Event marketing collateral? Sounds like what happens when your campaign manager crashes the company car into a ticket stand. Despite its bold name, marketing collateral is a classic form of campaigning. However, it’s also a crucial part of any modern ad process. That includes your own events! In this article, we’ll be explaining marketing collateral. […]
How to Run an Auction: A Bid for Better Events
The fast-talking auctioneer is a staple of pop-culture auctions. In real life, these guys are a bit easier to understand. That said, the mystery of the auction still looms large. Ever wondered what it actually takes to run an auction? What’s with all those different formats, anyway? As an event organiser, you may be looking […]
Wedding Planning Tips: Your Big Checklist for the Big Day
Weddings can be so complicated that there’s an entire career for planning them. At some point, event organisers may find themselves moving down the aisle toward matrimonial management. But wedding planning is not precisely comparable to general event planning. This is our handy little guide full of wedding planning tips. Whether we’re talking two lovebirds […]
How to Build an Email List: Masterful Mailing for Events
We can hear you already, readers. “How to build an email list? But I just discretely ducked out of Great Aunt Ethel’s chain mail network of bad political jokes!” This is not that kind of email list. In fact, you probably know just the kind we mean. If you have even a small collection of […]
6 Winning Tactics for Organising a Gaming Tournament
Competition is one of the oldest event styles in human history. And winning feels just as good now as it did to folks living thousands of years ago. We assume, anyway. Esports have long since become a global phenomenon. These competitions can bring out some really fierce—but hopefully friendly—rivalries. Let’s cover the fundamentals of organising […]
Hiring Event Staff: 3 Essentials of Finding Your A-Team
If you really like to do things the hard way, try taking on an entire event by yourself. As for us, we like to live by the old adage: “Many hands make light work.” In truth, no matter your crew size, running an event is going to be a challenge (if it’s a good event). […]
20 Awesome Team Building Activities for Your Next Event
Team building activities. Did you just get a shiver down your spine? Come on, tell the truth. Team building activities get a bad rap. The worst activities try too hard. They create artificial friendships between bored, uncomfortable people. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We’ve built this list of team building activities for […]
A Heroic Effort: How to Start a Fan Convention
Comic books have been around for a long time, but modern “geek” culture has grown into something new. As superheroes, gaming, and anime have risen into public view, the fan convention has become an unstoppable beast. Make no mistake, fans love their cons. If you’re a fan yourself, you may be thinking about your own […]
Table Plan Ideas Good Enough to Feast on
You may want to sit down for this. At some events, the attendees will be seated. Sometimes, they will even sit at tables. We sense you are not impressed. If this doesn’t seem worth mentioning, it’s because event table plans look much simpler than they really are. Every time you find your place at an […]
Dietary Requirements for Events: 10 Key Restrictions to Know
There’s an old saying: After people have forgotten what you said, they’ll remember how you made them feel. The same goes for your guests’ dietary requirements at events. If you take special care with their food, they’ll remember that you made them feel worthy. But lactose-intolerant vegetarians will also remember how you served them a […]