Mastering Conference Details and Data
Leverage technology to engage your conference audiences and maximize your event efficiency by tapping into the power of Attend-eSource®. This suite of web-based solutions allows you to plan meetings faster, manage logistics easier and gives you comprehensive data for accurate analysis. Use the entire Attend-eSource® suite or choose from individual components such as online registration, session tracking and lead retrieval to pre-program marketing via web sites, graphical emails and mobile device solutions. Beyond our own platform, our web team is experienced in Cvent, etouches and Certain registration platforms. We can manage your license or use our own, as well as create, design and distribute any registration materials you need for your next event.
Attend-eSource® is a proven and paperless solution for managing conference and convention attendee details in one convenient place. Best of all metroConnections supports you every step of the way with technical and event-related expertise to provide a user-friendly, hassle-free experience for your attendees.
Attend-eSource Elements
Graphical Emails
Take your event communications to the next level with custom designed emails used to create buzz that can dramatically impact the success of your next event.
Custom Websites
Attend-eSource® custom conference websites are built as an extension of your brand while providing a centralized resource for attendees to access registration and more!
Online Registration
Streamline your registration process and reduce your pre-conference workload with metroConnections comprehensive Attendee Registration Services.
Registration Support
All of our services are supported by highly trained, professional technical and customer support teams designated specifically to your program.
Attend-eCheckIn
metroConnections’ Attend-eCheck In provides easy check-in at your conference by utilizing mobile check-in stations via self-service or staff.
Mobile Solutions
Knowing whether to deploy a native or web-based app can be a challenge with multiple factors to take into consideration – we can help you decide!
Attend-eTrack
Lead retrieval and session scanning allow meeting planners and attendees to connect seamlessly by combining the latest in technology.
Web-based Surveys
Learn how to quickly and efficiently gather attendee feedback utilizing web-based survey capabilities built and serviced by metroConnections.
Attend-eSource® Expedite
For those that have the resources internally to manage online registrations, Attend-eSource® Expedite is the solution for you.
Effective Attendee Marketing
Let the metroConnections team of designers take your event communications to the next level with custom designed emails used to create the buzz and conversation that can dramatically impact the success of your next event.
Features at a Glance
Branded Email Marketing: Reach out to your attendees by sending customized branded emails complete with important registration information and event details.
From pre-show invitations and promotions to post-conference follow-ups, these custom branded emails provide a quick and effective way to reach your attendees while reducing print and postage expenses. After sending, our email system will provide a detailed report analyzing the delivery.
- Quick and effective marketing
- Reduce print and postage expenses
- Social media sharing, forwarding and unsubscribing
- Reduces onsite registration issues
- Ability to build in sponsor recognition
- Personalize to each attendee
- Detailed reports analyzing open and click-through rates
- Detailed ‘bad email’ lists for database clean up
- Integrates branding to compliment program website
Design & Integration
Built by our team of experienced designers, metroConnections’ custom conference websites are built as an extension of your brand while providing an efficient and centralized resource for attendees to access event details and online registration. Complete with event registration, personalized session agendas, travel, “real-time” housing and destination information, our websites help streamline and organize the registration process to create an enjoying attendee experience.
Features at a Glance
metroConnections works with your team to identify the content needed to develop your custom conference website. Using your brand, we create a one-of-a-kind site that offers a centralized location for event-related communications connecting you, your team and your attendees.
- Over 600 websites built annually
- Quick turnaround time
- Sites easily converted to iPad apps
- Mobile and smart phone friendly for onsite interaction by attendees
- Dedicated account manager to ensure program success
- Online registration support staff
- Social media integration
Success Made Simple
Streamline your registration process and reduce your pre-conference workload with metroConnections comprehensive Attendee Registration Services. We’ll help you design and launch a custom meeting-specific website featuring an online registration form backed by secure payment processing.
Not Just a Tool, but a Solution
We don’t just make the registration process simple for your attendees, we make it easy on you. To support your efforts, we offer a toll-free attendee help line and we’re happy to handle site updates, reporting functions and vendor coordination.
- Dedicated team to ensure program success
- Custom registration websites to leverage your corporate brand
- Completely editable registration form designs
- Set registration criteria, maximum attendance, pricing, auto-assignments and more
- Real-time housing management
- Personalized travel preferences and reports
Beyond the Technology
Our Attend-eSource solution doesn’t end with the software. All of metroConnections’ services are supported by highly trained and professional technical and customer support teams designated specifically to your program.
Features at a Glance
Our team is here to make your program or event as efficient and organized as possible. From set up to onsite management and post-conference reporting, we will work with your team to make your complete event a success.
- Housing management
- Registration edits, changes and cancellations
- Name badges
- Onsite registration services
- Immediate web reporting and post-event reporting
- Fee processing, collection and accounting
Communication on the Go
Knowing whether to deploy a native or web-based app can be a challenge with multiple factors to take into consideration. Let metroConnections guide you through the process by leveraging our mobile expertise and knowledge.
Our comprehensive Attend-eMobile tools have you covered no matter the platform, functionality requests or budget parameters. Allow attendees to connect with other attendees, stay in-the-know, contribute real-time and much more – instantly accessible via their smart-phone or tablet device.
- Branded Experience
- Social Network Integration & Sharing
- Personal Schedule Management
- Secured Access Options
- Post Session Survey with Rating Option
- Gamification & Live Polling
- Session Q&A via App
- Interactive Tradeshow Map
- Customized Tablet Interface
Revolutionize your event check-in
metroConnections’ Attend-eCheck In provides easy check-in at your conference by utilizing mobile check-in stations. This can be done via a self-service model or by having staff check-in your guests. This system dramatically speeds up the attendee check-in process at your events and provides real time reporting on who is physically at your event.
Attend-eCheck In Advantages
Our comprehensive Attend-eCheck In revolutionizes your event check-in with fast, easy, and simplified attendee check-in and management.
- Check-in or add guests on the fly, on multiple smart phones and tablets
- Provide a first impression that matches your brand
- Simply upload your guest list via an Excel file to the app and you are all ready to go
- Easily manage your guest list and search for attendees quickly
- Tag attendees as VIP and receive emails and SMS arrival notifications
- Attend-eCheck In’s boarding pass feature allows you to send guests printable tickets with unique bar codes
- Mass text all attendees
- Interactive Tradeshow Map
- Easily download guest list of who attended, complete with arrival time
Increase Lead Generation
metroConnections’ Attend-eTrack wireless lead retrieval allows meeting planners and attendees to connect seamlessly at events by combining the latest in technology and industry leading conference services.
Features at a Glance
Operating from a unique ID number and barcode, exhibitors simply scan qualified attendee’s badges with a small hand-held device that instantaneously transfers the information to a website for immediate downloading and analysis.
- Increase leads by creating an effortless way for visitors and exhibitors to connect and exchange contact information
- Prioritize leads and follow up requests with robust reporting options
- Utilize collected data to develop customized follow-up packages specific to attendee requests
- Leave your literature at the office and follow up with personalized mailings following the event
Efficient and Accurate Attendee Feedback
Learn how to quickly and efficiently gather attendee feedback utilizing web-based survey capabilities built and serviced by metroConnections.
Features at a Glance
Graphical email invitations invite them to complete the web-based questionnaire by accessing it via a secure and private hyperlink. Upon completion, survey results are immediately available, relieving you of manual data input.
- ROI measurement through key performance indicators
- Brand-integrated with marketing materials
- Confidential attendee feedback
- Allows attendees to respond via a web based tool
- Increased level of response rates
Attend-eSource® Expedite
At metroConnections, we understand that organizations operate differently. For those that have the resources internally to manage online registrations, Attend-eSource® Expedite is the solution for you.
Managing Attendee Data
Attend-eSource® Expedite is an affordable and efficient solution to control registration by allowing us to train you on the administrative management tool.
- Training on how to access and manage registration data
- Custom built and professionally branded event website
- Edit and manage attendee records easily and quickly
- Send updated confirmation emails to attendees
- Run attendee registration reports and agenda/activity counts
- Manage your housing block “real-time” and avoid attrition fees
- Allows attendees to submit registration information and access program details