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The Essential Guide To Picking The Best Background Music For Hotels
Background music is everywhere. From the grocery store to the gas station, you can use background music to energize, soothe, and create a welcoming atmosphere. But it’s not just played for ambiance. In fact, some reports show that upbeat music played in retail stores encourages spending. In hotels, background music sets the mood for your…
Read MoreConference Cost Estimator: Large-Scale Event Expenses You Need to Know to Budget Right
Estimating the cost of your conference is a bit like walking a tightrope”a fantastic feat when done well, but one false step can cost you dearly. Understanding the cost of critical elements at different price points lets you build a budget that’s on target and aligned with your event goals. A firm grasp of price…
Read MoreThe 6 Best Types of Events for Exceeding Business Goals
Corporate event planners have to connect the dots between specific business objectives and event types. Trying to sort out what types of events are best for achieving your organization’s unique goals can be challenging since there are so many options to choose from. We’ll clear up some of that confusion by focusing on the top…
Read MoreTips Tuesday: The 10 Best Cities for Event Planners and Planning Careers
What are the best cities to find an event planning job and grow your event planning career? Where do event planners make the most money? Which cities make your job easier with plentiful hotel rooms, event spaces, vendors, and extracurricular options for attendees? For new planners ready to launch an event planning career and experienced…
Read MoreThe Best Event Planning Facebook Groups Every Planner Should Join
Facebook Groups with a focus on event planning are great places to find planning inspiration, troubleshoot with peers in the industry, network, and brainstorm creative ideas. Facebook Groups for event and wedding planners vary from public to private and are as small as 200 members to as large as 20,000 members. You might find that…
Read MoreEvent Agenda Design: 16 Tips to Create a Must-Attend Event Schedule
Successful event agenda design is far more complex than filling one- and two-hour blocks of time. It requires industry-specific knowledge so your event offerings spark interest and engagement in the target industry. Your agenda can also benefit from an understanding of crowd flow and circadian rhythms”so that attendees have time to get from A to…
Read MoreHow to Find a Freelance Event Planner to Help You Design Outstanding Events
If you’re reading this article, chances are you need some event planning backup. Whether you own an event planning firm, are a planner extraordinaire for a company, or you’re a business throwing a one-off event”it’s become clear you can’t manage alone. Good news! You can hire freelancers to help wrangle your to-do list or plan…
Read More21 Tips to Share the Best Event Diagrams With Clients
Sharing floor plan diagrams can add value throughout the event planning process. Showing off awesome 3D designs of prior events can help land clients who are inspired by visuals. Sharing also improves client collaboration, so directives are clear and decision-makers stay on the same page. But you should not give clients full access to your…
Read MoreTips Tuesday: 31 Clever Ideas to Delight Millennials at Events
Millennials are the largest generation in the US workforce. As an event planner, you need to know how to draw and sustain the attention of this critical demographic. It’s a challenge, but one you can tackle with knowledge and a targeted action plan. Read on to learn the top event engagement strategies for the generation…
Read MoreTips Tuesday: 10 Brilliant Ways to Promote LinkedIn Events
Have you started using LinkedIn Events”2019 update style? Years ago, LinkedIn rolled out an Events feature. And then rolled the option back, to the disbelief and dismay of many event planners who found the feature helpful. Now the Events feature back, and it’s available to all LinkedIn users in English-speaking countries. For planners looking to…
Read MoreWhat’s New: Great Sales & Catering CRM Updates That Boost Your Sales Team’s Efficiency
Hoteliers know all too well that the intuitive, almost-seamless experience they enjoy when they use their smartphone or a major social media platform is a rare pleasure. Hospitality software”especially sales & catering software”is old, cumbersome, difficult to learn, even more difficult to understand, and, ultimately, it can do as much to limit productivity as enhance…
Read MoreFriday Finds: 30 Festive Office Holiday Party Ideas When You’re on a Budget
It’s official: The majority of company holiday bashes are budget-conscious. In one recent survey, only 16 percent of workers said they’d characterize their company’s holiday party as lavish. As a corporate event planner, you want to build camaraderie, demonstrate appreciation, and show off your good work”all without breaking the bank. As you plan, remember it…
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