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Maybe a bit of my story will be useful. I am an author and teacher and when Covid struck, I moved all of my in-person training programs online. I became obsessed with finding the best platform to deliver my classes and work with students online in the most powerful and effective ways. And, during this time, my wife was attending a number of online conferences. Through her and is many emails I was receiving from various professional organizations, I kept hearing the term "Virtual Summits". I became intensely curious and out of my research, it was very clear that a virtual summit was an incredibly powerful way to deliver great content to a much wider audience than one can reach alone, as you have a built-in marketing machine from the cooperative efforts of the "speakers" at your event promoting the summit to their audiences.
So, I started to look for a Virtual Summit Platform to produce my first event. I discovered that there are many platforms! I had certain requirements both in technical aspects and in budget. Some of the platforms were either too confusing to use, did not have all the technical capabilities I wanted and some were just crazy expensive and geared more toward big corporations. I wanted a platform that had great flexibility in how I could deliver the actual speaker sessions, (live, pre-recorded as live, etc) in email capabilities, in having sponsors and in the design of the Summit site. I also needed to know that the experience for the attendees would be seamless and that they would enjoy the speaker sessions when they attended. Also, I wanted a platform where I could sell different kinds of tickets for the events and connect the ticketing to my Stripe account and easily sell "total access" type tickets for the replays after the actual event has ended. In other words, have the event continue to live online as an "evergreen" event and gain ongoing promotion for my online courses, for the products of the other speakers and for the sponsors.
So, after much testing and creating "test summits" on as many platforms as I could manage to get my hands on, it became absolutely clear to me that the only one that fulfilled everything I was looking for was HeySummit. That's when I purchased my subscription to the HeySummit platform and I am currently in the planning stages for my first two events.
One more very big key for me! The founder of the company and the support team and the development team!
I had the opportunity to talk with the founder of HeySummit and he was so generous to share with me the vision of the company and where it is headed and its commitment to excellence with the HeySummit platform. And I have found all of his words to be true with the way I see the platform growing and improving even in just the time I have been a subscriber.
And the support team! They are incredibly responsive and thoughtful and really care about my questions and technical needs! This is huge for me and it has been a great confirmation that I chose the best possible platform for my events. I can count on them!
And the development team too! So responsive and excellent. Here is a simple but profoundly important example. I must be able to post links for my speakers so that attendees can find their products and services after the event, and HeySummit has many ways to do this. In almost every way to include links inside HeySummit, when the person clicks the link, a new browser window will open. But I discovered just one place, inside the "speaker bio" that gave me the ability to hyperlink some text, but when it gets clicked on, it takes the person out of the summit site. So I emailed the support team and asked if they could change this so that when the hyperlinked text was clicked on, it would open a new browser window and the person would still have the Summit site open. Very quickly, the support team replied and told me they would give my note to the development team and then, very quickly, the development team added this as a new feature. GREAT! And when I went back and checked my hyperlinks on the bios, they all worked and they opened a new browser window so that I never left the summit. WOW! I know this may seem like. small detail but it is HUGE to me, that I can count on the team at HeySUmmit to be so responsive and to care so much for all of the small details that ultimately help me produce a successful virtual summit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Truly, there is nothing that I dislike. If there was, I would still be testing other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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The system is so good everyone thought I had a team behind me putting the event on when really it was just me. And when I say it was just me. I still put 40 hours that week into work in our business while still putting on a almost 700 person first time event.
The software made the event run smootly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some things that sounded simple, I needed help getting taken care of. But thier customer service was so quick, I was able to get things fixed quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I found HeySummit's software really helpful for running my 3-day event, which featured more than 25 speakers. The templated emails were very helpful, a feature that was one of my determining factors for using the software.
The software was easy to use, however, because of the amount of work I had to do, I decided to hire Kris Broholm (recommenced by Ben from HeySummit) to help me, and he was awesome! Jerica from HeySummit support was also very responsive and helpful.
With Kris and the HeySummit Software my event was a big hit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing. if there was anything I thought it needed, the team at HeySummit were very receptive to hearing ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The platform is extremely versatile and easy to use. The clean and fresh dashboard design makes setting up events a breeze. The platform continues to be actively developed and updated. The developers are very open to suggestions that have helped improve it beyond my expectations. Top that off with an absolutely stellar and highly responsive support team that leaves me feeling like they have my back, which is especially important when the event has gone live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
While there have been advancements to the page layout builder, right now it's primarily limited to the landing page. The ability to customize the other pages similarly would be great too. That said, the Theme Editor, Custom CSS options, and Translation Tool make up for what I am sure is a temporary limitation and they recently rolled out the ability to embed the registration on your site if you already have a website for your event (I have not tried it out yet though). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When we decided to launch online summits for our business we explored many overpriced and complicated solutions. Eventually, we landed on HeySummit which has been an amazing platform that has not only helped us increase our lead generation to 10,000+ (per event that we run), but also helped us increase the revenue we earn. That platform has various different features and integrations that enabled us to increase our conversion rate optimization. Not only that, but we've also been able to generate a generous customer LTV because of the amazing user experience we are able to provide our attendees, thanks to HeySummit.
Running online Summits has been very fruitful for our business and I don't think there is any platform better than HeySummit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Anytime I dislike something (which is always something minor) or need to request a feature I reach out to their support team and they get it fixed or implemented right away.
I have no complaints, and nothing to dislike about HeySummit, to be honest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
After trying to frankenstien together a hybrid virtual/in-person event using multiple different tools and softwares I stumbled upon HeySummit and was blown away. The user experience is fantastic.
When it says they have everything you need for an event they literally mean EVERYTHING. The setup is simple and there are a ton of integrations. Everything from the page builder to the actual event layouts make it a fully complete solution.
It's also nice that there's an onboarding call and group calls to assist you with anything you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Minor detail but you can use stripe or paypal as your payment processor but not both at the same time. You can only select one of the two gateways. It would be nice if the user was given the option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's a very comprehensive platform that has a ton of features for putting on virtual summits. It also can be useful for hosting webinars too. Support is responsive via live chat. I've suggested a few features and they have actually said "That's a great idea" and implemented them within a week. Awesome service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No major issues. On occasion I've found some missing functionality that would be helpful - but - then they've said "That's a great idea" and either implemented it in a week, or added it to their roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
HeySummit is built with all stakeholders of an event in mind; the attendee is put first, but all the other people that need to come together are also considered. This is huge; a software product rarely designs solutions for all of the 'headaches' and 'jobs' that everyone must do in a virtual event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
HeySummit is still a fairly young platform, and while updates are consistent and frequent, there are still 'nice-to-have' features that are warranted. The good news is they are rapidly deploying these features and listening to customer feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Out of the box consideration for the customers needs. Innovative. Overdelivers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not always a summit formula is what I need for my business. But I do use it for other purposes anyway... :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
-Super professional way to deliver events
-Easy to bring together speakers and have them curate their attendee-facing collateral
-Way, way exceeds other ways of doing events (e.g. using Zoom webinar, with other resources provided in Google Drive or Docs or via a webpage I'd have to build myself)
-Easy for attendees to access content
-Easy for me to offer both free and paid tickets, and to restrict content to certain ticket levels Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
-Would love more customizable landing page
-Would love for it to be clearer what standard emails are going out to attendees / speakers
That said, they are *super* open to feedback and one feature I requested was added within 3 days! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The best part of HeySummit is the way you can pre-record your presentations and yet deliver a genuinely live experience to your audience. You can easily create a lively and engaged event using their dynamic talk pages that give attendees the feeling of moving from one great session to the next. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some attendees need help figuring out the log-in process. They can register fine but need additional advice, if they are not tech savvy, to get onboarded and logged in the site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
