Ten ways to boost event participation with social media (WTN News)

Troy Janisch, from Social Meteor and American Family Insurance, always has some good ideas when it comes to social media and creative ways to use it across your organization. His recent article syndicated to WTN News is a good one.

His top tips include:

Create a Facebook Event Page
Create a social registration page on Eventbrite to promote
Create a Twitter account
Share your Facebook event page with friends
Share your Eventbrite registration page
Promote the event frequently on FB, Twitter and LinkedIn
Highlight the speaker, share insights, and interview prior to event
Share previous years pictures
Incent individuals to share event details
Advertise your event on Facebook

Find out what others have offered as tips in the comment section of the article

Ten ways to boost event participation with social media (WTN News): "Ten ways to boost event participation with social media
Troy Janisch
May 3, 2011

Social media is a great way to increase event participation by promote upcoming events. Use these tips to boost your event’s performance.

You may want to begin promoting your event on social networks three or more months before the day of the event. The basic strategy used by social-savvy event managers is to create appropriate pages on Facebook and EventBrite that can be used to promote the event, predict attendance and enable event attendees to share information about your event with others."