We are a community of event organisers, venue owners, caterers, entertainers, photographers, florists, and everything else that makes events memorable.
We don't charge for listing.
When you get a booking, there's a small commission with a 21% tax.
Event suppliers like you are the heart of Venopi. Without community, there's no Venopi. Everything we do is to support you with tools to do better planning, marketing, create excellent customer relationships, and grow financially.
You can easily set up, promote your services, and discover your audience. Always with your own personal touch.
Showcase your services, promos, and prices to your customers in no time.
Communicate securely and easily via our Inbox. Group chat? We have that too!
Asking feedback is important. Encourage feedback from your customers and determine your successes, as well as opportunities for improvement.
Gift vouchers are a great way to promote your service. You're keeping your price level intact and not devaluing your brand.
No hidden costs and no limitations in customizing the system. You can set up your availability, add new customers whenever you like.
How many customers visit your listings? Which promotion is outperforming? What can you do better? Our reporting reveals it all.
Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again.
Whether or not this is done in good faith, in practice this kind of 'exit event' is a pump-and-dump scheme. The very popularity that attracts a buyer also makes the project financially unsustainable. The owners cash out, the acquirer gets some good engineers, and the users get screwed.
To avoid this problem, avoid mom-and-pop projects that don't take your money! You might call this the anti-free-software movement.
If every additional user is putting money in the developers' pockets, then you're less likely to see the site disappear overnight. If every new user is costing the developers money, and the site is really taking off, then get ready to read about those synergies.
To illustrate, I have prepared this handy chart:What if a little site you love doesn't have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn't take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
Free Paid Stagnant losing money making money Growing losing more money making more money Exploding losing lots of money making lots of money
I love free software and could not have built my site without it. But free web services are not like free software. If your free software project suddenly gets popular, you gain resources: testers, developers and people willing to pitch in. If your free website takes off, you lose resources. Your time is spent firefighting and your money all goes to the nice people at Linode.
So stop getting caught off guard when your favorite project sells out! “They were getting so popular, why did they have to shut it down?” Because it's hard to resist a big payday when you are rapidly heading into debt. And because it's culturally acceptable to leave your user base high and dry if you get a good offer, citing self-inflicted financial hardship.
Like a service? Make them charge you or show you ads. If they won't do it, clone them and do it yourself. Soon you'll be the only game in town!
The problem with so many venture-capital funded startups is that their investors force them to grow fast in user base without making any money in the first few years, to then sell out to BigCo (e.g. Google, Facebook) for tens of millions or billions of dollars, then write a blog post about their incredible journey, then either shut the site down, or fuck over their users by selling their user data.
Learn more about our partner onboarding flow from start to finish.
Check out event suppliers page to learn more. You can also ask for help.
Whenever ready, you can start listing your venue or services. We will work together to ensure your listing is in the best shape!
When the listing is perfect, Venopi will approve and publish it so your customers can find you and start booking your service or venue.
We will send you some questionnaires for the article.
When we receive your answers, we will do proofreading and editing. This process usually takes two working days.
We will send the draft; you can request changes up to two iterations or confirm it immediately if you are satisfied.
Congratulations! You have completed the flow. We will put you in the spotlight and share it on our social media platforms. Get ready for bookings, and remember to share the words with your network.