to-use tools to get you started.

We recently launched a new tool to help you easily add frequently asked questions within the Event Details section of your event page.

When creating or editing your event page, you’ll see an “Add FAQs” link in the Event Details section. Clicking this link gives you a head start in creating a list of frequently asked questions and providing all the information your attendees need to have a great event experience.

When you click on “Add FAQs” a lightbox will appear and you’ll see a list of frequently asked questions. Upon selecting the questions you want to include on your event page, those questions will automatically appear in the Event Details section of your event page.

Here are some questions you’ll see in the list:

Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?

What can/can’t I bring to the event?

What is the refund policy?

You’ll still need to fill out the answers to those questions and add additional questions/answers specific to your event, but this will get you started and will hopefully decrease the number of times you have to answer the same question from multiple attendees calling or emailing you for answers. Have a great event!

BRITE '14 Conference

MARCH 3-4, 2014

Lerner Hall, Columbia University, NYC

In its 7th year, BRITE '14 brought together 500+ leaders from business, technology, media, and marketing to discuss how technology and innovation are transforming the ways that companies build and sustain great brands.

William Bardeen

SVP, Strategy & Development

The New York Times

Topics at BRITE '14 included:

Monetizing “social” – for brands and publishers

Native advertising, branded content, and the future of storytelling

Brand voice: bringing it to life across digital, social, and traditional channels

Customer experience and customer happiness

Contagiousness, social sharing, and how ideas & brands spread

The marketer’s forecast for global emerging markets

The changing role of the CMO in the enterprise

Conference Format:

BRITE '14 hosted a large audience for: keynotes and panels that featured leading companies and case studies; new research; and demos of emerging technologies. The conference's second day focused on interactive discussions, break-outs, and peer networking. Live blogging, videocasts, and Twitter feeds extended the discussion at BRITE to an even broader audience worldwide.

The aim of BRITE is to stimulate interactive conversations, it is not just a series of lectures. Come to future events to talk with fellow big thinkers, hear stories of what is working and what isn't, and see the newest technologies in person.

Who should attend?

CMOs and heads of marketing, brand managers, new product developers, innovation directors, media buyers, viral marketers, interactive agencies, online developers, social networkers, Web 2.0 entrepreneurs, video & gaming creators, online content publishers, multi-platform media companies, and emerging technology investors.

A&E, Absolut Vodka, Ad Age, Adidas, Aetna, AIG, American Ballet Theatre, American Express, AOL, AT&T, Audi, Avon, Bell Atlantic, BMW, Burger King, BusinessWeek, Carnegie Hall, Chanel, Cisco, Citigroup, Clinton Global Initiative, CNN, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Craigslist, Dell, Deloitte Consulting, Digitas, Domino’s PIzza, Dow Jones & Company, Dupont, Eli Lilly, Estee Lauder, Fedex, GE, Goldman Sachs, Google, HP, IBM, IDEO, Interbrand, John Templeton Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, LEGO, Lenovo, L’Oreal, McDonald’s, McKinsey, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Moody’s Analytics, Movado, Netflix, Nickelodeon/MTVN, Nielsen, Novartis, Ogilvy & Mather, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Quattro Wireless, R/GA, Reuters, Samsung, SAP, Siemens, Sony Music, Taco Bell, The New York Times, TIAA-CREF, Time Warner, UNICEF, Unilever, United Nations, Univision, Visa, Volkswagen, Yahoo. ZipCar, and others.

Sponsorship Requests:

For BRITE conference sponsorship inquiries, please contact:

Alison Abodeely, Assistant Director

Email your attendees

Choose Create New Attendee Email to pull up a new blank email.

Email your attendees to let them know about the cancellation.

Let your attendees know about expectations for refunds. who they can contact with further questions, or if you plan on re-scheduling the event date.

Once you've finished customizing the email. you can send the email immediately or schedule it to be sent later.

Pro Tip: Before sending, send yourself a test email using Send test message to: . You can either send to the email address that displays or click to update and send to an alternate email address.

Why We Use Event Brite

Why We Use Event Brite for the Major Events

1) A regular Meetup event can take Paypal payments, BUT

a) Only one organizer can assign his or her PayPal account at a time.

b) Someone can RSVP "yes" and not pay for the dinner. In other words, PayPal is not required even if it's listed as such.

2) Meetup has Amazon Payments system with required payments BUT

a) After 4 years on the PayPal system, I don't think people will want to sign up for Amazon also.

b) It doesn't have a "tiered" ticketing option. In other words, you can't offer "Early Bird" tickets.

c) You can't have a "Refund Policy" or other type of waiver as a "required" question to be answered.

Event Brite primarily uses PayPal, but "Pay By Check" can also be an option..

3) Neither Paypal or Amazon can take RSVP's from other groups unless you ask people to sign up for the other Meetups. This results in future duplication of emails.

For example, an event gets posted on CDO and SDO. You are a member of CDO, but the main host is SDO. So, you become a member of SDO also to sign up for that event. Now you are member of CDO and SDO (not a bad thing necessarily, because these are both great groups..). The next time the event is cross-posted, you get 2 invites instead of 1.

In these events, Event Brite (which is totally different system than Meetup. com) is being used as the main site for the Major Events. Events get posted there and then get marketed on multiple Meetup sites (and other sites like "Facebook"). The Event Brite event becomes a single collector of the RSVP's. There can be no duplicates using this method (which has been a problem with multi-meetup event postings.) This gives us a hard head count of people that we can use for planning.

Also, Event Brite has it's own mailing list function. So, people can be invited directly from Event Brite as well as Meetup and other online sites. Many of you, if you have RSVP'd for one of these events before, will have gotten an invite directly from Event Brite. If that is the case, then RSVP'ing is even easier.

4) Meetup doesn't require you to give your real names and the RSVP list is not downloadable. On Event Brite, you can download a list into Excel which I can sort by last name which makes it very easy for check in purposes. In using Event Brite, I can keep your names private from others while still having that information for event management purposes.

5) Other Advantages:

a) Mailing List function - You can collect and manage separate mailing lists easily.

b) Survey Questions - You can create survey questions to gather critical event information. They can be made "required" questions to be answered upon RSVP'ing.

How We Use Meetup With Event Brite

1) Event is created on Event Brite first.

2) Satellite events are created on Meetup sites and possibly other sites.

3) RSVP's are CLOSED on the Meetup sites. This prevents you from RSVP'ing on Meetup and thinking that you RSVP'd for the event. In order for a solid head count to be made, the RSVP must be on Event Brite.

4) Links to the Event Brite posting are listed on the Meetup Event Postings.

So, to RSVP for these events,

a) Recognize that the Event is NOT REALLY CLOSED

b) Find the LINK to the Event Brite event posting within the Meetup posting.

c) Click on it and RSVP on Event Brite.

d) an RSVP confirmation email will be sent to you from Event Brite. You can use this as your "ticket" if you print it out. (although, we have your name on a list anyway.)

e) If you're not sure you RSVP'd, use the "Contact" link in the upper right hand corner of the Event Brite posting to contact the organizer (usually me), and I will resend your ticket confirmation.

Who Else Uses Event Brite?

Some of the largest and most successful Meetup groups in the Chicago are use Event Brite such as:

1) Digital Photography Group

2) Wine Meetup

3) Chicagoland Moviefans

4) Chicago Irish Pub Music Meetup

5) Chicago Dining Out (of course)

They are probably more successful due to the use of Event Brite.

Forever Saint Paul Challenge “Lite-Brite” event launch

02/16/2013 - 3:00pm

Friends and family are invited to join in as an attempt is made to break the Guinness World Record for the “Largest Picture Made of Lite-Brite.” This giant art installation will be 12-feet tall by 24-feet long and filled with more than 520,000 Lite-Brite pegs. It will feature a mural created by award-winning Saint Paul artist Ta-coumba T. Aiken.

Time: 3:00 p. m. Activities begin (live music, super-sized games and food!)