Guide to planning and managing events
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Event Management Course
Want to organise a successful event? Great! That’ll require a bit of preparation and effort on your part. While you can just wing it and hope things work out, knowing some event management basics will help you host better, more successful events.
Event management principles and best practices can be learned. Whether you’re a seasoned organiser or planning your very first event, you can always get better at it.
Below is a collection of articles on event planning and management. It’s yours to use as a self-study event management course.
The course will guide you through the five main stages of planning and managing your event.
- Event planning: Initial planning steps, from finding inspiration to brainstorming ideas to coming up with a solid event plan.
- Event management: Organising the event - creating an event page, securing a venue, and negotiating with vendors.
- Event promotion: All about marketing your event and selling tickets, from pricing the event to email and social media marketing.
- At the event: Hosting the event - scanning tickets, keeping your guests engaged, and ensuring everything runs smoothly.
- After the event: What to do after it’s over - follow-up with your vendors, guest surveys, and analysing how things went.
Ready to start your course? Let’s go!
Lesson one: Event planning
Where do you find inspiration for a great event? How do you take that inspiration and turn it into an actionable event plan? Those are the questions we ask (and answer) in the chapter on event planning. Read on.
Lesson two: Event management
Now it’s time to move from planning to action. How do you create an attention-grabbing event page? What’s the right venue for your event? How do you select vendors and negotiate contracts? All this and more in the chapter on organising events.
Lesson three: Event promotion
Marketing your event is the key to success. How do you promote your event and get people to sign up? Which channels do you use? What is the best way to sell more tickets? Let's find out.
Lesson four: At the event
The big day is here. And you're the host. How do you set things up smoothly before the guests show up? What tools can you use to keep track of the arriving guests and scan their tickets? How do you make sure everyone’s happy and engaged?
Lesson five: After the event
The event is over, but you still have work to do. You’ve got to do your finances, send out “thank you” letters, and analyse the event performance. How do you go about that? This chapter gives you the answers.
That's it! You've officially graduated from this beginner event management course. You should have a solid foundation for taking your event to the next level. Now go ahead and start putting those newfound skills to good use!
Plan and manage your event with Billetto
Create event
Create a beautiful event page in under 10 minutes - add tickets (free or paid) to your event
Promote & share
Share your event on social media or use the Billetto widget to sell tickets directly on your site
Follow the numbers
Get up-to-date statistics on your daily sales and where they’re coming from with Billetto Insights
Join the community
Add your event to one of the Billetto categories to have it discovered by the existing Billetto Community
Avoid queues
Don't keep your guests waiting - use the Billetto app to effortlessly check your guests in on the day
Embrace the guest list
Export your Billetto event guest list to use it for future promotions and event announcements