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Visit Us at The 2024 WFA Convention
We are excited to announce that AttendStar will be attending the Western Fairs Association (WFA) 2024 in Anaheim, CA! Visit Us at WFA 2024 AttendStar takes the WFA Convention as
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10 Productivity Tips for Event Managers to Prioritize and Get Stuff Done
Event managers are very busy people. You need to be able to prioritize long lists of tasks to ensure your event goes smoothly and with no visible problems to the client or attendees. Even the most seasoned event managers can find themselves falling behind if they’re not
The Benefits of Online Ticket Management
Selling tickets to events used to be a huge investment of time and money, but with online ticket management, handling all of the critical ticket sales tasks required to make events successful became so much easier. Online ticket management instantly increased efficiencies, saved money, and boosted ticket
5 Ways to Sell More Event Tickets Earlier Than Ever
The majority of people who attend events don’t buy tickets the first time they visit your ticket sales page. However, as an event organizer, your goal is to sell as many tickets as you can as early as possible so you have money to pay vendors, promote
How to Plan a Successful Christian Concert
I’m excited to announce that AttendStar has released a new FREE 12-step guide, How to Plan a Successful Christian Concert. I wrote this guide exclusively for non-professional event planners after hearing from so many Christian event organizers that they need this resource! If your ministry is counting
How to Find Music Festival Sponsors
Organizing a music festival can be fun and exciting, but you need to have access to money to do it. To hold a successful music festival, the finances have to work. You can’t rely on ticket revenue (if you’re charging for tickets) when ticket sales don’t start
How to Use Email Remarketing to Sell More Event Tickets
Ad retargeting is a great way to sell more tickets to people who visit your event’s ticket sales page, but email remarketing is an even better way to re-engage your email subscribers (including those who add their email addresses on your ticket sales page but leave without
Concert Promotion Tips
If you want to attract a crowd to your concert, you must promote it. Whether you’re working as an event organizer or you work for a venue, church, PR firm, band, speaker, or performer, there are things you can do to promote your concert. The following concert
How to Promote a Festival
Let’s talk festival promotion. Festivals are a great way to entertain large crowds, but all festivals must be well promoted to be successful — whether they feature local artists or world famous musicians or they’re focused around a hobby or common interest. I’m often asked how to
FREE Advertising: Share your event online
When you share your event online, the free advertising it provides can lead to explosive ticket sales. That’s because posting your event on multiple websites increases the chances that someone will see it. Every post can drive word-of-mouth marketing, more traffic to your ticket sales page, and
Secrets to Successful Retargeting Campaigns for Event Marketing
Did you know that 80% of the people who visit your event ticket sales page won’t buy tickets on their first visit? It doesn’t mean they’re not interested in your event. In fact, they might really want to buy tickets, but for some reason, they didn’t buy
How to Use Google Analytics to Increase Event Ticket Sales
Data, data, data! It seems like everywhere you look marketers, business people, and even event organizers are obsessed with analytics. We can track so much these days that it’s easy to get caught up in data paralysis. In other words, we fail to take risks and take
10 Ways to Connect with Ticket Holders You Don’t Know
When buying tickets for an event, most people purchase more than one ticket in a single transaction. They’re buying tickets for themselves as well as for friends or family members. Unfortunately, for event ticket sellers, this creates a problem. You only have access to the contact information