Creating and planning an event is hard work, especially when you are competing with hundreds, if not thousands of other events happening on the same day at the same time. This is why focusing on efficiency on all aspects of event planning — from selling tickets to event distribution and guest check-ins — can reduce the stress load. With Sparxo, there are multiple features that can help you ensure you have an intuitive platform to sell tickets.

Save time

Time is money. We all know that. After all, you don’t want to be stuck on a ticketing platform that is too technical or complicated to use. You have enough on your plate with the setup of the actual event itself. That’s why you want to choose a platform and team to work with like Sparxo. We have created a user-friendly, intuitive and convenient platform for event planners whether new or experienced to design their unique event page in minutes. We know the importance of making sure your event is all about your brand and only your brand. That’s why we have created an easy-to-use splash page designer where you can add images, YouTube videos, SoundCloud music, maps and more to customize your unique event page.

You can also seamlessly integrate ticket sales directly onto your website with no redirect or install our Facebook page application which automatically updates itself as events are published, saving you a lot of time. Not just that, Sparxo enables direct two-way integration to the venue’s website as well. For example, an events calendar will auto-update as events are created on your account or on the venue rental accounts, and events set up on rental partners’ accounts will auto-post onto your website and Facebook fan page once Sparxo is installed.

We also help you make quick ticketing decisions such as choosing multiple ticket levels to drive demand, setting up promotional deals, attaching your terms and conditions and customizing confirmation emails. The time-saving features are endless with Sparxo!

Save time by integrating ticket sales directly onto your website with Sparxo

Reduce barriers to ticket purchase

One of the most stressful aspects of event planning is collecting and tracking payments. You want a trustworthy platform that is easy-to-use and makes secure payment transactions so that you don’t lose customers along the way. With Sparxo, we have integrated the Stripe payment application that processes transactions within 2–5 days after a ticket purchase rather than after your event is over. The best part is that throughout the whole ticketing experience, attendees never get redirected to another site. This is great for ensuring you keep their attention on your event and that they follow through with the ticket purchase.

If you decide you want to collect payments onsite at your event itself, you can easily do so with the Sparxo POS system. This is another convenient feature where tickets and attendee information continues to be tracked on our system and all your accounting is in the same place. On top of that, you can also easily manage refunds right from your dashboard on Sparxo and 100% of our fees are also refunded.

Focus on making a great first impression

When your attendees arrive, you want them to be blown away by your event and not be stuck in a long slow line waiting to check-in. First impressions are important. With Sparxo, they can be welcomed with our efficient check-in system where our scanning solution ensures that entry is secure and easy. We’ve successful checked-in 1,000 attendees in under 30 minutes with one trained ticket scanner. You can have your team use their smartphones to scan guest tickets for entry via the Sparxo mobile check-in app. This app helps you scan QR codes quickly, easily search attendees by name/email/code, import third-party tickets and automatically review check-in statistics.

The convenience of having automated check-in features at your fingertips is invaluable, especially when the alternative is manual management that is time-consuming and inefficient.

Sparxo’s efficient check-in system ensures that entry is secure and easy.

Constantly improve your event strategy

Data is king and is driving better decision-making and performance in all aspects of our lives. So why not event planning as well? Having a convenient system that allows you to collect, track, own, export and review customer data enables you to improve your ticketing and event distribution strategy on the go. With Sparxo, you don’t have to be a data scientist to do any of this. We make it simple and easy for you to view, filter and search through your data. We also help you analyze your data with convenient data dashboards that create charts and other visuals, helping you make informed decisions.

Furthermore, you could enhance your event strategy by being a part of our affiliate marketing program — every Sparxo partner or an affiliate receives a commission for events that use Sparxo at their venue or even outside of their venue. It’s a win-win with.

Momondays

I’ve been speaking professionally for almost as long as I’ve been working professionally. Back in the early 1990’s, I was giving presentations to educate the business world about ‘The World Wide Web’. (Yes, I’m that old.) Then in 1995, I launched a dotcom — the world’s first online searchable directory of creative professionals — and I toured art and design colleges North America to show students and alums how to make friends with the Internet.

I kept getting invited back, so I guess I was doing something right, but it wasn’t until I spoke at a conference for immigrants that my perception of the power of public speaking changed.

Completely.

Near the end of my talk, after realizing my “personal branding” presentation wouldn’t resonate with this audience (as immigrants probably don’t face the kind of personal branding challenges I talk about in my presentation) I had to think of what was I going to tell them that could be useful?

So I told them how my father grew up as a Jew in Iran and how he joined the French foreign legion in Egypt to escape the anti-Semitism and discrimination. I told them how my mother in France was captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz for a year had to walk the 3-day death march in the mountains of Poland, how they both met in an elevator in Paris, (that this is when I realized the importance of a good elevator pitch). How they decided to come to Canada, to give their children the life and opportunity that they never had – and never would have – in their own countries.

If I was trying to maintain any sense of professionalism, I had clearly lost it by this point. I got emotional. Everyone seemed to be getting emotional.

When I was done, a solidly built African woman came over to me. Her face was wet with tears. In broken English I could hear her mutter: ‘thank you, I hope in 30 years my children will say the same thing about me.’

I came home, still filled with emotion, knowing that somehow I had made a real difference in people’s lives. Now when I think about to that day, I realize that was the day I became a ‘motivational’ speaker.

From the beginning of time, stories are how we have passed on our values, made sense of the world and effected change. Today, it’s how we influence our customers, our teams and our audiences. It’s how we sell, inspire, motivate, create change and give hope to sometimes desperate people.

It was also that day that the seeds of momondays were planted.

I believe that more than ever, we just need to put away the business cards and connect authentically, one human being to another. When we do that — when we are just ourselves and share our personal stories of challenge and growth — we have the power to transform lives, starting with our own.

It doesn’t have to feel like a twelve-step program. Nobody has to cry. It doesn’t have to take thousands of dollars and several weekends. No gurus have to be flown in from far-away places.

It seems that momondays has become the modern day campfire, a place where people can gather around, tell stories, have a good time, and open up to a community of people who can identify with them. I view these shows as a place where people can connect and let go, enjoy each others company, understanding that each of us has a history, and whether it’s the good, the bad, or the ugly, we can laugh about it and learn from it.

It’s all encompassed in a beautiful story called life.

Michel Neray – Founder of MoMondays

“I met Guy (my business partner/brother) on the beach (serendipitously) as I was teaching Yoga in LA, I was so young then — You really know the relationship is amazing when even through all the adversity you can still be creative have fun and be yourself (tried it out not as successfully in LA then moved to the Bay Area and it’s hugely different), and even through all of that still having a huge profound effect on one another.”

“This event is done with so much love…and honestly we (Guy and I) had no idea that this would happen, we’ve always dreamed of something like this but never at this scale. I am damn grateful, still in shock, and will probably always be in amazement and wonder.”