Comments on: Zvents.com sends your calendar listings to local, national media

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:49:07 +0000

Dave,

I just wrote a column this month for WomensCalendar.org on the wide variety of calendar sites. You can read it (and listen) here:
http://www.audioacrobat.com/note/CLqJ7T4s/

By: Dave King

Dave King — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:55:24 +0000

Joan,
The news and information you offer is invaluable.

I wanted to thank you for reminding me of this contact. I was doing some late night work for a client in Manhattan, several hundred miles away, and this offered me an opportunity to post to a site that I would have forgotten about.

I agree with Rebecca. You need to post even small fundraisers on multipule sites to get the max exposure.

How many other local event calendars can you recommend?

By: Christine Buffaloe

Christine Buffaloe — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:32:16 +0000

If you want your item to get to Zvents and all the other online as well as traditional calendars, I post to FullCalendar.com. It’s not free (a minimum cost of $19.95), but it is like one-stop shopping.

By: Rebecca Davey

Rebecca Davey — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:52:32 +0000

I have used this website with great success we had people come to our event who did not know about the event until they did a websearch on zvents. It seems that you need to post even small fundraisers on multipule sites to get the max exposure “Free”. Many times I am posting to many event sites 2 to 3 months ahead of the event just to get the additional exposure, but the key is it is free.

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:34:55 +0000

I said, “If you want a LARGER STORY, don’t use services like this one AS A SUBSTITUTE for pitching a customized story idea.”

In other words, submit your listing to this service so it gets into the calendars. But if you want a bigger story, think of a local angle to your story, convince the newspaper why readers would care, then pitch it to a beat reporter or a section editor.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:13:12 +0000

“Don’t use services like that one”? I’m not sure I agree. Certainly, if you want a larger story, you don’t want to use a PR Wire and just blast a story out but my understanding is Zvents is the event calendar for those media companies; if you want your events and business promoted/listed by those companies, all you have to do is add it there. You want to want to be in the Merc’s event guide, you don’t pitch it to them, you just put it in; you pitch it to get them to write a story about it.