Planning Your Event’s Hotel Accommodations: A Comprehensive Guide

This comprehensive guide on event hotel accommodations covers every step, ensuring your attendees have a seamless and memorable experience. The intricate dance of event planning revolves around details. Each element, from the meticulously crafted schedule to the selection of hors d’oeuvres, plays a role in painting the larger picture of a successful event. Yet, amidst the whirlwind of planning, one detail often gets less attention than it deserves: the hotel accommodations for your attendees. Choosing the right accommodations is more than merely finding a place for attendees to rest. It’s an opportunity to extend the event experience beyond the confines […]

Important Event Registration and Check-in Tips

You focus on every detail when planning any event, right? Don’t overlook your registration and check-in process. This is most likely your attendees first interaction at your event and it sets a stage for their whole experience; never-mind that everyone wants to get to the business at hand. Realize the importance of planning a well-organized check-in and registration area.

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Novices’ Guide to Event Management: Part Five

Last week we looked at basic things you needed to cover if starting your own event management firm. Today, we’re moving to the next stage – marketing your new firm. You’ve chosen your niche, your firm is fully insured and up and running, and you’ve started networking with all the right people. It’s a great start, but now you need to gather clients – the more people hear about you the more likely they are to become paying clients! In other words, it’s time to market your new business. So…what’s involved in making your new firm known? Well, the first […]

Strategies to Create a Successful Facebook Event Page

It’s common knowledge that Facebook is a useful tool for promoting events online. So, when you’re planning an event, what’s a first step? Your knee jerk response – ‘Create a Facebook Event Page.’ It’s a logical strategic move. An event page can be a valuable way to communicate and promote, but one important consideration before pulling the trigger; do you have the resources to successfully promote an event page? If yes, you need to plan ahead how you’re going to use these resources most effectively. Here we look at what running a successful Facebook event page requires. The operative word […]

Increase Event Attendance with Twitter: Top 5 Ways

As you consider ways to increase attendance at an upcoming event, you should be leveraging your social media platforms. More specifically, there is a good chance you will rely strongly on the power of Twitter. While there are many things you can do with Twitter, most people approach it as a task, and overlook strategy. There is more to this than sending out tweets, hoping that people see what you have to say and subsequently sign up to attend your event. Here are five things you must do if you hope using Twitter will help increase your events’ attendance: 1. […]

Event Planners’ Dos And Donts Of Mobile Technology

Mobile technology is the future. I don’t think you’ll find a single person in our gadget-crazed society who’ll argue otherwise. In a world where Android is king and we’ve more Internet-connected gadgets than we have people, it’s quite clear which way the wind is blowing, isn’t it? The fact is, nearly everyone – from nearly every profession – is engaging with mobile technology in some way, shape, or form. That includes event management professionals. The potential mobile technology holds to streamline the process of planning an event is effectively unmatched. Our primary tools are smartphones and tablets. There’s a whole […]

Five Event Planning Mistakes to Avoid

When planning an event, regardless of size or industry, it is safe to assume that you have visions of greatness dancing through your head. You expect everything to go as planned. You expect everybody in attendance to have an enjoyable time. Before we go any further, here is something you should always remember: even when you think everything is perfect, something will pop up and require you to find a solution on the spot. By avoiding common event planning mistakes, you can increase your chance of success while decreasing the chance that something terrible will happen. Here are five mistakes […]

Event Management Software: Friend or Foe?

There are people who swear by the benefits of event management software. There are also people who don’t even want to consider implementing the use of software when organizing an event. Which side of the fence do you sit on? If you are staffed with the responsibility of organizing, planning, and managing an event, it is essential to take advantage of each and every tool at your disposal. Anything you can use to better your chance of success is something you should consider. Before we get into the benefits of using event management software, let’s take a look at two […]

How to Choose a Venue for your First Event

When planning your first event, there is sure to be a lot running through your mind. Are people going to attend? How much will it cost? What happens if something goes wrong?

Although you are faced with many questions, the best thing you can do is deal with each detail as it comes up.

Before you can get into the weeds, the very first thing you need to do is to select a venue location for your event. This is one of the biggest decisions you will make, so you have to consider all your options while comparing the pros and cons of each location.

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The Guide To Guest Speakers, Part Two: Working With Guest Speakers

So, you’ve managed to net yourself an industry expert speaker or two who’s interested in speaking at your event. Working with guest speakers can be complicated—you need to sign contracts, negotiate payment, AND give them their freedom (while also steering them to remain relevant to your event). In short, the next step is to ask yourself how you can avoid making them hate you before you’ve even begun.

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Why Modern Event Planning Requires A Flair For Storytelling

Back in the 1960s, sociologist Marshall McLuhan expressed some downright revolutionary insights. Technology, he explained, would one day advance in such a way that the whole world would be interconnected. Communicating with someone on another continent would be just as simple as walking over to the neighbors’ house to borrow a cup of sugar; perhaps more so. To give shape to his theory, he coined the term “global village.” In essence, McLuhan conceived the notion of a worldwide communications network; a tight-knit global community which transcended physical distance. With the birth of social media, it’s safe to say that his […]

The Guide To Guest Speakers, Part One: Getting Industry Experts

In this blog series we’ll be going over the process for picking guest speakers, how to get them to want to speak at your event, and some best practices for working with them.

Never underestimate the power of having skilled guest speakers, or the damage that can be caused by a poor ones.

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The 10 Best Event Planning Tools

Even the most skilled and talented planner is only as good as their toolkit. Planning an event is an immensely complicated process, and veterans know that any advantage they can get that streamlines running an event—is invaluable. Thankfully, tools exist in droves to this end, and here’s ten tools I think are some of the best event planning tools, and explain how they can help you.

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Why You Should Hire An Event Planner

We’ve talked a great deal about what’s involved in a successful event, and how it can help send your brand’s reputation soaring. We’ve examined the sort of traits you need to run an event, and the sorts of platforms that could prove useful.

Today, we’re going to discuss why, all of these details should be someone else’s problem. We’re going examine why you should hire an event planner, instead of doing everything yourself.

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What To Do if An Event Goes South

The most successful event planners are those who are able to tell a story. These men and women can stand in front of an audience and connect with each person individually; they can put a human face on their brand and present it with remarkable grace and candor. There’s another trait they all share, as well: they’re all able to think on their feet. The reason this is important is quite simple: no matter how well you plan out an event, there’s always something that can go wrong. Worse, you aren’t always going to realize something has gone wrong until […]

10 Techniques for Event Managers to have better events

Are you an event manager? This article will help you choose the best techniques to explode your event’s business, acquire new attendees and increase profits. I’m sure you must have heard of social media, and how powerful it is—well, it’s the truth!

When done properly, social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and a host of others can be beneficial to you.

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