Best Ways to get Employees to Volunteer to Work an Event

Imagine this: you have a big event coming up. The last piece of the puzzle is to hire a knowledgeable, customer service oriented event staff. You have two options: Ask current employees if they are interested in volunteering Hire temporary workers There may be benefits of both, but the first choice is almost always better. Not only are these people volunteering their time (meaning you don’t have to pay them), but they are more familiar with what you are trying to accomplish. This brings us to one very important question: what can you do to get employees to volunteer to…

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How You Can Use Eventbrite To Supercharge Your Events

Today, we’re going to be putting together a tutorial for Eventbrite, one of the most powerful ticketing and registration management applications in the world. By using it, you can essentially make event registration a cakewalk for your guests from beginning to end – in addition to getting an awesome-looking event page and formidable marketing campaign on its feet. Let’s dive right in – how can you use Eventbrite to make your events better than ever? The Setup Process One of the greatest things about Eventbrite – and perhaps the thing that’s made it so popular as an event management tool…

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Managing Your Team When Something Goes Wrong

Your event team – volunteers in particular – are an important element of every event you run. It’s imperative that you properly manage your team to ensure you keep things running smoothly. Unfortunately, that isn’t always going to be possible. Sometimes, in spite of your best efforts, something is going to go wrong.

For one reason or another, members of your team may fail to do their jobs properly.  Don’t let it derail your event. By acting quickly and decisively, you can make sure that a minor problem with your volunteers doesn’t transform into an outright catastrophe. 

But what can you do?

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The Benefits of Finding Event Workers In House

Planning an event is a lot of work. At the same time, it can be quite a bit of fun. When the big day (or days) finally rolls around, you want to know you did everything possible to take care of each and every detail. The difference between a successful event and one that comes up short is often times the staff. You put a lot of time into attracting an audience. Now, you have to serve each and every attendee to the best of your ability. This all starts with hiring the right event staff. Will you contact a…

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Why You Need Proper Harassment Policies

Let’s say you’re running an event, and one of your guests is harassed by one of your new volunteers.  That’s a bit of a nightmare where PR is concerned, isn’t it? Now take things a step further – imagine you’ve no idea how to deal with such an incident; that you don’t have any harassment policies in place that dictate how you and your team should respond. Let’s take that story a step further. That guest, disgruntled at how your events team mishandled the situation, ends up taking you to court for what happened. Now not only are you dealing with a…

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