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10 Steps to Successful Sponsorship Sales

By Julia | Jan 27, 2022

Struggling to secure sponsorship for your event or organization? We hear you, we’ve been there too. When we learned how to properly sell sponsorships everything changed. Sponsorship sales are about relationships. It takes time to build relationships. Although the steps below are easy on the surface, they will require a…

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Video, a Better Way to Communicate to Attendees

By Julia | Jan 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…

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Privacy Cheat Sheet for Associations and Third Party Planners

By Julia | Aug 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…

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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…

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What is a Hybrid Event

By Julia | Nov 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…

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Lessons Learned When We Planned a Live Event During Covid

By Julia | Nov 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…

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Speaker Guide for Virtual Events

By Julia | Nov 2, 2020

The new world requires speakers’ content to be adjusted, they need to make their home office their new stage and learning how to engage the attendees, when often not even being able to see them, is becoming a newly acquired talent.

We have created this downloadable speaker guide to help.

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You Need an Event Planner More Than Ever

By Julia | Aug 30, 2020

Back when Covid started I wrote a blog post about whether you still needed an event planner or not now that your event has gone virtual. Here is my update on that thought now that we are at the 6 month mark of this life changing pandemic. You need an…

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The Perfect Checklist That Will Help You Hire the Right Event Planner

By Julia | Aug 30, 2020

Event planning can be tough, to say the least, but planning your perfect function doesn’t have to be stressful. Event planning experts have the tools and expertise needed to make your exceptional occasion a success and a unique experience for your attendees. Hiring the right event planner does require a…

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What We’ve Learned So Far About Hosting Virtual Events

By Julia | Jul 5, 2020

We have yet to have one of our own client’s events go live as a virtual event but we are learning so much while planning, watching other events and volunteering for a world-wide virtual event, Global Pride. The learning the events industry has to do in a short 4 months…

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