One of the coolest ways a website can benefit any organization that conducts training of any kind, or provides a lecture type forum for its membership or customers is the "online event registration" abilities that can be added to your new website.

How many people; how much salary time does it cost your organization every time you conduct a training session or have an annual event for your membership? We'll guess it's quite a lot.

What if you could cut that amount of time down to almost nothing? Sure, there will still be a need to manage the registration process, but it won't be anything like the nightmare most of our customers have seen by doing it by hand. You may have this down to a fine science. You may even have it down cold, but the real question here is: is it really cost effective?

We can provide you with online event registration, attendance management and even waiting lists for events that are booked. We'll remind your registrants of the date and time of the event in advance and even collect any fees you may charge for attendance. If someone cancels and space becomes available, the next person from the waiting list can be notified so that you always maximize the attendance at your events. We can tie that in with a system for managing attendee feedback and comments.

This is all add-on work to the basic content management system, but very tightly integrated. One place to go, one system to learn. When you spend $100,000 each year (or more) for your annual meeting, every penny counts and if you can minimize the labor cost of that meeting in just that one area, the website will pay for itself.