Community Events / Eventrbrite Plugins

[John]

Hey Tri.be!

I am a recent purchaser of your PRO product and am in the process of building a site that will be a hub for my organization in the US. I am hoping to gain some insight into the likelihood of compatibility of the upcoming plugins and how they might work best to meet my goals.

1. The Community Events Plugin – I am pumped about this and hope that it is available soon. I am the US Director of Operations of a fitness organization and would like to promote our member’s events on the site I am building.

2. The Eventbrite Plugin – sounds amazing and definitely see value in being able to create an event from within WordPress that automatically creates on in Eventbrite. Wondering if with this plugin someone will be able to create an event with the Community Events Plugin and have it create an Eventrbrite event with their account.

What I see as a huge potential for me is that after the individual creates an event in WordPress/Eventbrite and the event is hosted on my site that I would be able to earn affiliate commissions by helping them promote their event. Is this an intended functionality that you plan to offer? After explaining it I am thinking there may be too many variables to account for.

Maybe the solution is to have them create separate events…one with the Community Plugin and one in Eventbrite and I just link their registration affiliate link manually on my end?

Sorry for the confusing message but I am really eager to get something like this going!

[Rob]

Hey John. Thanks for reaching out, and for your purchase. We appreciate that you’ll be using these plugins (Events + add-ons) to push a project out and can’t wait to see the finished product. We’ll do what we can to help along the way.

1. Community is hopefully on track to be released at the start of May, along with the 2.0.6 code for Events/PRO required to run it. That being said if you wanted to give the current beta a go and don’t mind using rough code…let me know (pro /a/ tri.be). The beta is technically closed but you seem like a good dude with a solid project and I want to let you give it a go.

2. That’s a solid idea. We haven’t yet thought far enough ahead for Community + Eventbrite to integrate (Eventbrite is actually in the final QA stages now and should be out in its 1.0 form this week sometime). I suspect there will be demand for such an integration and if so it’d probably come in the 1.1 or later Eventbrite build. Users may be able to hack something together, too, and our devs will be on-hand here at the forum to try and help there.

We’ve been thinking out an affiliate plan on our end as well, but it’s more based on sales of the plugin than promotions of specific events. But that being said…this is a neat idea. Do you have any examples of services doing something similar? It isn’t something we’ve talked too much about but it’s a discussion I’d like to have. In the short-term having a manual way of connecting it like you suggest would probably be the best route.

Hope that helps. If you’ve got any other questions, let me know. Thanks again for your interest.

[John]

Rob,

Thanks for the support! I am pumped about these two add-ons…they were a big part of why I decided to go with your solution along with the user friendly nature of your site. It is always hard to believe a product will be easy to navigate/use if the company’s site sucks! I am using TEC PRO and plan on using the Eventbrite/Community Events Add-Ons on this site:
http://cst-tacfit.us

1. I would love to give the Community Events BETA a go! Will shoot you over an email right away =)
2. Looking forward to the 1.0 launch of the Eventbrite Add-On and will be one of your first buyers! As for the integration between it and the Community Add-On…I figured it might be a while before that might be an option. I am just glad that I had the chance to share my idea with you guys and that it was well received.

One of the cool parts of Eventbrite in my eyes is the fact that there is a built in affiliate program and if we are using the support of our communities in offering events it seems likely that the community would be great promoters of each other’s events and a little incentive for cross promoting is always a good way to go.

I am game to help promote your plugin as an affiliate within my community for those that are looking to promote their own events too but definitely see the affiliate program for the events as a huge up-sell/cross-sell opportunity for the two new add-ons.

[Rob]

Hey John. Thanks for the follow-up, man. I just responded to your email a few moments ago. Let’s keep the discussion going there 🙂

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