How to Promote event online

1. ConnectNigeria.com

2.  Workshops, seminars, fairs, exhibitions or
any other event is a great way to multiply
your marketing efforts for your business.

3.  Organizing events is an effective way to get
your prospects/customers actively involved
in your business, and attract new customers
to your business as well.

4.  It is also an effective way to build
credibility for your business and be
seen as an expert in your field.

5.  An event is considered successful when
it is packed with spectators/delegates.
 To achieve success for your events, it is
important that you get the word out, to
as many people as possible

6. Online Marketing Tactics
 Create a landing page on your company
website/blog
 Contribute articles about key topics related
to your event.
 Write and distribute news releases
 Publish videos
 Create promotional emails
 Promote event using social media

7. The Social Media
 The social media is one of the options you
can employ to promote and market your
event online.
 Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google Plus
are some great social media tools you can
use to market your event online.

8. Facebook
 The world’s largest social network, with over 1
billion users.
 With the amount of users facebook have, your
events, whether business, social, or technical, has
its audience here

9. To create an event page:
 Go to the Events tab on the left side of your
home page

10. To Create An Event Page:
 Click Create Event in the upper-right
corner of the page

11.  Then, enter the appropriate information i.e.
Name of event, Date, Description etc.

12.  Begin inviting your friends on facebook
by clicking the Invite Friends on the
upper-right corner of your event's page.

13. Facebook Events: Hosts
 You can also add more hosts to your
event.

14. Facebook Events: Hosts
The advantage to adding more hosts to an event is:
 Hosts have the ability to invite more people to the
event, appoint other hosts and edit event content.
Any host can add more hosts to an event by
clicking Edit at the top right of the event and
adding names to the Host field.

15. Learn More
 You can visit facebook’s help center to learn
more on events page
www.facebook.com/help/events

16.  Linked is the biggest professional social
network, with more than 175 million registered
professional users.
 This is a great tool that you can use to promote
your event. Especially
seminars, workshops, trainings or other business
related event.

17.  To promote your event on Linked In, one must first
have the events application on His/her profile.
 Go to More, click on Get More Applications and
add Events to your applications

18. Add your event

19. Promote Your Event On Linked In
 Share your event with your connections
 Send link of your event to your connections
 Share link to appropriate groups
 Send promotional messages with event link to your
connections

20.  ConnectNigeria.com is an online search
portal, where one can search for and find
almost anything in Nigeria.

21. Push Your Business Related Events
 With thousands of business related
queries, the site is a great place to target
entrepreneurs and business professionals
for your business related event.

22. Push Your Social Events
 You can also target an audience social events
using ConnectNigeria.com

23. How To Add Your Event On
ConnectNigeria.com
 Signup [if you are not already a registered user]
 Login

24. How To Add Your Event On
ConnectNigeria.com
 Click on Add/Edit/Explore drop down
 Click on Add Event

25. How To Add Your Event On
ConnectNigeria.com
 Fill the form appropriately, with Name Of
Event, Venue, Time, Description etc
 Save

26. To promote your event on
ConnectNigeria.com
 Recommend the event via Facebook, Twitter
and Google plus.
 Share the event details to your email
contacts
 Get Featured on ConnectNigeria.com

27. Featured events
 ConnectNigeria.com throws its support to
select events, provided it meets the site’s
standards.

28. Featured events on ConnectNigeria
get an extra boost on:
 The article section
 Newsletters
 Social media platforms – Twitter And Facebook

29.  To get your event featured on the site, send a
request via email to

30. Other Online Tools
 Company blogs
 Press releases
 Videos: You Tube
 Photos:
Pinterest, Flickr, Facebook, ConnectNigeria