The latest addition to EventOrb's growing list of event promotion tools is a feature that allows anyone to upload ads from their ad-network of choice unto their event pages for as many events as they would like, and earn money from Costs per Impressions (CPM's) and Cost Per Clicks (CPC), the same way as they would if they placed those ads on their own websites.More...

1. After uploading your event, navigate to your event listings by hovering your mouse over the "My Account" link in the top right navigation menu and click on "My Events".
   
   
2. From your event listings page, click on the "Manage Ads" link beside the event you wish to upload ads for to get to the Ad Management page.
   Once on the Ad Management page, you'll notice a miniature image respresenting your event with the various ad-zones highlighted. Currently EventOrb supports two ad-dimensions.
   i) The 728x90 Banner and
   ii) The 120x600 skyscraper.
   
   
3. To upload your ad, Click on one of the ad-zones mentioned above to reveal a textarea on the right side of the page.
4. Copy and paste your ad-scripts into the available textareas and click the Save button. Make sure the ad you are pasting in the textarea corresponds to the dimensions of that ad-zone.
   
5. You can preview your event page by clicking on the preview link, to see how your ads will look like on your event-page.

Since EventOrb's launch a little over a year ago, the calendar page has been one of the most visited pages on our website. The calendar gives you a pictoral view of all the events coming up in the calendar month, with popups that show the elaborate details of every event. The calendar also provides the ability to add your events directly unto it without leaving the page, giving you the opportunity to catch the eye of event seekers with your own event flyer. More...

As part of our October 2009 release, EventOrb has released "The Event Promoter Journal" -- a live feed integrated into the profile pages of Event Promoters, consisting of all their activities, written thoughts and accumulated actions that their audience can interact with.

This bite-sized stream of live updates provides a simple yet very effective way for promoters to directly engage their audience.

Here are some of the features that come with this release:

1. A nifty new sidebar containing a user's logo, action links, network, event photos and upcoming event widgets.
   
   
2. While logged in, a promoter can drag and drop the widgets in their sidebar to different locations. Everyone visiting their profile page will then see their sidebar widgets ordered according to their preference.
   
   
3. Clicking on the enlarge icon underneath the upcoming event pops up a bigger view of a promoter's event, with more detail.
   
   
   
4. A content area containing a little more information about a promoter's profile, a journal entry field that they and their audience can write into and most importantly their Live Journal Feed.
    
5. We hope the new features come in handy for promoters as they continue to try and keep their audience up to date. Now more than ever we are looking for ways to integrate with other live stream websites such as Facebook and Twitter, to give promoters a more pervasive presence online.
   
   As always, happy promoting!
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

There's a new season of Nip Tuck about to air and a handful of MTA buses in Manhattan are plastered with the new Nip Tuck poster below. Seeing them everyday set a few creative juices flowing hence this post. I highly doubt that copyright laws would allow me to coach you elaborately on how to manipulate their poster to suit your flyer needs, but hope the designs below provide a little inspiration. Enjoy.

It's tough working on new features for your favorite event promotion website with all this good weather outside, but we managed to churn out a few regardless. Here are some features that are now available on EventOrb.

User Type Field on Edit Profile Page
We've added a new drop down field to the Edit Profile page that allows you to tell us who you are. Are you an event promoter, DJ, performer or just a casual user

Whatever your role, you are almost certain to find an option in the drop down list that describes you. The list was compiled after careful analysis of the types of users that are enrolled on EventOrb. And what's the value of being able to select a User Type? We're glad you asked, this leads us to our next new feature.







User Search Functionality on Community Page
User Search allows anyone to carry out advanced searches for users by using several filters including-- yes, you guessed it -- their User Type, email, location, sex or name.

As more and more users sign up on EventOrb to promote their events, bands and venues, we have begun to realize that EventOrb could serve as a valuable platform for advertising your skills as a promoter, DJ etc. or look for other promoters and event aficionados that you can collaborate with.



User Event Listings Enhancements in Profile Pages
On your user event listings page, we've added a search bar to help you find your own events faster. This should come in handy if you have posted several events on your profile. We have also improved the interface drastically for your event interaction links, making it easier for you to manage individual events.

We've added a cool new link that allows you to duplicate an event and edit it's details, saving you some data entry time. We've also touched up the Emailer interface that allows you to send notifications about your events.

Further Ahead
We promised you a ticket sales engine a while ago and we intend to make good on that promise. It turns out there is a little more legal red tape involved in providing a ticket sales solution than we had hitherto imagined. Once all of that's taken care of we hope to launch a great ticket sales platform to help you monetize all the events you post on EventOrb.

Facebook anyone? No promises here yet folks, but I must admit we are increasingly growing an appetite for Facebook integration. We are dedicated to ensuring the high visibility of every event you promote on EventOrb and it seems lately, nothing says high visibility than a presence on facebook. So who knows, someday soon you would be able to add an event on EventOrb and be able to tell everyone about it on Facebook.

Enjoy the new features folks and all the great events going on during the rest of the summer.

As always, happy promoting!

If you have ever wished that you could run your very own event portal, complete with the rich feature-set of EventOrb as part of your organization's current website, then you're in luck -- EventOrb would like to introduce the EventOrb Portal -- a fully co-brandable event management Software that can easily be integrated into any existing website.

The EventOrb Portal is ideal for:

1. Newspaper publishers
   
2. Colleges and Other Educational Institutions
3. Event Marketers and Promoters
4. Non-profit Organizations
   
5. Entrepreneurs wishing to explore owning a specialized event search website.
   
   

1. You can now search for events using comma separated keywords. Event search will search through our database and return all events matching any of those keywords and the rest of the criteria you have provided.  
   
   
2. We replaced the list of links for categories with a drop down list from which you can select a category to further narrow down your search.
     

3. We've added a Date Range drop down containing 5 options representing the date ranges from which to draw events. 
   
   
4. You can enter a custom date range by using the Ajax date pickers that show up after you select the "Custom" date range option from the drop down list.  
   
   
5. You can now search using a broader Location search, or narrow down the proximity of your search by using a zip code search. 
   
   
6. We've added a little bit of pizazz to our zip-code slider, making it update the distance label in real-time as you drag it. Wanna see something cool? Click on the slider handle once, then hit left or right using your keyboard's direction pad and see what happens.  
   
   
7. You can now see the number of results your search filter returned.
   
   
   
     
8. There's now a drop down field that allows you to change the number of events displayed per page for your search results. 
   
   
9. A second pager has been added to the header, so you can not only navigate using the pager at the bottom of the search results but also at the top. 
   
   
10. Last and definitely not the least, you now have a lot more bookmarking options after you run a search.
    

Don't worry ladies, you too can look fly by clicking on the image above to buy an EventOrb t-shirt just like hers.