Difficult clients. Every industry has their share of them, but perhaps the worst types appear in the events industry. Maybe this is because expectations are so high, money is tight, and clients want you to work miracles with a small or non-existent budget. In order to deal effectively with difficult clients, it’s helpful to know [...]
Once-upon-a-time it was considered to be a little self-centred to have a baby shower, but not anymore. These days it is perfectly acceptable. Typically a close friend of the expectant mum will throw the baby shower. However, it’s fine for anyone to organise one. You could be a co-worker, a family member or a friend [...]
Hiring reliable hard working staff is vital for the success of your event, yet often an area where many event planners fail to devote sufficient time and effort. Get it right and your event runs smoothly, leaving your guests with positive impressions of your company and brand or happy memories of a special celebration. In [...]
Organising your event is one thing, promoting it is a whole different beast. Especially if you’ve been given no money and told to do everything online. If you have no idea where to start, panic not. Take it in these five easy steps and before you know it your event will be a huge success. [...]
It is very rare that anybody gets things right the first time, and this is true with events planning also. No one person ever woke up in the morning and thought “today, I’m going to launch a product and it’s going to be a huge success, in fact I’m not even going to plan the [...]
Now that people have realised (with the possible exception of Japan) that the roof isn’t about to come crashing down, the sun didn’t implode and WWIII didn’t happen, what happens next your business after Brext? Well, events can be treated as semi-public businesses – even the most temporary of them. They are used, more often [...]
Faced with planning a wedding, the spring and summer months have traditionally been the most popular seasonal choice for those looking to tie the knot. Although we all look forward to attending summer weddings as the weather is more likely to be pleasant and it’s an ideal occasion to show off our lovely summer dresses, [...]
You would think that in times of austerity banquets would be out of fashion. Not so. There is increasing evidence that banquets are becoming more popular. We think that it is because sometimes when we are being asked to pull in our belts a little, we rebel and throw caution to the wind with a [...]
So, you have only two weeks to organise your wedding. Can you plan, prepare for and organise the perfect day or will your limited time frame prevent you from being able to source and acquire all you need? Inevitably there will be difficult decisions to make, but yes we believe that with effective planning and [...]
The weather has unexpectedly turned stormy, power cables are down and public transport is disrupted. In addition, the local roads and motorways are gridlocked. It suddenly dawns on you that not only will most of your delegates fail to arrive at your conference on time, but your carefully selected guest speakers probably won’t either. So, [...]
