Help using Event Me
Here you will find answers to most of your questions. Please feel free to contact
us regarding any further comments and questions that you have.
Questions Subscribers might have
Questions Organizers might have
Questions Event Me Sponsors might have
Subscribers
What is Event Me all about?
What about my privacy?
How do I register?
How do I unsubscribe?
What's up with your unsubscribing of inactive subscribers?
How can I get invited to more events?
How do I change my password?
How do I change my email address?
Where does Event Me promote events?
Why can't I just browse a list of events in my area
and choose for myself?
What happens when I'm "invited" to an event?
Can my friends join me for an event I am invited to?
Do I have to pay for this service?
Can I promote events through Event Me?
Can I make suggestions regarding additional features
and other improvements?
Still have questions? Contact us
Event Organizers
What is Event Me all about?
Where does Event Me promote events?
Can I add subscribers to my own distribution list?
When is a good time to start promoting an event?
What information is relevant for good matching?
Can I include a link to another website in the invitation?
What are the RSVP options with Event Me?
How do I benefit from offering tickets to my event in your raffles?
Why don't I get the invitation to my own event?
How can I increase the number of clicks I get?
Can I make suggestions regarding additional features
and other improvements?
Still Have Questions? Contact Us
Event Me Sponsors
Why don't I get my own ad?
Can I make suggestions regarding additional features
and other improvements?
Still Have Questions? Contact Us
Subscribers
You may be tempted to compare Event Me to the events announcements in
your newspaper or city magazine, but the difference is that instead of event
organizers advertising their events, it is you who "advertises" yourself
to get invited to events that you are interested in. The only thing you have
to do is to describe your event preferences and your general interests, and
organizers of interesting events can find and invite you. You benefit because
event organizers can create events more targeted to your preferences, other
attendees will be more compatible with you than at random events, and you don't
miss events, because instead of having to search for them, you actually get
invited.
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Because we don't have your name and address, we can't expose it to anyone.
And we never give out your email address. Instead, we forward the invitations
to you on behalf of event organizers. Similarly, we use your account information
only for matching; none of this information will ever be revealed to people
other than you. Please review our Privacy
Policy for details.
Some event organizers may ask you for some information about you when you
RSVP for their events. For this, they might use Event Me's online rsvp system. However, Event
Me never combines this information with your account. We encourage you to
ask event organizers questions about their privacy policy and what they are
going to do with information that you give to them.
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Simply go to this page and start by providing some rather general information. Using this, we will then present you with questions that we will keep as relevant to you as possible. You can complete this personalized process or terminate early. In either case you will get to your "My preferences" page where you'll get an overview of all your information and from where you can access areas of your event preferences that you have not edited yet. You can always reach your "My preferences" page by logging into www.EventMe.com and make desired changes. To login, you need your email address registered with us and your password, both of which we will also email you to confirm your registration.
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If you want to delete your subscriber account, simply email invite@EventMe.com with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. Or you can log in to your account and follow the link to "unsubscribe" on the "My preferences page". You can also find this personalized
link in the footer of all our invitation and calendar emails.
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Every two months or so, we email Subscribers who have not opened any of our emails, clicked on any of the links, nor logged into their online account for some time. Simply clicking a provided link and/or logging in at
www.EventMe.com signals us to keep the corresponding account active. We unsubscribe all accounts that still have shown no activity about two weeks later.
We do this so that we don't clog email inboxes of Subscribers who are no longer interested in our emails without them having to do anything. Many ISPs who handle your email (like Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, etc.) also notice that only a small number of our emails is left unread. This helps them in deciding to put our emails in your inbox and not into your junk/spam folder.
Unfortunately, we can't always know whether our emails are being read - only if
you get our html emails and allow their images to be shown we can tell whether you
open them. Therefore, you might find yourself included in such an unsubscription
effort even if you are a regular reader of our emails. Getting the html version
of our emails and allowing images to be shown will keep your account protected.
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- The simplest way to get invited to more events is to select more activities. Generally speaking, the more preferred
activities you have selected, the more invitations you will get.
- Because many events are of interest only to subscribers with special interests
or particular demographic backgrounds, it is a good idea to provide much of this information, too. For example, you will only
get invited to a some networking events in your industry if you've specified your
field(s) of work, and you will only get invited to some charity events if you have
specified your advocacy interests. This general inform_tion is also essential
to help ensure that we are inviting a group of people with compatible interests
to the same event.
- You can vastly increase the number of invitations you receive by providing additional postal/zip
codes indicating approximate areas in which you would go to events. For example,
you might be working in a different city or neighborhood than you are living in or travel regularly to a different city and/or country.
- All the preferences you list that refer to events in general (e.g., smoking
policies, fun vs. serious events, etc.) are already set as
defaults so that you are most likely to get invited to events that match your
activity preferences. By being more explicit and stating selective preferences,
you'll get invited less often to events that don't match those preferences.
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Login at Event Me and click on "Change my password."
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Login at Event Me and click on "Change my Email Address." We
will send a confirmation of the change both to your old and new email
addresses.
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Event Me can work anywhere in the world, but it is still a very young service and is most active in the New York metropolitan area. We also have a rapidly growing number of subscribers and events in Boston, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. and expect to see other cities becoming active soon.
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You should still look to your daily newspaper or preferred city guide for
events that run on a regular schedule, like movies and theaters. As a matter of fact, we
also publish a list of upcoming public events.
However, it can get
tedious to browse through endless listings of events, only a few of which
appeal to you. And since it is impossible to search all listings on a regular
basis, you often miss out on interesting events. By using Event Me, you
actually receive personalized invitations to events that have already been preselected
to match your interests.
Also, even our calendar of public events doesn't list many of the events our subscribers
get invited to: Many event organizers do not use public listings
at all for their events but instead invite specially selected individuals. Event Me
allows you to be one of the special invitees without being on hundreds of "A-lists".
You can also find the list of upcoming events that you have been invited to in your "My events" section that you can reach after logging in. This can come in handy if you can't find the email invitation anymore or you want to get an overview of all your invitations.
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Each time we promote an event organizer's event, we have compared it with as much of your information as possible. You have to have both stated
your interest in the planned type of event and match the event organizer's expectations
about his or her target audience in order for us to send you the invitation on behalf of the
organizer.
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In most cases, the event organizer won't mind if you forward his or her invitation
to your friends if you believe that they are interested in the event. You will
also be welcome to RSVP for or simply show up with your friends. However, some
event organizers will request in their invitation that you don't forward the
invitation and/or bring friends with you. Please do not disregard their wishes. You can always
encourage your friends to join Event Me themselves to avoid getting tired of always
forwarding invitations to them.
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No. Subscribers use Event Me for free. Instead, we charge event organizers
a fee for forwarding their invitation to you.
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Anybody can promote an event through Event Me. You can find more information
here.
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We're still developing new features and ways to use Event Me, and your
input is crucial. If you have any suggestions for new features or other improvements,
please write to us at invite@EventMe.com.
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Having trouble with a link, think you have found a bug, or still haven't found
the answer to your questions? Write to us at invite@EventMe.com
or use the contact form, and we will help you!
Event Me offers targeted mailing lists for your events - lists that consist
only of people who meet the demographics, interests and other criteria you specify.
Each mailing list is uniquely created for just your event, and you are completely
free to specify the demographics of your target audience as you wish. Event Me
lets you promote just about any event with any audience that you can imagine
- whether you want to hike with a small number of nice people
or throw a huge launch party for a new car model.
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In theory, you can use Event Me anywhere in the world, but it is still a very young service and is most active in the New York metropolitan area. We also have a rapidly growing number of subscribers and events in Boston, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. and expect to add other cities soon.
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Though we do not provide you with the email addresses of the subscribers in
the Matching List that we create for you, you can obviously ask everybody who
replies to your invitation or who attends your event to join your own mailing list.
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That depends on your activity and your needs. Some events, such as professional
conferences or weeklong hiking trips, need to be promoted well in advance in
order to reach a sufficiently large number of participants. However, you can also use Event Me for a last-minute promotion of one of your
events. You can always promote your event to more subscribers in additional
promotional steps.
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Make sure that you describe your event as comprehensively as possible in
your own terms. You should also describe your preferred target audience as precisely
as possible so that Event Me can provide a list with the best possible
matches. Most likely, we will have additional ideas how to further improve the
targeting. Click here for more information
about the kind of data that we have about our subscribers.
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Yes. Feel free to include links to your event's website (if you have one).
However, please try any provided link first to make sure that it works.
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You can take RSVPs in any way you want. We recommend to use online rsvps processes and you can include links to any such system. You can use our own online ticketing system which we can set up for your event free of charge. Feel free to link to the Event Me ticketing page for your event from other publications of your event should choose our system. However, if your ticketing is very complex, or you have many different events and need to change ticket options frequently, we recommend to use EventBrite's service.
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1) More viral marketing for your event before the drawing
Many subscribers who want to win your tickets will try to increase their chances by earning additional Reward Me points before the raffle ends and encourage their friends to join Event Me. Very often, they will do so in direct reference to your event, e.g. by forwarding them your invitation. This is natural because at that moment your invitation represents the best reasons for subscribing to Event Me: An event that's very attractive to them and even a chance to win a free ticket. As a result, a lot of additional people will hear about your event in a very effective, personal way.
2) More viral marketing for your event after the drawing
The more Reward Me points a subscriber bids in the raffle for your tickets, the more likely he or she is to win. However, the subscribers with the most points to bid (and therefore the highest chances to win your tickets) are not likely to be people who would buy your tickets at full price. Instead, it is subscribers who have been the most successful advocates for Event Me who have amassed enough points to win your raffle. While they might be too frugal to buy your tickets, they are likely very successful at making their friends buy tickets so that they have company for their free ride if they happen to win in the raffle.
Learn more about our raffles work for subscribers
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We only send out your invitation to (or include your listing in the calendars of) subscribers who match the criteria for your target audience. In many cases, your Subscriber event preferences might not match your own targeting criteria: Your age, your location, your gender, your interests, or any other criteria can be a reason why you are not seeing your own event as a Subscriber.
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A click on one of your links indicates a very strong interest in your offer. Most people who click are very likely to turn into buyers. That's why it's important to have an attractive landing page that gives more information and makes it easy to buy tickets. We don't think it's a good idea though to hide information (like ticket prices)
in order to increase clicks. Instead, we encourage you to get all relevant information out right away. This way you maximize the number of qualified clicks that will convert into ticket buyers. You might also want to try our dedicated emails in addition to the calendar listing (if you are not doing so already.) This way, your event doesn't share the attention of our subscribers with other events in the calendar email. The key to generate more clicks and ticket sales is an attractive presentation of your event. The title of the event needs to be descriptive and as short as possible. Try to summarize the benefits of attending in bullet points. In the event listing, keep the description free of any information that can be put in the other fields, including the link area. Finally, ask yourself if your event can compete with similar offers in the market. Does it provide more benefits for the same or a lower price?
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Yes! We're still developing new features and ways to use Event Me, and
your input is vital to our success. If you have any suggestions for new features
we can offer or for any other improvements, write us at invite@EventMe.com.
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Having trouble with a link, think you have found a bug, or still haven't found
the answer to your questions? Write to us at (invite@EventMe.com)
or use the contact form, and we will help you!
We only send out your ad to (or include your ad in the calendars of) subscribers who match the criteria for your target audience. In many cases, your Subscriber event preferences might not match your own targeting criteria: Your age, your location, your gender, your interests, or any other criteria can be a reason why you are not seeing your own ad as a Subscriber. In addition, another advertiser might be outbidding you to reach you with his/her campaign and you are getting his/her ad instead.
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Yes! We're still developing new features and ways to use Event Me, and
your input is vital to our success. If you have any suggestions for new features
we can offer or for any other improvements, write us at invite@EventMe.com.
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Having trouble with a link, think you have found a bug, or still haven't found
the answer to your questions? Write to us at (invite@EventMe.com)
or use the contact form, and we will help you!
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