Turn Your Website Into A Course Booking Machine

Administrate

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop you will know:

1.  Why you should be doing this.

2.  What you need to set this up.

3.  How you can add course booking functionality to your website.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop you will know:

1.  Why you should be doing this.

2.  What you need to set this up.

3.  How you can add course booking functionality to your website.

Having A Website Is Important

•  Visibility •  With 93% of business decisions starting with a search engine search that means if you don't have a website, you are only selling to 7% of your market. – profitworks.ca

•  Accessibility •  Customers can find you at their leisure 24 hours a day

•  Low Cost Advertising •  61% of global internet users research products online – adweek.com

•  Sales Anytime •  Customers making payments in your sleep!

“All of us have been classically trained, and now we're in a jazz age,” - Rishad Tobaccowala

Quick Online Booking And Payment Is Critical

Top reasons for potential customers abandoning online bookings:

1.  The process is too lengthy and complicated

2.  Payment options don’t suit We make it as simple and efficient as possible for your customers to book onto an upcoming Event.

Our Customer Base

We asked 160 Training Organisations: “Is your Training Management system integrated with your website?” •  Yes : 24 •  No : 136

85% Did not have Integrated Online Booking!

Our Customer Base

In our customer base, we’ve found that those using online bookings are outperforming those that don’t. “We saw our revenues double in the 12 months following the integration of our website and Administrate. We changed nothing else in that period!” - Steve Booker, CEO of Kentec Training

Why?

If you run a business that’s all about washing clothes...

Why?

Are you going to hire more employees to wash the clothes?...

Why?

Or build a machine to do it all for you!

Recap

In the time we’ve been talking to you, 5 people could have visited your site and booked on to your next course!

5

Weekly Example

If you run 5 courses, with 10 students booking onto each course.

5 ●  50 Students ○  5 Courses 10 Students on each

●  250 Emails ○  ~ 5 Emails per students

●  12.5 hours ○  2-3 minutes per email

That’s around 2 days saved per week!

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop you will know:

1.  Why you should be doing this.

2.  What you need to set this up.

3.  How you can add course booking functionality to your website.

All You Need Is A Website

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop you will know:

1.  Why you should be doing this.

2.  What you need to set this up.

3.  How you can add course booking functionality to your website.

What are your options?

• WordPress Plugin

• WebLink

•  REST API

What are your options?

• WordPress Plugin

• WebLink

•  REST API

WordPress Plugin

How many of you have a WordPress Powered website?

WordPress Plugin

Let’s upload the WordPress Plugin

WordPress Plugin

Don’t Have a Wordpress Powered Website?

Fear Not!

What are your options?

• WordPress Plugin

• WebLink

•  REST API

WebLink

Let’s drop the Weblink right into your website!

But...What if?

•  Have a Custom Workflow? • Want more control over the booking

process? •  Already have experience developing web

tools? •  Built your own website from the ground-

up already?

What are your options?

• WordPress Plugin

• WebLink

•  REST API

REST API

• We have a modern, powerful and secure REST API which supports the standard HTTP calls of GET, POST, PUT and DELETE to execute different operations.

•  REST APIs are built on top of the same concepts and technologies that power the web.

•  As it’s the standard - any programming language that supports HTTP requests!

WordPress / Weblink

Demo

WordPress / Weblink

Advantages from user point of view: • Quick •  Easy •  Intuitive

REST API

Brief Overview Walk through an example of what you can do with Events.

What are your options?

Summary

Why have a website?

•  Visibility •  Accessibility •  Low Cost Advertising •  Sales •  Automatic process

Summary

How easy is it? Very!

Summary

We make it as simple and efficient as possible for your customers to book onto an upcoming Event, avoiding abandoned bookings! Our customers who have this setup outperform those that don’t!

Build A Washing Machine!