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As mentioned earlier, the place you decide to hold your event is crucial. Additionally, preparing your promotional tactics can increase your event’s awareness. 5. Promotion We are halfway through our 8Ps! It’s now the time for the loud portion of the Ps. In promotion, you must learn how to make noise and speak up to...Read More

In the previous section, we learned that setting a budget would be helpful to avoid any unforeseen expenses. In this part, we will look at the importance of place. 4. Place The financial and calculations are finally done, let’s discuss the next part: the place. Where will the event take place? How far would it take...Read More

In the previous part of the 8Ps of event planning, we had learned that a project starts off with an idea and that building a team is not just about recruiting anyone. In this part, we will learn how to deal with Price. 3. Price As we move forward, we now have our project in...Read More

The 8Ps Of Event Planning Here’s a recipe on how to successfully create an event from scratch. When creating plans to market a service, you might have learned that there are “7 Ps” to successfully grow your service, reach your goals and fulfill your objectives. If you don’t remember them, these 7 Ps in service...Read More

For all you event planners out there like myself, when it comes to planning an event, you must know the feeling of this overwhelming and inevitable abundance of tasks required to be completed before the day of the event. From trying to email potential attendees, to gathering a list of sponsors or performers, to booking...Read More

Some customers use Grenadine Event Planner in an enterprise environment and need specific features to enable a more widescale usage within their company. Some customers also require a personalized URL to use our event planning system, so that their staff understands that Grenadine is an event planning solution approved by their company. There are two...Read More

Thanks to the advances in technology, we are able to carry out innumerable tasks more efficiently than ever. Many of the modern day jobs can be quite difficult to perform without technology whilst many others might not be possible to perform at all.A plethora of tasks in the event management industry have been made easier...Read More

Using Grenadine messages merge fields Merge fields allow you to send a message to many people with the same layouts but personalized for each recipient. Note: Unlike regular mailing systems, in Grenadine message makes each recipient of the message the sole recipient. Where? To access merge fields, go to Home, “Your event”, Messages, Emails. Click on...Read More

Congratulations on setting up your Grenadine Event Planner account! With your new account, you’ll be able to start planning events right away. Depending on the options you’ve chosen during signup, you’ll also be able to start selling event tickets and take registrations, publish an event website, and publish an event mobile app! Here are a...Read More

Add a Google Analytics tracking code to your event website and event mobile app As an event organizer, sometimes you want to keep tabs on how many visitors are coming to your event website. You also may want to know where visitors are coming from (if they clicked on a link in your event Facebook...Read More

Spread the word and get free credits We’re excited to present our new referral marketing program, available today. We believe Grenadine is a service that can ease your event organizing activities as well as your speaker’s and attendee’s experiences. Why spend efforts publishing your own event websites and cutting and pasting endless excel sheets in...Read More

Use a custom domain for your event website Whenever you create an event with Grenadine Event Planner, we automatically create an event website for you as soon as you hit the Publish button. This website can be used by your guests to view your event’s schedule, view your list of speakers and register for your event....Read More

Often times, event organizers need to hold special events (or special sessions) that happen during their main event but that are reserved for special groups of people. I’ve often seen this at conferences where there’s the main track for all attendees, and then there are special parties or gatherings that are sponsored by certain suppliers,...Read More

As an event organizer, you probably manage all kinds of events. Some events are public and need to be seen and accessed by the largest audience possible. Some may be totally private, locked down and not seen by anyone except invited participants or VIPs. And some may be in between, meaning that they’re not meant...Read More

Grenadine Pricing model is based on: subscription plans concurrent users. You can decide which is best for you depending on the number of events you organize and the features that you want to access.  Pleases refer to our Pricing page to get more information on our subscription plans. Regarding user licensing, it is based on...Read More

Grenadine Event Planner allows you to create many different types of event registration tickets (or “passes”, or “registrations”, or “memberships”, whatever you prefer to call them). You can create: Free tickets Paid regular tickets Paid add-on tickets (that is, tickets that are purchased for specific add-on activities in your event) Workshop signup tickets Here are...Read More

Having an event planning tool send out emails to your guests is great, but don’t you hate it when emails are sent from no-reply@event-planning-tool.com or some other kind of generic email address? Sending from a generic email address is less personalized, doesn’t allow people to reply quickly, and negates to some extend your company or...Read More

The Grenadine team is always working hard to make our software more powerful and easier to use, while taking our users’ suggestions into consideration. Here is what we’ve released during the past few weeks: Clone Events You can now clone any event! By popular demand, you are now able to create a new event by copying...Read More

Recently I was attending an international conference around my area. This was a conference of a large stature and with quite notable guests and interesting panelists and for which attendees had paid a rather large amount to attend. As an attendee, I was interested in what the presenters had to say, but also in observing...Read More

Grenadine Event Planner uses several email addresses when it interacts with your attendees and your speakers. If you haven’t checked what email addresses are used it’s important to take a few minutes and set them up properly for your account. To set up email addresses, go to Settings -> System Settings and navigate to the...Read More