Eventzilla vs HeySummit: Which is a better fit?

Lorena: Hi, my name is Lorena. I'm an event coordinator for a small to medium-sized business, and I give Eventzilla a five star. I use Eventzilla as our preferred event ticket management system for our attendees to register for the tickets, transfer, be able to view the agenda, and even have access to passkey link to book our rooms for our attendees. What I like most about Eventzilla is how it's user-friendly. It's easy for anyone at your position even if you're not an event coordinator, you might be in HR, you might be the owner yourself of the business, of the event that you're having. It's very user-friendly. It's pretty much like setting up a social media profile. You're able to see the categories you need and customize it just the way you like. I think the only thing that I would improve about Eventzilla is I feel like it is a newer startup type of a company. So you're probably only going to talk to the same one or two people. So there may be a little bit of lag when it comes to customer service, but they always get back to you. But you can definitely tell they are managed by just a handful of people. So hope is they grow, they can expand their customer service. That way we can give better service to our attendees as well.

Peter W.: Hey. I'm Peter and I'm a principal solutions architect who works with customers and partners to understand, enable and acquisition technology. And I give HeySummit a score of five out of five. So before using HeySummit, I was using other webinar platforms that didn't have the same degree of capability to run a summit event. So I was using Zoom or LiveWebinar, other tools like that. And HeySummit made a massive difference to help me run live events and recorded events for my customers and my partners for minimal effort and energy and confusion for me and for them. Why did I choose HeySummit over all of the other options out there? Well I actually am a fan of supporting new developing platforms and through one of the programs that I'm involved in, I came across HeySummit. It wasn't something I had searched for, but the answer was glaringly there in front of me. So I joined HeySummit and since then have enjoyed the benefits and the value of using that platform compared to what I was trying before. To start with, I had to learn to rethink what a summit was and how to run it because I hadn't had a platform like HeySummit to deliver that. So initially I found it a little bit confusing only because I didn't understand how it worked and what could be achieved. But welcome to technology. That's frequently the case, right? And humans, we need to understand, relearn and reenable ourselves. And once I had some basic understanding of HeySummit, I was flying around and it made delivering my summit so much easier. Just some ideas for you if you are starting to use HeySummit or thinking about using HeySummit. Make sure you choose a good engine to sit behind it that is able to do multiple sessions. I chose LiveWebinar, which is a good platform to use with HeySummit. My challenge came with LiveWebinar becoming unable to back to book sessions. So the LiveWebinar platform meant I had to put delays between my sessions. So I'd suggest that whatever webinar engine you choose, make sure if you want to go back to back sessions, you have more than one live webinar session you can run at that time. It's a bit of a gotcha. It just created some agenda timetable hassles for my attendees. They never knew, but it would've made my life a whole lot easier.