Top 5 Facebook Marketing Tools to Promote Your Events

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Facebook is gradually growing to be a hot spot for event organizers. The social media surge in recent years encourages event organizers to use Facebook as a convenient and a steadfast tool of event planning and marketing. Over the past few years, the website has brought a series of tools and features that help creating a buzz of your event in no time, thus helping you attract a large crowd to the events. Here, we are talking about five most important yet unheard tools of Facebook that help taking your event to the next level.

1. Social Ticket Buying with Ticketmaster

Facebook now offers an exciting tool for buying tickets for events right from its platform. The famous ticket provider of the London Olympics, Ticketmaster has collaborated with Facebook, which offers the facility of social ticket buying. It not only enhances your ticket sales, but also gives a significant boost to the social commerce.

2. Generate Guest List in No Time with GuestlistGen

The newest addition to the marketing and promotional feature of Facebook is GuestlistGen. The tool allows you to generate a PDF of your event guest list within a short span of time and that too, right on the Facebook platform. To do it, you have to just enter your Facebook Event ID and the rest will be done automatically.

3. Analyze Event's Performance with Tuneo

Tuneo is a tool that allows organizers to sum up polls to analyze the performance of the event. It is a kind of organizational tool that helps you track attendees on social networking site like Facebook. Tuneo seems to be a solution to save you from message overload.

4. Create a Buzz with WordPress Custom Tab

Keep in mind that Custom tabs are the fundamental part of marketing strategy in Facebook. You can now use WordPress Custom tab application to customize a tab of your event page in Facebook. It is true that WordPress extends your capabilities and thus, helps you reach a large audience. Moreover, the WordPress Custom Tab is compatible with most browsers and devices.

5. Set up Custom Tab with Pagemodo

Similar to WordPress Custom Tab, Pagemodo helps you to use and set up a custom tab in no time. Well, for large events, it is not that suitable, yet for smaller events, it is the best fit. You can even make the use of paid options, that allow you to set up a robust 'Like-gate' feature on your Facebook event page. At present, Pagemodo is known to be an amazing social media marketing tool.

Use these tools today to make your next event a great success.

Jonathan is a professional trainer. He employs latest technology for online class registration and online training registration that results in more attendance and ROI.

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Promote Your Business With Custom Promotional Products

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What kind of advertising guarantees maximum visibility to your business and your brand over an extended period of time without burning a big hole through your marketing budget? The answer lies in advertising with imprinted promotional products. Your company's logo or message on promotional giveaways is how your brand can literally 'go places.'

Companies, educational institutions, sports teams, government organizations, non-profit, or healthcare organizations-the list of who has benefited from utilizing imprinted promotional items is endless!

People love receiving gifts and what you choose alters, enhances or can potentially worsen their perception of your business. So choose your business gifts wisely. The customized business gifts you give to your employees, existing or potential customers should be high on functionality and usability, because the more they are used the more they are seen and the greater is the visibility of your company logo or message. The product must be one that is unlikely to be stored away as surplus or end up in the garbage. Pens and other writing instruments are known to be used 18 times a month and that is what makes them the most popular and successful promotional tools.

83% of people in the U.S. stated that they could recall and identify the advertiser on a promotional item. People love being appreciated and their opinion of the advertiser has been documented as being more favorable when they receive a promotional gift from the advertiser. Your giving away customized gifts will help increase the chances that when users need a product or service that you specialize in, they will think of your company and brand first, over your competition. That is exactly what your company needs to increase business, after all.

Industry statistics show that no other media or form of advertising is as cost-effective as are advertising specialties. The average cost-per-impression of a promotional giveaway is $0.004 and is as low as $0.002 with items like promotional pens, hats or bags and totes. Bags make the highest number of impressions in a month at 1000, and are considered most cost-effective due to this!

For a promotional campaign you need to start with determination of who you are targeting-your target audience. Their demographics will help determine the choice of imprinted promotional products you will want for your event. Additionally, the giveaways should complement your core business interest as well as the event itself. The dimensions and type of logo or message you want to imprint will also determine which online promotional giveaways you are going to order.

Yes! Businesses can now order online promotional giveaways for their events and promotions without having to actually visit physical stores and worry about the choice of imprinted promotional items. There are great competitive rates, discounts and offers online. So do adequate research before procuring your imprinted products.( http://www.promodirect.com/ ) 

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PromoDirect.com is a leading promotional products supplier in the United States. Some of our products with online promotional giveaways pens are pens, bags, mugs, apparel etc. We provide promotional products for all type of businesses.

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Using Postcards to Promote Your Web Design Company

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The concept of a web design company didn't even exist twenty years ago (in the early Nineteen Nineties). Now it is a big business and growing. The number of websites numbers in the many millions; the number of web pages numbers in the billions - and these numbers are growing exponentially.

Postcards have been around since the nineteenth century. They are still a big business - sort of.

So how can you use this very old, somewhat antiquated form of media in order to promote one of the most modern forms - the web design company?

First of all, let's analyze what it means to start a web site. It means that you put your site out there and the world basically ignores it. The search engine "web crawlers" will find it eventually, but even with that, it might take a very long time for purchasers of your service to find you.

The solution to this problem is that you must find ways to drive people to your site.

Let's say you are developing a mailing list. Obviously you can email people, but many emails are deleted as spam. What's the advantage, then, of the old-fashioned post card?

First of all, it's a physical object. It has to be picked up and looked at. Someone has to read it and make a decision.

Can you take advantage of the fifteen seconds someone will need in order to make a decision about your postcard? Can you use those fifteen seconds to get her to find your site on the web?

The answer should be 'Yes', and here are some ways you can do it:

1) Even newer than web design companies are QR codes. You've seen them. They are funny looking squares with a complex pattern of shapes which is read by your smart phone. One will fit easily on your postcard. All the customer has to do is scan the QR code and she will be led to a page on which you can put text, data, images or whatever you like. What would you likely put on that page that can't fit on a post card? How about a superb page design you have done for someone else's website? Put your best effort out there, and you increase your chances of someone contacting you for a paid job.

2) The next way you can use your postcard is to include web addresses, phone numbers, and all those other standard contact means. There's plenty of room for the QR code and the contact information.

3) The third thing that will go nicely on the postcard itself is a colorful design or image or logo - anything that tells the world that you are in the design business. How you do this and what you choose to use is up to you, but that's your specialty and you're the expert. It's the specialty of the post office to make sure that your two thousand cards get to where they are supposed to be.

And it's the specialty of Conquest Graphics to take your postcard or announcement design and print it on your two thousand - or one hundred thousand - postcards and make sure it reflects the quality you had in mind. Contact us today.

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