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The Event Entrepreneurs category is where we put any posts meant for Event Entrepreneurs. It could be posts about the future of events, basics you might need to know, or ways to grow your Event Planning business.

Everything in here will have a focus on you growing your business as an event focused entrepreneur—no matter what you do…

Six Technology Related Security Tips for Every Event

Some of the most expensive equipment any event manager’s going to deal with is electronic in nature. You’ve got smart-phones and tablets, projectors and speaker systems, laptops and routers…you get the idea. These days, everyone’s showing up with a gallery of gadgets in tow, to say nothing of all the gear you’re vendors and attendees may bring along for personal use, display and demo. Unfortunately, electronics are a prime target for thieves. Take Vlambeer, for example, which lost pretty much everything in a 2013 theft at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Today, we’re looking at six security tips to help prevent […]

Five Tools Event Volunteers Need Access To

As an event management professional, you aren’t simply managing events – you’re also managing people.  In order to run a conference and ensure that things are going smoothly, you need a team. You need vendors, partners and speakers. You need venue owners and security. Perhaps most importantly you need volunteers. I’ll be frank here: volunteers are the unsung heroes of event planning. While it’s the event planner that handles the logistics and gets everyone coordinated, it’s ultimately the volunteers who ensure that everything is going smoothly. They often man check-in, direct attendee traffic and address questions, concerns, and complaints. Never-mind […]

Keeping Up With Current Events in Your Field

One of the more important (yet least cited) jobs you have got, as an event manager, is to keep abreast of what’s going on in your industry. Possessing up-to-date knowledge of the current conversations, news, and controversies affecting a given field allows you to make your events more current, relevant, and interesting to attendees. Consequently, being completely out of the loop (or worse, possessing an outdated notion of an industry) could easily result in boring, irrelevant, or valueless events. It might sound like a herculean task at first. With all the other tasks on your plate, how could you possibly […]

How to Select Your Event Management Niche

In any industry, choosing a niche is a great way to give your business a much-needed boost, establishing your organization as a unique entity. Particularly in the world of event management, it’s important that you differentiate yourself from the competition, and find a demographic to which you can sell yourself directly.  As for how you go about doing so, well…there are a few things to keep in mind. You Need Expertise First and foremost:  do you have any idea what you’re doing? In order to run a passable event, you need at least a halfway decent knowledge of the industry […]

Five Components of a Successful Networking Event

Networking conferences are the perfect place to meet new friends, associates, and business partners. They’re also a great way to enhance your reputation as an event planner; attendees who picked up new partnerships at one of your events are far likelier to remember your brand and attend events hosted by that brand in the future. Furthermore, your conferences can be used to expand your own network of vendors and partners, as well – always a plus. Although all events facilitate interaction in one way or another, networking events are specifically designed to help the guests meet new people. With that […]