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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:06:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: How to Promote an Event Online</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=78637&amp;amp;tstart=0#78637</link>
      <description>Playster&lt;br /&gt;
Playster - &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/interstitial-page.jspa?businessUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.playster.org&amp;referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsmallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com"&gt;http://www.playster.org&lt;/a&gt; - is another growing online events community, which is built on a search engine interface. &lt;br /&gt;
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It's unique in that it's designed to send traffic directly to the promoter's blog or website, creating exposure for the event as well as increasing traffic for the promoter.&lt;br /&gt;
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Matthew</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:11:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Playster</author>
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      <title>Re: How to Promote an Event Online</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=68453&amp;amp;tstart=0#68453</link>
      <description>Thank you for this post. Great sources to explore. I never knew all these sites are availble to promote events. Thank for sharing.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:27:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Creative2009</author>
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      <dc:date>2009-04-25T17:27:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How to Promote an Event Online</title>
      <link>http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread.jspa?messageID=64740&amp;amp;tstart=0#64740</link>
      <description>When it comes to promoting an event, Internet can be of great help. These are some of the ways you can leverage the&lt;br /&gt;
Web to promote your events.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Eventful&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I love this service because they send an email&lt;br /&gt;
every week to people in your area with the events that are about to happen.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Yahoo! Upcoming&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Yahoo! can send you a lot of very qualified&lt;br /&gt;
traffic. Take advantage of it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Windows Live Events&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Although not as powerful as Yahoo! and Eventful, it&lt;br /&gt;
can still give you a good deal of exposure.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;CitySearch&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
This local search engine is here to stay. It's&lt;br /&gt;
getting very popular and can make your event visible to thousands of people.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;MeetUp&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Create your own MeetUp group or join other groups.&lt;br /&gt;
Sometimes, if your event is really interesting, administrators of other groups&lt;br /&gt;
will be happy to pass the word to their members.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;MeetingWave&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
This is one of my favorite resources to promote&lt;br /&gt;
events. Post yours for free and get ready for all the exposure that MeetingWave&lt;br /&gt;
will give you.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Let all your contacts know about your event. In&lt;br /&gt;
addition to that, you can join dozens of business networking groups based out&lt;br /&gt;
of your city and post your event to their discussion boards.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Facebook&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Use Facebook to find groups and people in your area,&lt;br /&gt;
and invite them to your event. You can also use Facebook Ads and deliver them to&lt;br /&gt;
people in a certain location.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;BizNik&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
BizNik has a great feature to promote events. Be&lt;br /&gt;
active and invite people in your area. Make sure that you write individual and&lt;br /&gt;
unique emails to each of the people you invite.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Plaxo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Join groups and use their forums to let people know&lt;br /&gt;
about your event.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Xing&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Another cool social network. Join groups and post&lt;br /&gt;
your event.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Find&lt;br /&gt;
People with Lists*&lt;br /&gt;
Go after the influencers. I can guarantee that&lt;br /&gt;
there are at least 100 people in your area that have email lists of other&lt;br /&gt;
people in your area. Offer them an incentive -sometimes it's not even necessary,&lt;br /&gt;
and ask them to let people know about your event through a blog post, a short&lt;br /&gt;
announcement in their newsletters or a simple email.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Do a Google Search&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
If you live in Seattle, search on Google for&lt;br /&gt;
"Seattle Events". There are hundreds of niche-websites that revolve around&lt;br /&gt;
events in local area; they can give your event great exposure.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Contact the Press&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Don't be afraid to contact local newspapers and&lt;br /&gt;
other publications to let them know about your event. In most cases, they will find&lt;br /&gt;
this information useful and relevant, and they'll be happy to share it with&lt;br /&gt;
their readers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you enjoyed this article, visit my blog at www.TheOutsourcingCompany.com/blog for more great tips on entrepreneurship and online marketing.&lt;br /&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:12:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>ZekeLL</author>
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      <dc:date>2009-03-25T20:12:36Z</dc:date>
      <clearspace:dateToText>Mar 25, 2009 4:45 PM</clearspace:dateToText>
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