Help with online event registration, selling tickets online, event management and more http://ettend.com/blog Helping you manage Ettend, your simple online event management and registration software Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:23:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Well hello 2010, this is Ettend… http://ettend.com/blog/2010/02/03/well-hello-2010-this-is-ettend/ http://ettend.com/blog/2010/02/03/well-hello-2010-this-is-ettend/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:15:46 +0000 Rick R http://ettend.com/blog/2010/02/03/well-hello-2010-this-is-ettend/ With hundreds of events being built, Ettend has officially become available for everyone. As expected, event managers love the simple fixed pricing (after a free trial, plans start at $24 a month). We’re excited to see events being hosted from all over the world (and in other languages) that are leveraging the features our software provides like email invites, social media, photo sharing and printable tickets.


So what have we been up to? Over the last few months, we have rolled out:


Amazon S3 and CDN – Now, all images and documents on your event site are hosted on a super fast global delivery networking making your event website and media load really fast so you don’t miss any attendees.


20+ Design Themes - Now, when creating your event, you can choose from over 20 color themes.

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]]> http://ettend.com/blog/2010/02/03/well-hello-2010-this-is-ettend/feed/ Welcome to the private beta launch of Ettend http://ettend.com/blog/2009/10/20/welcome-to-the-private-beta-launch-of-ettend/ http://ettend.com/blog/2009/10/20/welcome-to-the-private-beta-launch-of-ettend/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:43:03 +0000 Rick R http://ettend.com/blog/2009/10/20/welcome-to-the-private-beta-launch-of-ettend/ This is a milestone 3 years in the making, and today, we can finally pull the trigger and open up Ettend to invited users. Wow, it’s a great moment!


What is Ettend?
Ettend is an application that handles all the event management stuff that takes up so much of an event managers time. It does this in a way that is simple to set up, easy to manage and just works!


Why did it take so long to launch?
Like everyone, we understood the value of launching early. However, we looked at it from 2 unique points of view. First, we were not in a crazy rush to make gobs of money and/or pay off investors. We wanted to take our time and enjoy the challenges in making a really useful app with design and usability as it’s core. Secondly, we think our beta tester’s value and time is better spent crafting the direction and fine tuning the core features and usability of Ettend instead of emailing us 404 errors.


Getting started
We are excited to receive request for our beta and we promise to roll out access to users frequently, so thanks for having patience. If you already have an invite code, thank you for participating and trusting Ettend to help manage your event. We promise to support you in anyway possible, take all your feedback to heart, and never forget you are the ones that gave us the benefit of the doubt to try our app first!


We look forward to sharing updates, news and anything that helps you achieve event success!


Enjoy!

Ettend Team

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