Mail Chimp RSVP Part 2

As we wrap up the year we wanted to finish with a format we have been testing. Its a 1 Minute Video from our YouTube Channel, a detailed Screen Shot guide and a PDF Workbook for you. We are working on an OEM playbook and this should be completed in the next week. Happy New year!

Using Mail Chimp for 1 Click Calendar Invite

December 24, 2018 / Greg Hanchin / 31Events Add to Calendar Add to Calendar Replacement Calendar Invites Calendar Marketing Calendar Modals Calendar Snack Call to Action Buttons Code Generator Mail Chimp

As we wrap us this year, we are getting ready to release our production product. Here is a quick snap shot of our MailChimp RSVP calendar invite tracking. See steps here, along with video and PDF guide. Happy Holidays from the team here at 31events.com!

31events announces bulk calendar Invite sending with RSVP tracking

November 18, 2018 / Greg Hanchin / Add to Calendar Add to Calendar Replacement Bulk Calendar Invite Sending Calendar Invites Calendar Marketing Calendar Modal Ad Server Calendar RSVP Tracking

So here is the use case. You have tried a Calendar Snack. You like it and you say wouldn’t be cool if I could upload an email list to send calendar invites to people that want to get direct Calendar invitations from me so I can track the RSVP’s? (Today we support CTA’s in web embeds and in Email vendors like MailChimp and 20+ others. )

We are working on this for our next build for January 2019 release.

So you create a calendar invite on your calendar client of choice – Google, Outlook or Yahoo and just invite us to your event with this email address ->new@sk3l.net< . You will then receive your calendar snack email with all the information in it, including how to bulk upload a small email list for direct calendaring sending and RSVP tracking. Once you upload the list you will be able to review and confirm the send.

That’s it! – Super simple! In the mean time give us a try by just adding us to your calendar event.

January 2019 will include the Calendar Upload Box

See the RSVP details below that we generate for each event.

31Events OEM Starter Kit

October 29, 2018 / Greg Hanchin / 31Events Add to Calendar Add to Calendar Replacement Calendar Invites Calendar Modals Calendar Snack Call to Action Buttons Code Generator Email Templates OEM Calendar Invite Solution

At 31events.com we develop messaging technology that enables the RSVP calendar interface within email clients to track the responses of the individual event. The technology can be used for all kinds of use cases for time-based events across vertical markets.

This gives every marketer the ability to communicate directly with a customer’s calendar. When a calendar invite is sent, it is correctly displayed in the message body to be read in the correct client format for webinars, promotions and attachments such as coupons.

The Calendar Snack package has been designed for marketing agencies and software OEM’s that want to add value through the ability to send and track calendar invites in an easy way by integrating them into call to action campaigns with a managed service. The web service supports calendar message building, message sending and RSVP’s return receipt reporting.

The calendar invites can be emdedded into web pages and popular email packages like Mail Chimp using the code generator. The calendar invite data is available in a reporting interface for all RSVP’s providing granular details for your marketing campaigns.

Example of the Event Summary.

The components of the messaging solution are using Amazon Web Services S3, SES, Dynamo DB, SNS and API gateway to process the calendar invites with our custom developed proprietary Lambda functions. The solution design is “Headless”. This means you have no Create, Read, Update, and Delete or (CRUD) for the Calendar Invites. The customer sends you an calendar invite off their native calendar client to your branded domain email address. That message is sent to us and we re – generate a packaged calendar invite complete with instructions on how to use and test the calendar event with details of the code embed for web pages and email call to action embeds. Once that process is complete – which just takes a few seconds to complete, we sent a confirmation email to the event organizer from the Calendar Invitation with all the details.

Example of the event confirmation email once the customer sent us a Calendar Invite below.

The calendar event payload includes Snack Summary, Invitee Details, Get Code and Send a Test that are auto generated each time by our web service by sending an email to your domain address mail box setup to process the Calendar Snacks.

We generate code for each calendar event which is packaged into the Calendar Snack payload.

Example of the GET CODE feature for calendar invite web page embed.

Example of the GET CODE feature for Mail Chimp embed.

Send a Test feature is included into each CalenderSnack email for a quick review. If you don’t like it after testing the calendar invite, then you can adjust your event on your native calendar client and send another request to get a Calendar Snack. Simple and easy for the marketeer and software OEM to integrate as a service.

The entire solution delivery can be rolled out in less than 1 week under your AWS account with your branded domain. We can also manage the solution for you if you don’t have the resources.

For details on how easy solution can be packaged see CalendarSnack.com and check out the detailed documentation here. If you have any questions or need a quote please contact us on Drift @ 31events.com.

Calendar Snack Documentation

CalendarSnack Mail Chimp CTA released

September 15, 2018 / Greg Hanchin / 31Events Add to Calendar Add to Calendar Replacement Calendar Invites Calendar Marketing Calendar Modal Ad Server Calendar Modals Code Generator MailChimp

We just released the Support for MailChimp Integration. You take the code from our Calendar Snack page by clicking the code button and embed that into your Call to action for one click Calendar Invite signup from your email campaign and we track that for you in the Calendar snack report. This is designed to be free for you to use for any promotion. 1 Click Calendar Invitations in Web and Email embeds in less than 3 minutes!

Calendar Snack Per Event Reporting in 30 Seconds

September 6, 2018 / Greg Hanchin / 31Events Add to Calendar Add to Calendar Replacement Calendar Invites Calendar Marketing Calendar Modal Ad Server Calendar Modals calendarsnack Call to Action Buttons Code Generator

Arnie has updated the front end now to include an auto generated report URL landing page for the Calendar Snack that is sent with the introduction email when you invite us to your event off your Google Calendar. Its simple. Step One – Invite us off your Google Calendar. Step Two – You will receive an auto generated email from our AutoBot (Named Cooper), and the email will have your Calendar Reporting URL in it. Follow the directions and you will be monitoring your event in 30 seconds, PDF Calendar Snacks.

CalendarSnack.com DIY Web Form Video’s Released

August 21, 2018 / Greg Hanchin / 31Events Add to Calendar Add to Calendar Replacement Builder Bob Calendar Invites Calendar Marketing Calendar Modal Ad Server Calendar Modals calendarsnack Call to Action Buttons Code Generator Constant Contact Coupons in Calendars Email Templates Exact Target wordpress

( Thanks Arnie for the Cool Banner – BTW ) .

We launched just a few days ago and are receiving good feedback. We are working on the the various embedded Modals for Web page insertion to be auto generated. We have to figure out the hard stuff first and have been busting down the Calendar Clients into smaller pieces using ERE’s and Lambda’s to help accomplish the complicated tasks of the various clients to use calendar create and calendar consumption persona’s for the various devices.

In addition we did a recap this weekend of our beta release with some You Tube Video’s that can be found on the CalendarSnack.com site here. This series is focused on how to build out your own Web Form in Word Press and insert the CalendarSnack Event code into a Calendar invitation form for self enabled invitations off any web property to amp up your attendance. The form allows a customer to send a calendar invite directly to their calendar and we track that for each one off event for the marketeer providing rich detailed big data of the event.

Check out the Videos here:

Calendar Snack Videos

Live 31events reporting review on Calendar Snacks

July 29, 2018 / Greg Hanchin / 31Events Add to Calendar Add to Calendar Replacement Calendar Invites Calendar Marketing Calendar Modal Ad Server calendarsnack Webinar wordpress

Hello. We just published this preview today. Shows a quick view of our technology and how our Calendar reporting engine works on a per event basis. See here on You tube.

Calendar Snack Preview Details

July 15, 2018 / Greg Hanchin / 31Events Add to Calendar Add to Calendar Replacement Calendar Invites calendarsnack Call to Action Buttons Code Generator

Hello – I thought I would get out a quick post and give you and update as of July 15. We completed numerous hurdles this weekend. We have cemented some repeatable install approaches that take less then 5 minutes to get rich reporting working for your calendar invite. See here to download the preview calendarsnack.com debrief. We will be be launching soon!

Calendar Invites at scale on AWS

June 23, 2018 / Greg Hanchin / 31Events Add to Calendar Add to Calendar Replacement Calendar Invites Calendar Marketing

So I started off my ISV journey 7 years ago. Just an innocent attempt to get people to my events by sending them a Calendar Invite. If they accepted, I knew that they were coming. Or at least had a better chance of showing up to my events. Along the way I had a Web based Calendar engine built by a local contractor on an old Cold Fusion stack. It worked and we were off on many use cases on how I thought it should work. Some 2200 hours of personal time in testing, UI design, and disastrous blunders on my part as a weekend and after work project I needed break. If this was going to be bigger idea I needed help. Enter a friend named Arnie. Arnie came into the calendar “Thunder Dome” 2.5 years ago. Or about 1800 hrs ago. It has been a part time project for him and he caught the bug as indicated that those hours are after work and weekends.

He helped with so many things – testing , coding , web site, blogging and overall front end animal. I voted him to Co-Founder last year. He is a true inspiration. Then we decided to blow up the old site and start over -literally scrap all the code some – $80K in custom contract coding down the drain.. Not easy. We were both at a loss for 60 days. We knew after talking with several large test customers we needed to get to scale on AWS with SES.

We then started our Pizza Journey into AWS in August 0f 2017. About 3 months ago in February of 2018 we were fortunate to recruit Jonn , who is our lead developer and CTO. We have been iterating using Slack, and brain storming on how to use SES, Python SDK, SNS, Lambda and Arnie’s Vue front end with his run time engine. We have the prototype running now in AWS. Pretty exciting to see the Pizza project running! The test site will be up and running in a few weeks. www.calendarsnack.com. More to come as we attempt to give every marketeer in the world their own calendar server for sending and tracking of Calendar invites!

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