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Vendor Checklists 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 the ’s only the beginning. Here are five things to consider before you commit, from scale and budget to your site, audience, and the planning behind it.
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.
Your First 10 Steps in 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.
Our Top 7 Must-Have Event Planning Templates
Discover 7 must-have event planning templates experienced planners rely on, from event briefs and budgets to run sheets, risk assessments and project plans.
How to Plan for Weather Risks at an Outdoor Event
It’s a week before your event, and the forecast says rain. Do you cancel? Probably not. But what if it’s predicting severe storms? Here’s how to build weather risk into your event planning
How to Write a Show-Stop Procedure for an Outdoor Event
Learn how to write a show-stop procedure for outdoor events, including safety triggers, team responsibilities, communication, audience messaging and restart planning.
Event Strategy vs. Event Brief: What’s the Difference?
Understand the difference between an event strategy and an event brief, what each document does and how they work together in the event planning process.
How to Create the Perfect Event Brief and Why It Matters
Learn how to create an event brief, what to include and how it helps define your event objectives, audience, scope, budget and creative direction.
Simple Steps to Build a Strong Event Sponsorship Pitch
Before you write a sponsorship proposal, you need these five steps will help you build the strategy behind your sponsorship pitch before you start writing.
5 Elements of a Winning Event Sponsorship Proposal
Learn how to write an event sponsorship proposal with five essential elements: your event, audience, sponsor value, credibility, and benefits.
DIY Event Decor Ideas on a Budget
Discover practical DIY event decor ideas on a budget, with 30 affordable styling ideas for backdrops, tables, lighting, entrances and more.
3 Things to Take to an Event Site Visit (And Your Laptop Isn’t One)
Discover 3 practical things to take to an event site visit, from a tablet and stylus to a power bank, plus why your laptop may not be the best tool.
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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.