Event Strategy Planning for 2024
By When you’re working on event strategy planning for the year ahead, its critical to consider how your events will align with your wider business planning. Here we look at a range of considerations.
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Our 7 favourite sustainable venues in London
London is absolutely teeming with event venues from sophisticated private dining to world class exhibition space and everything in between. It is an event organiser’s dream destination. But how does it match up to it’s competitors for sustainable venues in London?
The event industry is learning so much about sustainability (read more about that here) that this is increasingly becoming a factor in the client request for venue options.
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Are you a digital community leader?
By We’ve teamed up again with software developers Steadfast Collective – to launch this year’s Digital Community Leaders Survey. As the world of community-based marketing grows and develops, it’s essential to know where your community building efforts are going and how they compare to others.
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Challenging the UK events industry on diversity, inclusion and equity
Diversity, inclusion, and equity in the UK events industry is an area we’d like to create positive change in.
It was just 2018 when we noticed a major tech conference did not programme any female speakers on the keynote stage.
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How to generate 10 different pieces of content from one event
Create one pillar piece of content and you can splice it into 10 different pieces of content that will in essence increase engagement with a wider audience using different platforms. How do you generate 10 different pieces of content from one event?
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Event stressed? How to scale your team to deliver events
Have you ever been running at full capacity, back to back meetings all day? There’s literally no time between meetings to make lunch, have a cuppa or have any time to do any of the work that’s required from all the meetings you’ve been in all day. I think most of us have had days like this over the past few years. In the run up to events, it can be like this every day. So how do you scale your team to deliver events at certain times of the year?
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Event planning and becoming an event planner
Event planning is something we have probably all had to do at some point in our lives. It is the process of organising and co-ordinating an event, usually with a number of people there (I’d say more than 5) which has a purpose of gathering people together. It can be a conference, seminar, launch, workshop, webinar, summit, awards ceremony, live podcast recording or even a board meeting. Event Planning is a core aspect to our business.
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Know your why – our approach to event purpose
Lots of people put on events but budgets are tight and if your event activity doesn’t equal results then it’s hard to justify the expenditure. So, rather than organise another annual conference or webinar, how about you get to know your why – what’s the purpose behind your event? Get that right and the results will start to flow.
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What is the event industry doing about sustainability?
The event industry is traditionally very heavy on single use items. Carpet that gets installed for a 5 day show then scrapped. A car track created for an 8 minute new product launch, then scrapped. Venues have seen it all. The whole industry can have significant environmental, social, and economic impacts on the communities in which their events are held. So what is the event industry doing about sustainability?
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Meaningful connection – What do we actually mean?
We connect with people all the time, particularly on social media, so what do we mean when we say we bring people together for meaningful connection?
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