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Thank you for a wonderful 2024! ✨ As we wrap up the year 2024, we want to express our gratitude to all our #partners, #clients, and #friends for the great collaboration and trust throughout 2024. Together, we've achieved great things and we're looking forward to continuing this amazing journey in 2025. Wishing you and your loved ones a joyful holiday season filled with peace and happiness, and a successful and inspiring start to the new year! ✨🎄 #happyholidays #easyconnect

What a fantastic evening it was! 🌟 A heartfelt thank you to our incredible team and our sister company, Kulturplanner Data Solutions, for an amazing year filled with success, collaboration, and plenty of fun. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎄✨ #easyconnect #kulturplanner #teamwork

2024 has been an incredible year of growth, innovation, and partnerships for easy-connect! 🌟 We’re so happy to look back at the many highlights we’ve achieved together with our amazing partners and clients in the performing arts and culture sector: 🚀 App Launches Huge thanks to our partners at Metropolitan Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Festspielhaus und Festspiele Baden-Baden gGmbH, and Bayerische Staatsoper and of course Tessitura and EVENTIM.Inhouse for the fantastic partnership. It’s a pleasure to support these incredible organizations in enhancing the digital experience for their audiences. 🎤 Conferences & Events We were excited to attend and speak at so many international conferences and meet our friends from the industry. Always a pleasure to connect & share insights. 🔧 Product Updates Our team has been hard at work refining and improving our NextGen App Framework with new features and updates. We're committed to continuously enhancing our products to better serve our partners in the performing arts and cultural sectors. 🌐 Website Relaunch A new chapter for easy-connect: we are thrilled to have launched our redesigned website! The refreshed look and improved user experience reflect our evolving journey, and we’re excited for what’s to come. A huge thank you to Jack Rubin, John Pinchbeck, Jesse ROSEN and Andrew Thomas for their unwavering support and partnership. To our amazing team, partners, and friends – thank you for being part of this journey. Together, we’re making great strides in connecting the performing arts and culture community in new and meaningful ways. We can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store! 🚀✨ #easyconnect #2024Recap

🎟️ Revolutionize Ticketing with the Lottery Feature in our NextGen App! Looking for a game-changing way to boost event attendance and connect with your community? Our Lottery Feature is here to redefine how arts and culture organizations engage their audiences. ✨ What is the Lottery Feature? It’s a dynamic, digital solution that lets you market and sell rush tickets through an exciting lottery system that makes performances more accessible for a broader audience while creating a buzz of anticipation. ✅ Why it’s a game-changer: - Expand your reach: Target specific groups or open your events to a broader audience. - Own your audience data: Collect insights from all lottery participants - not just the winners. - Lottery availability: Determine performance criteria, timing criteria, pricing, and other details. - Flexible and customizable: Enable auto-payments or manual claims for tickets, all while integrating seamlessly with your systems. ➕Plus: With real-time notifications, digital ticket storage, and cross-sell opportunities, the Lottery Feature is designed to simplify operations and elevate audience engagement. Ready to transform your ticketing strategy? Let’s connect and explore how this can work for your organization! #audienceengagement #artsandculture #NextGenApps #datadriven #lotteryfeature #easyconnect

🚀 SERIES No. 6: Data Analysis & Direct, Segmented Communication 📊 Harnessing data is the key to unlocking a deeper understanding of your audience. By analyzing customer behavior, transactions, app usage, and interests with the easy-connect NextGen App Framework, cultural organizations can gain a complete picture - not just of what their audience is buying, but also what they’re doing when they’re not buying. Are they clicking links? Listening to audio samples? Browse events without buying? This wealth of insights empowers cultural organizations to create highly targeted, segmented communication strategies. 🎯 ✨ Push Notifications Deliver real-time alerts and personalized updates directly to smartphones - where your audience spends most of their day. Unlike newsletters, push notifications reach both buyers and non-registered users, engaging anyone who has downloaded your app. ✨ In-App Messaging Go further with curated campaigns and detailed texts delivered while users are actively engaged in your app. This ensures that your messages resonate without interrupting their experience. With data-driven segmentation, you can send tailored reminders or special offers to users who, for example, viewed an event but didn’t make a purchase - boosting engagement and conversions. ✅ Reach your audience where they are. Engage them with what matters most. And convert their interest into action. Want to learn more? We’d be happy to discuss your specific requirements with you: http://bit.ly/4fJkxUe #audienceengagement #artsandculture #NextGenApps #datadriven #easyconnect

SERIES No. 5: Digitizing youth engagement & streamlining membership integration 📱 With the easy-connect NextGen App Framework organizations can easily digitize their young audience programs with automated age validation and ID fraud check as well as student status enrollment status verification - no manual checks at the box office or entrance required. With seamless membership integration, both new and existing members enjoy automated validation, customized content, and automatic discounts applied based on their membership eligibility without the need to enter promo codes, as well as digital membership cards for quick access to benefits. Automatically adjust discount availability based on real-time capacity usage to ensure optimal ticket pricing and availability by offering discounts only when certain capacity thresholds are met, maximizing revenue while efficiently managing audience size. #youngaudienceengagement #memberships #artsandculture #easyconnect #NextGenApps #apps

What an inspiring and eventful week it’s been! Here’s a quick recap:   ✨ November 5-6: Audience Success Conference in Munich: Wolfgang and Sophie attended the Audience Success Conference in Munich and it was an incredible experience! Alongside delivering two engaging presentations, they had the pleasure of reconnecting with clients, prospects, partners, colleagues, and friends, while diving into the latest insights in #audienceengagement, #crm and #ticketing. And it was great to have our sister company Kulturplanner Data Solutions join us there, too. Congratulations to Anna Kleeblatt, Dr. Patricia Stainer, and your team for an outstanding event! (Conference photos: copyright Marcus Schaf / ASC)   ✨ November 7: Kunst und Kultur Innovation Summit in Vienna: We had the privilege of participating in this exceptional gathering, hosted by DIRECT MIND-Arts. It was a day filled with rich, diverse contributions from across the arts and cultural sector, both nationally and internationally. The conversations and perspectives shared were incredibly thought-provoking and will certainly fuel our work going forward.   Thank you to everyone who made this week so impactful – here’s to more collaboration and inspiration in the arts and culture field!

🚀 Join us at Audience Success Conference 2024 in Munich for our talks on the app-only approach to audience engagement!    📅 Date: Wednesday, November 6th  📍 Location: Kleiner Konzertsaal, „Fat Cat” (alter Gasteig), Munich  ⏰ Time: 10:00 – 11:00 am Sophie Garzon-Lapierre, Head of Business Development & Marketing, will give valuable insights on how a fully app-driven strategy with personalized content & communication based on audience constituents, their preferences and interests, is transforming digital engagement for performing arts institutions across the US and Europe. 🎭📲    Our CEO & Co.-Founder, Wolfgang A. Graf, will be presenting the U30 Classic Card App. You’ll learn all about the successful collaboration of Berlin’s performing arts scene and how this city-wide solution has since succeeded in increasing the number of members from 2,000 to 14,000 using a digital word-of-mouth-strategy. 📅 Date: Wednesday, November 6th  📍 Location: Blackbox, “Fat Cat” (alter Gasteig)  ⏰ Time: 3:30 - 4:15 pm    If you can’t make it to our sessions, but are still interested in learning more, schedule a meeting following the link below, or simply stop by at our booth and say hi: https://lnkd.in/dRTViMcR

🚀 Exciting News: We’ve just launched three game-changing apps for leading cultural institutions across Europe: Opernhaus Zürich, Bayerische Staatsoper, and Festspielhaus und Festspiele Baden-Baden gGmbH! 🎭 Each of these apps is uniquely tailored to engage key audience groups - like young audiences, membership circles, and donors - through seamless in-app ticketing, personalized content, and engagement strategies. These custom solutions are designed to drive revenue, attract new audiences, and deepen connections with patrons for long-lasting impact. A huge thank you to our partners: Sabine Turner and Alex Baumgartner at Opernhaus Zürich; Michael Wuerges, Nele Putz, and Julia Weyrauther at Bayerische Staatsoper; and Maria Riedinger, Christine Bruder, and Catharina Kölmel at Festspielhaus und Festspiele Baden-Baden gGmbH. Your collaboration has been invaluable! Want to explore our recent projects? Visit our website or download the apps in the app stores! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dzPDnq-U #digitalaudiencedevelopment #newaudiences #digitalmembership #audienceengagement #NextGenApps #easyconnect

✈️ From an inspiring Capacity Interactive conference in NYC back to Europe for the debut of the Audience Success Conference in Munich (November 5-6) 🌟 We’re happy to be part of this new exciting event, where both Sophie, Head of Development and Marketing, and Wolfgang, CEO & Co.-Founder, will be sharing their expertise in two insightful talks and where we will be all set up at our booth to connect with friends, partners and many new faces. 💡 Learn how performing arts organizations such as the Metropolitan Opera and Berlins' leading classical institutions are using an app-only approach with personalized content & communication based on audience constituents, social & community features and a digital word-of-mouth strategy to take their audience engagement into the next era. Gain exclusive insights into our U30 Classic Card App and on how this city-wide, mobile-first solution has succeeded in increasing the number of members from 2,000 to 14,000. A special Thank You to Anna Kleeblatt for having us and for organizing this wonderful event.  ✨Another highlight: Our sister company Kulturplanner Data Solutions will be presenting as well. Join Katharina Roehle for her talk together with Lucie Blot: “From Data to Engagement: personalized customer communication and why a fancy newsletter alone is not enough”.   Stay tuned to learn more about our sessions. Looking forward to meeting many of you there!   #AudienceSuccess2024 #easyconnect #AudienceEngagement #PerformingArts #DigitalInnovation #Munich