18 Nov 08 All out or cheap out?

Good news everyone! (done in the best professor farnsworth voice)

After having listened to feedback given, we are proud to present the introduction of a new edition of the MyGuestList system called MyGuestList Lite.

Now you will be able to choose whether you want to go all out and be entitled to all the goodies of MyGuesList as well as the free upgrades, updates, changes, maintenance & support, or if you would rather just pay a small little fee and be entitled to the core features of the system.

The beauty of going Lite is that you can choose which features you would like to use and pay only for those. Pick ‘n’ choose what suits your venue the best and use only that. Great, isn’t it?

Best part is, you can get the Lite package for less than $7 a week. That’s less than a meal from Mickey D’s! (errr McDonalds)

If you want to know more or sign up, click here.

14 Nov 08 Tech Wired Australia on MyGuestList

Thanks to the guys at Tech Wired Australia for their review on MyGuestList.

You can read it all here.

Check them out, they have some cool weekly podcasts and great articles on the Australian tech scene.

06 Nov 08 Facebook app launched

Hi-ho ladies and gents

After some thorough testing, the facebook app is live and ready for use. Let’s go for a little rundown tour on how it works shall we?

Step 1

Go to http://apps.facebook.com/[venue_name]

And for all of you playing at home, [venue_name] is where you type in the name of your venue/club/bar/promotions name.

Step 2

You should see the following screen pop up. Click allow, to install the app on your profile.

Step 3

Visit your profile and click on the + sign in your tabs

Step 4

Type “guestlist” in the text field and select our application. In this case, it is called Demo Guestlists for testing purposes.

That’s it!

Your profile will now have a guestlist tab which looks like this

Your patrons can now click on that link and put in their guestlists/VIP bookings or whatever it may be. Remember, that  “Platnium Club” is just a demo, fictional venue and the form below is completely customisable to your liking.

The beauty and benefit of this whole process comes down to two main points:

• Every patron that creates a guestlist, will now have it displayed in their news/mini feed so that all their friends can see it. (See below)

• If you are a venue, all your promoters can put the app on their profiles, have guestlists being created right from a promoter’s profile and have this displayed on all their friend’s news feeds. Think of it as electronic word of mouth marketing for your venue.

Question: That’s all well and good, but I don’t have a profile for my venue, I have a page.
Answer: Not to worry. Here is how you can add the app for your pages.

To start, follow Steps 1 & 2 from above.

Then navigate to the bottom of the page and click on “Page build by [venue_name] guestlists”

You can now add the application to your page by clicking on the Add Page button

Now all you need to do is just choose which page you want to the application to live on and follow the prompts.  I quickly whipped up a demo page just to show you what it would look like when it is all done

Here I have added two guestlist applications. This can be useful for venues or promoters which run multiple nights or events and want to filter their crowd accordingly.

There is a lot more planned with the next version of the app but in the meantime, we would love to hear feedback from all you guys about whats good and bad about it, and what you would like to see. Write us a few lines at feedback[at]myguestlist[dot]com[dot]au

And that’s the way it is, this Thursday 6th November.  Untill next time,  party hard but stay fresh.

05 Nov 08 A New Gallery

We are always innovating here at MyGuestList…

Today, we announce the update of our gallery application. Loads of extra features and benefits:

- Allow your patrons to comment, vote and rate pictures
- Track album and picture views
- A feature to allow patrons to email the picture to their friends (further growing your database)
- Have as many categories & sub-albums as you need.
- Create private albums that only select VIP patrons have access to.
- Write descriptions for albums and pictures.

…and much much more.

The gallery is completely customised to match the look and feel of your website (just like our guestlist page), have a look at one of our client’s gallery page - The Balcony Gallery

27 Oct 08 Technation

Last friday, there was an article published at Technation about MyGuestList.

You can check it our here.

 

24 Oct 08 Contacts & Bookings made easy

Good news guys. 

It is now possible to have contact forms placed on your site (which still look the same as your current ones) that not only send you an email, but capture the details of the person contacting you, and store it right in your database. Do whatever you like with them. Email them, message them, call them over for dinner. It’s in your hands.

Best of all, its free!

20 Oct 08 Your database plus one

We provide our clients with a number of techniques for growing their database, but until now there was no way of measuring how well these techniques were working.

Is the gallery working?

Do people put in their personal information when creating guestlists?

What works better?

Today, we have released a new reporting process called “Database Growth”. It will illustrate or tabulate the growth rate of your database over a period of time.

14 Oct 08 Round 1 here you come

So the first batch of phone conversations, proposals, meetings, documents, coffee drinking and other obligatory tasks are underway as the MyGuestList team prepares itself for the beginning of the first round of Angel investment.

In summary, it looks as if it is a process which might last a while and spread out into the new year until all the details are completely scoped out with the all interested parties. The possibilities are endless though with what can be done after with the newly formed organisational restructure.

Without jumping the shark too much, one of the first things that come on to all our minds is unrolling MyGuestList nationally and integrating it with other services to emphasise the capabilities of the system as a whole.

It’s the beginning of what seems like a rollercoaster ride.
Be sure to follow this one along the way.

07 Oct 08 Flash!

Guys

You can now embed flash objects into your e-flyers and have all the animation, video and audio you want.
You can also choose to tie in your photos from your web gallery, into the e-flyer (mass email) section and edit the photos in various ways to suit your particular needs.

26 Sep 08 Competition? Really? No….I thought we were the only ones!

We have been aware of the presence of certain competition amidst this so called game of “data management and communication” for some time now. For the remainder of this article, I will refer to these companies as “The Clowns.”

Frankly, it makes me laugh when I hear somebody make the claim that we are the same as The Clowns or that we are their competitors.

• How might I ask, can we be a competitor to The Clowns if we do everything they do and more?
• How can we be a competitor if we don’t just manage your database and communicate to it, but we grow it as well?
• How can we be a competitor if MyGuestList is more affordable?
• How can we be a competitor when more and more functionality is being added into MyGuestList at no additional charge?
• How can we be a competitor when we do not charge anything (apart from a smile or two) for any support, troubleshooting or maintenance?
• How can we be a competitor when we have a team with extensive venue management background and understand the industry strongly?
• How can we be a competitor when we are constantly researching into new ways of doing things and moving the industry, in that direction?
• How can we be a competitor when we find you multiple ways of growing your database and multiple ways of making more money?

It’s pretty simple. We can’t.

And it doesn’t take a genius to decide what’s the right choice to make! Just take a look at the difference below