Are you hosting an upcoming event? The planning stage of events is undoubtedly time and energy-consuming. With the continuous shifts in event design and more emphasis on health and safety, event planning has become even more complex. In order to have an outstanding and successful event, you need to consider event planning logistics first. What is event planning logistics? Event logistics is simply the planning and management of all people involved and materials used in a particular … [Read more...]
Your Guide to Event Planning in 2022: What to Expect and What to Avoid
Photo credit: Gabrielle Henderson It’s almost 2022! Time to say goodbye to 2021 and say hello to 2022. As organizations and event organizers gear up for the new year, it’s time to pick up the pace on your events. Your organization might be lining up your events already. And while it’s great to start early, knowing what lies ahead will help you be prepared and ready. After all, the year is still full of uncertainties. So what can we expect from event planning in 2022? Event trends for … [Read more...]
How to Plan a Family Reunion: Steps to get Started, Common Failures You Want to Avoid and Helpful Tips to Be Successful
Since human brains are naturally hardwired to learn more from negative information than positive information, we can use that as a life hack to learn to get started more quickly and be more successful when planning our family reunion. But before diving into what can go wrong with family reunion planning, let’s look at why family reunions are highly celebrated. Why Do People Give Time to Family Reunions? Now I know that we all have work to do, errands to run and of course, kids to look … [Read more...]
6 Effective Tips on How to Promote a Festival
Festivals are undoubtedly a fun and entertaining type of event. They are great means to showcase local culture and creativity. Festivals are powerful drivers for tourism and help boost the local economy. For businesses and organizations, they are an effective way of brand exposure and customer engagement. And if you're planning on hosting one, then you need to plan as early as possible. Six months is the minimum planning time for festival events like music festivals, celebration festivals, or … [Read more...]
8 Practical Steps on How to Host a Webinar
Webinars serve a wide range of purposes. Businesses use it to launch new products, increase sales, build expertise, expand their customer base, and even train remote teams. As you offer valuable content through webinars, there’ll be an increase in customer retention, engagement, and even satisfaction. That’s why it’s not shocking to know that 95% of marketers consider webinars as an essential digital marketing strategy. Recent research from Outgrow backed the effectiveness of webinars as they … [Read more...]
What to Look for in a Course Registration System
Imagine this: You're an event planner who's just been given the task of organizing a series of online classes for your client. You're feeling excited and ready to take on the challenge, but then you're hit with a wave of panic. How are you going to handle the registration process? It would be a series of classes that will run through the whole week and you already have interested attendees. You contemplate manually doing the registration and admission process but is it really the best way to … [Read more...]
9 Factors to Consider in a Training Registration System
If you are offering training courses, may it be a training program for instructional coaches/educators, a training class about financial literacy, or a business training program, you know how important it is to have an efficient registration system. We all went through the painstaking process of manual registration. Using a professional training registration system saves you time and effort. Plus, it offers advanced additional features and services. One of these is data analytics which will … [Read more...]
How to Plan a Class Reunion Checklist
Class reunions can either be nerve-wracking or something you can look forward to attending. Some may find meeting an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend awkward or seeing past friendships that turned sour uncomfortable. But overall, class reunions can be quite fun and beneficial for you. Reunions are a great way to reconnect and mend old friendships. They are great avenues to be updated with your classmates’ lives and they create the perfect setting to just comfortably talk about life, career, and … [Read more...]
Streamlining Event Processes with Digital Donations
As a nonprofit event coordinator, you’re always busy planning your next event, which means you’re probably thinking about how you’ll incorporate fundraising into the experience. After all, strengthening donor relationships and raising money are among the top reasons for hosting nonprofit events. Luckily, there are plenty of ways you can use digital donation tools and strategies to keep fundraising at the front of your supporters’ minds throughout your event. Whether you’re hosting an … [Read more...]
Dating the Unknown Uses Event Smart to Host a Virtual Dating Show
University students from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh created a fun, socially distanced charity event--and delivered it virtually in the middle of a pandemic that kept us all away from in-person events. Are you searching for an event registration system for your virtual events? In this success story, we highlight the Dating The Unknown to learn more about how they use Event Smart for event registrations to bring people together during a time when we have all been forced apart and … [Read more...]