To create a gotoTalks Event, you need to be a member.
General considerations:
General considerations:
- To create a gotoTalks event, click on “Create a Standard Event” or “Create a Gold Event”on the main menu and enter all details of your event. You create a Standard Event for free. For Gold Events, you will be charged a total amount depending on your event size and duration, and each participant will get paid $10/h.
- Allow sufficient time for people to register (7 to 10 days). In the case not enough people have registered to your event, you can postpone it.
- The venue must be a public location (public library, hotel conference room, church, school, etc). Make sure your venue is officially booked and confirmed prior to submitting your gotoTalks event. You cannot organize a gotoTalks event at a private residence, unless all registrants are relatives or close friends.
- The audience size must be between 5 and 30.
- The event duration is limited to 4 hours maximum.
- Once you have created a gotoTalks event, our team will review its content. If everything is compliant with our policy, your event will be published on the front page and open to registrations.
- It is your responsibility to determine your audience constitution by confirming or deleting registrations to your event. Extra registrations beyond your event capacity will be placed on a waitlist. 24 hours prior to your event date and time, registrations will be closed. At that point, the waitlist will be purged and you will no longer be able to modify the audience constitution.
- You have the ability to communicate through emails with registrants, to provide more details regarding your gotoTalks event. All registrants'’ emails are hidden to preserve their privacy.
- For Standard Events only, attendance sheet is not required but highly recommended.
- Once you create your Gold Event, you will need to proceed with your payment. This is how your total is calculated:
- You pay each participant $10/hour, plus a processing fee of $20/hour. The total depends on your event capacity and event duration.
- If you agree with the payment terms, click on “Pay”. You will be redirected to the PayPal website to complete the transaction. gotoTalks does not collect credit card information, all transactions are securely processed through the Paypal website.
- After your payment is processed, PayPal will redirect you back to the gotoTalks website. Click on "Payment" to view your payment status.
- Attendance sheet is mandatory for Gold Events. After your event has taken place, you can update each participant status to “Attended”, but you also have to email the attendance sheet signed by all attendees to Contact.gotoTalks@gotoTalks.
- Each attendee has to sign the attendance sheet to get paid $10/hr for an event.
- The event organizer has to email the attendance sheet to get reimbursed in the case the attendance was not full. If the attendance sheet is not emailed to the email above on time, all registrants to the event will get paid $10/hour regardless of whether or not they have attended the event. Processing fees are not refundable.
- Always check your registration status before going to a gotoTalks Event. “Complete” means your registration if confirmed and you can go to the event. “Waitlist” and “Canceled” implies do not go to the event. It is particularly important to check your registration status within 24 hours of the event date & time.
- You can check your registration status by clicking on “My registrations: Standard Event” or “My registrations: Gold Event”.
- After the event, the organizer should update your status to “Attended”.
- For participants, your gotoTalks account will be credited with the amounts you earn by attending Gold Events. Once your balance reaches $50, we will deposit $50 on your PayPal account. So you need to open a free PayPal account to get paid (read PayPal policies including possible transaction fees).