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How events enable your business to grow

Do you review where your customers have come from? What are your top three ways of gaining customers? I suspect meeting people face to face would be one of them. This article will explore how events enable your business to grow.

You can start business relationships with email outreach or social connection, but face-to-face events are one of the strongest ways to turn those relationships into growth. Email, blog posts, social strategies and carefully built personas all do good work. You will get noticed and they help you to keep in touch with potential clients. What they can’t do is put two people in the same room.

Being in the room matters because business growth runs on relationships. Relationships are everything! They are built from signals that a screen just can’t pick up. You probably know all of these, but it’s worth reminding ourselves how events enable your business to grow by relationship building.

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What event producers can learn from Unreasonable Hospitality


Event producers can learn from unreasonable hospitality – the book by Will Guidara how to create belonging, love, joy, and extraordinary experience. In the book Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara shares the philosophy that helped him transform a GREAT restaurant into the BEST IN THE WORLD – not through perfection, but through connection. For those of us designing and delivering events, his message is a powerful reminder: it’s not just about who is speaking or how good the tech set up is. It’s about how we make people feel.

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Manchester private dining – Our top 10 recommended restaurants

One of the best ways to connect with your clients or potential clients is to host a private dinner. This can be a carefully curated combination of your clients (clients love to meet each other!) or you could be connecting a community of different people to build your reputation in your sector. With so many restaurants in Manchester to consider – get our top 10 restaurants for Manchester private dining, plus our tips and key things to consider…

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Why December is Perfect for Hosting Webinars (and how to nail yours)

December – a month filled with festivity, Christmas parties and a slowdown in business activity where it seems like everyone is busy. However, this time of year is actually a hidden opportunity, especially when it comes to hosting webinars. While it might seem like everyone is caught up in holiday preparations, many professionals are using this quieter period to focus on personal development and wrap up their year with new knowledge.

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London private dining – Our top 10 recommended restaurants

One of the best ways to connect with your clients or potential clients is to host a private dinner. This can be a carefully curated combination of your clients (clients love to meet each other!) or you could be connecting a community of different people to build your reputation in your sector. With so many restaurants in London to consider – get our top 10 restaurants for London private dining, plus our tips and key things to consider…

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What’s the best time of year and best day to host an event?

This is a question we often get asked, and of course it’s not as easy as saying “Tuesdays in March”. Is it even possible to identify the best time of year and best day to host an event?

Well, it depends on your audience and it depends on what else is going on in your industry – or the industry of the people you are trying to gather. Let’s dig into the detail…


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Re-imagining events in the future

Every time there is a global shift – the financial crash of 2008, the fallout from 9/11, the pandemic of 2020, there is an opportunity as humanity evaluates what’s important, where should we be focusing? What’s important to me, my workplace, my business, my family, my people? Our perspective can shift, a little or a lot. What does this mean for events in the future?

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Podcasting – What are you listening to?

When we are walking, travelling on a train or driving a car, sitting in a park, in a garden or at the beach, we can choose to listen. Technology enables us to listen to our favourite playlist, radio show, podcast or audio book wherever we are. Multi-tasking (travelling and listening) is one of my favourite things. Getting some extra steps in and learning at the same time!

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Hybrid events – what you need to know

Whilst many organisations and companies initially responded to the global pandemic by putting all events on hold, many of the organisations we have been speaking to have now moved to a place of exploring and using online event formats. There is another option to consider if you think your options are only online events or in person events – hybrid events. Find out what you need to know…

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