Dublin software start-up Eventznet Ltd. today announced that they are providing the online event marketing and pre-registration system for the National Conference Showcase 2004 being organised by Business & Finance publication.

National Conference Showcase 2004 is a new Irish event that will showcase Ireland's premier conferencing venues, services and technologies. A number of seminars will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, with experts on hand to pass on their tips. The event will be held on March 29th and 30th at the Shelbourne Hall, RDS, Dublin.

Eventznet is a web-based event marketing and management system that makes it easy for event organisers to promote their event and manage all bookings and invitations through a simple interface. Traditional methods of inviting delegates to register by post, fax, e-mail or phone, inputting each registration into a database or spreadsheet and confirming the registration with the individual, is time consuming and costly. Eventznet rolls all these steps into one automated process and saves the event organiser days of tedious data entry.

Business & Finance choose Eventznet as their medium to execute an international e-marketing campaign - designed to raise the profile of the Irish conferencing industry. Using Eventznet, the Showcase organisers can quickly and easily send branded, personalised, permission based e-mails to thousands of potential attendees inviting them to pre-register for the Showcase at the registration site powered by Eventznet.

Using Eventznet, the organisers can see at a glance how the pre-registration is progressing, and all registration data is available to the Showcase organisers for a number of purposes, including printing name badges. As the date of the Showcase approaches, the organisers can quickly and easily send a reminder e-mail to those who have pre-registered through the Eventznet system.

Fiona Weldon, who is organising the Showcase on behalf of Business & Finance is delighted with her Eventznet registration system. "We have substantially reduced our costs by using this system," she says "We don't have to have a staff dedicated to inputting registration data and answering individual phone calls and queries - all of this is automated by Eventznet. On the Showcase days themselves, we will be able to use the pre-registration details to ensure that attendees can quickly get to where they want to be - at the stands and in the seminars."

Eventznet licences the software for single events or for a series of events, and a fully functional site can be ready to take, confirm and record registrations or bookings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, within less than an hour. There is no complicated software to install, and event organisers do not need to be technical whizz kids to use it!

Eventznet offer a free 30 day trial of the software at their web site www.eventznet.ie where further information about the product and the company can also be found. For people organising parties for birthdays, anniversaries or any other occasion, the Party Platform (www.partyplatform.ie) offers a fun and convenient way to contact the guests, invite them to the party and manage their responses.