Do I need a website for my upcoming event?
Is social media enough to market your event? You are organizing a big event in 2017 where anything can go viral and be forgotten the next day. Sure you can utilize social media for advertising your event but most people wouldn’t go browsing the news feed for 5 minutes just to reach your post.
Advantages of a dedicated website for an event
- A dedicated event website doesn’t limit your exposure online. You can put up your ad and run it all the time when people visit your site.
- It gives more credibility to your event. A point of solid reference with all the information needed for your event makes a strong impression that you are committed to it.
- More opportunity to get sponsors and partners to contribute to the success of your event.
- Feature what best represent your event without following strict restriction, like word count and image size.
- Open a space for people to register and subscribe to updates.
- Link all social media accounts and contact number in one page. Earn people’s trust by providing accessible communication lines.
A compelling website are greatly accounted for an event’s success. It is important to have a platform to allow interested attendees to register for an event online, provide feedback and contact the organizers for any issues. As for the organizers a website will serve as their biggest marketing strategy and automation of administrative tasks like data gathering from visitors.
Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy has been supporting events that gave us extensive experience and knowledge on developing websites for events. Delegating such a new way of doing business might be hard for most of us but we are committed on making the project with our partners so they can be involved as much or as little as they want.
