Traditional event platforms are terrible at reaching and retaining an audience. They are focused on making transactions rather than creating a relationship. For event creators, this leads to an endless cycle of promoting the next event, and are forced to start over every time. Markit (https://www.markitsocial.net/) is an all-in-one promotion, marketplace, and ticketing platform that helps event creators actually grow and fully retain their audience. We do this with text messaging. It’s effective because 98% of text messages are opened, giving creators a reliable way to reach their entire audience and make sure no one misses out. With 15k users and dozens of artists, comedians, sports teams, and event organizers, our goal is to have Markit synonymous with the word event. We’re coming off Techstars Boston demo day. Watching our pitch here is the best way to hear about the exciting stuff we are up to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe8HoxHBdHk