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Websites for an event host

An event host is booked one day at a time, and the site has to answer two questions fast: is that day free, and what do you cost. Posato is a service that rebuilds the site you already have with an enquiry form and a free intro call built in, and you approve it before anything replaces what you have.

What an event host website needs

Your name reaches an event manager three ways: a venue passes on a list it trusts, someone who sat in your audience mentions you, or a speaker bureau has you on file. They open your site knowing their date and nothing else. What the site has to show is that a room is safe in your hands. Four things do that:

  • the kinds of day you take on, a conference, an award evening, a wedding ceremony, on one page
  • a page about you, because a client is hiring a person to stand in front of their room
  • Dutch and English on the same site, because so many rooms in this country are mixed
  • your fee, as a day rate or a starting figure, not "on request"

Photos of you working a stage belong there too, though they rarely settle it. When someone asks Google, ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity to name a host for a congress in Amsterdam, those same four plain pages are what the answer is built from.

How an event manager asks about a date

The date is only the first line. A host's fee sits on more than the hours on stage: a briefing call, a programme to read, an opening to write, a run-through before the doors open. So the site's job is to get the date, the kind of event and the shape of the day into one message.

  • an enquiry form carrying four fields, name, email, phone and a message, and the date and the programme go into the message
  • a free 20-minute intro call you can actually book, sitting on hours you choose, with a gap behind it
  • every enquiry arrives in your inbox, an answer goes back to the sender on its own, and you get a notification
  • a booked call writes itself into your schedule, and the confirmation that reaches the caller is one you never touched

The form asks for no date at all. A client types 14 March into the message, the way they would in an email, and that is where you read it.

A quoted day, an enquiry and a free call

An event host is quoted work. The fee does not exist until you know the day. What a site can still do is lower the cost of asking and hand someone twenty minutes with you. Both of those are set out below.

They send the brief, you quote

Four fields, and the client uses the message to set out the date, the venue, the programme and how late the day runs. It reaches your inbox, an acknowledgement goes back to them straight away, and the fee follows once you understand the day. Nothing is charged and no slot is taken.

Twenty minutes in your week

A call costs nothing and is still a service in its own right, with a length you set and hours you open. An event manager who wants to hear your voice first takes a slot and is confirmed on the spot, while your schedule updates itself. Leave Thursday mornings open for this and keep the rest closed. The gap behind each call stops two of them colliding.

Moving an event host site off Wix, Squarespace or WordPress

You send the address of the site you have now, on Wix, Squarespace, WordPress or anywhere else, and we rebuild it on a private preview link. Your current site stays live until you approve the new one, and any page that moves keeps its old address through a redirect. The three steps are on the home page.

What an event host website costs with Posato

While the beta is open there is no subscription and no build fee. A host who only takes enquiries pays nothing at all, because the 5% commission comes off payments taken through the site and there are none. A month with no events costs nothing. The rest is in the questions on the home page.

Questions event hosts ask before switching

Can a client see which dates I have already taken?

No. The site does not publish a calendar of booked days, so an event manager asks and you answer. What changes is that their date, the event and the programme arrive in your inbox in one message instead of five.

An enquiry comes in while I am on stage. What happens to it?

It arrives in your back office with the name, the phone number, the email and the message attached. An acknowledgement goes back to whoever sent it without you touching anything, and a notification reaches you. You deal with it in the break, not at midnight.

Can I sell something at a fixed price next to quoted work?

Yes. Give a service a fixed length and a fixed price and a client can pay for it when they book, through Stripe, into an account that carries your name. An hour of presentation coaching can sit beside the free call on different hours.

I host in English as often as in Dutch. Does the site handle both?

Yes. The site carries both languages at once, with a switch between them and a separate address for each, so an international programme manager searching in English and a client looking for a dagvoorzitter both arrive in the right place.

Send us your event host website.

We rebuild it with booking built in and send you a preview. You approve before anything replaces what you have.

Free while in beta. A 5% commission on payments taken through your site. That is how we make money.

Two fields. Your link and email go to the founder and nowhere else.