By Janelle Benuska On March 19, the Event 360 team assembled in Fort Lauderdale to produce the 13th Annual Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF). This year’s event was a smash―3,000 participants and more than $2 million raised for 10 local nonprofit organizations providing……
By Kat Thomas “How do we increase our festival’s survey score results?” That’s the million-dollar question that every event asks each year. And if you’re not asking that, you should be! Using a post-event survey to gather the feedback is a great way to identify what’s working, what’s not, and……
By Joann Buckley Collins These days, almost all of your communications can be automated. Emails, website updates, social media posts. Between autoresponders, social media schedulers, and web and email CMS technologies, you can easily prepare content in advance so that you’re not up at midnight on a Sunday night…
Over the years, we have covered a vast array of topics on our Event 360 Blog, giving our followers the kind of advice that can lead to safer, more successful and efficient events―events that leave your participants feeling happy and fulfilled. In case you’ve missed any of that great content,……
By Janelle Benuska Ask any Project Manager what are the key elements to successfully managing a client’s peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising event, and they will likely respond with these three words: scope, budget, timeline. As the number of plates to spin on a project can vary, focusing on these elements is……
By Jim Hennessey Is your website content or online event registration process optimized for mobile devices? If you’re not sure, the answer is probably no. Consumers spend an average of five hours each day on their smartphones. In the last six months, over 62%… Read More
Last year, we introduced the Throwback Thursday Series on the Event 360 Blog. Through the years, we have covered a vast array of topics on our blog, giving our followers the kind of advice that can lead to safer, more successful and efficient events that leave your… Read…
At the end of February, a few of our Event 360 coworkers had the opportunity to attend the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Professional Forum Conference in Miami. It was a chance to network with fellow P2P fundraising event experts and pick up some new ideas for how to continually… Read…
By Erin Kirchhoff I’m thankful to have had the opportunity to travel to Miami, Florida last week for the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum annual conference. In my 14 years as an event fundraising professional, this was my first time representing the Event 360 team. And let me say:… Read…
By Erin Kirchhoff By show of hands, let’s see who’s taking a plane, train or automobile (or boat??) to Miami for the annual Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Professional Forum Conference? If you plan to arrive in sunny-but-balmy Miami this week for the biggest fundraising conference of… Read More
For those in the peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising space, the must-attend event of the year is the annual Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum’s conference. This event brings together industry leaders―professionals from event planning, nonprofit software platforms, and charities alike―to hear about the latest in the ever-changing world of P2P fundraising. Attendees will also……
By Janelle Benuska As we ramp up for the start of the 2018 event season, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the very last event we successfully executed in 2017: a concert for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), in honor of World AIDS Day. This was the first year……
By Jim Hennessey Facebook announced in January that it will be overhauling its News Feed. It is a change that will once again shift the type of content users see first, and most often. According to the official statement, Facebook will “be making updates to [its News Feed] ranking so……
By Courtney Jones and Casey S. Campbell Giving Tuesday was November 28, and if you recall hopping onto social media, even for a second, you most likely saw a friend or two post about a cause important to them. Facebook―with its more than two-billion users―has totally revamped the peer-to-peer fundraising……
By Jillian Schranz I’m writing this blog from an airport, which seems appropriate for the topic. What’s on deck for the Event 360 team in 2018? Lots and lots of events all across the country. As we enter the new year, we have a roster of more than 40 events……
By Kari Johnson What a year 2017 was! From San Francisco to South Florida, the MMRF Team for Cures 5K Walk/Run event series visited 13 markets last year. We were inspired by the more than 13,000 walkers and runners who raised over $3.5 million in 2017! Encouraged by the success……
By Erin Kirchhoff Whether you’ve resolved to eat better, go to the gym more, save more from each paycheck, travel more, spend more time with your family… or you didn’t set any resolutions at all… we hope you’ve taken some time to reflect on what worked well in 2017, and……
Hard to believe the holidays are knocking on the door again! After a whirlwind year of Event 360 events, it’s necessary to take a moment to reflect on successes and challenges, and ultimately, show gratitude. For our clients, our partners, our participants, and each of you. In the next couple……
By Cheryl Stern A wise man once said, “If you build it, he will come.” An even wiser man then added, “Go the distance.” Ok, admittedly, those two wise men were the same person. And that person was technically a disembodied magical voice from Field of Dreams, talking…
By Jim Hennessey As marketers finalize their 2018 marketing plans and strategy, what are the buzzwords they are talking about? Here is my take on the five most “buzz-worthy” concepts that will pervade most digital marketing plans for the new year. Micro-Moments – Whenever a consumer feels the need to……
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