Automated follow-up messaging for past attendees on future events

Purpose

1.1 Automate personalized follow-up messages to past event attendees, informing them of upcoming Hindu temple events or rituals, using segmented communication for improved engagement and attendance.
1.2 Streamline repetitive communication tasks, reducing manual coordinator intervention and ensuring timely, consistent outreach about future temple events, pujas, or celebrations.
1.3 Automated system identifies relevant past attendees and scheduled future events, matching interests or participation history for precise automated messaging.
1.4 Enhance relationship management with devotees by automating notifications, reminders, gratitude notes, and invitations for related or upcoming religious occasions.

Trigger Conditions

2.1 Automated trigger on event closure status with attendance data captured.
2.2 Scheduled trigger based on future events or religious festivals entered in temple event calendar.
2.3 Automates based on attendee interaction history, such as past RSVP, participation, or donation.
2.4 Manual trigger for emergency announcements or reminders, rapid automation via workflow initiation.

Platform Variants

3.1 Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Twilio Messaging API; configure automated SMS by uploading attendee phone numbers & templated message; sample config: /Messages POST with Body and To fields mapped to RSVP data.
3.2 SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: SendGrid Marketing Campaigns API; automate email sequences, set triggers by contact list segment; sample config: POST /marketing/singlesends.
3.3 Mailchimp
• Feature/Setting: Automations; create journey for event attendees with segmentation & time-based triggers; sample config: Automated Journey w/ date-based entry & email action.
3.4 WhatsApp Business API
• Feature/Setting: Automated messaging via template messages; configure webhook for event-close and schedule campaign; sample config: /messages POST with contact & template_id.
3.5 Slack
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled messages with Slack API chat.scheduleMessage method; group or direct message based on event group; message automation trigger by date property.
3.6 Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automated messages via Teams Bot Service; configure bot to recognize attendee role and send adaptive card with event invite.
3.7 Google Calendar API
• Feature/Setting: Create automated event invites; insert events into calendars of past attendees; config: POST /calendars/events with attendee emails.
3.8 Zoom
• Feature/Setting: Automated email notifications for upcoming virtual events using Zoom API; batch invite past physical or virtual event participants.
3.9 HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: Workflow Automation; set automated workflows for segmented lists of event participants, send personalized reminders via email/SMS.
3.10 ActiveCampaign
• Feature/Setting: Automated email sequences triggered by tag (e.g., "Past Temple Attendee"); config: create automation workflow with event trigger.
3.11 Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Process Builder or Flow; automate campaign member messaging for contacts from closed events, trigger via event completion.
3.12 Facebook Messenger
• Feature/Setting: Automated messaging using Facebook Messenger API; send reminders via bot to previous event attendees.
3.13 Telegram Bots
• Feature/Setting: Schedule or trigger automated messages in member groups via Telegram Bot API.
3.14 Gmail (Google Workspace)
• Feature/Setting: Automated emails via Apps Script; mail merge script pulls attendee data and dispatches messages.
3.15 Outlook 365
• Feature/Setting: Power Automate flow; schedule and send personalized follow-up to attendee list using automated email template.
3.16 Zoho CRM
• Feature/Setting: Workflow automation; trigger follow-up messages to contacts linked to event modules.
3.17 Eventbrite
• Feature/Setting: Automated attendee emails using Eventbrite API; trigger on future events and use past attendance segment.
3.18 ClickSend
• Feature/Setting: Automated SMS; upload recipient list and configure future-dated campaigns.
3.19 Constant Contact
• Feature/Setting: Automated series; trigger follow-up invitations based on past event attendance tag.
3.20 Pabbly Connect
• Feature/Setting: Automated workflows between temple CRM/event management and various messaging channels; config triggers on new event creation or past attendee tags.
3.21 Freshdesk
• Feature/Setting: Automated ticket/email reminders to individuals who registered for prior events, triggered by new event.
3.22 Intercom
• Feature/Setting: Automated messaging campaigns sent to user segment tagged as "Event Attendee".
3.23 SMS Magic
• Feature/Setting: Automatedly schedules and dispatches SMS to selected event participants via filtering rules.
3.24 Discord Bots
• Feature/Setting: Triggered automated DM or channel message for members marked as past event attendees.

Benefits

4.1 Automates attendee re-engagement and nurtures sustained participation in temple events.
4.2 Reduces ritual/event organizer workload via automation, ensuring no attendee is left out of important communications.
4.3 Improves precision and timeliness of event outreach with automated segmentation and scheduling.
4.4 Enables automatable personalization, increasing engagement rates for religious and cultural activities.
4.5 Ensures automatedly consistent devotee experience and continuous communication across multiple digital channels.
4.6 Facilitates automating large-scale outreach, even for non-tech-savvy temple admins, ensuring every past attendee is informed.