The Outcome
- Precise Turnouts - With students RSVPing via text, they now have an accurate headcount, eliminating guesswork around who attending events at Ohio University Chabad.
- Captive Audiences - Adding new students directly to the Evant messaging system ensures their communications don't get lost in social feeds (instagram) and algorithms.
- Targeted Outreach - Leveraging Evant's group capabilities, they can sort and message specific segments like freshmen and schedules times of the week.
- Holistic Management - Beyond events, Evant enables voting, resource sharing, keeping the community looped in year-round.
The challenges
- Inaccurate Headcounts - Using Facebook Events and Instagram polls provided no reliable way to gauge actual event attendance numbers for the Chabad of Ohio University.
- Disconnected Outreach - They lacked a centralized platform to effectively message their entire student community about upcoming events or announcements.
- Targeted Outreach - Leveraging Evant's group capabilities, they can sort and message specific segments like freshmen and schedules times of the week.
- Wasted Resources - Not knowing precise attendee counts made properly ordering food and allocating resources an inefficient guessing game.
The Evant Solution
Ohio University Chabad adopted Evant, immediately shifting all their event communications to the RSVP Software, making Evant central to all operations. This allowed students to seamlessly RSVP via text RSVP via text and get text message updates through a dedicated number advertised across all their channels. As all the students got used to using Evant, Anyone who RSVPs comes to the event, in other words their is a low no-show rate with people who RSVP’d.
