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In seasons à 6 weeks we will share our event planning experience, inspirational insights, and useful tricks with you to support you organizing meetings and events more successfully. Each season will be dedicated to a specific topic or event-related area.
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Season 6 – Hybrid Event Planning
Follow these Basics for a Successful Hybrid Event
5 Essential Things to Know about Hybrid Events
Season 5 – Remote Team Building & Event Gamification
5 Interactive Virtual Event Ideas to Keep You in the Game
Common Virtual Event Planning Mistakes: SLOP
Level Up Your Event Gamification with these Vital Tips
How Gamification Boosts Event Interaction. Every. Single. Time.
Truly Inspiring Events are Organized by Humans Who Allow Fun
5 Easy Ways for Corporates to Connect their Remote Teams
What Quality Sound can Achieve for Your Virtual Event
Why Events Cannot Go Without Experience Design – How to Create Memorable Events
Team Building Makes the Difference: WORKING Together or Working TOGETHER?
TOP 5 Free Virtual Team Building Activities that Connect Your Remote Team
Improve Communication and Overcome Remote Barriers When Planning your Event
How to Boost Employee Motivation and Team’s Overall Performance
Season 4 – Online Events & Digital Possibilities
When to Unleash the Power of Micro Events: 5 Reasons for the Small Event Alternative
Forget Zoom: Proximity Chats Make Virtual Networking Fun Again!
WOW Your Audience with LED Video Wall Stages
Benefit from Interactive Hologram Technology for Corporate Events
5 Hybrid Event Examples and How to Connect Online and Offline Audience
Hybrid events have made a huge progress and became much more popular over…
Virtual Escape Room Games: The Remote Adventure for Your Team
Boost Engagement with Ingenious Gamification for Virtual Events
10 Best Practices to be an Effective Virtual Event Speaker
How to Identify the Best Virtual Event Platform for Your Event
5 Tips for Efficient Online Meetings and Video Conferences
Virtual Site Inspections: Is Exhibiting and Visiting Venues Online the New Best Practice?
Is Zoom a Respectable Event Replacement? – When to Use Zoom
Season 3 – Event Location Ideas
5 Strong Reasons to Hire an Event Planner
Corporate events and meetings represent your company’s success. Will you be able to organize it all by yourself or should you get support? When these are your top priorities,…
Corporate Events with an Exceptional Taste at Villa Mdina
Kick off your next event at Villa Mdina, a farmhouse converted into an elegant event location with exceptional catering and versatile, landscaped gardens to provide a stunning backdrop for…
Craft Beer Atmosphere at Altes Mädchen Dielen
Altes Mädchen Braugasthaus – rustic, charming meeting spaces, restaurant, and brewery combined in one. The Altes Mädchen Dielen provide a cozy atmosphere that invites your attendees to participate and…
Be Creative, Celebrate, or Relax at the Sturmfreie Bude Karoviertel
The Sturmfreie Bude provides all you need for creative meetings in an inspiring atmosphere, engaging team building workshops, and cozy dinner events with colleagues or clients.
Exclusive Meetings, Elegant Gala Events = Penha Longa Resort
Are you looking for an event location to create magical moments in a unique scenery? Then don’t miss checking out the Penha Longa Resort, a true treasure located in…
Medieval Meetings at the Mediterranean Conference Centre
Make your meetings and events stand out with impressive event locations like the Mediterranean Conference Centre. Its medieval charm, modern technology, and outstanding service will make for memorable human…
Warm Winter Meetings on the Rooftop of The Westin Palace, Milan
Meet comfortably ‘outside’ during winter or dine under the stars while it’s freezing around you. The Westin Palace in Milan makes it possible with their rooftop installation The Circle…
Barceló Sevilla Renacimiento Offers Spacious, Spectacular Meeting Architecture
Stunning illuminations for spectacular opening ceremonies combined with multiple meeting rooms and huge private gardens – Barceló Sevilla Renacimiento leaves nothing to be desired.
Unforgettable Event Experiences at the Dolce Sitges Barcelona
Ergonomic furniture, latest AV technology, excellent staff, set on top of a hill with panoramic view of Sitges and the sea, are the ingredients for outstanding conferences and events…
All Green in the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers’ Own Indoor Forest
Throw amazing receptions and jungle-like events in the Copenhagen Towers’ Atrium. The Crowne Plaza Hotel’s CO2-neutral building makes sustainable event planning easy.
Flexible Event Location with River View – Spreespeicher Berlin
The Spreespeicher in Berlin convinces with superb flexibility, uplifting design, and beautiful river view. Never underestimate the power of an inspiring event location.
Distinctive Meeting Space at the Former Main Customs Office Hamburg
Combine industrial charm with modern design and you get a memorable event setting. The Former Main Customs Office in Hamburg, Germany, makes your event one of a kind.
Season 2 – Eco-friendly Events & Remote Planning
Learning From a Country That is Completely Plastic-Free
Up your event organization and follow the plastic-free approach of Antigua and Barbuda. Are you taking the challenge and making your conference the next successful best practice?
Organizing Events After COVID-19 – Must Follow These Measures
Event organizers are not only facing new regulations since COVID-19 from authorities, but also the needs of our attendees have changed. Have you prepared these measures for your next…
5 ½ Ideas for Eco-Friendly Packaging at Conferences
Packaging for conference items makes a huge amount of the event’s waste. Look at eco-friendly ways to optimize packaging or avoiding it at all with these ideas.
An Eco-Friendly Balloon That Didn’t Want to Become a Jellyfish
Eco-friendly or not, there is no party as colorful without balloons, right? What if I told you there is a way for truly sustainable event planning that may or…
Powerful Tips for Hosting Successful Virtual Events
Get started with your virtual event today. Ease your mind with these hands-on tips before, during, and after your event, and host your digital meeting like a pro.
My Incentive to Make Your Event Green Easily – Check It Off
Get your compact green event checklist to remind you of different possibilities, which you can check off easily while planning your next meeting.
Increase Everyone’s Productivity with Paperless Events
How a switch from slow paper-based organization chaos to dynamic digital event planning will lead to happy attendees, reduced blood pressure, and save you money!
Hosting Virtual Events – All You Need to Know to Get Started
Check out the most important topics to keep an eye on when going virtual. Get your foot into the virtual event world and host your next event successfully and…
Do You Know What Makes a Remote Freelancer Successful?
Pay attention to these characteristics when looking for a successful remote freelancer and get the best support for your corporate team.
5 Simple Ways to Rock Eco-Friendly Event Planning
How to organize corporate meetings eco-friendlier and NOT increase your work load. Smart event managers follow these tips on their way to sustainable event planning.
Reuse. Reduce. Respect. – Green Event Planning Made Easy
How to plan sustainable events and rethink your choices with green event planning. Get corporate event management ideas that can save you money!
Why Should You Care About Planning Greener Meetings?
Planning greener meetings is too expensive and too complex. Is it really? I don’t think so! Check all the benefits sustainable event planning has for you.
Season 1 – Events vs. Experiences
The Not-So-Secret Success of Generating Word-of-Mouth
Why isn’t it enough to let them be regular employees or customers? Why do we want to convert them into fans?
Well, let’s see what to keep in mind…
How Interaction During Your Event Leads to Action After Your Event
If your meeting or conference doesn’t interact with your participants, your message will not connect with them. But the activation of your attendees’ minds will lead to an action…
Are You Doing Enough to Engage your Attendees?
We are a culture that loves to meet and attend events. They dominate a big portion of everyone’s work calendar.
So, how can we make meetings, events, or…
5 Ways your Event Planning Can Make a Difference
The next event or meeting came up short notice again? How can you excel with so little time to focus on every detail? There are some very simple…
How to Influence Your Attendees’ Event Experience Positively
By nature, people love to interact with their surroundings, to experience and understand everything by using their five senses. That’s why events are the perfect tool to communicate your…
Make Your Event an Experience that Your Guests will Share
What if we could make our guests become free brand ambassadors for our events? Make our guests identify themselves with our brand, company, and event and share the…
Why Your Event Should Engage Customers’ Thinking
Have you ever felt that guests at your event somehow must have been totally disconnected from what was happening around them? Maybe they even left the venue and…
People Will Never Forget How You Made Them Feel
Our feelings are one of the most powerful tools to use to manipulate us. We react emotionally to everything we experience. These moods can range from mildly positive…
Event Planning that Stimulates Excitement for Long-Lasting Effects
Nobody does events for fun. Ok, maybe some do, but nobody should miss the opportunity events provide. In the end, an event is an amazing marketing tool. It’s an…
Benefit from Working Remotely with an Experienced Event Planner
Don’t limit yourself to event services offered in your city. Most event planning tasks can be done digitally. Thus, search beyond your outskirts and rather focus on finding the…
How and Why Cottage Tent Event Began
Welcome back, I’m thrilled to see you again! I see you’re curious about Cottage Tent Event and like to hear more. Come on, take a seat. I prepared the…
Welcome to My Tent – Introducing Myself
The alarm rings, I get up and open the doors of my tent. What a beautiful sunshine this morning. Just the energy boost I need to start another successful…