How many of you have had your name called out by Mike Reilly? He was previously with Active.com, as one of the original team members there. I don’t have time to do the investigative journalism to say what the move was for, but hopefully this is a good move for him.
Events.com, a provider of cloud-based applications ‘encouraging social interaction and enhancing the experience of putting on, promoting and attending events’, has today announced that Mike Reilly has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Global Sales.
In this role, Reilly will build a world class sales organization, accelerating revenue for the event organizer business from the company’s headquarters in La Jolla, California.
Formerly Vice President at The ACTIVE Network, Reilly brings over 30 years of sales and endurance event experience and is a leader in the endurance sports industry. As a committee member and MC for the Running USA Conference since its inception, Reilly has a wealth of knowledge for all things endurance.
I read the press release and still can’t figure out what that company does. Fail.
from their website:
*“A mobile-first registration platform for the busy event organizer and the “always on” event goer. Introducing an end-to-end solution that does more than just reach audiences. We invite you to begin captivating and growing your event with us today”
it sounds like they want to create a version of active.com that doesn’t suck, but yes every sentence seems a bit vague:
- always on event goer: not sure what that is, presumably a person that never sleeps - end-to-end solution: it allows an athlete/event attendee to start the registration process and end it too!? - does more than just reach audiences: you need to use your imagination to figure out what this “more” is that it does
**- captivating and growing your event: **hopefully an event organizer has already “captured” their event. How did it escape to begin with?
I read the press release and still can’t figure out what that company does. Fail.
Agreed. But then again, I know what Active.com does and I still can’t figure out how they charge what they charge. Another fail.
I just hope this isn’t another model that adds extreme costs while performing unimpressive administrative duties.
I went to the events.com website. I *think *they do event registration services, but there were so many buzzwords and bullshit it was hard to tell.
Slick site that tells you nothing.
If I was an RD, this would be a huge red flag.
I read the press release and still can’t figure out what that company does. Fail.
from their website:
*“A mobile-first registration platform for the busy event organizer and the “always on” event goer. Introducing an end-to-end solution that does more than just reach audiences. We invite you to begin captivating and growing your event with us today”
it sounds like they want to create a version of active.com that doesn’t suck, but yes every sentence seems a bit vague:
- always on event goer: not sure what that is, presumably a person that never sleeps - end-to-end solution: it allows an athlete/event attendee to start the registration process and end it too!? - does more than just reach audiences: you need to use your imagination to figure out what this “more” is that it does
**- captivating and growing your event: **hopefully an event organizer has already “captured” their event. How did it escape to begin with?
Yup.
Maybe Mike Reillys first order of business is to redesign the website so it actually says what they do. Hard to sell services to customers when you obfuscate what it is your are selling!!!
From what I have read there, I am confident that what they are trying to achieve is to move forward an organic yet decidedly post modern solution for self actualized globally minded citizens seeking to leverage jargon in real time without sacrificing the indiginous cum frontiersperson spirit that has made America the everman’s paragon.
From what I have read there, I am confident that what they are trying to achieve is to move forward an organic yet decidedly post modern solution for self actualized globally minded citizens seeking to leverage jargon in real time without sacrificing the indiginous cum frontiersperson spirit that has made America the everman’s paragon.
Your job offer from events.com is in the mail. Or maybe you’ll get $18.95 for every WTC registration.
I read the press release and still can’t figure out what that company does. Fail.
Agreed. But then again, I know what Active.com does and I still can’t figure out how they charge what they charge. Another fail.
I just hope this isn’t another model that adds extreme costs while performing unimpressive administrative duties.
I went to the events.com website. I *think *they do event registration services, but there were so many buzzwords and bullshit it was hard to tell.
Slick site that tells you nothing.
If I was an RD, this would be a huge red flag.
Are you a race director? Are you in the market for event registration support for events that you’re running?
If not, maybe it’s best to leave the ‘expert’ commentary for the target audience.
FYI Vista Equity took a boatload of cash incentives from the Texas Enterprise Fund to move Active.com and a couple other local companies (Websense and Omnitrax) from San Diego to Dallas. Perhaps he preferred staying in San Diego?
I read the press release and still can’t figure out what that company does. Fail.
Agreed. But then again, I know what Active.com does and I still can’t figure out how they charge what they charge. Another fail.
I just hope this isn’t another model that adds extreme costs while performing unimpressive administrative duties.
I went to the events.com website. I *think *they do event registration services, but there were so many buzzwords and bullshit it was hard to tell.
Slick site that tells you nothing.
If I was an RD, this would be a huge red flag.
Are you a race director? Are you in the market for event registration support for events that you’re running?
If not, maybe it’s best to leave the ‘expert’ commentary for the target audience.
Are you kidding? Pretty much everyone on this thread agrees the site is a turd.
Beautiful, but devoid of any real content telling me exactly what the company does beyond vague “we do awesome stuff!”.
I read the press release and still can’t figure out what that company does. Fail.
Agreed. But then again, I know what Active.com does and I still can’t figure out how they charge what they charge. Another fail.
I just hope this isn’t another model that adds extreme costs while performing unimpressive administrative duties.
I went to the events.com website. I *think *they do event registration services, but there were so many buzzwords and bullshit it was hard to tell.
Slick site that tells you nothing.
If I was an RD, this would be a huge red flag.
Are you a race director? Are you in the market for event registration support for events that you’re running?
If not, maybe it’s best to leave the ‘expert’ commentary for the target audience.
Are you kidding? Pretty much everyone on this thread agrees the site is a turd.
Beautiful, but devoid of any real content telling me exactly what the company does beyond vague “we do awesome stuff!”.
How many RD’s are commenting here???
Took about a second to see that events.com is associated with sportstats and eventsonline.ca and founded by the founder of active.com.
They handle event registration and participant engagement.
