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Online Event Registration Suite Helps Non-Profits Succeed

Blackpants Design Group offers plug-in online event-registration service

 

 

( Cleveland, OH - September 16, 2005) -- A new online event-registration suite of software tools developed by Cleveland Heights-based Blackpants Design Group is steadily gaining wide acceptance by the region’s non-profit sector. Its "Event Builder" package, deployed as a simple plug-in to client websites, adds online event-registration and secure payment capabilities to any site. Though created with the needs of conferences, seminars and trade shows in mind, non-profit organizations have quickly embraced it as a means to securely integrate event registration directly into their web sites. The Connection Series is now using the system to register guests for its upcoming Cleveland Mayoral Forum (https://www.connectionseries.com/NextEvent.asp). 

 

Both non-profits and corporations alike are drawn by the ability to use the product to "build out" their event, by adding such features as group reservations, package pricing, merchandise and meal options and the ability to support multiple concurrent sessions. All of these are part of Event Builder's standard set of features.

 

"Event Builder is a tremendous asset in managing larger events. Automated credit card processing frees our staff from manual data entry. And as the event approaches, the real-time revenue/reservations reports are a big help," says Regina Fischietto, member relations director for the Club at Key Center, a partner in and the venue for the Connection Series forum.

“Blackpants’ reservation system provided BlueBridge with the tools necessary to make our June 29th, 2005 networking event a success,"  says Kevin J. Goodman, director of business development for Cleveland-based BlueBridge Networks, LLC.

 

Blackpants is perhaps best known for its support of the bi-monthly tech gathering, Community of Minds (www.communityofminds.com). "Integrated event registration/ email management positions Community of Minds at an elevated level of professionalism. This helps set the tone and the expectation for the event which follows," says Tom Zych, chair of the eBusiness & Emerging Technologies Practice of Thompson Hine LLP, the longtime sponsor of Community of Minds. Adds his colleague at the firm, Alvidas Jasin, director of business development: "The online registration database provides invaluable data and metrics. In addition to helping us understand attendance demographics, it also helps us manage costs.”

 

 

About Blackpants Design Group

Blackpants Design Group (www.blackpants.com) melds strategic graphic design thinking into client-focused business-driven solutions through the mediums of print, environmental graphics and the internet. The company’s comprehensive suite of services ranges from Brand Identity Communication to the integration of Enterprise data with online applications.

PoweredByBlackpants (www.PoweredByBlackpants.com) is Blackpants’ integrated Corporate Communication Management / Online Event Registration suite. Deployed on an Application Service Provider basis, it offers clients all the benefits of leading-edge software without any installation or capital outlay, thus allowing customers rapid integration and deployment.

 

 

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