 Hey, I'm Chris Dancy and I spend a lot of time at conferences and if you're like me and you work with conferences You're a conference organizer You're an actual venue or a service provider doing facilities AV or even speaking Do I have something exciting to show for you? I have been working on something with my friend Caitlin carry called pop event What is pop event? You know as well as I do it is really difficult to find any sort of help when you're planning a Conference or doing one usually you have to rely on Google searches or a friend of a friend who might know something What facilities are the best what organizers have your specific skills? But more importantly if you're a service provider, how do you get found pop event is here to solve all of that? We have so many great features in this and I'm going to show them all to you today starting right now To get started. We have to think about what we are doing as conference professionals We spend a lot of time planning executing and organizing and just hoping that all the decisions we've made right are Correct, but what happens if they're not what happens if we bet everything on one venue or bet everything on one speaker or AV company or Food company and they just didn't do it for us We need a directory that helps us filter down by review By location or by focus the three main things we need when planning an event and that's exactly what pop event does Let's get started at its heart pop event is by organizers for organizers So let's look at the tool today if we come in here The very first thing we see is a join now so you can go ahead and sign up But more importantly you come right into our robust directory pop event is founded on a directory of Thousands of event professionals in the Northeast and from there we crafted the solution So first things first if you're an event organizer and you're looking for another organizer to collaborate with or find some special skills We have an organizer directory focused by region So when you list yourself right away, you can be found in the region You are or prefer to work in some of us don't want to travel across the country The next thing is what's your organizer focus? Maybe you want to come in and find someone who just specifically focuses on technology or someone who has a Particular focus on executive retreats our organizer directory makes it super simple for you to get listed and get found most importantly We didn't stop there because organizers finding other organizers or Events finding organizers to help them is just the start when playing an event. You also need more help Let's look at that second customer. We address it right now Just like organizers services are super important to a venue and with those if you're a service provider You can list yourself or search for a service Again by region. Where are you in the country? A lot of times you want someone local Hands-on is super important, but more importantly service specialty Are you an AV company catering entertainment music lighting promo idings like Mia a speaker? Finding services for your event that's targeted by and for organizers is so essential Because we work with the best and we always recognize the best I personally have had a few conferences myself that I have organized over the last three years And it's been incredibly difficult to find trustworthy Service providers that will come in and do the job they were told to but we didn't stop with just Organizers and service writers. We went to probably what some people would consider the most important layer of Search and directory for event planning the venues But there are a million directories for venues on the internet if you look up event space of all sorts of filtering and and stopping and Connecting but like they don't really give you what you need. Yeah, you can sort by Capacity but again, sometimes you want to know a specific location, but we did something different with ours We actually created a venue vibe filtering and that means your venue can list itself with its vibe sometimes we don't want a Specific space or a specific Capacity we want a feeling and feelings are really drive events nowadays Our vibe search allows you to list your facility by vibe or if you're looking for a silly search by vibe And this is just radically changed how we do implant events Now that we've got the basics for what the pop events directory can do. Let's look at how we Use it a little bit more and for that we're going to look at two exciting features Each one of our customers whether they be free or pro Have a difference in how they show up in our directory and we're going to look at that right now Getting listed is super easy and it's free to do today We even have special programs for our friends and family to get them signed up quickly But what's the difference between a free account and a pro account? Let's look at organizers if you're an organizer like me and you want to get listed and hired for your skills Why would you spend a hundred dollars a year with pop event versus doing it free on a wicks account first wicks Looks kind of cringy, but secondly the difference with us is so clear first You don't want to manage an entire website. You want to manage your business So in our directory we give you the ability to list yourself your tagline your main website So we can drive people to it for conversion and you can even put a wrapper on that and measure how many leads you're getting Then you get your specific region and what you do you get to even post a photo and a logo for our paid accounts It's really great just like the regular accounts. You get your tagline your name your logo But with our paid accounts you get things like your social media You can add a button to strike for paid consults You can actually put your focus maybe you specialize in trade shows or incentive or even your industry tech You can put in your keynote logos like all your big customers ever worked with and then upload an entire Multimedia program of some of your best work you've ever done So the difference between getting yourself listed on the free or pro is really clear Additionally, if you're a pro user you get your own URL. So pop event co slash in this case Caitlyn carry It's wonderful easy and it's really fun to remember and it's run by Trusted organizers and people all over the events industry just like organizers event service providers me now wearing my speaker hat It's hard to get found you could be a speaker and again You can have a website and do all the SEO, but the end of the day Referrals are what matters people Recommending you are how you get found in this business Most of my business as a speaker comes from repeat of clients and clients who've referred me on to someone else our Free and pro offering for services are structured just like our organizers are free You can come in and list yourself list your business your tagline some photos a little bit about you And it's all right there, but our pro allows you to come in add videos bios complete Galleries of photos mine looks just as good as my website. There's my bio my name Some of the keynotes I do some of the other services I offer like experiences a short promo video for me And I even can list my bio of services, which has a pricing guide in it This is important because when you're planning an event you need answers quick from people you trust and that's what pop event Is all about it's for organizers by organizers Let's look at our last category venues and how they differ between the free and the premium service great We're here. So now we've got to find some place for our event Where are we gonna have it and we want to have it at a McDonald's or likes a nice steakhouse? Just like our organizers and our services customers our venues get two specific options They can list themselves as a free event. I think we might even have a McDonald's in here We don't do a lot of parties at McDonald's, but you never know we have a McDonald's It's very trendy here in town, but with that they get a photo They get a little bit about their their organization their name their tagline so easy to find But more importantly if we came in here and we wanted to find a pro version You'd notice right away that the pro like the organizer and the services gives you a full gallery Videos menus you can even get pricing right out of here The button takes you right to their website social media It's just absolutely amazing the difference and again getting listed is quick easy less than three minutes for most people and it takes you from Depending on Google page ranks to instantly getting you in front of other organizers and event professionals Just like you so that you can get found, but this is just the tip of the iceberg This is just the experience of using the app. There's even more behind here We're gonna get into that right now because understanding how the internet is changing Whether it be from social to recommendation to AI is where a pop event really takes you to the next level Finally with all of our listings if you're a free user you're listed instantly and if you're a pros or user Obviously, you're listed also instantly and you get more information But you also show up higher you might be a restaurant that wants to be found first all of our pro users Whether your organizers rest or venues or service providers You always show up first becoming a member is super simple You just go to our join page and on our join page will have information to help you find all you need to know about the different Products and services and it's as easy as filling out a form You get the advanced directory services some best practices and no more technology to manage for your business Whether you're an organizer trying to figure out how you can get more business into your world or You are a Service provider with different services. We know what it's like and the challenges that these different customers face Finally venues. It's there's a lot of directories out there that will let you get listed But they're not doing the absolute important work of the referral and recommendations that we're doing here at Papa Men We know what it's like We know your problems and our solutions here to address that once you've made that decision to try Try out for free. We have easy ways whether you're an organizer a service or a venue to get started right away You click on these buttons They take you to a super simple form that you can go ahead and fill out in that form go ahead and get you started I already started mine So if you get started and you forget it'll save where you are But if you want to start over not a problem you come in and say start over our form engine won't get you started We have a great checklist to tell you what you need before you get started because you want to make sure you have everything ready And then walk through that form super simple You might have never market yourself. You might have never market yourself on a directory We give you the tips and clues as you go through this to make that decision What's really wonderful is we show you right away the difference between pro and free and give you a chance to upgrade If you don't want to upgrade say later say maybe later We walk you through that you verify everything and then you're on the system that easy Or you can jump right to it and say actually I like this I want to try out a pro event our pro events our pro services start at a hundred dollars a year for organizers That's cheaper than a website $200 a year if you're a service professional AV or for me a speaker or catering It's nothing to get found and then finally venues venues are $250 years to get your venue in front of places But this like I said is just the tip of the iceberg and getting set up Because what sets pop event apart is really two things it's bridging the traditional Recommendations and trust engines that are all over the internet with new advanced AI So let's look at those two features and once you're a member of pop event things get really exciting Because not only are you listed and can be found by other organizers or venues or service providers All over the internet, but you become part of our recommendation and AI engine What does that even mean? Let me log in and show you I'm going to go up here to the corner and click on members And to contain me to my exclusive login I can log in with a magic link no passwords to remember at pop event or I can log in with my password I'm going to go ahead and log in now with my password and sign in Instantly when you log in the first place that takes you to is your profile page The last thing you want to do when you're signed up for our service is have a complete email and support department to work with To manage your listing we allow you to manage your listing directory So when your service is changed or your tagline changes or you're doing Events in a different part of their country you can update that quickly new keynote customer add their logo right away to your profile page But more importantly, you'll notice at the top of our website once you're logged in as a member And you're an organizer. You have this new thing called organizer pro What's organizer pro organizer pro gives you access to something every single organizer needs right away imagine if you could See what all of your friends who are other organizers or all the places other organizers have worked or providers They've worked with and understand what they liked and what they didn't Because now when you're logged in and you go to one of our services or venues Or professionals you can actually click on them. See all the same information we saw before But you also get reviews Reviews what is that all about? This is what's great about this Part of the pop event professional network for organizers allows you to come in and review Any other service provider or venue that you've actually worked with These reviews are essential and critical to building trust and letting credibility Our members recommend each other think of it as an exclusive club For organizers who only want to work with the best other service providers and venues These reviews become the backbone of how we can search within the directory behind in our membership Whether you're a free user Or a pro user the searching by references is available to you This is really fundamental when you think about it So if I wanted to see the reviews behind a speaker or maybe the reviews behind one of the venues Did they deliver on time? Did they change their pricing at the end? All of this is available to you and leaving reviews is super simple But the world is full of a lot of new cutting-edge technology And just being found in a directory or being able to leave review and search reviews But other people like you that you trust isn't enough today And that's where a pop event AI goes the extra level. What is pop event AI? Let me show you that right pop event AI We wanted to take the best of AI based on our years of working with our clients and other organizers And digitize it it can be overwhelming to think about all the different ways AI can work for you and your business. So what we've done is we've made it simple You can go to our Our AI support button right on the member page once you log in next to your review and click on that Clicking on that will take you to a brand new page You'll see introducing an organizer's best friend Not I I agree. We were all best friends to each other But what if we had a friend up in the cloud that could help us? What we've done is we've created a system where we can put our best practices In the cloud so that other event organizers can find them So we've got a quick and easy form you can come in here and say I'm having a a sales kickoff I have about 200 people. I need something that's kind of funky and I have a budget of $10,000 and I'll go ahead and ask you the question Um Can you find me a witchy vibe a witchy vibe? in Salem mass And recommend Some activities for my event And I'll say a witchy vibe venue because we actually need to meet someplace and have drinks and Maybe cast a little spells. I'm going to go ahead and submit that Right now That information will go to our AI that's powered behind our users and our years of vast knowledge of doing events And look for all the criteria that you've put into the system as well as Anything you might have typed This service is available to all of our users and who are logged in and what it does is gives you a hands-on quick representation of the power of not just our directory and our recommendations and our network of people Who are just so excited to work whether there be service providers or venues But gives us you the ability to find and get answers quickly and easily without having to pay for an AI account Or think about how it recommends your business because it's by organizers for organizers within moments when you go to your inbox You'll see you'll get an email and that email will be from the system as you can see here I've got an email that says certainly Salem massachusetts is a great location for witchy events for some venues Try these three things for some activities. Do these things Given your budget, it should be no problem to even bring in some live entertainment or a terror reader So as you can see pop event AI Really changes how we think about finding our partners recommending them Planning our events and so much more, but the AI support just doesn't stop there with events and Services we could do more. So let's come in here and try something else I'm gonna say I have a corporate event with about Two to five hundred people. It's super professional. I've got a budget of about $25,000 and plan a morning agenda for an auto event for dealership execs That includes and you don't have to worry about your spelling that includes Maybe an icebreaker So I just need a general. I general kind of agenda to get things going. Um, and maybe starting at 9 a.m With lunch by 1 30 p.m. We'll go ahead and submit Again, it's going to ask me for my email because it needs to know where to send this answer to So i'm gonna go ahead and put that in here What I love about this is it allows us to take all the knowledge of our users and all the information We've trained the AI on and really zeroed down to help us get a leg up A lot of times you don't want to recreate the wheel and just copying and pasting the same event time Let's over and over again without considering the mood the vibe Or even the feeling or the focus of an event can be overwhelming What's going to happen next is it's going to go ahead and take that information Send it up to the cloud and then within moment. You should get that information back in your email Let's go ahead and check our email now All right, we're going to go over and click on our email tab and sure enough. There's another email from AI Great. Here's another suggested morning agenda for an event for auto dealership executives 8 30 to 9 a.m. Guests arrive in registration. Notice we said start at 9 so built in the time for the registration 9 to 9 15 all the way out to when lunch starts So as you can see not only is using pop event for if you're like me a service provider for 100 dollars Or an organizer for 100 dollars a year for me as a service provider 200 dollars a year Absolutely revolutionary because I'm getting myself in front of Thousands of other organizers. I'm getting my business searched found and recommended on But I'm also getting the ability to leave reviews and more importantly create a shortcut to my work I can't wait to have you try pop event and see all the amazing services. We've baked into this product This is just the start pop event is for organizers Bi organizers, but soon it's going to be for you and by you. I can't wait to have you here at pop event. Thank you so much