You can create category specific calendars to focus the service on revenue generating verticals within your business. You can simply by selecting the category type of the calendar and adding the new map feature to make an interactive vertical specific submission and promotion offering.
The solution was built initially for a publisher specifically to focus on real estate, Open Houses but has since been recognised for .
For Example
- Open Houses
- Garage Sales
- Live Music Events
- Restaurant Events
How to create your vertical specific calendar
From the Get Code section you can now select events to be selected for your calendar by choosing a category, this sets the range of events and can if selected only allow events from this category to be submitted through the add event form.
The Event Form Categories
When the 'category' only box is ticked for the add event form it will restrict event submissions to your chosen categories. For example here is the drop down on the form
Here is the drop down on the Button
Category Picker
Your category specific code is now ready to be snapped out and published - simply hit 'Copy to Clipboard', paste on a page and publish in your vertical specific section of your site
Example - Live Music / New York
Example of Calendar - Live Music
Real Estate - Open Houses - Mobile View
Here we created a calendar for open houses by firstly creating a category, adding it the real estate section of the site and then introducing listings and syndication as a premium service.
