20 Nov 09 Planning Successful Corporate Events
Planning an event could get very tedious, as you will need to look into every small detail and ensure that everything runs smoothly. However if you follow a few simple steps, there is no reason why you cannot achieve satisfying results. There are many ways to organize corporate events and some of these could even get expensive.
During times of economic crisis, it makes more sense to make use of event planning tools that come at affordable costs. The event planner industry is always in demand, be it a sluggish economy or a robust one- corporate groups will always want to organize in-house as well as inter-corporate events. This ensures the steady business of event management planners and also prioritizes the need to adapt to changing economic situations. Following are some handy tips to keep in mind while organizing a corporate event: (more…)
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26 Sep 09 New Seating Planning Software For Event Professionals
High Wycombe, UK – Oryx Digital today announce new Professional and Advanced Editions of their PerfectTablePlan seating planning software. First launched in 2005, PerfectTablePlan has helped thousands of event planners in more than 80 countries to save time and avoid embarrassing mistakes creating seating arrangements for gala dinners, fundraisers, award ceremonies, weddings receptions, bar mitzvahs and other events.
“PerfectTablePlan has grown in depth considerably over with each new version and we decided now was an ideal time to create separate PerfectTablePlan products aimed at professional event planners and frequent users.” said Oryx Digital Director Andy Brice. “This allows us to add much more powerful features without overwhelming casual users.”
The new features include: (more…)
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23 Sep 09 How to Lighten Your Workload
Event planning takes a great deal of time and energy. There are a great many details that go into the smooth transition from a client’s request for an event to making that event come to life. How can you lighten your load and become more efficient as an event planner?
Instead of filling out forms and emailing them to you, require that participants use online registration forms. These are stored in an online database that you can access at any time. Using an online registration form cuts down on the amount of data entry work that you have to do.
Online registration forms can effectively cut down on other aspects of your work. They can be set to respond to online registrations by emailing receipts and any event materials that are needed for the conference. Everyone who is registered can be emailed a reminder about the upcoming event with just one click of your mouse.
This software keeps you up to date should someone cancel as well. The registrant can simply go online and cancel his registration and your file is updated immediately. The more information a registrant has access to online, the less time you will spend repeating things over and over. Give online registration forms for your next event and discover how much time and energy you save.
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21 Aug 09 Take Advantage of Federal Guidelines for Bailout Companies to Increase Your Value
As a business meeting and event planner, you are constantly searching for ideas to add value to your services. Recently the federal government published guidelines to the businesses receiving bailout dollars. These guidelines can in fact aid you to be a preferred planner.
The boards of directors of corporations getting cruicial relief from the government have to adopt a company-wide policy on any outlays linked to air travel services, entertainment and holiday parties, and conferences and events. This policy is not aimed to include justifiable outlays for sales conferences, human resources development, unexcessive performance incentives and other controls attached to a firm’s ordinary business operations. What does this mean? Here are a couple of the stipulations and ways you can employ them to cause your client’s businesses seem golden even if they are planning incentive travel. (more…)
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17 Aug 09 Choosing Entertainment for Your Next Meeting
If you are a budding event planner and has not yet been intimidated by the idea of booking entertainment, you will be in the future. If you have already been, you know that it will happen again. To make your life a little easier, here’s what’s hot and what’s not for 2009.
What’s Not
Many people are offended by religious leaders these days, even if they are religious people. There are so many religions and so many splinter groups it’s hard to know what the predominant religion will be.
Along those same lines, politicians can be absolutely deadly to the success of your meeting. There will always be people who disagree so strongly that they will be offended at the choice. So steer clear of both religious leaders and politicians unless you are scheduling speakers for that particular group.
What’s Hot
Who doesn’t need a good laugh now and then? While some comedians can be offensive, there are some that have notoriously good taste when it comes to general audiences. You can often find them through entertainment agents.
Improv groups are becoming all the rage lately, and they are often comedians as well. Almost every city has a popular improv group or two–again, check with entertainment booking agencies for the best choices.
Really want to wow them? How about jugglers with a sense of humor? A magic act that is truly amazing can hold people’s attention and let them escape into, “How did he do that?” for just a little while.
Because entertainment will be one of the signatures of some of your events, start building a file of ideas now. Then when you need them, they will be there.
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07 Jul 09 In Support of Meetings
It may sound like a self-interest broken record, but meetings are good for the economy despite what many may think. The next time someone maligns your line of work as a meeting planner and tells you meetings are a waste of taxpayer’s money (in the case of bailout companies), here are some arguments in your favor.
“I’m helping local communities.”
When a meeting comes to town, money is spent. It may not be evident right away, but there is more changing hands than the money you as a planner dole out for meeting space, hotels, and details. The participants will visit local restaurants, they will shop, they buy souvenirs, they leave tips, they go on short expeditions within the town–all this an more contributes to the local economy. (more…)
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01 Jul 09 Latest Trends in Event Planning
The event planning industry is a great place to work in. Even in times of economic crisis, the business of event planning never really slows down. Individuals always want to get together and discuss business or celebrate personal events. An event-planning career is in high demand in the contemporary corporate scenario.
Considering the high demand of event planners, it only becomes natural that competition gets fierce among fellow event planners. This means newer methods of conducting events, which again implies the use of advanced tools and technology.
Today’s corporate market expects much more from event planners and it’s not just a few pamphlets and a simple slide show that will do the trick. Corporate groups expect high standards of presentation when it comes to events, and event planners need to constantly stay updated about the latest event planning tools available in the market. (more…)
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26 Jun 09 Ordering Break Beverages for the Stressed Out Planner
Here’s a quick multiple choice quiz: If you have 100 people attending an event, how much coffee should you order for a morning break?
A. Lots! People drink more than one cup.
B. 1 cup for around 90% of the expected attendance
C. Tear out hair and close event planner business
The correct answer may be C depending on how panicked you are about ordering food and beverage for your meetings, and A used to be the answer. However, if you want to save your client money and do your reputation a favor, choose B. Why? Not everyone drinks coffee, and coffee is much more expensive per pound than it used to be, so plan on anywhere between 80% and 90%. (more…)
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15 Jun 09 Innovative Ideas For New Age Event Planning
Time is money, and the meeting and event planning industry applies this rule as any other. Everyone is hard pressed for time, and clients expect more work from less time. How do you, as an event planner, handle this time-work dilemma and come out victorious?
The idea is to create and innovate, and come up with revolutionary ideas to achieve high quality work within a given time frame.
As it is not easy to work within a given deadline, event planners need to think of alternative methods to organize successful events.
Event planners tend to have a hectic time while on the job- vacationing and holidaying becoming almost an impossibility. What with time constrains and deadlines to meet, event planners are almost like surgeons on call- they need to be on site whenever needed. (more…)
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12 Jun 09 Cutting Costs in the Event Planning Industry
For those familiar with the event planning industry, it will come as no surprise that this industry continues to grow even during times of economic crisis.
The event planning industry is one of the most profitable in the hospitality and management business domain. An event-planning career is highly coveted for the desirable perks that come along with it. With fierce competition in the market, it is not easy to start a successful career in this industry. However with perseverance and experience, one can achieve satisfying results in this highly exciting professional field.
Considering the importance of this robust industry, one wonders how it functions during an economic downturn. Like every other industry, it is bound to get affected one way or the other. All is not hunky dory for the event management industry during times of financial difficulties. Since everything in an economy is inter-related, the event planning industry is naturally inclined to get hit by the economic setbacks. (more…)
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