July | 2012 | eventjuice

Stop Obsessing And Start Enjoying Your Event

When my sister decided to marry in 2009, my mother stopped sleeping. She lay awake worrying whether the mini quiche would still be hot if it was brought out before the wedding party arrived. She frittered over whether the tables would not leave enough space for everyone to dance. And she knew she was the queen of all wedding planners when she remembered to ask someone to plate the cake. Eventually she ended up standing in the reception venue in ...

Repeat Customers: Maintaining A Fanbase

Working hard to pack out a venue for one event is something most promoters can do, but what about repeat customers? Those that run weekly or monthly events may have found their fanbase dwindling due to overlooking some of the simplest tactics. Here’s a handful of tips that will keep your audience satisfied and coming back for more: Freebies Separate your events from the competition by providing something they don’t for free. There are enough parties and shows that nickel ...

Planning An Event From Afar: Your Must Know And Must Have Items

If you live in one part of the country and are planning an event in another part or even a different country you know that it’s not as easy as planning at your local convention centre or hotel. So how do you avoid surprises, culture differences and not having your own eyes on everything you are going to need for your event? This does take a bit of letting go of control, which I know can be something an event ...

Assessing Risk in the Work Place

Risk is the potential of something undesirable becoming a reality. There are many forms of risk – economic risk, risk to health, security and criminal damage risks – and there are ways to mitigate risk, such as insurance, forward planning, and using good business judgement. In this post we’re going to be looking at the kind of risks your workplace exposes workers to and how to mitigate and minimize those risks through the creation of risk assessments. Awareness is power ...

Dealing Tactfully with Bridezilla

You’ve met with a potential new client, and everything’s gone well: she’s lovely and charming, and you think that you two could work together to create the wedding of her dreams. The contract is signed, things start moving forward, and all of a sudden that lovely lady turns into a shrieking harpy who freaks out at the slightest provocation. Congratulations, you’ve just met Bridezilla. This term refers to a bride who is patently wretched to be around because of her ...

Inspired by Colour

A memorable aspect of any event is the design. Lighting, fabrics, and décor all contribute to the overall look and feel of the space and the common element amongst everything is colour. Below are some tips of how you can incorporate colour in some expected and unexpected places. 1. Walls Now typically, you can’t go into a banquet hall or rented space and start painting the walls, you definitely won’t get your deposit back from that. However, by choosing ...

7 Ways to Manage Twitter Conversations about Your Event

When you have a big event coming up, a major part of the process is promotion. You’ve spent many hours doing multi-channel promotion and people seem genuinely excited about participating. How can you move beyond traditional modes of event coverage, like earned media, and generate additional buzz about your event? A great way to channel that excitement is to live-tweet your event. If done correctly, live-tweeting is a great way for participants to engage, expanding your event’s reach and potentially ...

5 Tech Tools To Impress Clients & Investors

Once you’ve finally secured an investor or client and are ready to begin executing your plan, you will need to assure them that their money is in good hands. After all, making sure that they are confident and secure in your business relationship is essential for ensuring future projects. Here are five useful tools you can use that are sure to organize your team and bolster your client’s or investor’s confidence at the same time: Arrange Meetings With Doodle Finding ...

An Introduction to Health and Safety for Event Managers

Health and safety can sometimes seem like a load of time-consuming red tape – when you’re busy planning an event, it’s easy to lose sight of the importance of proper health and safety planning. From a risk-management perspective, it’s important not to lose sight of health and safety – what’s the point in carefully planning fun and engaging events if someone is going to become injured or, in a worst-case scenario, killed? Financial ruin and potentially criminal responsibility is neither ...

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