RegOnline Weblog

Ask the Registration Experts: Innovations in Registration Technology

2007-12-20T17:11:00Z

RegOnine's president, Bill Flagg, explains some of RegOnline's innovations to event registration technology.

Let us know what you think in the comments. If there's a particular topic you'd like us to cover, leave your suggestion in the comments too!

Ask the Registration Experts: Important Features in Online Registration

2007-12-07T16:48:00Z

RegOnline's president, Bill Flagg, explains important features of an online registration system that a meeting planner should look for.

Let us know what you think in the comments. If there's a particular topic you'd like us to cover, leave your suggestion in the comments too!

Ask the Registration Experts: Registration Form Analytics

2007-12-05T22:43:00Z

Web Marketing Supervisor Ryan Bell explains the benefits of using RegOnline's RegAnalytics reports to discover new opportunities and fine tune your registration process.

Let us know what you think in the comments. If there's a particular topic you'd like us to cover, leave your suggestion in the comments too!

Ask the Registration Experts: The Video Spokesperson

2007-11-26T22:18:00Z

Web Marketing Supervisor Ryan Bell explains the benefits of using RegOnline's videospokesperson on your registration form to increase level of connection attendees experience when registering online.

Let us know what you think in the comments. If there's a particular topic you'd like us to cover, leave your suggestion in the comments too!

Ask the Registration Experts: Designing Great Looking Forms

2007-11-09T21:17:00Z

Our Interaction Designer, Luke Van Deman, shares some secrets on making your registration form stand out and get noticed. He covers topics like: photography, colors, logos and includes a showcase of great-looking forms. This one is a must-watch!

Let us know what you think in the comments. If there's a particular topic you'd like us to cover, leave your suggestion in the comments too!

Ask the Registration Experts: How to Use Early Bird Registration

2007-10-29T15:54:00Z

We have another 'Ask the Registration Experts' video to help you increase registration for your next event! In this video, our web marketing supervisor, Ryan Bell, shares with you the benefit of using early bird pricing to increase registrations for your next event.

As always, our video tips apply to any event, not just those hosted with RegOnline, so feel free to pass them on to your colleagues!

Let us know what you think in the comments. If there's a particular topic you'd like us to cover, leave that in the comments too!

Ask the Registration Experts: Techniques to Make Registration Better

2007-10-10T19:51:00Z

There's no doubt about it: RegOnline's software makes event planners' lives easier, but we're always looking for more ways to make events more successful with less work.

To that end, we've developed a video series called 'Ask the Registration Experts' to provide quick tips to improve events. Most of the topics are general enough to apply to any event registration, not just those hosted with RegOnline, so pass them on to your colleagues!

Here is the first video in the series, titled 'Creating Irresistible Registration Forms' and featuring our president, Bill Flagg:

Let us know what you think in the comments. If there's a particular topic you'd like us to cover, leave that in the comments too!

Friday Request: Vote for this SXSW Panel!

2007-09-21T16:59:00Z

As some of you may know, last year we sent our President, Bill, to a panel at SXSW called Web App Autopsy. If you weren't able to attend or haven't read the coverage yet it was a very interesting panel, and you can find a complete recap at either of these links:

SXSW: Web App Autopsy
Web App Autopsy at ParticleTree

We'd like to provide more insight into what we've learned after more than 10 years in business and Bill has volunteered to present again. This year SXSW has decided to select panels based on user votes.

If you'd like to see more great information like the above, head to the link below and vote for Bill's proposed panel (free registration is required to vote)!

Vote now!

Have a great weekend!

Our Favorite Reviews 9/19/2007

2007-09-19T20:49:00Z

If you frequent the RegOnline website, you might have noticed a very exciting change this month: RegOnline recently received a rank of level 1 PCI compliance! This rank means that RegOnline now offers all of our customers the highest level of security for credit card and personal information!

As we are all highly enthused by this achievement, we decided to ask bloggers to write about their thoughts on what such high security means to them. So, to let them tell you about it, here are the few we recommend:

Arkansas - a Great Place to Live offers an anecdotal story about how RegOnline could help you plan a large event with confidence;

On The Hill lets everyone know about the possible devastating effects of a security breach;

HerBulletin ~ Herb of the Week highlights how a higher level of security can ensure that registrants will not be deterred when they have to enter their credit card information;

And last – but most definitely not least – The Occasional Editorialist wonders if people pay enough attention to online security but stresses how important it is that companies such as RegOnline are ‘taking the high road’ to offer higher levels of security because most people will not take protecting their personal information into their own hands.

P.S. If you would like to know more about Level 1 PCI compliance, check out Acunetix – web application security, or look for RegOnline’s ‘Unsurpassed Security’ section.

Bloggers Review RegOnline!

2007-08-29T17:26:00Z

We returned to the ever-interesting world of ‘blogs this month to ask a few bloggers to write about some of RegOnline’s new pre-selected themes and how they would feel about them as a registrant! Here are some of the reviews we loved this month:

Nanette’s Dog Blog highlights how easily the web page piqued her interest in the conference, drawing her in to consider attending rather than merely reviewing the page.

LittleBitInteresting speaks of the advantage of the professional appearance of RegOnline’s event sites for her upcoming event.

Beth and Cory’s Mom enjoys the ease of many RegOnline features—such as confirmation emails—and the organization of the event websites.

Finally, Fly the World speaks about the difficulty of planning an event without the help of conference registration software and how nice it is that RegOnline takes care of so many of the details that can bog down event planners.

Oh! And here are the sites they looked at, just in case you want to check them out for yourself:

The Wounded Heart Conference

And

MTC ‘07

And! Check out these screen captures of some other great registration websites:

Find out more about event websites!

Our Favorite Reviews 7/5/07

2007-07-05T22:04:00Z

As you may know, we like to ask bloggers to review our site and online registration service about every month. We then emphasize the reviews that are a cut above the rest. Here are some of the recent raving reviews:

Wahseh! relates an experience of a harried camp planner.

My blooming business blog reveals how to simplify your life.

On The Hill talks about how difficult it is to ensure the highest number of registrants in a society with booming gas prices.

Lee’s Blog tells how tracking and reports can ensure professional registration and help with future conferences.

Finally, Nomadic Mom shares how helpful it would have been to have an automated 24-hour registration service for her busy lifestyle.

Our Favorite Reviews 5/4/07

2007-05-04T19:50:00Z

We've asked a few more folks from the world of 'blogs to review our site and online registration service. We like to highlight the best reviews that are written about us, so here are some of the most recent favorites:

Advertising for Success talks about recapturing registrants who abandon the process.

My Opinion Counts tells us about the frustration of not understanding a registration form.

Llama Mama Drama gives the viewpoint of a frustrated registrant who needs confirmation or non-confirmation for a registration.

And last but certainly not least, The world around us tells us how they came to find out about RegOnline, and also gives a nod to our latest integration.

RegOnline Review #5: Nan Matthews

2007-03-23T14:08:00Z

Nan is a prolific user of RegOnline who puts together over 30 events per year as an independent planner at her company The Matthews Group. She is a well-known name around the RegOnline offices for both her tremendous experience, and being a customer service and tech support favorite.

In this video, she discusses how RegOnline has helped her to be a more effective event professional:

RegOnline Review #4: Freddie Templeton

2007-03-16T14:16:00Z

Freddie is another successful independent event professional who has shared valuable insight with RegOnline while using our registration software successfully. Her company, Rocky Mountain Event Consultants, has been particularly effective at persuading major professional organizations to "Go Paperless" and try RegOnline.

Here, Freddie talks about her experience using RegOnline to assist with tasks common to an independent planner's craft:

RegOnline Review #3: Deb Bartlett

2007-03-09T15:05:00Z

Deb Bartlett has been not only a great RegOnline client, but a great resource for us as well. Her valuable insight, gained from her independent meeting planning experience at Executive Events, has been tapped for the RegOnline Report, helping us to improve our product, and even to help us with our own Super Summit User's Conference!

Here Deb talks about how she evaluates RegOnline's value to her as an independent planner: