Impress Event Attendees With an Enhanced Map

With online tools like Google Maps, it’s really easy to create a link to a map that shows your event participants where the event is taking place. Once you have the map link, it’s simple to cut and paste into your event website, onto your registration form, and into your confirmation email. Your map is [...]

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Top Five Tips to Keep Your Event Invitation Email From Being Flagged as Spam

One of the most effective ways to market your upcoming event is by email. Unfortunately, as email spammers become more and more creative in their approach, it becomes harder to get your message by the omnipresent “gate keeper”, your audience’s junk mail filter. With that in mind, here are our Top Five Tips to Keep [...]

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Good Looking Registration Forms Get Better Results

A good looking registration form creates a good first impression for your event registrants and makes you, the event planner, look professional. It will even help you get more registrations and reduce the calls and emails from confused registrants. To create a good looking form you don’t need to hire a graphic designer and a [...]

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More New Features!

New System Features November 2012 Here are a few new event registration features recently added to the ePly system to help you put on great events.   Populate Contact Information Automatically If use you the ePly system to send out an event invitation to your list of contacts, when a contact clicks the “Register” link in [...]

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It’s Your Event Registration Data – Use It!

It’s your event registration data – use it!   Conventional logic tells us to keep things simple when putting up an event registration form – keep as few barriers as possible between your attendee and their successful registration. Keep it simple, right? This generally works well for things like receptions and corporate events. There are [...]

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ePly at the IncentiveWorks Tradeshow in Toronto

Contact Justin with your event registration questions and challenges Justin Dyck – ePly Account Manager 1-800-507-3759 x 902 justin@eply.com Justin is one of ePly Event Registration’s account managers. He’s worked with large corporations, as well as tiny non-profits. He knows when to speak, but more importantly, he knows when not to. Justin’s priority is to [...]

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Top Five Tips for a Pain-Free Onsite Registration and Check-In

Onsite registration and check-in: on top of making sure that the A/V is connected, the session rooms are ready, and your speakers are on their way, you have to think about this too? A well implemented pre-event registration period combined with a well-prepared check-in and registration process will keep your participant intake smooth, and help [...]

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Top Six Things to Look for when Being Pitched an Event Registration Solution

Vendor selection is a necessary and sometimes tricky part of an event manager’s professional life. Comparing and contrasting products like online event registration can be difficult enough without factoring in what is said, and left unsaid at the negotiation table. Here are our top six things to look for when being pitched an event registration [...]

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New Registration System Features July 2012

Event registration has always been more than simply taking names and counting tickets – that’s why the ePly Development Team has been hard at work, adding new features and functionality to our online registration software package. Email Invitations ePly clients can now upload a list of contacts and send out email invitations to events from [...]

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Optimizing field labels on your event registration forms

The labels you use for the fields on your online event registration forms can have a big impact on how easy it is for registrants to complete your form. To help show this, we’ve set up two sample form sections with four simple yes/no fields. Each section collects exactly same information, with the same fields, [...]

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