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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI Prompt Library: 60+ Event Planning Prompts
60+ practical AI prompts for event planning, including budgets, run sheets, risk management, timelines, venues, emails and more.
How to Build an Event Day Timeline
An accurate event timeline is your best planning tool‚ this guide shows you how to build one that actually works.
How to Build a Solid Event Planning Portfolio That Gets Noticed
You may be thinking, “How do I stand out in a competitive industry with little to no experience?” Well, let me tell you, building a portfolio is the key to making a lasting impression!
How to Start an Event Planning Business From Home
How to start an event planning business from home? Find out why now is the ideal time to jump into this thriving industry. We share the cost-effective way to start your own successful event company.
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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.