New Trend in PR: Creating a Free Website for Your Event

Online, August 11, 2010 (Newswire.com) - When it comes to planning and promoting an event, creating a website is one of the most effective and efficient ways to spread word fast, and attract the attention of venue guests. Why send out expensive (and slow!) paper campaign with snail mail, postcards and paper fliers when you have the option of creating a high quality Flash website, sending it to your friends and family, and posting it on your social network profiles?

Today, more and more people are creating a free website for all types of events. Grand openings of new stores, rock concerts, weddings and fundraisers are becoming advertised more and more via the web, where they can reach a greater audience, at a much faster speed - and at a much lower cost to the event planner.

Many users are turning to Wix.com for the clean and easy creation of customized event websites. Wix is free online software, that includes a drag & drop graphic interface that makes the process of website creation intuitive - and even fun - regardless of one's technical background or lack thereof.

To gain access to Wix' free website builder, users sign up at Wix.com simply by entering in an e-mail address and selecting a username. The website creation process can begin immediately, as users choose from Wix' wide variety of design elements, tools and widgets.

Items like RSVP forms, Google maps and calendars, e-mail sign-up forms, video playlists and more are just a few of the customizable elements that users can use to build their own event websites. Wix hosts all users' sites for free under the Wix domain, and offers a variety of premium packages that users can purchase to gain domain ownership.

Wix CEO & Founder, Avishai Abrahami, says: "This new trend of creating event websites fits in perfectly with the Wix philosophy...users can advertise their events with a beautiful website, saving their time and money for the event itself. Now that's value."

Newlyweds Kiran and Khyati used Wix to design a highly personalized wedding website for their Bollywood-style wedding. Guests can read about the couple's story of how they met, watch a video of the engagement, and RSVP directly from this imaginative site. A comment form lets visitors post messages to the newlyweds.

Abrahami says, "As this trend continues, we expect to provide users with more features suited to event websites." It will be interesting to see what this revolutionary start-up company cooks up next.

Posting a link on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites is a great way to spread word of an event like wildfire, and Wix users can embed their sites directly into their Facebook profiles, as well as plant Facebook like buttons on the sites themselves.

Wix is funded by Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital. The company was founded in 2006, and has headquarters in New York and offices in Tel Aviv. Over 4.5 million Flash websites have been built with the Wix website builder, with an estimated additional 400,000 each month. For more information or examples of Wix websites, visit Wix.com.

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