Here are the guidelines for posting commercial events.

Social or Commercial?

You probably know already that your event is commercial, rather than social. In short, if you're advertising your business, charging a fee or hoping to sell something, then it's a commercial event. Social events have no commercial interest.

Examples of commercial events are comedy nights, wine tasting, salsa class and advertising concerts. This also includes clubs that charge for events or membership fees.

Commercial events should specify if there is an entry fee or other price attached. They should preferably have some angle of interest for the expat/englishforum community.

Example: If I invite people to meet in a pub to watch Chris Black sing, then it's a social event. If Chris himself makes the invitation, then it's commercial.

Calendars

There are now two calendars: social (default calendar) and commercial. This helps to separate the different types of event. To see the commercial calendar, look at the bottom right of the calendar and use the “Calendar Jump” field.

Commercial events should only be posted in the commercial calendar.

Who can post events

In order to post an event, you have to have a little forum history. Most people qualify pretty quickly. The reason for this is that we want to encourage people to be an active part of the community and not to use it just for free advertising. The qualifications are as follows:

• At least 10 forum posts (not off topic)
• AND... member for at least one week
• AND... neutral or positive reputation

Further Advice

In case you have further questions, feel free to post your question here.

Hello Nanda,

I am Hosting 3 Skin Care Classes with Mary Kay Cosmetics in Lausanne at the EduKids Center, Rue du Centre 42E on the 3rd-4th of November. This is a great way for women to feel great look great while meeting new friends.This is a Free class to introduce women to a skin care program and basic color. I have been working now 3 years with Mary Kay and am expanding down into the French area. I would appreciate any information you can give me on posting this information on the Forum. You are of course welcome to join us too!!
sincerely,
Brenda

Hi Brenda,

You need 5 posts before you can post an event. So I guess this counts as one

This is a commercial event and if you have the dates, just click on "New Event" and fill in the form.

The reason it's a commercial aas oppose to a social event even though it's for free is because it is to promote products which is hoped to bring sales later on.

Please send me a private message if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Nanda.

what does "(not off topic mean)"?

By coincidence, there is a "wake up and smell the coffee" thread currently active.

dave

Would it be possible to see the social events calendar integrated with the commercial events? I only just realised there's an option to switch from one calendar to the other

I understand we wish to keep the commercial events obvious, but is there a way of achieving this and having them alongside the social events? I'm sure many other people weren't aware there even was a commercial calendar. It'd be good to have a comprehensive overview, especially as the calendars are getting fuller. Any thoughts?

Would it be alright for me to post an advertisement to teach private flute lessons in the Commercial Events Forum?

The Commercial Events forum isn't the right place for your ad, the Market Place > Commercial forum is. You may post there after reading the rules here.


Edit: Too late...

Great. Thanks for the information. Have a good day!

Hello everyone.

can anyone please help me with this question ?

I just planned two events, and did not find anywhere a setting of how many members would be allowed to RSVP. I did mention that in the event description, but is not there usually a parameter to set with that information ?

will I have to keep monitoring my event and stop RSVP manually ??

and if so, how do you stop people from replying RSVP ? I mean how do you tell people that an event is full and no one would be allowed to still RSVP ?

As far as I know, Marc73, you can limit the number of guests someone may bring - the default is 20! - but once your quota is full, there's no way of stopping people signing up. Unless you set a date when the sign-ups for the event are closed, but I'm not sure if even that's possible; I've only seen it once the event's date has passed. You can, however, bump people off the list; as organiser you will see a [remove] option next to each person's name. It's up to you to exercise this feature or not.

It's best relying on people's good will and asking them not to sign up anymore. If you find it's only a few, fair enough - some will anyway not turn up

thank you very much. I really appreciate your kind answer.

Actually I think there is a way, 'cos I managed it once. I think once your event is full you can change the "Time Before Event to Close RSVP:" to the number of days and hours you are at "now" before the event... if you get my drift (do this by editing the event).

The event should then be "closed" for RSVP's

You should also edit the event description and add in bold at the bottom "This event is now full"... or words to that effect. I don't quite have the eloquence that Uncle max has in telling people that they've left it too late

there is a man who sneaked into my mind and saw what I thought of.....

Beware of editing the event as there have been occassions in the past where all the RSVPs are deleted I don't know if this was a bug or a problem between the monitor and chair. It may be an idea to note who's in before editing anything...

When editing an event you do not loose the rsvps, but you will sometime s loose the +1 guests on the event. Just be carefull what options you chose when editing. If you try to change the end of rsvp date after youve posted you will loose all your rsvps.
The best way to stop the event , is to make sure you put a close time and date at least 24 hours before the actual event, when first posting . It will automatically close off the event.
Otherwise you will have to rely on good will, and edit the event to show , it is fully booked.

thank you a thousand........ I would keep a full copy of the page before touching anything.

that is pretty precious advice. thank you for that.

it is crazy that you lose all the rsvp for such a minor change, that does not in fact affect neither the time nor the location of the event (in which case I might understand cancellations of RSVP)

I am hosting a Chi Kung (Qi Gong) and Kung Fu seminar with our Grandmaster from Malaysia ---- all to be presented in English and German. So I thought that would be relevant here. However, I cannot post a thread nor event for this purpose.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi,

I would like to post information about Expat-Expo but I get the following reply when I click on new thread:

ed_mcgaugh, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Thanks for your help.