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How to manage event communications efficiently and seamlessly in a single solution.
Many companies still organise their events using separate tools, Excel participant lists and manual communication steps. This increases the effort required for coordination, makes coordination more difficult and often leads to errors in communication with participants.
An integrated approach combines event communication and participant management into a seamless process – from the initial invitation through registration to check-in and follow-up.
In this event showcase, we’ll show you an example of what such a process might look like in practice.
Why integrated event management is worthwhile
The more communication and organisational steps involved in your events, the more important it is to have a consistent and centrally managed process.
An integrated approach helps you to
- reduce the need for coordination between marketing and event organisation
- manage participant data centrally and consistently
- avoid errors in reminder, ticket or status communications
- ensure consistent and seamless customer communication
Compliance is crucial
Legally compliant communication plays a key role, particularly for companies with high standards of data protection and compliance.
Typical requirements include:
- GDPR-compliant processing of registration data
- Hosting within defined jurisdictions
- Compliance with internal compliance guidelines
- Standardised and approved communication templates
The example of IQAM Invest demonstrates how these requirements can be implemented in practice. The Austrian investment company manages its newsletter and event communications in an integrated manner and in accordance with the financial sector’s stringent regulatory requirements.
This is what an integrated event process might look like in practice
Planning and sending personalised invitations in a targeted manner
An efficient event process begins with coordinated campaign planning based on your subscriber group and CRM data.
By integrating CRM and marketing solutions, invitations can be segmented and personalised in a targeted manner, for example according to:
- customer status
- interests or product areas
- industry, region or sales allocation
- previous event attendance or response behaviour
This ensures that your invitations are optimally tailored to the respective subscriber group.
Enable direct sign-up within your newsletter communications
Instead of simply announcing events, you can incorporate key steps of the registration process directly into your newsletter communications.
These include, for example:
- Integrated event blocks with dates and event details
- Accept and decline buttons directly in the email
- Linked registration form
- Calendar entry download
This turns your newsletter into a direct entry point to the registration process – without any disruption between the invitation and registration.
Manage registrations centrally
Registration is carried out via a form that is directly linked to the event.
This allows you to manage, amongst other things
- participant limits and waiting lists
- accompanying persons
- sub-events
- additional information requests
All registrations are collated centrally and are immediately available for further communication steps. This allows you to keep a central overview of the registration status at all times.
Automated generation of tickets and badges
Once registration is complete, event documents can be generated and personalised directly within the registration process.
These include, for example:
- Registration confirmations
- Personalised event tickets with a custom design
- Personalised name badges for on-site events
This reduces the manual effort involved in preparing your event. At the same time, it ensures that everything runs smoothly and that communication is consistent with your corporate design.
Continue event communications automatically
Once you have successfully registered, you can automate your ongoing event communications:
- Registration confirmations
- Ticket dispatch, including a QR code
- Reminders before the event begins
- Last-minute organisational updates
- Waiting list communications
This ensures that all your event communications are consolidated into a consistent, transparent process.
Automate check-in and participant registration
On-site check-in can also be integrated directly into your event workflow. With digital check-in, you can register attendees quickly and efficiently right at the event and keep track of their current attendance status at all times.
You benefit from:
- Real-time updates of participant status
- Automatically generated check-in lists for your event team
- Offline check-in with subsequent synchronisation
- The ability to update participant information
This speeds up admission, reduces the need for manual list-keeping and creates a professional first impression for your participants.
Automated follow-ups and follow-up work
Even after the event, you can continue your communication seamlessly, for example by:
- Sending out presentations or recordings
- Follow-up emails
- Feedback surveys
- Transferring relevant event data to your CRM system
This ensures that your event remains part of a continuous communication process even after it has taken place.
Conclusion
Integrated event management combines communication, attendee management and post-event processing into a single, end-to-end process.
This reduces operational effort, improves data quality and ensures a consistent attendee experience throughout all stages of the event.
Event-Pilot:
Try out integrated event management at your next event
With the eworx Event Pilot, you can test the event solution using a specific event within your organisation.
Together, we’ll set up your event environment and support you in implementing your first integrated event campaign – from the invitation right through to check-in.
Get your no-obligation fixed-price quote now.