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Video, a Better Way to Communicate to Attendees

By Julia / January 12, 2022

We are trapped in a world of information overload. We often underestimate how overwhelmed our attendees feel when we are loading up our event pages with written content followed by a slew of emails with yet more written instructions and content. There are lots of tools available now that can help us mix up the…

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Getting Sponsorships Without Begging

By Julia / October 29, 2021

I have been responsible for event sponsorship on many occasions. My first real experience started when I got to work on a my first festival as an event planner. I don’t know why I took on sponsorship because I had never done it, but for some reason I felt drawn to it. To say the…

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Privacy Cheat Sheet for Associations and Third Party Planners

By Julia / August 16, 2021

If you plan events as a third party planner or as an employee or volunteer within an association or organization, this will help you to assess what collecting personal information requires. Although privacy concerns have always been an issue with collecting information about attendees, it has taken Covid to get people to pay attention. As…

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The misconception about attending charity events

By Julia / June 22, 2021

I was speaking with my husband about charity golf tournaments and in our conversation a very common misconception came up. It is my husband’s belief, and that of many others, that when a charity runs an event that they are making good money on registration alone and the rest of the money is just gravy.…

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We are a Proud Ally

By Julia / June 1, 2021

I have supported the LGBTQ2+ community forever. Why? Because one of my favorite uncles is gay. I was young and didn’t know that he was “different”, just that he was my uncle and I loved him. Then, one of my cousins came out as gay and is a friggin’ awesome drag queen, to boot! Support…

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Covid – An Opportunity to Breathe New Life Into Your Event

By Julia / May 5, 2021

“We’ve always done it this way” can now be thrown into the trash can (where it always should have been). Thanks to Covid, you have an opportunity to breath new life into your event. This is your chance to dust off the cobwebs and clear out the dead weight that has been holding your event…

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6 Rules for Securing Grant Money for Your Event

By Julia / March 3, 2021

Grants are a great way to help support your events and organization financially. A grant is described by Wikipedia as; “Grants are non-repayable funds or products disbursed or given by one party (grant makers), often a government department, corporation, foundation or trust, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or…

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What is a Hybrid Event

By Julia / November 21, 2020

The learning curve for the events industry has been crazy in the last nine months. It’s not that virtual events and hybrid events didn’t already exist but they certainly were not as a “mainstream” as they are now. Along with learning new technology we’ve had to get a handle on learning new terminology. Words we…

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Lessons Learned When We Planned a Live Event During Covid

By Julia / November 21, 2020

Five months into the Covid pandemic we held 2 live events. This event was originally scheduled for the middle of July 2020 but with the pandemic it laid in limbo until about 3 weeks before we were supposed to go live. We went back and forth trying to figure out what the best thing to…

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Corporate Holiday Celebrations in 2020

By Julia / November 20, 2020

Christmas and holiday parties are certainly going to look a little different in 2020 but it doesn’t mean they can’t still be memorable and exciting. We have talked with some of the best in the industry about how they are helping to bring holiday celebrations to life this year. As an event management company our…

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