How to Generate Revenue from Your Next Event

How to Generate Revenue from Your Next Event

There's no shortage of reasons why we plan events. From promoting a brand to gathering likeminded people. But one objective seems to prevail: how can we generate more revenue from our events?

5 Harmful Myths We Believe About Event Professionals

5 Harmful Myths We Believe About Event Professionals

It's impossible to ignore the avalanche of articles out there that describe the qualities a successful event professional must have. As a planner, you must skillfully manage stress and push the boundaries of creativity. You also must learn how to improvise and deliver flawless experiences...

How to Be Creative When the Event is Falling Apart

How to Be Creative When the Event is Falling Apart

Have you ever been in either of these situations? Twenty-four hours before your event starts, you discover that there's an air controllers' strike and the speakers can't get to your event. Or, you realize that the band failed to appear.

How to Gamify the Learning Experience of Your Attendees

How to Gamify the Learning Experience of Your Attendees

Apart from networking and changing the environment, people attend events to gain knowledge and learn new things. But the typical classroom event format (with the speaker talking and the audience taking notes) doesn't seem to work anymore.

The Best Events of the World! - Bea World 2017

The Best Events of the World! - Bea World 2017

The winner of the Best Event Awards is a creative and unconventional event from The Netherlands, while the Iconic Event Award goes to Filmmaster Events & SRCOM (Italy) for the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony.

Europe Expects Strong Growth for Event Industry

Europe Expects Strong Growth for Event Industry

The second edition of the pan-European survey of the live communication industry has - again - revealed positive growth trends with an average of 94% of respondents expecting budgets to grow or stay the same.

How to Begin Your Career as an Event Planner

How to Begin Your Career as an Event Planner

Good news: it's never too late to become an event planner. Age and background are irrelevant when it comes to making a change and pursuing a planning career.

6 Tips for Drones on Your Event

6 Tips for Drones on Your Event

Spectacular aerial footage which completes the report on your event. Drones fly high and humming above your audience. The result: aerial footage of your meeting, event, congress or teambuilding.

5 Light And Sound Tips For Events - Make Sure No One Misses Anything

5 Light And Sound Tips For Events - Make Sure No One Misses Anything

There are so many points to consider when planning an event, from flowers and decorations to catering and guest lists. One of the most important parts to pay attention to is the audio-visual aspect.

How to Cut Expenses for Your Next Event

How to Cut Expenses for Your Next Event

When it comes to cutting planning expenses, there are two types of event professionals: the 'resourceful' ones and the smart ones.

Bea World 2017: the shortlist has been announced

Bea World 2017: the shortlist has been announced

133 shortlisted entries, out of 296 total submissions from 27 countries, will compete.

Sabotage your Event with a Bad Registration Form

Sabotage your Event with a Bad Registration Form

There's nothing worse for an attendee than staring at a huge and complicated event registration form and not know where to start. An online registration form that you, as an event manager, approved for publishing.

Understanding the Importance of Delegate Management

Understanding the Importance of Delegate Management

Correctly handing delegates experience is crucial to the success of an event. Handling vast amounts of delegate information can be both time consuming and difficult for event organisers. Thankfully, a solution exists.

What is the Emotional Value of Your Event?

What is the Emotional Value of Your Event?

Whenever we're about to measure the ROI of our events, we always tend to rely on data such as how many tickets were sold or how many times the event hashtag was used on social media.

How to Enhance the Quality of Your Event with Experiential Marketing

How to Enhance the Quality of Your Event with Experiential Marketing

What's the difference between running an average and a high-quality one? What exactly levels up the quality of an event? Is it the venue? The program structure? The catering?

How to Design an Attendee's Journey from Beginning to End

How to Design an Attendee's Journey from Beginning to End

What makes a business truly successful? Is it the products? Or is it more about the marketing strategy? How do affluent entrepreneurs manage to turn their clients into loyal brand ambassadors? And most importantly, could we, as event professionals, learn something from them?

How to Run a Multidisciplinary Conference

How to Run a Multidisciplinary Conference

Whether we talk about educational, business, or brand events, multidisciplinary conferences are the optimal solution when you want to invite a diverse public, with different interests and areas of expertise.

How to Plan an Event against the Clock without Losing Your Head

How to Plan an Event against the Clock without Losing Your Head

If you want to annoy an event professional, tell him or her to "keep calm and carry on". Not sure about that? Think about yourself.

How to Build an Efficient Event Team that Will Happily Work for You

How to Build an Efficient Event Team that Will Happily Work for You

What makes an event team different from other teams? Is it the high work pressure? The amount of tasks? The constant need for creative thinking and a problem-solving mindset?

Do You Really Need to Invite the Press to Your Next Event?

Do You Really Need to Invite the Press to Your Next Event?

The short answer is... it depends. You may waste countless of hours designing a media strategy to attract the local newspapers or TV...