We've gotten the advice numerous times that the key to a successful event is ensuring great content for your attendees. To get more insight and gather some best practices, we spoke with Felicity Chapman, CEO of Outside the Cube, a co-working environment for professionals to think, work and connect by providing connections to each other through events and an open work space. Outside the Cube provides three to four events per month that members can attend at no extra charge such as the upcoming events 18 Hour Startup and Successful Public Relations: Telling your story and being heard. As an event organizer, Felicity is ... Continue Reading

When you sign-up with Eventbrite to collect registrations or sell tickets to your event, you get access to a rich set of event marketing tools right out of the box. And you don’t have to be a tech whiz or a social media guru to take advantage of this tool set. It’s powerful and effective, yet easy to use (I tried to find a good analogy, but most powerful things like rocket ships and nuclear reactors aren’t easy to use). We like to think of our tool set as a virtual event marketing department – so even if it’s just you working to sell out your event, now you have a whole team helping you achieve your goals. And if you ... Continue Reading

Our multi-talented CTO, Renaud Visage, took a great pic of the NY Planetarium and it was featured on the Bing.com homepage today!

With all the ways to connect digitally these days and the explosion of social media sites like Facebook, Ning and Twitter, we’ve increasingly heard the question “do you think events are dying?” The hypothesis here is that people are meeting online, so they no longer need to meet in person. We see quite the opposite. The number of events hosted on Eventbrite are increasing rapidly and the scope and themes of the events are exploding at a mind-blowing rate. We are constantly discovering new and interesting events around wonderfully obscure topics. It's the long tail theory applied to events. But the difference between events and music/book/movies is ... Continue Reading

On November 3rd and 4th, PayPal will be hosting their first dedicated developer conference - PayPal X Innovate 09 - to unveil their open platform. There will be hundreds of developers participating in more than 35 interactive technical sessions and Code & Build Labs. To find out more about the conference and what it takes to put on an event of this size and nature, we got the inside scoop from PayPal’s Naveed Anwar, senior director of the PayPal Developer Platform. What is PayPal X Innovate 2009 and what was the genesis of ... Continue Reading

Tyler is our resident party expert. He works with many of our major event planners to help them to throw sell-out events and does hands-on party research every Friday and Saturday night (and occasionally on Thursdays). His teammates describe him as "devilishly handsome" (we refrained from posting a picture for your protection), "a righteous dude," and "wrote the book on all that is social." Halloween party planning is in full swing and to help you prepare for a night free of horrors, here are some party planning tips from Tyler: 1. Tier your ticket pricing. Ramp up the ticket prices as the event approaches. This will incent people to buy tickets early ... Continue Reading

We've received more and more questions about Tweetups and have seen the number of Tweetups on Eventbrite skyrocket over the past few months. So we sat down with an expert, Joselin Mane from Boston Tweetup, to get the scoop (twips) on how to throw a successful Tweetup. For our readers who aren't familiar with the term, what is a Tweetup? Simply put, it’s an event that is primarily promoted on twitter, and allows people who have made connections through twitter to meet up and talk in person. The majority of Tweetups are primarily social and are simply meant to connect like-minded people or those who wouldn’t normally have a chance ... Continue Reading

You've been asking for this feature for a while and Facebook finally opened up their API so that we could deliver! Without further ado we are excited to bring you Eventbrite Events for your Facebook Fan Page! In the past we enabled you to publish events to your profile wall, but now you have the option to publish to your Fan Page and promote your events directly to your Facebook fans. Here's what it looks like: Let your fans discover your event through Facebook, and then with our integration they can connect back to Eventbrite to register for the event. You can see ... Continue Reading

Today we are excited to announce a new partnership with MailChimp to bring our event-holders more options for email marketing! Our integration provides the perfect may to manage your events and get the word out with personalized email invitations. MailChimp automatically imports your event details straight from your event and creates a customizable invitation template, allowing you to get the word out fast — no coding required. MailChimp tracks responses to your event invitations, and with their powerful segmentation tools you can target subscribers by zip code, gender and other metrics that you choose. MailChimp also shares our obsession with the power of social media tools - you can share your ... Continue Reading

Our friends at Events Finder have put together a great iPhone app that lets you search for and find Eventbrite and other events on the go! You can filter events by distance, time, category and location to discover events happening right around you. Look at the event detail page to get more details about the event, share with a friend, get map, and add to favorites. If it's an Eventbrite event you can click through and buy tickets to the event. Go forth, find events!