Twenty Components Every Event Management Website Needs

Most event management professionals understand the importance of having a website – or at least some sort of online presence.  While it’s certainly possible to get by without a website, it’s not the wisest choice in today’s competitive marketplace. Yet, not all websites are created equal. There are certain elements, components that make up a site, which make one website more successful than another; attracting traffic, retaining visitors, and bringing people back to look again. If you really want to see a return on the effort you put into your site, here are twenty components every event management website should […]

What To Do If Nobody Is Signing Up For Your Event

It‘s a common problem among many event planners: you start with the best intentions, looking forward to signing up a large number of attendees in a short period of time, but soon find that you are lacking any “real” progress. What are you going to do? Are you going to give up altogether, cancelling the event? Or are you going to make the appropriate changes to quickly turn things around? The way you approach this problem will not be identical to the next person. Your event is unique and you need to treat it as such. Fortunately, there are a […]

Five Things That Discourage Event No Shows

It’s something no event planner wants to deal with – yet it’s one of the most common problems in event management. It can force you to turn away potential attendees, it can leave you purchasing too much food and booze, a venue that’s too large, lost deposits on empty hotel rooms, and on. It can cost event planners and little as time and effort to as much as huge money lost and an affair that falls flat after everyone works so hard to host it.  I’m talking, of course, about no shows. No matter what event you run, you’re going […]