EventVue Creates Social Networks For Your Event. A Bit Pricey Though

by Jason Wilk on September 23, 2008

  • EventVue creates social networks for conferences and events. 
  • They import the attendees who have registered to your event at EventBrite or other confirmation services.
  • Once the contacts are in, the attendees of your conference will have a place to study, interact and network with the other confirmed guests. 
  • Attendees can upload a picture to their profile, add a job title, personal description, etc. 
  • EventVue charges $4 per attendee as well as a $250 setup fee. Seems pricey when I have social networking alternatives like Ning to build out a simple social network platform for my event. 
  • This service would be very useful if they could create a LinkedIn application that I can see which of my contacts are attending events within LinkedIn and I don’t have to leave what I’m doing to go to EventVue. 
  • EventVue is a TechStars funded company that released at the Demo Day 08 today. 
Made tiny from: Demo Day 08

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Tagged as: Event Social Network, Event Social Network Platform, EventVue, EventVue.com, How To Build A Social Network For My Event, TechStars 08, TechStars Demo Day, TechStars.org

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  • jason
    @ tony. I think you are right on that free services should be the way to go. I think having the option to see other people's and mine's event schedule, with the ability to netwok with others attending is key.
  • jason
    It's a valid point that ticket prices for conferences are expensive, but someone won't look at you as a small fraction of the ticket price, but wil analyze you in terms of your overall cost and cut into revenue. When you look at the end amount, it's significant at $4 per attendee, especially for smalller events that aren't going to make as much and have only a few hundred people. Best of luck to you
  • I've got to take issue with your comment that the price is expensive for a tool to make networking better at conferences. For conferences that are pulling in $1-2M and are charging $1-2k per attendee, it doesn't take very many happy attendees to make up the cost of the network. If a specific tool can make the professional networking worth the trip for five or so attendees, then the cost was worthwhile.

    It's a valid question though, about whether they're more effective than a Ning or compelling enough to draw people out of LinkedIn.

    CrowdVine is in this space also, and our data says definitely. We can change the networking experience for a few hundred or thousand attendees.

    We also have self-service options starting at free for conferences that don't have major budgets. Ning makes networks for hanging out, like personalized MySpaces. But conference attendees just want to meet. That's what we're good at.
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