The Events Calendar Event Marketing
Connecting with your attendees through automated email communication keeps your audience informed and helps increase ticket sales. Using an integrated marketing tool like Promoter allows you to reach out to your community without manually exporting subscriber lists or tracking individual sign-ups. When you automate your outreach, you ensure that everyone receives important updates, event details, and confirmation notes exactly when they need them.
This collection provides helpful guides to get you started with Promoter and manage your subscriber contacts. You will learn how to connect your website, manage your lists, and build automated email campaigns that trigger when people register or buy tickets. Use these resources to streamline your marketing tasks and keep your audience engaged from the moment they sign up.
The Events Calendar Event Marketing articles
Learn how to configure automated marketing tools and manage your attendee email lists with the following guides.
Creating Promoter Email Templates
Read more: Creating Promoter Email TemplatesYou can customize the look and feel of the email that is sent to attendees on the Template screen. Header The header is the area located above the content in the email. Using a text-based logo Enabling this will allow you to type into the email header instead of uploading an image. Choosing this option…
Creating Promoter Shortcuts and Campaigns
Read more: Creating Promoter Shortcuts and CampaignsPromoter includes two features for reusing message configurations across events: shortcuts and campaigns. Shortcuts are individual reusable message templates. Campaigns are collections of shortcuts that can be applied to an event all at once. This article covers both. Promoter Shortcuts A shortcut is a message template you can use to quickly create emails over and…
Creating Scheduled and Triggered Messages in Promoter
Read more: Creating Scheduled and Triggered Messages in PromoterThis article covers everything involved in creating, styling, sending, and monitoring messages in Promoter β from configuring your email template through to reading the results after a message is sent. Scheduled Messages Click into the event you want to create a message for, then click the Create Message button. You’ll be presented with two options:…
Getting Started with Promoter
Read more: Getting Started with PromoterPromoter is an email marketing service built specifically for event organizers using The Events Calendar. It connects to your WordPress site, imports your events and attendees automatically, and lets you send scheduled messages, triggered emails, and full campaigns β without manually building email lists or exporting data. This article covers everything you need to get…
Managing Attendees and Subscribers in Promoter
Read more: Managing Attendees and Subscribers in PromoterBy default, Promoter automatically imports attendees from your events β anyone who purchased a ticket or registered via RSVP. But what if you want to promote your events to people who haven’t attended before? You can create custom lists for that purpose. π‘ Custom lists are limited to a total of 5,000 email addresses across…
Managing Your Promoter Account and Data
Read more: Managing Your Promoter Account and DataThis article covers account-level management for your Promoter account: updating your profile, understanding site-license limits, and making data or deletion requests. Updating Your Profile Access your profile from the top-right corner of the Promoter dashboard. From the Profile screen you can update your name, email address, and password. π‘ Changing your password requires entering your…
Troubleshooting Promoter
Read more: Troubleshooting PromoterConnection Issues Promoter needs to be properly and securely connected to your WordPress site at all times in order to work correctly. On your end, that means making sure you are meeting all the requirements from our setup guide, including making sure that both the The Events Calendar and Event Tickets plugins are updated and…
Understanding Link Tracking in Promoter Emails
Read more: Understanding Link Tracking in Promoter EmailsOnce you connect your website to Promoter and set up your Mail Deliverability, you’ll be ready to send messages to your attendees using Promoter. During this setup process, you need to add some new entries to your DNS like new CNAME and TXT records. Those records have different functions and one of their functions is…