Capacities for each layout. Dry hire versus packages. What is included and what is not. Whether there is accommodation. Parking. Access times for setup. Whether you allow your own caterer. These are not nice to have, they are the questions that decide whether anybody enquires at all.
Social Media Management for Event Venues
A couple came round in March, spent an hour here, said all the right things. They booked a place in the next county in May and you only heard about it from a supplier. That is the shape of this business, and most of what decides it happens on a phone months after the viewing.
This is the part The Social 99 handles for venues, on plans from $99 a month with nothing locked in.
Why Do People Book a Viewing and Then Never Come Back?
Because the viewing was not the decision. It was one of four they did that month.
What happened afterwards was six weeks of comparing, usually with a partner or a committee, usually on Instagram, usually late at night. Whichever venue stayed in front of them during those six weeks had an advantage that had nothing to do with the building.
Yours probably went quiet. Most do, because the people who run venues are busy running events, not posting about them. Event venue marketing fails in that gap more often than it fails at the viewing.
Can Anyone Picture Their Event in an Empty Room?
No, and this is the single biggest thing venues get wrong.
The empty shot is the one you have, because empty is how the room looks for most of the week and because it photographs cleanly with nothing in the way. Trouble is, an empty room asks a question rather than answering one. Hardly anybody can furnish it in their head, and the ones who have a go tend to get it wrong, which becomes its own problem when they walk in on the day.
Dressed beats empty every time. Tables laid. Chairs out. Lights on at the hour the event actually happens. The same room set three different ways is worth more than fifty photographs of it bare. It is exactly the problem estate agents solve by staging a house, which our real estate agents page covers.
Who Actually Owns the Photos From Last Saturday?
Not you, usually, and this quietly starves venue pages of their best content.
The photographer owns the images. The couple owns the right to say no. The planner wants crediting. So the best wedding you have ever hosted sits in somebody else's gallery and your page shows an empty room again.
Fixing this is mostly admin rather than creativity. Ask for permission at booking rather than afterwards, agree a credit with photographers up front, and make it easy for them to send you a handful of shots. Venues that sort this have a year of content. Venues that do not are permanently a season behind. Venue social media management is largely about making sure that pipeline exists.
Are the Planners and Suppliers Recommending You?
There is a referral network sitting right next to you that most venues barely touch, and it runs almost entirely on whether people can see what you have been doing.
Planners get asked where to go. So do caterers, florists, photographers and the DJ who has done forty of these. They recommend venues they have worked at recently and venues that made their job easy, but there is a third thing nobody says out loud. They recommend venues that tag them, because your post is their marketing too.
A venue that credits suppliers properly gets recommended more than one that does not. It costs nothing and it compounds, and most venue Instagram marketing ignores it completely.
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Every asset below was made by a human designer or video editor on our team. No stock templates, no generic captions.
What Fills a Tuesday in November?
Every Saturday in summer sells itself. It is the rest of the calendar that decides whether the year works.
What else the room can do
5- Corporate away days and training rooms.
- Christenings.
- Wakes.
- Birthday parties.
- The small wedding that would rather not have a Saturday anyway.
Why none of it sells itself
None of it sells itself, and almost none of it appears on venue pages because weddings are prettier.
So the midweek and off-season content has to be written rather than photographed. What a day rate includes. Minimum numbers midweek. Whether you do dry hire. What the room looks like set for forty rather than a hundred and forty. Content Marketing for Event Venues is mostly answering that, and we run it through content marketing services.
Why Does the Barn Up the Road Come Up First?
Somebody searches wedding venues near me, or function rooms for hire, and you are below a place with worse parking. It is rarely the venue. Local SEO for Event Venues is doing that work.
- The Google Business Profile completed properly.
- Capacity and amenities listed.
- Photos that are not from the opening season.
- Reviews answered including the one about the bar prices.
Venues have an unusual advantage here if they use it, which is that every event generates searches for your name. People look you up because they are attending something, not booking it, and some of them are deciding where to hold theirs. Some venues handle this in house, others bring in Event Venue SEO Services once the competition gets serious, and our SEO Services for Event Venue work sit alongside our SEO services.
Does Your Website Answer the Capacity Question?
If somebody has to email to find out whether you fit a hundred and twenty seated, you have lost most of them already.
A venue website that hides the numbers gets fewer enquiries but better ones, which sounds clever and is not. What you are after is the right enquiries, which means putting enough out there for people to rule themselves in or out. Website Design & Development for Event Venues earns its money when the capacities are buried in a PDF somebody has to download, or when your enquiry form somehow never asks what date they want.
And Nobody Ever Mentions the Wakes, Do They?
Nothing, usually, and that is a real gap in the calendar nobody wants to discuss.
Why it goes unmentioned
Wakes, memorials and celebrations of life are steady, year round business for a lot of venues, and they are almost never mentioned online because it feels wrong to market them next to a wedding. So the families who need somewhere ring round blindly, and you get the ones who happened to think of you.
How to handle it
It can be handled with some care. It belongs on a quiet page of the website rather than in a post, written plainly, covering capacity and catering and timings, with no photography of anybody. Social Media Marketing for Event Venues has never meant putting every part of the business on Instagram, and working out what stays on the website is a decent chunk of the job.
And Who Signs It Off, When You Are
Halfway Through a Room Turnaround?
Venue people are almost never sat at a desk. You are shifting chairs, or walking a supplier round, or in the middle of a showround, usually at the exact moment somebody wants a caption signed off.
In The Social 99 Dashboard the month is sat there waiting instead, so you can go through the photos, read what has been written, bounce back whatever is wrong and approve the rest, in whatever gap turns up between turnarounds. Nothing publishes until you say so.
The posts and reels are made by human designers and editors. Plans are from $99 a month, no contract, and a 7 day free trial is there.
Sign in to your dashboardMarketing Pricing for Event Venues
It depends what you actually host. A barn doing summer weddings and nothing else is a different job from a venue juggling corporate midweek with private hire at the weekend, so you take what you need from The Social 99 and move it around as the diary shifts.
Marketing · Graphics & videos
Basic · Starter
$99/month
Get consistent, professional content, ready to post.
Starter
- 4 custom graphics
- 2 custom videos
- 1 revision per deliverable
- Creative execution
- Content strategy
- Reliable turnaround
- Captions
- Weekly report
- Scheduling
Choose a plan on what the venue actually needs. Social Media Management for Event Venues is the usual starting point, and that begins at $99 a month.
Can You Tell If They Have Ever Actually Worked a Wedding?
Get numbers out of them first. Posts per month, reels per month, and how often things actually go out.
The questions that sort them
Then ask them what happens to Saturday's photos on Monday morning, because that burst and lull is the rhythm of this whole business and a calendar signed off three weeks back cannot absorb it.
Worth asking too how they deal with a client who would rather their event stayed off the internet.
And who is physically making the work, since plenty of event marketing services take a brief and hand it on.
The question that sorts them fastest is what they would post in January. Anybody who says a discount has not understood that January is when the following summer books. We do similar work for practices where the building is the product, which our architects page covers.
Where Does a Venue Start?
Start with the Google Business Profile, free and already where people are asking about capacity. The photo pipeline is the next job, which really means asking couples and clients for permission while they are booking instead of chasing it six months later. Somewhere in there, get one room shot properly in three different setups, because that one afternoon will bring in more enquiries than a year of empty room photos ever will.
After that it is consistency. Social Media Management for Event Venues is not complicated work. It is work that has to happen on the days you are also running an event, which is the bit that usually stops it.
Questions venues usually ask
Planning the month, making the posts and the short videos, writing what goes with them, putting them out, and answering the people who reply. Plans differ a fair bit though, so read what is in one before you sign it.
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People Who Toured in March?
The building was never the problem. The six weeks after the viewing are, and most of that happens somewhere you are not posting.With The Social 99 the month is planned around your event diary, the captions are written, and the lot comes past you before it goes anywhere.Pick a plan that suits how the venue actually runs.