New Ticketing Platform from EventsnWales

New Ticketing Platform from EventsnWales

ticketing platformWe are happy to announce that we have teamed up with Fatsoma to be able to help our existing members and future members be able to promote events, sell tickets and reach more people through our new ticketing platform.

By partnering with Fatsoma we are now able to promote events that are listed on our website, Co promote events and also enable members that need or would benefit from the ability to sell tickets direct through our new ticketing platform powered by Fatsoma (Flat rate 10% fee charged per ticket sale). We have already got the New EventsnWales Event & Ticketing platform set up and can be used straight away. So if you would like the ability to sell tickets even if they are Free (no fee charged either) then you can and all under the EventsnWales brand. Any events that are set up through the platform we will add to the events listed so they will still have a page listed on the main website as well as being able to be searched through the fatsoma website and app. All tickets sold through our platform will help to keep our website sustainable with EventsnWales receiving a % of the fee for all those that sign up with us.

That’s not all, for those events that are happy for us to Co-Promote your event then an amount of commission can be agreed for us to help promote your event further. With designated shout outs and marketing campaigns to help. We will always send a Co Promotion request to events listed but it is entirely up to the individual event/organisation if they would like to take this up. The event will still be listed on the main website even if we are not Co-Promoting it. Any events that are listed through the new platform that we are co promoting you will be able to locate under a new menu section Co Promoted Events.

ticketing platform

Its an exciting time for EventsnWales as we are looking to the long term for the brand and to enable us to continue to help promote all events that are listed on both platforms and this will hopefully generate the income to enable us to keep the general membership free and also provide you will a larger spread of people visiting your own event listings. Please make sure that you sign up to receive updates of our newsletters and events to keep up to date with the latest in Wales. Make sure you pop over to the new platform and follow us so you get the regular updates and others to do so too.

We look forwarded to both existing and new members and organisations being able to use the ticketing platform and have a way of selling and monitoring ticket sales without the hassle of taking payments themselves and issuing tickets or email confirmations this is hopefully your all in one solution.

New Ticketing Platform from EventsnWales

 

300 Events in Wales

300 Events in Wales

A Small Milestone300 events in wales

It is a great feeling when you hit even a small milestone and realise that something you set out to achieve is actually happening. Before EventsnWales.com was set up and the idea of helping both large and small organisations get events to reach and be seen by a wider audience, little did we expect for the website to have had 300 Events in Wales listed within 12 Months. With around 10 days to go we have hit that milestone, we are so proud that with the support of our sponsors Harris Associates (South West) Ltd and various other organisations along the way we have been able to connect with such a wide variety of businesses, organisations, charities, groups and individuals. With the help and power of Social media we have been able to help promote all events that have been listed on the website through a number of social media streams including but not limited too Twitter, Facebook, Google+ & Pinterest as well as seeing individual events being promoted by our followers and other organisations and individuals.

What 300 Events in Wales have been listed?

We have had a Wide range of events listed on the website over the past 12 months and from the last month that looks like it will be growing all the time. We have had events in all categories and regions of Wales which is amazing and just shows that the website and social media profiles are working and being seen. We are not going to go into stats or figures those that want to find out can. We just want to continue to grow the website, Social media accounts so that your events get seen by more people both locally and further afield. That is what EventsnWales is about. It is all about promoting Events in Wales and around the country. Events can be listed as long as they take place in Wales, which means if they pass through Wales, start or finish in Wales they all count.

We are looking to push further in the next 12 months with more regular Newsletters, Blog posts from ourselves about events and also from the organisers as well either prior to an event or even after it has taken place. If you would be interested in guest bloging on the website and have an event you would love to write about please get in touch.

Once again Thank you for all the support and listing events, Without them the website and social media accounts would not have anything to promote.

300 Events in Wales

 

Events n Wales 3 months on

Events n Wales 3 months on

So Events n Wales has now been live for over 3 months and it is great to look back to see the range of events from around Wales that have already been listed on the website. We really do want the website to be a success and help businesses, charities, individuals and organisations to reach more people through Wales or to make more people aware of events being held. To do this we combine the fact of allowing members to list events which then become part of the website and are crawled by search engines all over the world. We make sure that we try to help the listings by making slight changes to the content or description to help with them get found on these search engines. As a result we wanted to just share a few of the different search terms that our website has shown up for and the website has made an impression on search engine results. (Results have been taken from Google Analytics)

Events n Wales 3 months onSince 1st March (Launch of Events n Wales) until the 18th July 2015 we have made impressions on over 178 different queries which average over that period in the Top 10 for that search (325 different search queries in total). We won’t bore you with the list of the 178 but are going to list a number of them to give you an idea of the broad range of ways that people can find your listing even when not looking for it as all of the search queries present a way to the website and all the listings on it. So here goes :

  • eventsnwales
  • “brian mayo” or “@brianmayo” or “brianmayo” -“mayo-smith”
  • trekfest
  • tiffany stevenson
  • focus wales 2015, focus personal training, 22 april
  • nwales
  • moving on together
  • creative 7s
  • gauntlet games cardiff
  • go dad run 2015
  • llanidloes 7s
  • father’s day bike ride
  • fathers day charity
  • newport slides
  • peterstone lakes golf
  • royal variety
  • eezee riders
  • illyria: `the taming of the shrew`, north wales tourism ltd, 11 july
  • fonmon castle dog show
  • weir laundry
  • dalmatian ride 2015
  • walkathon anglesey 2015
  • monmouth aquathlon 2015
  • gyg karting ltd cerrigydrduion
  • welsh disabled golf
  • onesie walk cardiff
  • abergavenny triathlon 2015
  • north wales stages
  • ty hafan onesie
  • wales onsie walk
  • neath comedy festival
  • castell beat 2015
  • kidwelly carnival 2015
  • creative rugby 7s
  • dirty dozen races
  • ty hafan welsh 3 peaks
  • the laugharne weekend
  • bobath dragon boat race 2015
  • castlefest uk 2015

And a lot more, but as you can see from some listed above by listing your event on our website you can be found when people are not searching for your actual event and this was one of our aims for setting up the website to help people reach further than they normally can. Without the help of all of those that list the events from around Wales we would have nothing to share or shout about so we thank you all for signing up for a membership and listing your own events.

Where do Events n Wales Visitors come from?

We have 89.92% of visitors from the UK

1.
United Kingdom
2,480

89.82%

2.
United States
148

5.36%

3.
(not set)
31

1.12%

4.
Russia
28

1.01%

5.
France
10

0.36%

6.
India
9

0.33%

7.
Netherlands
7

0.25%

8.
Germany
6

0.22%

9.
Spain
6

0.22%

10.
China
5

0.18%

Which is then split by Country within the UK (some closer to the border with England may show as England depending on IP address)

Events n Wales 3 months on

We have had nearly 5,000 page views since the website was launched which is a great start, which is growing month on month. With a comparison 72.4% of new visitors to 27.6% of returning visitors from over 2,400 visitors to Events n Wales.

Our Social media accounts are also growing with over 1.7k followers on Twitter, slower over on Facebook at 346, On Pinterest we have over 300 following our boards which every event gets pinned to at least one. With only very recently set up our Google+ page we would love more followers on that Platform.

Why do we ask you to list events instead of searching for events to list ourselves?

The reason that we have the membership system and events are listed the way they are is because we want to help those that want to promote events around wales that don’t always get the opportunity to be listed on the larger websites or that have to pay to advertise the event. We want to help take some of the stress away from helping to get your events out to the public, businesses and organisations that may be interested in it. But by building the community that we are events are being shared by others that also list or connected via social media, so the reach becomes wider and the events that are listed have a more detailed description than if we just found events and listed them ourselves.

Advertising available on Events n Wales

As part of the website and to be able to keep the website free to list events we do have an Advertising membership which is open to any businesses, organisations based in Wales that may like the opportunity to advertise on the events and blog posts pages which is done on a rotation basis. You can read more about this on our membership page.

We also have Website Sponsorship available and to be honest without the support of our first website sponsors Harris Associates SW Ltd we would not have lasted this long, the hours that are put in to the website and social media and costs of running and promoting the website really do need the backing of more but we hope that this will come in time. With more sponsorship and advertising taken up the more we will be able to help promote the website through even more paid promotion and advertising and extend the reach of the events listed as well as the number of visitors to the website and promote our Website sponsors at the same time.

If you have any questions the best way to contact us is via email which you can find on the website or via our contact us page.

Cwtch Club Cardiff

Cwtch Club Cardiff

Cwtch club have 2 events listed for the 2nd week of school half term. With ‘Make your own Easter pom pom creature‘ on the Thursday the 9th April and ‘Make your own hand or finger puppet‘ on Friday the 10th April both workshops will take place at Stretchy Suzie’s please see either event listing for directions and the full address.

cwtch club

About Cwtch Club

Cwtch Club is a company set up to make children’s, toddler’s & baby creature costumes and keepsakes from their drawings. They are based in Cardiff and run by Deborah de Lloyd a Costume designer and maker with over 15 years’ experience in TV and Theatre.

The 2 workshops are for two different age ranges of children with the Easter pom pom workshop for aged 4-7 and the hand & finger puppet workshop for ages 8-10.  You can book either workshop through the Cwtch club website and find out more details about the company and the products they produce. Find them on the links below

Cwtch Club Website

Etsy shop

Dawanda shop

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