Your Overseas Home Improves Virtual Event Engagement and Retention with vFairs

Lack of a Seamless Virtual Experience

Before vFairs, Your Overseas Home had no experience hosting virtual events. They had previously relied solely on in-person conventions, so shifting online posed a significant challenge. The team lacked an event platform that could offer a smooth virtual experience and gather actionable data from their events.

Manual Admin Work

Shanaaz’s small team struggled with the extensive administrative work required to run virtual events. From uploading spreadsheets to manually entering attendee details, these tasks took up a lot of precious time and resources.

Difficulty in Attendee Retention

With virtual events, Shanaaz expected that ensuring attendees showed up for their scheduled appointments would be a challenge. To combat this, they needed an interactive solution that would encourage attendees to fully participate throughout the event.

Unified, Interactive Virtual Experience

vFairs allowed Your Overseas Home to fully transition to virtual events with a custom-designed online environment that replicated their in-person experiences. The immersive platform provided an engaging experience for both partners and attendees, and served as a point of differentiation against competitors.

Automated Admin Work

vFairs comprehensive admin support automated time-consuming tasks like data entry and spreadsheet management. This saved Shanaaz’s small team valuable time, letting them focus on more strategic event management activities.

Greater Attendee Retention

Using the appointment booking feature in the event platform, attendees easily scheduled one-on-one meetings with partners. The in-app chat further aided communication, allowing attendees to engage in real-time discussions, share files, and exchange contact cards. Having so many networking features available helped ensure high attendee engagement and retention.

When looking for virtual event platforms, most of the options that Shanaaz explored were glitchy and didn’t work as expected. This is exactly why vFairs stood out. The vFairs virtual event platform provided a smooth, reliable user experience – exactly as YOH needed.

Another key advantage was vFairs’ powerful analytics. It allowed the YOH team to easily track KPIs, like registrations, booth visits, and document downloads, to showcase to their partners.

The appointment booking feature became one of the standout elements for Your Overseas Home. It consolidated networking capabilities into one platform, allowing attendees to easily schedule meetings with partners during the event.

Another plus was the flexibility it offered. Attendees and exhibitors could attend meetings either via video or phone call. This made the process more accessible, since both parties could connect in the way they preferred.