Martin HIller | Dec 30, 2015
1 OBJECTIVES First of all, it is crucial to determine your objectives and specific requirements. You need to know exactly what message you want to carry across to the audience and how you picture AV elements helping you do this. Establish exactly...
Martin HIller | Dec 30, 2015
Getting the entertainment spot-on ensures that your event is fresh, will be talked about for ages (for the right reasons) and, most of all, impresses the right people. For Jacqui Higgins, nothing makes an event more memorable than great...
Martin HIller | Dec 30, 2015
There are creative ways around a limited budget. If you’re on a tight budget the focus needs to be on touch points. You can incorporate clever, thrifty ideas into existing elements like giving the welcome cocktails a fun name. You don’t need the...
Martin HIller | Dec 30, 2015
Certain forms of entertaining have been around for centuries, such as court jesters, musicians and storytellers. We still enjoy versions of these with strolling, roving or atmosphere entertainers including – mimes, magicians, musicians, caricature...
Martin HIller | Dec 30, 2015
If the mere thought of compiling an event brief that accurately conveys your brand’s needs has you breaking out in hives, worry not. Terry Sutherland has put together a list of the essential elements your event brief should contain. 1 A BACKGROUND...
Martin HIller | Dec 29, 2015
1 GET TO THE POINT Customers know what they want and often don’t have much time to spend browsing stands. Provide a clear indication of what product or service you are offering in order to optimise stand efficacy. You can do this by making...
Martin HIller | Dec 29, 2015
Promotional products such as stress balls and branded pens are easily discarded and forgotten. Make your exhibition stand extraordinary by handing out innovative and useful giveaways. Exhibition stands and everything they entail are constantly...
Martin HIller | Dec 29, 2015
Terry Sutherland shares the invitation wording secrets every corporate event planner should know. No matter what type of corporate event you’re tasked with planning, one thing they all have in common is their reliance on the right invitation...
Martin HIller | Dec 29, 2015
For Karmen Vladar, the success of an event lies in ensuring that attendees are actively engaged before, during and after the event. The more intellectually and emotionally invested your audience becomes, the more likely it is that they’ll enjoy...
Martin HIller | Dec 29, 2015
Year-end functions provide an opportunity for management to thank their employees. We asked the experts what it takes to create a memorable and enjoyable event. Year-end functions are important – they are a celebration; they let staff know that...
Martin HIller | Dec 29, 2015
Planning a year-end function, then download our handy guide to ensure that your event is a major success. Click here to download the guide. READ: 6 WAYS TO SAVE MONEY WHEN ORGANISING A YEAR-END FUNCTION
Martin HIller | Dec 29, 2015
1 SAY NO TO OPEN BARS There is no need for guests to be drinking expensive alcohol on the company’s bill. Offer a range of soft drinks, local beers and wine and have a cash bar for the rest. 2 BOOK EARLY Last-minute bookings are quoted a slightly...
