A well-designed event floor-plan layout is an essential part of focusing the attention of your attendees exactly where you want it. By understanding how to get to the optimal design and making sure your venue follows the plan, you can increase the engagement and avoid a negative experience for the attendees. Planning will help you avoid things like: Cramped …
There are too many elements involved in event production success for us to cover them all in one blog. So, we created this infographic packed with great tips and resources to get you started! Event Production Success = Perfect Venue + Attendee Engagement When it all comes together successfully, it’s because critical elements converged harmoniously! Not always how it works …
A great speaker can make or break your event. Will the speaker you selected inspire and entertain your audience or put them to sleep with off-topic information and poor presentation skills? Will they bring the audience to their feet with applause and cheering or make them wish they were sitting at the back to prepare for a quick and immediate …
Event planners and producers are creative problem-solvers and are constantly generating new, better ideas. That’s the thrill of the game – building an amazing event and the constant challenge to make it better and bolder year after year. The added challenge is optimizing a budget that may stay the same or hasn’t increased with the rising costs of venue booking, …
The old-school days of how event planning and production professionals educate audiences are gone. And trust us, no one is missing them. Gone are the days of rows and rows of seats lined up to face the stage. Unless it’s the Keynote Speaker who enters with a real-time, customized song performed by a live band. Gone are speakers painstakingly reading …
Bruce Springsteen once said, “Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.” This nugget of information from “the Boss” is especially relatable for corporate event marketers today. Fads come and go, but one thing is here to stay… every audience wants …
Venue Selection Tips for Event Planners In an ideal world, your technology partner would always help in venue selection to provide another perspective on the best location for your event but that doesn’t always happen. In case you’re flying solo on this portion of the planning, here are a few (okay, quite a few) things to keep in mind. XOXO, …
It seems there isn’t a conference that goes by without at least one session being a panel discussion. Panel discussions are a great way to change the delivery of a message and get some audience/attendee interaction. It is key to have a good plan together when planning a panel session for a meeting or conference. Deciding the stage set up …
Attendee engagement during meetings and events is… In the event world, there are a variety of ways to finish that sentence. Think about your answer. Was it influenced by your style as a meeting planner? Or the type of event you were imagining? Or maybe a specific problem you had in the past? Whatever your answer, I bet it wasn’t …
If only it were that easy. As you know, there are many things to consider as you look through the calendar to pick the best date and time for your event. Some events need to take place a certain time of year due to the nature of the event or have always been held on a certain weekend. Some dates …