HOW TO LIST YOUR EVENT ON FIND FUN HERE (part 2)

Creating Your First Event (note make sure to save at the end of each section)

Very Important Note :

If your looking to list your business on out website without selling tickets. It's important that you do not create a ticket.

You are not just creating a place to sell tickets you a creating your own promotional website.  That allows you to attach your own social media sites, and give your business a greater exproser on the web. This all cost you nothing, except if you sell tickets and that is a very small admin fee to help cover our costs. Check out your admin panel it gives you everything you need to run a productive business online.

Once you have set up your profile page with your business details your ready to list your event on Find Fun Here. You will find all the information to set up your profile page at the link below, If you havent already,

How you need to set up your profile page.

So Lets Get Started 

So once your logged in you go to the link at the top of the home page which says Create Event. When you have done this you will be taken to this page.

So under details the first thing you would do is select the category your fun event falls under. If you do not find a category that fits your event just contact us through the contact form at the bottom of the page and we will add the category you desire. So you do not have to wait for that to happen just select the category Misscellaneous, you can move it out of here by going to edit your event in the admin panel when you avent category has been created.

Step 2 

You would add your event name, this name needs to make your business and event stand out.

When you select your name the site will create the event URL this is the web address where your event can be found.

Step 3 Excerpts (short Info)

This information is only to be 125 characters long. This short description will appear on google search and also under the event picture. So make it snapy and put the key words that describes your fun event.

Step 4 Description

Your event will appear on our site with your small media photo and the short description unter it. It will look something like this.

When someone click on your event this will appear under the banner picture next to the organisers name.  The description will appear under the heading, It will look like the picture below.

If they click on the blue link below danger falls they will get the business information you provided in your profile.

Step 5 Completing Event Details

If you intend to do offline payments such as on the day, over the phone, whatever instructions you might want to add, you do it here. Currency if your in Australia AUD, whatever the country your in, the abreviation for the currency customers will be charged goes here. The next line if you have a commission charge per booking it goes here, it is a percentage amount. 

Once you have filled this out hit save, if for any reason you do not get this page done in one sitting make sure you save before you exit. The last 4 boxes in this section leave till you have completed the other sections. When your ready for it to go live tick event status. It will not go live till Super Admin has checked your post to make sure everything meets our terms and conditions.

Timing

For the purpose of this example lets say you are running a full time business. You may want to add your full years calendar or just a 6 month calendar. Then you would add your trading hours, if you trade less hours on a Saturday don't worry about it, select your normal week day trading hour.

Step 1

So first you would choose your date range then select monthly. and tick the box repeditive events. You would not tick the box monthly or weekly, that way you get tickets that will be generated for each day.

Step 2

After that you would click on the days that you are trading in each particula month. So if you selected a 6 month time period you would have trading days to add for each of those 6 months. It's easy just click on each date you want to add. If a date has already been selected it will highlight in red if not it will highight in green.

Step 3

Then You add the start time off the event, at this stage you cannot select different start time for each indivual day from this location. You can create different start times in ticketing, by creating a totally different ticket.

Ticketing

Important:

If your looking to list your business on our website without selling tickets. It's important that you do not create a ticket.

The picture below shows tickets with a grean tick next to it. That means you do not have to fill it in. You need to creat timing which is your business ours always use your longest day. When you publish your event the sight will not produce a ticket section.

If you are looking to sell tickets through your site on Find Fun Here follow the instructions below.

Step 2. 

When you select create ticket this next screen will appear. Make sure the title of the ticket makes it plain what this ticket is for. If your running the same event multiple times in the day make it plain what time slot this ticket is for. 

Then add the amount of tickets that are available then the quantity that may be purchased by a single customer.

You may be subject to different taxes you may need to add to your ticket cost. Click on taxes and add the appropriate tax. If the tax you need is not available contact us and we will add it to the list of available opptions ( You can contact us through the contact form ) keep going and do the rest and edit your event later when the taxes have been made available.

Step 3. Promotions

Here you can run a promotion, you can select from different promotion types in the drop down box. If the percentage amount is not available, contact us through the contact form and we will add it. Then select the date range you want to run the promotion over. This will add a count down clock to your ticket creating a sense of urgency.

Step 4

You can create multiple tickets, You may run mutltiple events and have different pricing. Just make sure you make it plain on each ticket what it is for. You can also add a visual aid by creating a seating chart. You may or may not have seating allocations, you may have a limited number of places available. In this case you can click on seating chart and upload a chart that reflects the number of places available. You can create this in paint then upload it. You can write a note on the chart saying  does not reflect seating position but capacity, if your not doing assigned seating. This seating chart will be displayed for each ticket for each day and will show reserved places and non reserved places. With covid a seating chart really helps, why? because you can mark seats as unavailable for different day if required and available for others, preventing over booking. So lets say your normal capacity is 30 seats but you have to cut back bookings over a time frame to say 15 you could mark these places as unabailable. Also the seating or capacity chart give customers a visual aid.

When you click on the link to seating chart this screen will appear, without the seating chart. Select upload then when the image appears click on each seating position to add it. When finished click save.

Your tickets will show up with the months that you have created tickets for and the dates that your event is running. Customers just click on the date and also the amount of tickets they want.

When they have paid if you have hooked up stripe payments, payments will go directly to your bank account. also an invoice is automatically sent to the ticket purchaser and the tickets, they can also get a copy of this through thier customer portal. When people are attending your event the QR code can be scand by the site to record attendance.

Location

After you have saved ticketing, when you click on location you will see the page below. All you need to do is start typing in the address of your venue and you will get options that should include your address on google maps. This will be added to the bottom of your event page. Customers can use this map to get directions to your venue from where they are.

Step 2 

If your address does not appear, don't worry look up the coodinates on google maps and enter them manually making sure you have the right coodinates in the right place.

At the bottom of your event discription and ticketing information will appear this map with your venues location. A customer can click the get directions tab and see how long and how to get to your location.

If you have an online event you can include a you tube link and a vimeo embeded code first you need to tick the box saying online event.

When you tick the online event another field will be added, this field is where you put all the secret information such as url and other important information, this will be passed onto the customer after the ticket has been purchased.

Media

• After you have finished with location and saved it move onto the Media Link. This is where you add your event small photo the photo that initially draws the customer to click on your event so try and use a picture that Wows them. 

• Also you add the main banner picture, the way it all looks when uploaded is as displayed under discription.

• You can also upload multiple images that customers can view when they go to your listing these are added one at a time.

• If you have a YouTube video or even a number of videos these can be added, once again one at a time.
• If you have a seating chart you can either display that or let them see it when they go to buy the ticket,

SEO

 Search Engine Optimisation

If you do not fill this out it's OK the site will use your event name and your short description to display on searches. However you can play with this and do some online research to help your event search better on the different search engines available. 

• So meter title would be the heading you would see at the top of each seach result, when you do seach on say google. This title needs to be unique and highlight your event.
• Meta Tags these are not displayed on search results but are read by search engines. You can go to this Link to learn more, you can also add search engine bots.
• Meter description is a 155 caracter description of you event that will be displayed under the event title. You can play with the wording in your title and the description to see if your event searches better. But don't expect to change it then see instant results, it takes a while.

Publish

So when you have saved all your other work and go to publish, at the top you will see a link saying add tags,

So when you select add tags you will see the screen below pop up.

What do tags look like when they are created. see below.

So the firsf field is title that is the wording you see on the image above.

Type is the group of tags in this case Jetty dive whale watching I can add a number of different tags to this type. You can also creat more than one type of tag to go with you site. So you could have different groups that described different fun things your company does.

So if select no under profil page, when some one clicks on the image they will be taken to the web address you provided. If you do select yes for profile page then this page will extend so you can provide other information. See the image below.

So here you can add a lot of information about you event you can even past already created html information into the description and create something that looks like the page below. So when you click on one of the pictures above this is what you get.

On this page will appear a link to your web site or a specific page you may have selected or even a link to the ticketing on this site, links to your social media pages if provided.

Your all done.

Now all you have to do is make sure you have saved your work and go back to description and click event status. You can click if featured if you would like your event to be featured. We will contact you about fees for featured events.