There are so many options!!
Now if your event cannot find a site to advertise your event, your not looking very hard. You first need to decide how much time you want to spend on your social media sites. Twitter for example takes a lot of time and you need to make sure you are tweeting regularly. If you do not think you have enough to tweet about then maybe you should use Facebook and update statuses about your event and promote your event by posting pictures of last years event. Also, flickr is another great site that you can use to upload pictures for everyone to see. If you let people see how fun or exciting your event is, it could get more people to come!
Since many events have a very strict budget, social media is a great thing to use because many sites are free and if you can find someone to do this for you for free it would be so beneficial for your event!
First of all, you need to make a presence in your social networking sites! Start getting friends on Facebook or Following people on Twitter. You can promote your event to so many more people than traditional advertising. Think about, how many people actually saw that sign you posted on the wall of a restaurant last year? Probably not many! But with social networking, your reach is endless!
According to Constant Contact Survey, "A full 78% of survey respondents believe that social media is an important marketing tool for their events. Roughly the same percent (77%) currently use social media to market and/or promote their events and another 14% pan to do so in the next year."
^^^ If your that 14 percent. You need to just on the band wagon now!!
My suggestions to promote your event are to make sure you research your social media options! Even though Facebook and Twitter are the most popular today, don't worry if they don't fit your goals. Do what you think is right!
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