That’s right – we are currently on the lookout for a freelance writer and researcher to assist us with a small job.  Could this be you?

What exactly will the person be required to do?

We are looking to develop some content for our website www.eventarc.com.  The content will be focused around specific topics, and will be made up of a collection of articles, how to guides, checklists, videos, primers, etc etc.  Pretty much all of the content will be around the best way to run events and fundraise.  We need someone to:

• Write the articles
• Put together the checklists
• Interview subject matter experts for their thoughts and ideas
• Research best practice techniques and identify useful resources on the web
• Find and include related …
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We are a business who make online registration and ticketing software, and we do this with a small number of staff.

Large competitors have fully staffed call centres, retail outlets, business development managers, human resource consultants, lawyers, training departments, management layers and stupendously large marketing budgets.

We counter all of that with speed. Speed of execution. Speed of response. Speed of decision making.

When you call or email us, you are dealing with the people who actually made the software. The people who made the software are the same ones with the ability to say yes or no to almost any question you have.  We respond quickly and go the extra mile for our customers because it is how …

It has been a busy year for the team here at Eventarc, but we have plenty more planned for 2010.

Thank you to all our customers who have signed up to use Eventarc over the last few months. Your usage of our product is truly appreciated, and we look forward to supporting you with many more events in 2010.

For those yet to have a play, check out our new 3 minute screencast for a quick tutorial on how to get started. You might also want to have a read of some independent media coverage about Eventarc, meet the Eventarc Team, or just see where we work.

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On the weekend I was lucky enough to score a review copy of “Practical SEO Copywriting” from Glenn Murray. Sixty-five pages of advice for individuals and companies looking to understand how to rank well on Google.

It’s a topic we wrestle with here at Eventarc, as like most companies we would love to rank well in the search engines. Not just rank well for our company name, but rank for our key phrases such as “sell tickets online” and “online event registration“. So how well does this book assist us in achieving our SEO ambitions, and is it a good buy for you?…

We are pleased to announce that our payments solution has been released, allowing Eventarc customers to accept payments for their events securely and in real time.

No more chasing after checks, promised payments or missed phone calls. Just smooth, automated online event registration and ticketing.

Right now you can accept payments for your event in one of two ways:

1. Use Eventarc to hold and securely process the payments
2. Use your own merchant account

Both options are a fantastic way of easily processing payments for your events. Soon you will also be able to use PayPal as well.

You can register for a free account here to try Eventarc for yourself.

Let us know if you have any questions or queries at all, as …

Building a ticketing and online registration product has its difficulties. One of those is deciding what features are most important, and what can be left for another day.  Feature selection becomes even harder as launch day gets closer.

A major element we bailed over the side in order to launch on time was the ability to make paid ticketing events.  Given that processing payments is our entire business model this may seem like a strange decision to some, but you should never underestimate the power of actually launching something.  Launch brings momentum, heightens enthusiasm and injects an energy into the office that is impossible to replicate.  We should have launched earlier!

We knew that payments wouldn’t be that far …

Looking to run an event and need online registration? Movie nights, fundraising walks, networking events, Xmas parties and many more can all be handled by Eventarc, and now you can see what they might look like. If you want to see what the ticket will look like at the end of the process, feel free to fill out the forms and go through the process.

We launched the self-service version of Eventarc yesterday, the culmination of more than two years of effort and countless iterations. We have been up and running with a working product in those two years, but it always involved us manually setting the client up in the background. Yesterday’s quiet launch of our free self service product starts us down a brand new path.

Over the last few months we have been madly finalising the remaining Trickytix functionality to be included for launch. At the same time, we have been thinking about our sales and marketing processes, our market, our customer development, and how each of these contributes to future success.