10 Prioritization Tips for Event Planners

When in planning mode, event managers have a million and one things to worry about. Time management and prioritization are not just skills, they become a lifestyle.

1) Establish your overarching goal and vision

2) Outline the day

3) Make deadlines, not to-do lists

4) Know the difference between urgent vs important

5) Use tools that help you focus

6) Assess the value of each task

7) Stay flexible

8) One at a time

9) Use the right event management tools

10)  Close the day

Fundamental Event Planning Tips: These Never Go Out of Style

1.Listen To Your Audience–Right From the Beginning

2.Let Your Fans Spread the Message

3.Keep them all on the same road with your hashtag

4.Ask your “event insiders” to live-blog

5.Rely on Great Tech for Multi-Tasking Onsite

6.Send push messages for immediate attendee updates

7.Use a feedback tool to stay on track

8.Keep things in perspective

9.Evaluate Loudly

10.You can’t beat a survey

11.Listen–we mean, really listen

5 Event Planning Tips...Even If You’re Not An Event Planner

Here’s the dilemma: You need to plan an event, but you have no background in event management planning. Somehow this duty has been thrust upon your shoulders.

1.Get Out The Whiteboard

2.Bring Up Budget

3.A Time and Place for Every Event

4.Iteration of an Invite

5.Walk a Mile

DJM-750MK2 The Pioneer mixer hits the sweet spot

It may be billed as training wheels for would-be club DJs, but the new Pioneer DJM-750MK2 mixer is certainly no kid’s toy. Part DJM-750, part DJM 850, the MK2 comes bundled with four Sound Color FX, a silky-smooth Magvel fader, full rekordbox DVS functionality and a not-so-broke price that could – and should – attract the weekend DJ crowd we suspect Pioneer is looking again to dominate.

https://youtu.be/ypqPZHJw3xU

10 Event Coordinator Tips They Never Taught You in School

Across every industry – meeting and event coordinators are some of the hardest working people out there. They’re expert planners and communicators, and ultimately they’re responsible to create experiences that bring the client’s vision, to life.

1. Become Best Friends with Data

2. Creativity is Key

3. Unleash Your Inner Anthropologist

4. Pics or It Didn’t Happen

5. List it and Love It

6. Find Properties You Trust and Grow Your Network

7. Be Proactive, Ask and You Shall Receive

8. If You Rest You Rust

9. Make Events Green Again

10. Be a Hero, Save the Day (and Do it Over Again)

"Something that I learned from Larry Levan is volume.

"Something that I learned from Larry Levan is volume. Just by turning a record up and down, I watched him control the audience." 

This Couple Had The Most Canadian Wedding Ever: At Tim Hortons

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tim-hortons-wedding-yarmouth-love-double-double-1.4296757