EventBee, an event management service, has rolled out a new version of its site that introduces a flat $1 fee for all tickets sold. The move may well prove to disrupt this space – most competitors traditionally charge a small percentage of the ticket price rather than a flat fee. While the difference is negligible for small events where tickets are only a few dollars, coordinators of large (and pricey) conferences may flock to the new pricing scheme.
EventBee, which we originally introduced as a “AdSense for Events”, allows users to create customized pages for their events from which they can sell tickets online (the site supports Google Checkout or Paypal). The site also allows users to distribute ads for their events through its Event Network Listing, which consists of blogs that have embedded AdSense-like code.
The site has a number of competitors, such as EventBrite, a similar service that we’ve used a number of times to distribute tickets to our own events. And while EventBee’s new pricing scheme may raise some eyebrows, the site’s relatively small userbase and basic interface probably won’t have EventBrite changing its policies any time soon.
Wow, the gloves are off.
Next step…FREE
Does anyone know why they are charging $1 – why not go 100% free? Not trying to be critical more just curious. The site states:
“Since 2003, over 7000 Event Managers sold tickets using Eventbee Platform.”
So 7000 events is great – however under the new model that would be 7K and is that really worth getting out of bed for? For such a small amount perhaps being 100% free may be an easier sell?
Interesting to see this space heat up – definitely an interesting market.
Cheers – Eric
What is the difference between this and meetup? Or evite?
Eric, I believe they take a percentage of tix sales as well; so it’s performance based.
Has anyone taken a look at TicketLeap.com? They seem like a closer competitor to Eventbrite.
@tech, @eric – Free is our ultimate goal….more news in future
@eric – $1 per ticket sale, not per event manager
@frank – there is no % fee, just flat $1 per ticket, regardless of ticket price, that is the disruption we are bringing to the market
-Bala, Founder & CEO
@bala – ahh thanks I read the fee structure wrong – thanks for the clarification and good luck!
I’m still amazed something as poorly designed and shoddily built as this site has users. JSP and bad design just screams rush-job from Calcutta.
Google or Yahoo can offer this service for free, generate revenues from ads
@Alaska, JSP is proven technology than Ruby or any other web2.0 hype tech
It seems to me that providing only the registrion piece is insufficient. What about the rest of the web site for your event?
The guys at SomethingOn.com have a cool service for events. They offer more than just registration mangement and payment processing – they have full event web site content management. They have modeled all the objects common to large events like agendas, speakers, partners, menus, and so on.
Early stage… check it out.
Techcrunch is slipping when it writes about this outfit in the first place. And then to call it a “disruptor”? Puh-leaze!
October will see the entry of a new contestant to this space…creating events is gonna get a whole lot more Ajaxy folks.
Event City, the online portal for the Events & Creative industries will host a plethora of services for the Events & Creative industries as well as the Consumer.
We will have many different “Added Value Services” which companies like Eventbee, Ticket Leap and Event Brite can take advantage of; these will not only ad value to their existing products, but will help them generate a great revenue pool!
We look forward to all assistance in our Alpha and Beta testing – eventcity.net
Anthony Ansola
Marketing Manager
Event City Network
Wirlball USA
Event City Emporium
Most importantly, many of these companies being built have NO CLUE how the Events Industry or Public Promoted Events work – We at Event City do!!
This is a huge deficiency in the development process of these companies.
Nolan,
Thats great that you know how Events work, now if only your developers knew how to code…. that would be a win win, your site looks like well ummm sh,….
Eventcity = Vomit
I think that EZregister.com has one of the most efficient sites around. Granted they are ust starting out, I think they will be a major contender soon…
Well Chris and Robert Roddy, thank you for your feedback, and I will be the first to admit, what you see is certainly not the Event City you will expect to see when we go live. Also let me inform you that if you took an extra 5 or 10 minutes you would read that Event City (www.eventcity.net) is in Alpha Test and that many of our other properties are either in Alpha or Beta- still quite a way from our actual completed development of even our Phase One launch.
Our strengths are many – we have a great “Human” infrastructure along with an incredible plan of action and contacts up the wazoo, but our greatest of all is our Partners many years of being in the “industries” we represent at the Event City Network. Chances are you have attended Events or seen Films or participated in projects or purchased tickets for something that one of us has been involved in over the course of the last 20 – 30 years.
I challenge you to put up or shut up; contact us with your ideas and what you would do with our resources and you might be able to help a well conceived Start-up move their product to market more quickly. Practice being more positive after-all we are a new country now right?
Cheers,
Nolan
could you pls explain in the easiest way about what is mobile broadcasting
I agree with Ryan. EZregister.com does seem to be the most efficient site around. The interface is very simple to use, and registration costs are the lowest I’ve seen. Plus, they have the online chat feature, which is helpful.