Every event planner will tell you that at some point in the planning process of their event the status of their hotel room block has kept them up at night. If you are planning a national or even a local event, managing a hotel room block will often be [...]

As an event planner you are often responsible for the communication of delegate registration for the conference. You have all sorts of marketing tactics to entice potential delegates to register, but what happens once they’ve actually registered? Communication with your delegate after he or she has registered is just [...]

You may have seen a few of our earlier blogs, Breaking Down your Food and Beverage Budget and Satisfying Your Delegates Appetite: Creating Your Conference Menu on a Limited Budget. This blog will expand on those ideas and focus on tips for creating the menu for your signature event. [...]

You have worked tirelessly at organizing every last detail for your event and it all comes down to those few hours or days of programming. Although you may think that you have dotted all of the Is and crossed all the Ts, you still need to ensure your event [...]

Many events that you plan are likely annual events, possibly reaching the point of running themselves. You already have a great foundation for planning the event, you have a good relationship with the venue, have used the same vendors year after year and your attendees know exactly what to [...]

In my blog post Event Planning- Who’s the Boss, I discuss all of the different people who could be involved in the decision making process in an event, including volunteer committees, administrative staff and boards. As we all know, complications can easily arise when you have too many cooks in [...]

When planning an event it is an industry standard to create a critical path to help keep you on track and meet the deadlines, but what about the day of your event? What happens then? You are often thrown in every direction the day of the event, whether it [...]

More often than not meetings and conferences are aimed at those who thrive in an environment full of people. There is loud music, audience and group interactions, and very little time to yourself. Basically, we plan our events for extraverted people. Not everyone is naturally extraverted and often our [...]

As event planners we are often responsible to create and solicit sponsorship packages as part of an event. Clients will often use the same package from year to year with few changes. Our article What to Include in Your Event Sponsorship Package, explains how to create a sponsorship package [...]

As an event manager, we are contracted by an individual on behalf of an organization who we refer to as our client, but most of the time we really don’t just work with that one individual on the event. There are usually volunteer committees, board members and other staff [...]