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From Theatre to Cocktails: Calculating the Perfect Fit for Your Event Space

By Julia | Sep 2, 2023
From Theatre to Cocktails: Calculating the Perfect Fit for Your Event Space

Are you planning an event and struggling to determine the perfect space for your guests? The room capacity of an event space can be tricky to calculate, but it’s crucial to ensure that everyone has enough room to move around and enjoy the event. In this post, we’ll explore how…

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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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The misconception about attending charity events

By Julia | Jun 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…

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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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6 Rules for Securing Grant Money for Your Event

By Julia | Mar 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…

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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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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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The Problem with Attendees Arriving Early at Live Events

By Julia | Jul 5, 2020

We’re talking live events today because RFPs have started to come out! Woohoo!! There is a light at the end of the tunnel. This topic has been one I have wanted to talk about for a long time. Using an example from one of our own events, I talk about…

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