A critical step in promoting your event is to get the correct links to your prospects. You might choose to bring your prospects to your landing page to let them see the marketing message there and then select a session before registering. Alternatively, you might want to deliver your marketing message via your web site or an email campaign and then bring them directly into the registration page.

The following provides more detail on these options:

• To direct prospects to the landing page, provide them with the link in the Seminar Information section of the Add/Edit Seminar page. The basic format for the link is:
  http://www.meetingbridge.com/seminar/?ssssss where 'ssssss' represents a unique number assigned to your seminar.
• To take prospects directly to a registration page, provide them with the link found near the bottom of the Add/Edit Session page. The basic format for the link is:
  http://www.meetingbridge.com/seminar/registration.aspx?sessioncd=rrrrrr where 'rrrrrr' represents a unique number for the particular session. (Note: this is not the same as the unique seminar number.)

Testing your links.

The Test Landing Page link at the bottom of the Seminar Information section of the Add/Edit Seminar page opens you landing page in a test mode. When in test mode:

• Registrants entered are flagged as tests and can be deleted from the database by clicking on the Clear Test Registrants link on the Registrant List page.
• Credit card information entered while registering is submitted to Verisign's test server, rather than the live server. Only certain dummy numbers work or Verisigns test server. You may use one of the following numbers for your tests:
  • 4111111111111111
  • 5105105105105100
  • 5555555555554444
  • 4012888888881881
  • 378282246310005
  • 371449635398431
  • 378734493671000

Important Note: Clicking the Test Landing Page link inserts '&Test=Y' into the link's URL. When providing your prospects with 'live' links, never give them a link than contains '&Test=Y'. This will cause them to be treated as tests and they will not be able to enter valid credit card numbers in the case of a 'for fee' event.

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