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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.
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.
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.
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.
What Happens When the Run Sheet Goes Off Schedule?
Here’s the thing about run sheets: the event will almost never run exactly to plan. How do you troubleshoot? You don't panic and rewrite the whole plan.
Step-by-Step Guide for the Event Run Sheet Template
The Event Run Sheet Template gives you a clear, minute-by-minute plan for event day, so nothing slips through the cracks. This guide shows you how to use it.
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 my 26 years of experience onto the page.
Using AI With Your Event Kit Templates
A guide to pairing your Event Kit templates with AI tools like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, so you can move through planning faster without losing the structure that makes our templates work.
Why Templates are the Secret to Powerful AI
AI works best with structure. That’s why Event Kit’s Word, Excel, and PowerPoint templates are the perfect foundation — no subscriptions, no glitches, just clear systems that AI can build on.
Conference Timeline Planning
Planning a conference? You need more than a to-do list. You need a system. Here’s your go-to conference planning timeline.
A Site Map Without Utilities? It’s Just a Poster
This is your reminder to create your site map as a tool, not just as a pretty picture.
Tips for an Effective Event Delivery Plan
Are you leaving your event delivery logistics to chance? With just days to go before your big event, you need an effective Event Delivery Plan.
Event Volunteer Management FAQs
Managing event volunteers effectively is essential for ensuring your event runs smoothly. Here are the FAQs about Event Volunteer Management, with answers!
Your Event Planning Template Excel Questions, Answered
Event Planning Templates in Excel are a great choice for many event planners. Here are our most FAQs, with answers!
Answers to Your Top Wedding Planner Contract Template FAQs
Let’s dig in to answer the FAQs about the Wedding Planner Contract Template, so it works best for you!
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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.