When it comes to promoting your events we know lots of you use platforms like Eventbrite. And we are always curious to know why that is when for so many of you, you already own the tech to do it yourself! Yes, we know Eventbrite can bring you new people to your event, but does it really? And, we're big on keeping things simple and only sharing out links to your website. With that in mind we were keen to show you a practical walkthrough of this Eventbrite alternative.

We talk a lot out on the socials and with The Digital Circus community about simplifying. And simplifying means trying to use as fewer third party platforms as possible to make your life easier. Think about how many apps/ third party websites you currently use. a] it becomes quite costly if you want to use the paid features and b] by sending people into every different direction across the internet you're not actually building the cleanest and most straightforward of online ecosystems.

We often talk about growing your online presence by hosting your own webinars, or networking events like our Coffee Mornings to bring people into your ecosystem. So what if we told you that you could do this by using just your website and your email marketing provider? Two things you are likely to already have in your arsenal.

So, in this short demonstration video below Alan does a real time walk through of how we set up and "sell" spaces for our free Fabulous Yellow Tuxedo Coffee Mornings using just our WordPress website and Mailerlite.

The principle is sound regardless of where you've built your website [ WordPress, WIX, Squaresepace etc] and with whatever email marketing platform you use [ Mailerlite, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign] but if you're unsure of how to set this up yourself remember that we are able to offer one off Discoverer power hour sessions to help get you set up.

We do hope you enjoy this video and as always if you have any questions or would like to talk things through be sure to drop us a message and say hello!