Overview

Almost 100% of Manitoba wedding and benefit socials are promoted the exact same way. The social hosts (i.e. wedding party/organizing committee) use word of mouth, typically through an email, to promote the specific social event. The hosts must then make arrangements with all interested friends and family to meet in person sell and deliver social tickets. Not only does this require a lot of time and effort from the wedding party/organizing committee, it also delays the sale and distribution of the majority of the tickets until a week or so prior to the event if they are sold at all.

Going through this numerous times themselves, the founders of Socials Online were determined to develop a better way. This led to the creation of the Online Social Promotion (OSP) Service which aims to take the work and stress out of hosting a wedding social.

How does the OSP Service work?

The OSP Service can promote your social and securely offer your guests the ability to buy tickets online.

Socials Online will develop and host your customized social event web page. In addition, integration of PayPal payment services will allow your visitors to purchase social tickets during their visit. Socials Online staff will then coordinate mailing out all of the social tickets sold online.

All you need to do is provide us with your social information/tickets and send out the web page link through an email to friends and family! We do the rest!

Benefits of the OSP Service

Socials Online brings the functionality and convenience of the Internet to your wedding or benefit social. This service will:

• Improve Event Ticket Sales: Purchasing and delivering tickets for socials takes significant time and effort, as the social host need to make unique arrangements with every person to sell and deliver tickets. The OSP Service gives your friends, family and colleagues the ability to securely buy tickets from the convenience of their home. Reducing the time and effort required by both parties will help maximize ticket sales while minimize stress!
• Ensure Consistency with Event Promotion: Your dedicated and customized web page will ensure all of the details of your event are communicated properly without having to assume that emails or phone calls of wedding party/organizing committee are accuracy communicating all the important information.
• Reduce the work and stress of selling social tickets: Most people are not experienced ticket brokers, so promoting and selling social tickets is not an enjoyable experience for most of us. The OSP Service will vastly reduce the amount of tickets that need to be sold off-line, improving the experience for all of the wedding party/organizing committee.
• Allow you to Reach out of town Guests: This service allows you to promote and sell tickets for your social to out of town or hard to reach guests that may either be planning to travel to attend the social or will simply buy tickets to “support the cause”. This feature is even more beneficial for rural socials which typically draw guests from various outlying areas.

Interested in Learning More? Contact us for more information.

Managing Your Event Attendance

Managing the attendance of your social event can be very difficult. Typically you have a number of individuals selling tickets to the social and most guests do not purchase the tickets until a week or two prior to the event.

Socials Online can provide you an instant, real-time update on how many tickets have been sold through your web page any time you need to help you effectively plan your social.

About Purchasing Tickets Online through the OSP Service

Socials Online is committed to providing a secure buying experience for those purchasing tickets to your social through our website.

To help achieve this Socials Online utilizes PayPal, the world’s largest online payment services provider. PayPal provides sercure payment services to thousands of websites and is the preferred provider to eBAY.

PayPal is designed from the ground up to be one of the safest ways to send money online. Unlike other financial institutions, our payments are sent without sharing financial information. In fact, PayPal never shares your financial information with or sells it to merchants.

Once a ticket is purchased online through PayPal, the order will be processed by Socials Online and the purchaser will receive the tickets in the mail within 5 business days of the order.

Still have questions about our OSP Service? Contact us for more information.