Be here now

Events for your organization, whether rare or ordinary, are crucial to your company’s future. While phone calls and emails are helpful, there is no substitute to actually being in the room with people you serve. Meeting people face to face is one of the most amazing ways to grow your audience and your supporters.

For some of our customers, events define their operation. Portland Fruit Tree, for example, organizes events to collect fruit for the hungry from trees in the metro area that might otherwise rot on the ground. Without events, their mission cannot be accomplished.

Other customers are less event focused. Nonetheless, they do have at least a few fundraising events a year. While events are not central to their business, it is still safe to saw that without them, their mission would also be in jeopardy.

Events in Civi

CiviCRM takes care of all the data that surrounds an event. Keeping track of who is coming, how to tell people where to be and when — not mention how they need to register for the big day — can be a bit overwhelming. CiviCRM can fix that.

CiviCRM and CiviEvent easily manages each aspect of your planned event. CiviCRM will:

• Maintains all your event data in one place
• Lets your attendees register themselves online
• Collect payment, including credit cards, for an event
• List information regarding the event, including time and location
• Gives the team working at the event access to the live event data

The sum is greater than parts

Once an event is over, the information you have captured regarding attendees helps to give you a better idea about your audience. You can quickly identity who registered late, and find out whether or not they received emails or phone calls regarding the event. You can send out thank you emails to everyone who came, encouraging them to join you once again next year. The new information from this event will reflect back into CiviCRM, making existing information more valuable.

When it comes to either the big event, or the monthly meet up, let our managed CRM solution carry some of the load. Start planning now.