Accelevents vs Zoom Events and Webinars: Which is a better fit?

Alicia: Hi, my name is Alicia. I'm a freelance marketing and event consultant. I work in the event industry and I give Accelevents a 5 out of 5. My event was moving from a live event to a virtual event, and so in researching the various options, we didn't as much love some of the other platforms such as Whova or Event Farm. They just did not have the functionality we were looking for as networking and connection were incredibly important to the event and its participants. When we discovered Accelevents, we realized that its functionality around video chat components, networking, the ease of use in terms of setting up our event within its platform, was going to be the obvious reasons why it was the best for our virtual event this year. When we started to use the Accelevents platform, we found it very easy to dive right in and start building our virtual event immediately. It has a very easy layout in terms of where you find different components, how to set up your event, how to build profiles, how to import speakers and sessions. We found it incredibly easy also to connect with the customer service team, they were immensely responsive, and if we needed a answer in a very, very rapid sort of sense, the online help section within the website is one of the best I have ever come across, and we found so much help between those two options. I don't think I realized just how easy Accelevents was going to be from start to finish, in terms of knowing that we could customize the platform, so, so easily between color palettes and graphic design elements, also just being able to jump on video chat functioning within the platform to understand it with one of the customer service reps was a huge, huge benefit. And ultimately day of our event, our attendees loved being able to interact with one another, whether that was via the virtual chat function, which as organizers also came incredibly in handy as we were offering different announcements throughout the day. But also just the incredible feedback about how our attendees still felt that they got just as much out of this virtual event as they did with previous live versions of this event was really, really exciting and also fantastic to know that we hit that goal, especially.

Chris: Hi. My name's Chris. I'm an instructional designer in a company that's about 12, 13 of us. We use Zoom all the time, and I rate it around a five. Before we started using Zoom back in the dark ages, I used Webex and Citrix I think it was, and it was just clunky and it was really hard to get the people at the other side of it to understand how it works. So the reason we use Zoom all the time is that it gives a really clear picture, but more than anything else, it's that it's easy for people to use and that's really important for us. We don't want to lose people because they can't figure out how to get on or get the picture, or ask a question to use the chat, and Zoom makes it all easy. So I think Zoom is winning the video war because it's so easy to use. It's easy for anybody to use whether they want to download the app or use it in their web browser. That's its main point as far as I'm concerned. So my recommendation is if you're going to have a go with Zoom with your team, you should get your team to all have a play with it before you get anybody outside of your business to do it. That way you can get used to the tools and the toolbox at the bottom and all the things that you can do within Zoom. Have a real strong play with it. That way when you've got your actual clients or whatever on the call, you look like pros.