Hundreds of bands and solo artists across world have searched for a way to reach their fans more easily and efficiently. iQ technologies offers a platform that gives artists the capability to interact with their fan base. With more fan base interaction, the artist can gather feedback and apply that to their career.
For musicians who wish to announce upcoming shows, iQ technologies offers several features to broadcast events. By creating an event, you can inform your followers of the date, time. and location of your occasion. Within seconds of posting your event, followers will instantly view the event from their live feed, allowing your post to reach the maximum amount of fans.
iQ Event Management allows for these unique settings, and more:
•Google Map integration
•Invitation management (target specific connections & areas such as groups and networks)
• Events publishing to activity streams
• Share event on Facebook or Twitter
• Support for recurring (repeating events)
•Event custom fields management
• Upcoming and past event management
• RSVP management (attending, not attending, maybe, not responded)
• Past event management user management (did attend, did not attend)
• Event notification management
• Assign other owners/admins to an event
• Full rich media integration with an event (video, images, documents) support
• Rich media comment integration
• iCal support for the export of events to integrate with other mail clients
In addition, an important aspect of an artist’s career, is fan input. However, it is difficult for many artists to reach their audience to receive that feedback, iQ technologies offers a unique poll feature that reaches nearly every artist’s follower. These polls allow for fans to answer questions, as well as critique on the artist’s work. Additionally, presenters can be sure of attendance by sending out a poll to headcount fans for certain events.
iQ Poll Management allows users to create specified polls with these features and more:
•Create and publish online polls in minutes, and view results graphically and in real time
•Configurable public opinion polls
•Support for questions and responses
•Graphical display of responses in bar | pie charts
•Geographical heat-maps with drill-down
•Comment on polls (comments also appear in activity stream)
•Access to user profiles (those who took poll)
•One-click share of a poll on popular social sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google+)
•Social buttons for total number of shares, likes, etc.
•E-mail poll to friends
With the many features iQ technologies offers, artists can interact with their fans with ease. We are changing the relationship between the fan base and the artist.