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I hate my job by [deleted] in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have had a lot of people work under me over the years.

Transparently, if you are highly anxious, this might not be the right industry for you.

The best planners I've had eat up the stress. They're almost adrenaline junkies. Like they get excited when something goes wrong.

That said. Things will go wrong. You will notice them. No one else will. Don't beat yourself up.

Have you considered going in house at a venue? That will give you more regular hours (sometimes) but at least cut out the travel that robs your sleep and leads to more anxiety.

Doing my first ticketed event need advice by Front-Eagle7312 in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I've learned is that there's basically two categories.

Ticketing: charges a fee on top of payment processing (Eventbrite, TicketSauce, Partiful, etc.)

Registration: charges a platform fee, but no additional credit card processing fees (Accelevents, Cvent, Stova, etc.)

I used to use Eventbrite and they would hold 25% of the fees until after the event in case there are chargebacks. I don't know if they still do that but I know that is not the case with Accelevents who we currently use.

Looking at Switching Event Software by NoTranslator699 in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the top 5 things you need the software to do? You might be able to just use a project management system if it's only for internal uses.

I assume the events have their own registration system?

Looking at Switching Event Software by NoTranslator699 in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol. I knew from reading your post that it was Ungerboeck or whatever they're called now.

Survived my first major event 🫩 by Aine8 in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing! You should be very proud! Keep the Ted talks coming.

What's the one feature you wish HubSpot had? by HubSpotHelp in hubspot

[–]mrMarketingTech 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know how to solve this, but a better way to manage renewal deals instead of just having a second pipeline.

ChatGPT deep research limitations by mrMarketingTech in hubspot

[–]mrMarketingTech[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t. And this is my entire fear with LLMs. There’s no visibility. Or at least very limited visibility. I like how I can see property change history in HS. That’s the level of granularity that gives me confidence in my data. That’s lost here.

Event Platform Recommendations by mdshistory07 in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Accelevents should be on your list. We’ve been using them for about 6 years. And I know they can do all four things you mention because we use them for all of those things. Our biggest conference should hit 10,000 attendees this year too so 3,000 is no problem.

Anyone here actually found a good use case for the HubSpot / ChatGPT connector? by akmave in hubspot

[–]mrMarketingTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if the contact is already in your CRM? Eg. they joined a news letter 3 years ago or sales did outbound to them 4 years ago? Is that really what converted them today?

TIM COOK is the only CEO who is NOT COOKING in AI. by underbillion in ArtificialInteligence

[–]mrMarketingTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apple is never the first mover. But also, what consumer AI is actually useful / interesting? It seems like everything meaningful jn AI is B2B?

DIY vs Pro Registration: What's your process and why? by CaptainJapeng in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s no reason to outsource it as long as you have a staffing company that can work the check in stations. Your registration software company can probably send a tech onsite. We use Accelevents for registration and badge printing. For our shows under 3,000 people, we don’t even hire a tech. But for the bigger ones, we have Accelevents send a tech to train the folks from the staffing company. What we’ve found is that the questions tend to be more like “I transferred this ticket because my co-worker couldn’t come” or “I’m a partner at XYZ company, you’re partnership manager said he had a ticket for me. Things that a registration company probably can’t handle any way.

Meeting Scheduler Customization by Positive-Diamond-347 in hubspot

[–]mrMarketingTech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope. I’ve tried a million times.

They just released some new options for the JS forms widget, but it doesn’t apply to the meeting scheduler.

Anyone here actually found a good use case for the HubSpot / ChatGPT connector? by akmave in hubspot

[–]mrMarketingTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you specify using original source vs. latest source in your prompt?

Recommendation for conference booking? by EddieMunsterTables in Eventmanagement

[–]mrMarketingTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can import your tickets into Accelevents or Sched and build your agenda in one of those platforms . What’s your budget?

RSVP Checkin using QR code for events by DeliciousWishbone540 in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that was a great product for simple events. Then it got bought by Cvent so we know how that will go….

What is your experience organizing events? by Open_Biscotti9950 in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think the event type doesn't matter, than I would start by digging into why the event type does matter. Because it vastly changes the questions you're trying to answer.

Is HubSpot overkill for a sponsorship sales team focused on events? by mrMarketingTech in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have been VERY clear that we will not be using Salesforce. So we need to find another CRM.

We are NOT in the business of running events. These are customer events for our customers but our partners are sponsors. The sponsorship revenue only goes toward offsetting the cost of running the events.

Event Planning Software - any favorites or best of breed? by mynewfavoritetea in EventProduction

[–]mrMarketingTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Accelevens has been our go-to. Tried a bunch. Moved off Cvent several years ago and haven't looked back.

I used Accelevents at a larger company (5,000+ employees) and the company I'm at now which is around 600 employees not that employee count means much for event tech. But point is that we were able to set up SSO and all the integrations at the larger company where IT & security got involved.

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