There hasn’t been a lot of action on the Bottle Topper front lately. That’s because we’ve spent the last couple months hard at work with our heads down, putting the finishing touches on our new suite of wine event management tools. I’m extremely happy with what we’ve come up with – which is the first complete online software package specifically designed for wine event management. We asked for your feedback, and we heard you were searching for solutions to three major problems related to promoting and managing your wine events:
- “We need help streamlining our promotion and marketing processes. It’s extremely time consuming to try and promote my events online. With each event I find myself entering the same data on six different websites to get the word out.”
- “We need someone to help us ticket our wine events. There are some solutions available online, but they are either too simple to capture the flexibility I need, or too complicated and expensive.”
- “We need a way to manage our email lists, invites, and RSVPs. As it is, we use Mail Chimp or Constant Contact for our email lists, but there’s no good way to track conversions, and their pricing plans are expensive and severely limit the number of contacts and emails I can send.”
Helping to Streamline the Marketing Process
We wanted to make it easy for you to promote your event all over the internet, not just on WineMcGee. So, we built one-click publishing, to allow you to instantly publish your event on Facebook, Twitter, Eventful, WineMcGee Events, Wine Talk, and your own website with the click of a button.
And every posting will be tied back to your original event on WineMcGee, allowing you to manage your event from one place going forward.
We also built powerful and customizable widgets to allow you to dynamically display your events on your own website. You choose the colors, size, and layout to fit your site perfectly.
Comprehensive Ticketing, the Easy and Inexpensive Way
We built a ticketing system to allow you to define tickets the way you want to. Create as many as you want, starting and ending whenever you want, and at whatever price you specify (or even free). We handle the emails and e-ticketing automatically. Our system integrates directly with your PayPal account, so you get paid immediately. We even communicate with PayPal on the backend to get status updates on your payments, so you can always see who’s paid, who’s been issued a refund, or what payment issues need to be resolved.
And our pricing model is the most competitive out there – pay just $1 per ticket issued (And it’s completely free for a limited trial period!).
Complete Email List Management, Invite, and RSVP Functionality
Our software includes full contact management. Upload your contacts from a text or csv file, or just connect directly to Yahoo, Gmail, or other mail programs to import your contacts. Once imported, you’ll have the ability to send invites to everyone directly through our tools online. And we’ll even track email bounces, conversions to ticket sales, and opt-outs for you.
Run eight unique reports at any time analyzing attendance, ticket sales, invoices, and RSVP status. Create manual RSVP records for payments you collect directly or guests that pay at the door. Update ticket or RSVP status for specific guests at any time, and new e-tickets are automatically generated.
Cheers to Selling Out Your Event!
We hope you make great use of these features to sell out your next event! Please give us any feedback you have as we are always striving to continue to improve what has already become the best wine event management software out there!
