First and foremost, my partner Matt & I are beyond appreciative of the creation\/work\/vision\/updates that you have offered to us. I am not the coder or technical person: My partner Matt is that person so my post is coming from an outside non-technical perspective but the concern is deep. I am the visionary & run the sales and marketing for us when time permits. We have built\/customized a beautiful community event website with our core being the tribe.<\/p>\n
My vision from the beginning was simple: Create a local event website that can challenge the eventbrite’s of the world. What we have\/had going for us is we’re “local” and can not only offer similar features but could market your event to the 25,000 subscriber base I have accumulate over the past 3 years with my prior group buying website. I noticed events were the #1 attraction consistently so the move was calculated. <\/p>\n
To be perfectly honest, my choice was to use another WP calendar plugin for our new event website launch. Matt took some time to review the support, reviews and clean code and said hands down, you are the one. To this day, I agree with him and I have no regret. But, somewhere, somehow through that creative process I lost the principals of my original vision.<\/p>\n
Here is why I’m posting tonight for help\/guidance: A organizer reached out tonight and said to me ” Ryan, love your site but we’re torn. Yes, we love working with you because your local. Yes, we like the idea of you blasting an email out to 20,000 + subscribers…but in the past we’ve used Eventbrite and we have to say…not being able to:
\n1. See whose purchased tickets to our event (attendees)\/ be able to download real time a list
\n2. Refund tickets
\n3. Edit not only the words, but the pricing
\n4. Email notifications of when someone purchases a ticket<\/p>\n
I understand the driving force behind Tribe but my vision was to build an event website where I don’t have to host my own events anymore…I can set a playground for others to host theirs and be the marketing\/promotions\/ticketing engine.<\/p>\n
If I’m way off or missing something, please help me understand. If Tribe’s intention is\/will never be to have the basic features of say an Eventbrite (#1 through #4) I need to know now as our future success rides on it. <\/p>\n
I am happy to discuss with Tribe the price of what it would take to give\/empower me with these features so my company isn’t held back- because at this very moment I feel all of us are missing out on possibly the biggest opportunity in this industry which if not addressed, could lead to the biggest missed opportunity and ultimately failure.<\/p>\n
All the best,
\nRyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1115734","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n