Event Kit JournalKnow What to Do Next.
Practical event planning guides from the real world of events.
What Happens When an Event Supplier Lets You Down?
What happens when a major event supplier pulls out at the last minute? A real-world example of supplier risk management, contingency planning and why industry relationships matter.
What Makes a Good Event Planning Portfolio?
What makes me take a second look at someone's event planning portfolio? You need to show me what you can do.
The Post-Event Slump: Recovery After Big Events
Even after decades in events, the post-event slump still catches me off guard. That strange mix of relief, exhaustion, satisfaction and sadness when a big event is finally over.
Using AI With Your Event Kit Templates
Five practical ways to use AI with your Event Kit templates, from completing documents and organising event information to reviewing plans and creating supporting materials.
Big Ideas, Tiny Budgets: The Event Creative Disconnect
Big event ideas, small budgets and unrealistic client expectations. A practical look at managing the gap between creative ambition, event costs and what's achievable.
How to Write an Event Risk Assessment
A practical guide to writing an event risk assessment, from identifying hazards and assessing risks to documenting controls and responsibilities.
What Makes a Good Event Risk Assessment?
What makes a good event risk assessment? Learn three common mistakes to avoid and how to make your risk assessment practical, relevant and useful on event day.
Why Templates Are the Secret to Powerful AI
There's a lot of sophisticated event management software out there. But after 26+ years in events, I still believe some of the most useful planning tools are the simplest.
The Vendor Checklist You Actually Need
Supplier management is about eliminating assumptions before event day. Here are four questions to help make sure what you've agreed with your suppliers is what actually happens on site.
Putting Event Tickets on Sale? Start With the Basics
Before you put your event tickets on sale, get the fundamentals right: capacity, pricing and what you're actually selling. Then let the ticketing experts handle the details.
Festival Planning Checklist: 10 Things to Get Under Control
A practical festival-planning checklist covering the major areas you'll need to manage, including budget, site, suppliers, staffing, risk, ticketing, and event delivery.
Crowd Control: The Event Risk You're Underestimating
Crowd management isn't just about how many people attend. It's about where they move, where they stop and what happens when everyone decides to do the same thing at once.
How to Start a Festival & Should You Actually Do It?
Starting a festival is exciting, but that’s only the beginning. Here are five things to consider before you commit, from scale and budget to your site, audience, and planning.
How to Build an Event Budget in Excel
Exhibiting at a trade show? Use this practical checklist to track your booth, staff, freight, lead capture, setup, and everything else you need to manage before, during, and after the show.
Trade Show Checklist for Exhibitors
Exhibiting at a trade show? Use this practical checklist to track your booth, staff, freight, lead capture, setup, and everything else you need to manage before, during, and after the show.
How to Make Your Event Mood Board Strategic, Not Just Pretty
A mood board should do more than look good. Here’s where it fits in the professional creative process, from shaping the initial direction to guiding real event decisions.
10 Steps When You’re New to Event Planning
Planning your first event? Follow these 10 practical event planning steps, from defining your event and budget to suppliers, risk and your run sheet.
Our Favourite Event Templates for New Event Planners
New to event planning? Start with a ready-to-use kit of event planning templates for your brief, timeline, budget, risk assessment and event run sheet.
How to Use ChatGPT in Event Planning
How we use ChatGPT for event planning, from brainstorming creative ideas to marketing, event operations and working with templates.
Simple Event Planning Templates: 7 Tools That Keep Everything Organised
You don't need dozens of documents to keep an event organised. These seven simple event planning templates each have a clear job, helping you manage the important information from the first brief through to event day.
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What Happens When the Run Sheet Goes Off Schedule?
Here’s the thing about run sheets: events never go exactly as planned. So, how do you troubleshoot? You don't panic and rewrite the whole plan.
Behind the Template: Perfectly Handwritten
I was never interested in creating templates that simply ask you to fill in the blanks. What I kept coming back to was how I could get years of experience onto the page.