Posts by David

Customization. It’s one of the main things which sets TrivWorks apart from other trivia companies, along with professional emcees and turnkey service (not to mention we’ve been doing this for almost 20 years). In fact, one of my earliest blog posts was on this subject, “Customizing Corporate Team Building Activities: Silly or Significant?” TrivWorks customizes…

“Wait – you mean you don’t use an app for answer submission?” I get this now and then from prospective clients, when describing how our corporate trivia events flow. Not all the time, mind you, in fact far less than you might think. But it does happen, and I get why. Yes, it’s true. Here…

I’ve had a pretty frustrating week. Riding high off of an incredibly busy June – over a dozen corporate trivia events all around the country, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia and Anaheim – I’ve been looking forward to finalizing another batch of events for July. This includes not just valued…

Football fever has taken over the globe, and we are thrilled to announce TrivWorks’ 2026 FIFA World Cup soccer-themed trivia party package! Get in on the game with our specially-curated team trivia competition, designed exclusively for those following the world’s biggest sport tournament. Available for both in-person AND remote/virtual audiences, we’ve crafted a unique team…

2026 marks seventeen years since I started TrivWorks – fifteen since taking it full-time – and twenty years since I hosted my first trivia night. As I wrote about recently, there is no traditional career path to becoming a professional corporate team building trivia host. Like stand-up comedy, improv or other performance profession, you simply…

When I first launched TrivWorks almost 20 years ago, I intended for it to be a trivia team building and corporate entertainment company. Trivia works great for group bonding, and I wanted to recreate the experience I saw as a quizmaster at bars New York City in a workplace setting. I always enjoyed mixing the…

Indulge me for a moment, and Google “trivia companies.” What do you see? Without looking, I can tell you that you’ve gotten page upon page of results. Hundreds of vendors, if not thousands. Some service clients nationwide, some are local (click here for an example – who knew there were so many vendors in Orlando!).…

We’ve all attended horrible team building events. Especially me – that’s kind of why I started TrivWorks, after all. The dreadful activities, forced interaction, and overall cheesiness really just rubs me – and many others – the wrong way. But I don’t think it has to be that way. I firmly believe that there’s value…

2026 is a milestone year for me. It’s been seventeen years since I launched TrivWorks as a side business, and twenty since I started hosting trivia professionally. Over the course of these past two decades, I’ve worked tirelessly to refine what I do. I want to make the experience I offer more enjoyable and impactful…

I had a really strange thing happen to me this week. I awoke to a Google alert that TrivWorks had been mentioned in an article. It was in a piece in an online magazine I’d never heard of, talking about our recently-announced hosting partnership with drag performer Frankie Cyanide. I noticed that there was no…

“We’ve decided to go in another direction.” I hate seeing these words staring back at me from my computer screen. It means that despite my best efforts – responding promptly to an inquiry, providing a comprehensive overview of my services, crafting a customized proposal and diligently following up – I failed to close the deal.…

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an inquiry I received for corporate event entertainment in California. The inquiring party wanted to spend no more than $250 TOTAL on customized, professionally-emceed event entertainment for 50 people, out in the middle of nowhere. I passed on the gig (understandably), however they actually found someone, if…

It happened again recently. I received an inquiry for corporate trivia as post-dinner entertainment. It seemed like one of our bread and butter gigs: a company offsite, around 50 people, seeking some form of interactive engagement following a day of meetings. Folks would be attending from all over the state. Trivia was what they wanted,…